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@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Dental X Rays:

@Peatly yes they did. There is no other way to really diagnose pneumonia.

There is always a safer way. Living with radiation poisoning is no small thing

Diagnosis of asthmatic pneumonia in children by lung ultrasound vs. chest X-ray: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in adults

Taurine: a promising nutraceutic in the prevention of retinal degeneration

Taurine and oxidative stress in retinal health and disease

@vocedilegno said in Estrogenic effects from t3 and progesterone:

@Peatly by the way, your signature quote is absolutely fantastic and explains so much about certain people I’ve encountered in my life. Thank you

Dr. Peat was aware of the absurdity of science – ‘the science’ a la Fauci is a good example. I think his sense of humour kept him sane. I will leave that signature here because when I change it, again, it will disappear from my posts.

"Humour is something that is lacking in ordinary science. They can't afford the amount of truth that's needed to experience humour." Ray Peat

@vocedilegno said in Estrogenic effects from t3 and progesterone:

@Peatly looking it over again, it does seem that it’s from personal correspondence, doesn’t it. In which case I would agree that it’s likely a very context-specific advice to have the beta-blocker on hand

It’s always seemed clear to me that T3Uncoupled knows and loves Peat’s work more deeply than most of us, and that’s the only reason I didn’t question it or hunt down the primary source.

Corroborating the utility of the idea, a friend of mine experimented with T3 (Cynomel) for his high cholesterol not more than a couple of months ago at my suggestion and had very off-putting heart palpitations. That happened before I had come across the article we’re discussing, perhaps just before T3Uncoupled had published it.

T3uncoupled does seem passionate about Ray’s work. This is a good thing.

Your friend’s heart palpitation could be a result of the sudden demand on magnesium induced by taking thyroid. Dr. Peat has spoken about this often:

"Traditional thyroid doctors like Broda Barnes usually started with 30 milligrams of a well-standardized product, like at that time it was Armour thyroid. But I have seen two people who reacted very surprisingly to 15 milligrams, a fourth of a grain, with heart pain, and I realized what's happening is that your cells, especially your big muscle cells, retain magnesium and calcium in a balance. Calcium is a relaxant, and thyroid is needed for the muscles to retain the proper amount of magnesium, and your heart has that same magnesium-retaining, stabilizing effect when your thyroid is good. But if you're suddenly increasing the thyroid when you've been deficient, your muscles, your leg muscles will compete with your heart muscles for that trace of magnesium in your diet, and your heart arteries will constrict and you'll get a heart pain. So it's very important to make sure that your diet includes plenty of magnesium when you're starting to use thyroid." Ray Peat

Magnesium controls autonomic dysfunction by reducing adrenaline release. Ref

@JulofEnoch Do you use magnesium glycinate? You might need the extra magnesium with the thyroid. It should help with sleep too.

@Ecstatic_Hamster Did those x-rays show you had pneumonia?

@ilovethesea said in New "Mission" of RPF:

So now they’re not only admitting that Garrett Smith’s diet is giving them grey hair - this guy is unable to sleep because it’s causing so much gas!

Ironically vitamin D might be able to fix this issue

@attempting Dr Peat wasn’t shy of research. When he said, ‘I've been looking for the real beneficial effects’ I take that to mean he made considerable effort. The question of cannabis came up frequently in interviews. He was a curious man and I trust that if there was something worth finding he would have found it.

It should help

Vitamin D for treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease detected by transient elastography: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

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@vocedilegno Thank you.

Do you know which Ray Peat source the quote is from? T3uncoupled has provided 2 references at the end of the article but has not specified which ‘Ray Peat 2021’ this quote is taken from. A search of the newsletters doesn’t yield results for beta blockers (I may not have all the newsletters). It could be from an interview or a personal correspondence. If so, it would be good to get some context. As beta blockers are prescription drugs, it’s possible there was a context specific reasoning behind the recommendation. It is not the usual advice from Dr. Peat for lowering elevated adrenaline.

Dr Peat was asked how THC and CBD are understood in a bioenergetic view?

“I've been looking for the real beneficial effects and it's always very ambiguous as far as I can see. It is sedative and in some circumstances anti-inflammatory, but not always. And for many years I haven't been able to resolve the ambiguity to have a definite opinion.” Ray Peat

“Cortisol elevates blood glucose and would inhibit the thyroid. Since there is evidence of thyroid deficiency in various cancers, and since thyroid supplementation reduces the incidence of spontaneous or induced tumors in animal studies, thyroid therapy would be desirable in cancer, especially if there is cachexia. Gerson,2 Tallberg,3 and others have reported good results from using thyroid as part of supportive therapy.” Ray Peat - From PMS to Menopause

@mouse Many things can stress the system. It probably means the person doesn’t have the resources to produce the protective hormones, progesterone and pregnenolone. If blood sugar is low this will increase cortisol and if sodium is low, aldosterone. High estrogen will increase cortisol. Hypothyroidism...........etc.

"By the 1930's, it was well established that the resistance of the
organism depended on the energy produced by respiration under the influence of the thyroid gland, as well as on the adrenal hormones, and that the hormones of pregnancy (especially progesterone) could substitute for the adrenal hormones. In a sense, the thyroid hormone is the basic antistress hormone, since it is required for the production of the adrenal and pregnancy hormones." FROM PMS TO MENOPAUSE

Pregnenolone is relatively safe if the source is clean.

Dr Peat on DHEA. This discussion is age specific but I think it might apply to younger men too.

He talks favourably of it in this interview so you need to weight up the benefits vs. the risks

@Verdad I thought it was the other way round. Progesterone stops DHEA from converting to estrogen. Progesterone is never converted to estrogen but it can flush estrogen from the tissue into the blood ready to be excreted, if all is working well.

@vocedilegno Do you have a reference for where Dr. Peat said to take beta-blocker with T3? Thanks

@ursidae Good call. Please keep us posted. Would love to know how she resolves this.

No, not new. The Atkins diet paved the way for low carb dieting. Every generation revamps it with a new name.

Interesting. Impressive that you saw results in such a short time

Have you heard this interview where Dr. Peat mentions thyroid, amongst other things, being helpful for fungal infections?

Vitamin D might help too.

Antifungal activity of vitamin D3 against Candida albicans in vitro and in vivo

@AkJono I hope we can do better over here.

Bioenergetic forum: the antidote to the RPF (strapline? @brad )

Two interviews on the role of pufa in obesity. But it's more than pufa, it's the many ways we are being poisoned

My Big Fat Panel: How Seed Oils Cause Obesity

Dr. Ray Peat, Brad Marshall on Reductive Stress, Solutions to PUFA Obesity (Part 2)

“I'm getting really just a huge number of e-mails from young women all the way from teens into their 40s who have a problem with fat around their waist. You can see it in the summer when they're wearing fewer clothes. You can see that teenage girls are getting fat around the middle. Obesity is epidemic and degenerative diseases, allergies and asthma are increasing tremendously as well as the death rate from them. Just briefly explain the links between the allergies and obesity, fat deposition, etc. How that actually works? Well, it hasn't entirely been clarified, but the things that cause obesity also cause inflammation. Asthma is an inflammatory disease and some people see obesity as in some ways an inflammatory condition. The cytokines that regulate metabolism, once you start down the inflammatory pathway, you trigger cortisone production. Cortisone directs fat to your face and abdomen and shoulders. Cortisone exposure increases and causes degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis and obesity and heart disease. The inflammation or allergic reaction is really prior to the chronic overproduction of cortisone.” Ray Peat

Thank you to prof. Fenton for exposing the skulduggery tactics used by the MHRA to bury data.

MHRA still won't release critical data on vaccinated pregnant women

Imagine if Dr. Peat put his pen down

every time someone peered over his fence

when his college was disbanded

when his home was burgled

He knew he was under surveillance but he continued to work so we can be better informed

What a remarkable man.

Raymond Peat is dead, long live Raymond Peat!