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I think this kind of breathing comes about naturally with increased CO2 and they are trying to mimic that way of breathing but I think it’s downstream of a good metabolism.

@yerrag said in Creatine and Ray Peat:

@mostlylurking I think (I have not been reading a lot lately so I could be wrong) that anaerobic glycolysis is wasteful of thiamine, and that thiamine mega dosing helps, but clearing the capillaries of obstruction to make oxygen available to the brain fully is the way to fixing Parkinson's. Thiamine megadosing helps by compensating for the inefficiency and wastefulness of anaerobic glycolysis.

Hi yerrag, thanks for the link; I always value your insight. I read through your post and immediately thought of a Ray Peat audio when he discusses vitamin K2 for removing calcium in the circulatory system.

I believe my own thiamine deficiency/functional blockage fall of 2020 derailed my calcium storage which usually means the calcium that is supposed to get stored in the bones gets stored in the soft tissue (including the blood vessels) instead. Peat related a story about a doctor he knew that used high dose K2 (40-50mgs?) to resolve his hypertension.

Thiamine is needed for good oxidative metabolism. When it is deficient, the end product of the process is lactic acid instead of carbon dioxide. If things are working right, the carbon dioxide drags the calcium inside the cell out when the carbon dioxide exits the cell (from memory - A Peat explanation from somewhere). So it makes sense that calcium storage would get derailed in a thiamine deficiency.

Here's a link or two:
https://bioenergetic.life/?q=k2
The one with the story about the doctor high dosing the K is in there somewhere....
also this:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7926526/

Please note that vitamin D, needed for the immune system to work, also is responsible for making calcium get stored in the bones; in order to do this, there needs to be vitamin K available. So I think both D and K would be helpful.

I don’t agree with Dr. Peat on this. Eccentric exercise helps build protective strength in muscles and connective tissue that can prevent injury.

@raypneat I never explored the Wiki, I actually forgot about it, so good to know!

@raypneat Have you tried bag breathing?

@raypneat I’ve been using it about 5 days a week for the past two months on my hair and face/beard. Feels like one of those old 5 gum commercials, just revitalizing and refreshing.

As for longish-term results, hair softer and more volumous, dry skin healed (I live in a really dry and windy area, used to get chapped face and knuckles in winter, haven’t yet).

BLOO + a high quality shower filter have simply increased my quality of life. It’s not magic, but it’s just really good and I plan on staying subscribed indefinitely.

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Is aspirin? If so, aspirin.

@The-New-Sun test

Mt. Hagen Organic is alright. But yea instant coffee is certainly an acquired taste, or a survival mechanism if you're in such a low energy state that you can't actually make your own cup of the real stuff easily, and want to cheap out instead of paying a premium for a depressed barista.
Mexican coke+bvit-maxxing has pretty much eliminated my cravings for instant coffee.
1 tbsp Mt Hagen+Great Lakes Collagen + Salted Organic grass-fed Butter + 1/8tsp creatine monohydrate + 1/32 tsp of non-lab cordyceps and some other mushrooms. Also a touch of the shilajit junk

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this is one of my health markers. if i feel good i naturally want to do these as i am falling asleep.
if my stress hormones are high/gut is irritated i have to listen to a podcast or music to sleep.
the visuals are influenced by what i saw that day, for me they dont work if i spend the day inside