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@raytreats know what you mean. Sounds like you might b lo in co2. Maybe try bag breathing. Just take a small or medium paper bag (preferably paper but I guess plastic works), and breath normally into it until you feel uncomfortable (a few minutes max for most people) Helps to listen to music or watch some thing so you don’t get overly focused on your breathing. A few times a day if you like. If you don’t notice a (maybe subtle) improvement right away, you’ll probably notice one after several days or so.
Seems the practice was devised by a Japanese guy. I forget his name.

@raytreats I eliminated my chronic anger with dextrose. I am more resilient to stress than I have ever been in my adult life.

You may want to make sure that it isn't a tendon injury due to straining or repetitive motion, carpal tunnel / tennis elbow or similar. I know for some carpal tunnel can take a while to resolve depending on how they treat it. I would go very easy, or even abstain, on the forearms in the meantime till you figure it out or it clears up.

@raytreats for middle delts literally just spam lateral raises until you can do 50+lbs.

Front delts you hit with bench pressing

Rear delts you should target specifically. Very impt for boulder shoulders

@raytreats said in Period Cramps remedies for my gf:

Her period cramps are terrible, had to leave work early today after vomiting. She can't have dairy and Progest-e makes her very suspicious. Any other recommendations?

Has she tried the carrot salad or maybe Vitex to balance her hormones? Also, if you don’t mind, can you share what her diet looks like? Diet can greatly affect our cycle so perhaps tweaking her diet will resolve her PMS.

@raytreats

I believe Ray has said that once we stop growing, our metabolism starts to decline. The growth process uses a lot of energy in building structure.

This internal metabolism declines and if we continue the same lifestyle as we had as growing kids/adults, we won't be burning as much energy internally and we would have to start exercising more to burn that energy, or else it turns into potential energy in the form of fats.

But not everyone becomes fat. Those who don't already live a lifestyle where they have optimal mitochondrial oxidation. Their internal machinery continues to burn sugar well and the sugar does not accumulate and turn into fats by the liver. Their blood sugar is normal and stable between meals. Because they produce a lot of CO2 as well, they tend to metabolize sugar efficiently because their tissues are well oxygenated because of the Bohr effect of CO2 in blood, which allows oxygen to be released generously by blood to tissues.

A lot of this getting fat while getting older has to do with PUFAs displacing sugar as an energy source. Due to the predominant presence of PUFAs in the diet since childhood and accumulated in the fat issues.

Poorer health will result and a long term fix is to allow the body to reset by stopping the intake of PUFAs and to allow the body to use up its PUFA stores over a natural process of releasing fats from fat cells and using it up over about 4 years. During this transition, it is unavoidable that the PUFAs will cause lipid peroxidation and the best thing we can do is to supplement with vitamin E to mitigate the effects of peroxidation. It will also help to supplement with VCO or other saturated fats so we.can increase the ratio of sat fats over PUFAs being metabolized.

Orally progesterone and thyroid help the most. But she should also check the skin care she’s using to make sure it doesn’t clog pores. Google pore clogging checker and there are a bunch of sites. It can take a few months to clear.

My favorites are Symbiosis and Genuine Coconut:

https://cocosymbiosis.com/

https://genuinecoconut.com/coconut-water/

Next best are Harmless Harvest, 365 by Whole Foods Market fair trade and Trader Joe’s single origin, basically, coconut water sourced from Thai Nam Hom coconuts—I find it to be the sweetest and most fragrant variety I’ve tried:

https://harmlessharvest.com/

https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-market-organic-coconut-water-32-fl-oz-b08cw7vcgr

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/single-origin-organic-coconut-water-065256

@raytreats Awesome! I think more broadly it was stress hormones causing this, hence the spike when you drank espressos without milk or sugar. But this can have been caused by the deficiency! So not to say that isn't a perfect solution. Try to avoid additives in your supplements. Glad you solved it.

Ray Peat email exchanges - Aspirin

You can eat something beforehand so that you aren't so hungry. If you can't obtain vitamin E +/ saturated fat on short notice, try consuming something with caffeine after a pufa-heavy meal to aid excretion, and then eat something with sugar/saturated fat.

sublingual b12 helps shorten the life of canker sores. never noticed acidic foods hurting, seems more like an immune issue

@CO3

"Volkheimer found that mice fed raw starch aged at an abnormally fast rate, and when he dissected the starch-fed mice, he found a multitude of blocked arterioles in every organ, each of which caused the death of the cells that depended on the blood supplied by that arteriole. It isn't hard to see how this would affect the functions of organs such as the brain and heart, even without considering the immunological and other implications...."

"Around 1988 I read Gerhard Volkheimer's persorption article, and after doing some experiments with tortillas and masa, I stopped eating all starch except for those, then eventually I stopped those. Besides grains of starch entering the blood stream, lymph, and cerebral spinal fluid, starch feeds bacteria, increasing endotoxin and serotonin.

For people with really sensitive intestines or bad bacteria, starch should be zero.” ~Ray Peat PhD

For thyroid, I recommend farmaciasdelnino.mx. Straightforward and trustworthy, purchase with BTC. It does take about a month for the package to arrive in the states though.

If she is experiencing a lot of anxiety she probably isn't hyperthyroid but again she won't know unless she has a full hormonal panel

@raytreats My skin started getting dry when I upped my metabolic rate. I needed a lot more vitamins. I started eating a can of oysters daily and it resolved very quickly. (Now I eat one a week.)

i'd probably go with a diet like so:
1 oyster
2 eggs
4 tbsp maple syrup
1/3 lb ground beef
1 large potato
8 cups of orange juice

this is all about 1600 calories and fulfills most of your vitamins/minerals. calcium is pretty easy to get from eggshells.