Posts made by revenant

@revenant said in Stanolabs DHT gel:

Still waiting for my order to arrive.

Finland. Should be arriving soon.

Still waiting for my order to arrive.

Where do ppl buy it from?

What do you think about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTRtKby8P80

Isn't "oxidative stress" in the bioenergetic world the same as not enough oxidation, not too much?

Anything that raises dopamine.

When I went too low in fat and protein I didn't sleep for a few months.

Try casein powder before bed. Also anything that reduces cortisol and adrenaline should help with frequent urination. Magnesium is helpful for sleep in general.

@ThinPicking said in Tinnitus remedies?:

Tinnitus results from electrolyte disturbance in endolymph. Auricular function is extremely sensitive to variations in the constitution of that fluid.

And I don't consider Ray's attributions to hypothyroidism and endotoxin inconsistent with the normalisation of fluid balance.

I have had tinnitus, dizziness and a feeling of fullness in the ear now for a while but it comes and goes, and I definitely notice that fluid retention in general affects it. When I'm all dried out (and weigh less on the scale), my hearing is perfect and everything is fine. When I start adding water weight, tinnitus gets worse and sense of balance gets worse.

Apparently endotoxin can cause fluids to leak into the inner ear, but fluid balance seems important too. The first time I experiences the dizziness was when I tried the potato hack and consumed tons of potassium.

The standard treatment for Meniere's disease (dizziness, tinnitus, sense of fullness in ear) is diuretics, so clearly there is something to it.

@LetTheRedeemed said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

Danny Roddy shared Broda Barnes’ findings that you can’t lose weight no matter the attempt, when your temps are low enough. CICO methods don’t help. Optimal scenario, You just burn water weight, which promptly returns the minute you restore carbs, or just die of a stroke before you reach your dream body.

Ray shared case studies on obese women who were consuming 600 calories a day while working out, not losing weight.

Principally, it’s first and foremost a hormonal issue. Cortisol and estrogen literally cause weight gain.

I know that in my keto carnivore days, I’d fast and calorie restrict for so long, with no success. It seemed to plateau at the same point at which I was getting severe hypo symptoms… no wonder… I can directly refute @RawGoatMilk88 on that one. It was not for lack of trying and diligence that that failed…

I’ve gotten my pulse and temps up pretty consistently now, and now I can at least lose weight on days I sleep more than 8 hours. I do understand the principles of CICO (and play around with low fat/calorie counting), but I still consistently do better when I increase my icecream intake before bed, and restrict my protein intake, and up my gelatin intake. So far my weight loss has happened in bouts of feeling good on tasty food until full, but no mechanical CICO consistency has done the same for me.

The goal is to get your core temps and pulse up consistently high, and then do short term CICO.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cvAAUtKUf34&t=61s

How did you get your temps up? My pulse seems fine but temps are under 37 almost always.

T3/T4 don't seem to do much for me.

@Bling5 said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

@revenant

i would add way more vegetables. if you're interested in body recomp and athletic performance your meals should really be starch meat and veg and then eggshell to balance the phosphorus. that's my opinion. a bit of zucchini isn't enough plant food. the fruits dont really count, yeah they have micronutrients but not as much as cooked leafs or other veg.

if youre trying to lose fat it doesnt make sense to have less nutrient dense stuff like cheesecake and cokes. you should be using whatever opportunity that anytime you eat something in a lower calorie diet to get the maximum nutrient density in. you only have a certain amount of calories to eat right now so you should be choosing the most nutrient dense things.

yeah i saw the rat studies with how they lost fat on coca cola. show me anyone who has done that and thrived.

milk with sugars imo is a good meal replacement for convenience and not a staple of the diet. i.e. you eat 4-5 meals a day, you can have 1 as milk or other dairy stuff.

and i dont think fruit should be meals. fruit can accompany a meal and help with digestion (e.g. digestive enzymes in pineapple etc.) but it is a waste of an opportunity to make fruit a meal. again talking about body recomp an performance. not leisurely vacation diet. you would get way more out of using that opportunity to get nutrient density in.

add cooked leaves and cabbages and bell peppers and lettuces and stuff. ive never experienced the downsides of these that people on rpf postulated about for years. in fact i did way better when i added all this stuff i took out after browsing rpf and taking ray's words too literally and personally

That's worth a shot I guess. Thanks.

I usually supplement 200-400 mg of magnesium and some B vitamins. Occasionally take 15 mg zinc or 2 mg copper. Started taking 5000-10000 IU of vitamin D per day since spending time in the sun during summer did not raise my vitamin D levels. Also vitamin A sometimes, maybe 1000-5000 IU per day.

Hmm yes, well it varies but here's is an example of a sub-2000 kcal day:

And here's a 3100 kcal day:

@RFC32 said in My Experiments With Hormones:

Alright.

So I now have alpha gels which is just vitamin e, dmso, and micronized Testosterone.

Where did you buy this from?

@Hearthfire said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

@revenant said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

There has to be a way to eat 2500 kcal per day and not gain weight, since some people clearly manage to eat that much (and much more in fact).

Yeah, it's called have a high activity level that increases your TDEE. Work out 1-2 hour a day, and/or have a job with high activity level.

This is all super basic stuff that every entry level gym bro learns....

Why is this such a mystery to "Peaters"?

There are studies suggesting that added exercise simply means you will spend less energy on other functions of the body (including NEAT), for example the studies on the Hadza:

https://cpha.duke.edu/news-events/news/herman-pontzer-explains-where-our-calories-really-go-and-what-studying-humanitys

But even if that weren't the case, exercising will just make you hungrier. So eating 1500 kcal without exercise is the same as eating 2000 kcal with exercise -- you'll be miserable and destroying your metabolism either way. Yes, you can pull it off maybe 3-4 times in your lifetime, but after that it stops working; or you'll have to reduce calories further and further.

Yeah, it is super basic gym bro stuff, which is why it's wrong.

@Hearthfire said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

@revenant said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

It's a fact only because it cannot ever be proven wrong; because it's a tautology.

lol....my god. It's been proven correct through testing it by millions and millions of people.

@revenant said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

What is INTERESTING however, is why one person of the same size and activity level can eat 2000 kcal and lose weight and another one will gain weight. How do you explain that with CICO?

That's not a thing. The variation between the two will be very small. What does cause major differences is one person vastly over-estimating, or vastly under-estimating how much they're eating, which happens A LOT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-exercise_activity_thermogenesis

"Besides differences in body composition, it represents most of the variation in energy expenditure across individuals and populations, accounting from 6-10 percent to as much as 50 percent of energy expenditure in highly active individuals.[4]"

You consider that "very small"?

@Hearthfire said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

@revenant

It has nothing to do with "reddit scientists", weak ad hom.

People lie to themselves about the calories they're consuming all the time, by grossly underestimating how much they're consuming, and not tracking ingredients properly. Sometimes its a mental thing, your body perhaps wanting those calories so you unconciously fudge the numbers.

Calorie surplus makes you gain weight, calorie deficit makes you lose weight. It's very simple, and thoroughly and proven. It's a FACT.

You have to figure out what your TDEE is for your body composition, activity level, BMR, etc. The easiest way is to keep lowering calorie intake until you start losing weight consistently, and you really have to weigh yourself every day and track things accurately.

You can believe all you want that overactive/underactive thyroid magically makes it so you can consume 9k calories without gaining weight, or consume 100 calories a day and still gain weight, but its simply not true. Does it have some effect? Yes. Is it that massive of an effect? No. Bodybuilding community has gone through all of this for many years.

NEAT alone can account for 1000 kcal per day, and given that calorie intakes 100 years ago were much higher (~1000 kcal) than today, I would say metabolic rate can be greatly affected by thyroid and other things.

You can claim all you want that I'm not tracking calorie intake accurately, I don't care what you believe.

"Calorie surplus makes you gain weight, calorie deficit makes you lose weight. "

Yes, but this is such an empty statement that it means nothing. It's a fact only because it cannot ever be proven wrong; because it's a tautology.

What is INTERESTING however, is why one person of the same size and activity level can eat 2000 kcal and lose weight and another one will gain weight. How do you explain that with CICO?

I'm sure if I cut down to 1000 kcal per day I will probably lose weight. But I have seen what happens when I cut back to 1500 kcal per day. Many other problems appear. That's why it's not a practical solution. If you have never lived on 1500 kcal per day then you don't know what you're talking about.

There has to be a way to eat 2500 kcal per day and not gain weight, since some people clearly manage to eat that much (and much more in fact).

@RawGoatMilk88 said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

@revenant

Where do you get this idea that it is “excessive” and turning into ammonia? This is pretty standard information based on studies done on muscle retention while in a deficit. Around a gram per pound of body weight, or slightly under that has been known to be ideal for muscle mass for a long time.

From haidut, for example.

It's actually a gram (or 0,8 grams usually) per pound of lean body mass, not total body weight. So it would be 120-150 grams of protein for me, given my lean body mass of 147 pounds.

@Hearthfire said in Calorie deficit but gaining fat?:

@revenant If you're gaining weight, you're not really in a caloric deficit. Very simple.

You are lying about the amount of calories you're eating.

Track them accurately.

Heh, well this is the age-old argument by reddit scientists.

Why would I "lie" about my calories? Sure, it may not be 100% accurate, but I cook my own food and weigh everything, so it's in the ballpark. Let's say it's off by +-200 kcal, it still means I don't lose weight by eating 2000 kcal (1800 + 200), while my metabolic rate SHOULD be 2600 kcal.

It's of course possible that my metabolic rate is horribly low.

There's this study which says vinegar consumption (15 or 30 ml per day) reduced fat:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19661687/

What kind of intake would result in increased visceral fat?

With niacinamide the dosing seems to be crucial. For visceral fat reduction, would 50-100mg a few times a day be enough?

Calculator for protein intakes:

https://macros.exfatloss.com/