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@ThinPicking Yes, thank you, someone is looking after me. And yes, I do measure the sugar and baking soda. I am trying to eat more gelatin, plus I tried some cheese and solid fruits ,and space intake in 4 meals, with sipping a bit of o.j. between meals, cut back on sugar in milk. It is turning out badly, with systolic b.p. back in the 170s. I have been taking 4 1/2 - 5g of aspirin, spread throughout the day, up from my usual 1500mg.

Thank you for taking the time to do your replies. In response, I can only send you some Ray Peat quotes for an email thread of when I was experiencing severe insomnia. It brought me to the conclusion of what I am currently doing, after trying to eat regularly, 4 meals a day with protein and coconut oil and my fiber meal, and failing miserably while having this severe respiratory illness. (When I got sick, nothing worked, including digestion!)

Ray Peat: Have you tried having a large amount of carbohydrate during the night? The morning stress results from failure to maintain glucose oxidation during the night. A fat free diet might help you to increase glucose oxidation efficiency.

Ray Peat raypeat@gmail.com
Feb 14, 2022, 5:01 PM
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Eliminating fats (ice cream, coconut oil) for a while might improve your carbohydrate metabolism and lower the stress hormones. Some people have good results from starchy foods at bedtime.

Ray Peat raypeat@gmail.com
Feb 14, 2022, 6:52 PM
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No, I think the fat late in the day is likely to be most disruptive to good sugar metabolism; increasing calories of carbohydrate can lower stress hormones.

Ray Peat raypeat@gmail.com
Feb 15, 2022, 7:35 PM
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Temporarily (4 or 5 days) cutting out eggs and cheese, and limiting coffee to mornings, and increasing calories from carbohydrate should improve the depth of your sleep, as your metabolic rate increases. It should raise your temperature a little.

Ray Peat raypeat@gmail.com
Feb 16, 2022, 2:27 PM
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I think the amount of fat in 1% milk would be o.k.

@ThinPicking All I know is that I have never been this sick and for this long in my 64 plus years. It is also different in that it went directly to my lungs, and incessant, severe and wheezing coughing for weeks on end, sometimes wondering if I would pass out for want of air.... Definitely severe acute respiratory distress. Anyway, salt is super important, for sure! I have been consuming probably close to 3 TBSP baking soda throughout the day, with my o.j. I literally ladle in bits at a time, so the CO2 won't all be released into the air. I do also add NaCl to my gelatin, and sometimes to my milk with sugar.

@yerrag I had to eliminate fat in order to get my dangerously high systolic b.p. down. I was up to 192/69. Reread my R.P. notes and he suggested to remove all fat and protein, except in 1% milk, and add lots of sugar to milk to bring the split down, which it has. I still have some rises in systolic pressure by the end of and hour, and especially at the end of the day, but more in the 130s-150s range. I wish it were as simple as adding fat, but right now, that causes dangerously high systolic b.p.

@LucH Thank you for your reply and links. I due consume more vitamin E in the form of Progest-E. Right now, it's the only thing that helps me sleep. In Ray Peat's Blood Sugar, Starches, and Carbohydrates in Context Excerpt, he states that "Glucagon, cortisol, epinephrine, growth hormone, and the thyroid all tend to raise blood sugar." Cortisol and epinephrine also spike when blood sugar drops. And as I recall from my RP notes, too much T3 can also lower blood sugar too much, spiking cortisol and epinephrine. I am hypothesizing that given the relative increase in thyroid stimulating foods, milk, o.j., and gelatin by eliminating all other foods, that perhaps I need to taper down my normal doses of T3 supplement, so that I can make it an hour without my cortisol/ epinephrine rising, as indicated by my b.p. split systolic starting to rise. Lmk what you think.

@yerrag Thank you for your reply. I try to take a CO2 bath in a bag daily, (although many days, I am simply too tired). I also take baking soda with my hourly orange juice and bag breathe a few times per day. Interestingly, my blood pressure split is exacerbated by the CO2 bath. Not sure why, maybe I stay in too long and get too hot, which could be a stressor. I am still trying to figure it out.

@ThinPicking Thank you for your reply. I would love to be able to just eat 3 solid meals per day and be okay. But I have the SARS-CoV-2 virus and have been really sick for over a month. I used to do consults with Ray Peat, and we email back and forth a lot. During other times of complete duress, he recommended removing all proteins and fats in the short herm, other than the fat in 1% milk, and drinking very frequent sugary 1% milk. Orange juice was inferred in our emails, but everything else was recommended to remove, until I could get my split blood pressure down. He said that a high systolic and normal diastolic meant very high cortisol, and the aforementioned was his remedy. However, this was for a short term. I have brought my b.p. down from 192/69 to 116/67, following this regimen. However, since I have been sick for so long, and still have lesser b.p. swings by the end of the hour, eg., 153/78, I still need to tweak something.

Hello new Friends! I am wondering about how to stabilize blood sugar while sick with COVID. I drink a mixture of o.j. with baking soda, followed by milk with sugar, (about 3Tbsp per cup), every hour. A few times throughout the day, I eat a Tbsp of homemade gelatin with this mixture. My blood pressure, systolic only, goes up before the end of the hour, and drops again after consumption of the mixture, indicating that cortisol/ adrenaline are rising from a drop in blood sugar. I am wondering how to stabilize it. I found this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000709121730572X
The milk doesn't even fully empty the stomach in an hour, so I am unsure about consuming the same mixture in lesser amounts more frequently. Everything is slowed down, as well, so bloating is an issue. I have also thought about adding a bit of ground mushroom that I cooked for 3 hours to sustain blood sugar levels, but I am not sure how that would work with trying to consume milk and o.j. on a frequent basis. Do you know of any anecdotal experiences or studies that address this issue? My current regime did get me out of chronically elevated high blood pressure (systolic only), with the illness. Now the b.p. is only elevated before the end of the hour. The milk with the sugar is what noticeably decreases the b.p. (I learned this tip from Dr. Peat.)