Posts made by Sippy

and don't miss this one on "water programming" https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/04/21/river-keeping-water-programming-upstate-new-york-and-a-camelot-campaign-some-working-notes/

If you want to start at the beginning: https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/05/12/a-green-populist-synthesis-environmental-warrior-health-freedom-warrior-web3-regenerative-ag-finance-warrior/

Don't forget the great work of Alison McDowell https://wrenchinthegears.com/2024/07/04/blockchain-badges-and-tiktok-school-choice-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas/

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6fba0EEWb8

Do you really think any of these lizards have give a shit about your health?

@Jennifer said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Mossy said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Jennifer said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Mossy said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Jennifer said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Mossy said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Jennifer said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Mossy said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Jennifer said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@SpaceManJim said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

I'm wondering what people value as their most important daily supplement (vitamin, mineral, hormone, etc). For your choice, why?

Thyroid is the supplement that had the greatest impact on my health, but the only supplement I continue to use is vitamin D3 (Premier Research Labs). When my thyroid function was poor, supplementing vitamin D kept me from becoming deficient, even when I was sunbathing regularly, and now I use it year round primarily as a sleep aid.

Hi Jennifer, I'd be curious to know what time of day you take vitamin D for sleep? I ask because I've read that taking it at bed time may actually negatively affect sleep. Considering it does make many tired when taking it, it would be convenient to take before bed.

Hi Mossy, I typically take it in the morning, but the times I’ve taken it before bed have been just as effective. What’s more likely to affect my sleep negatively are the excipients. I used to get the NOW brand of vitamin D drops until I discovered that the MCT oil it contains was irritating my intestines and disturbing my sleep. I switched to vitamin D in olive oil and haven’t had a problem since.

Ok, good to know that it works am or pm for you. I also have vitamin D in olive oil, which I also find better than the MCT, where the MCT gave me what I've described as a serotonin effect in the gut, but maybe your description that it's irritating the intestines is more accurate. Do you purposely stay away from the other supplements that many pair with vitamin D — Vitamin K2, Magnesium, Calcium, and Vitamin A? I'd be interested to know how you've concluded to just use vitamin D (if that indeed is the case). I've heard many share that these co-factors are needed to properly facilitate vitamin D, such as to direct calcium into the bones versus the blood. I ask out of genuine interest, not because I think I know better or am suggesting otherwise. I like the idea of taking less supplements when possible.

Oh, no worries. I didn’t think you were suggesting otherwise. And I think your description is just as accurate as mine. I simplify by saying irritating instead out of habit because it’s easier for the non-Peaters I speak with to understand as a negative when they believe “serotonin is the happy hormone.“ I supplement vitamin D and not the others because I don’t get enough sun during the winter to keep my level above 30, but my diet is naturally abundant in K2, magnesium, calcium and vitamin A so my levels of them are always within range. When it comes to directing calcium into bones, I’m more concerned with my thyroid and parathyroid function.

Thank you for the added detail. Good to know you're able to take just the vitamin D, considering you're getting the others in food. I may try just that.

You’re welcome. Yeah, I try to get nutrients from food whenever possible for a couple of reasons and with my current diet, I don’t get much vitamin D, however, I plan on experimenting with UV-exposed mushrooms. Ray talked about incandescent light for vitamin D so that’s another option.

UV exposed mushrooms sound interesting. I did a quick search and it seems most UV exposed mushrooms provide D2, with some providing D3 and D4 (shiitake). I wonder how much importance should be placed on prioritizing D3, which most supplements contain today? At the least, UV exposed mushrooms seem worth trying. Would you set them in the sun or shine a UV light on them indoors? After doing some math, it would seem best to simply use the UV exposed mushrooms in place of regular ones, within a given meal, not necessarily replace supplemental vitamin D with them. (At least for someone on a budget.) Cost wise and food volume wise, it would be hard to match the cost and convenience per dose of olive oil based vitamin D3.

It’s been years since I’ve researched it but from what I remember, studies showed that D2 isn’t as effective at raising serum vitamin D concentrations as D3, but my diet does contain some D3 from animal proteins and I planned on using shiitakes because I already consume them for selenium. However, I’m going to trial a lichen-based D3 supplement first. My main reason for wanting to get vitamin D from mushrooms instead of lanolin-derived D3 is I don’t know the farm(s) that supply the lanolin so I don’t know if the sheep are treated ethically, and I hadn’t found a lichen-derived D3 that wasn’t in MCT or sunflower oil, but I finally came across one in olive oil this past Saturday.

@Jennifer do you know if you can absorb any amount of D3 from pure lanolin? I have always felt the same way about taking d3 from unknown lanolin source/ farm. Recently, I found some really nice pure lanolin from a small organic farm and have been using it on my skin.https://www.etsy.com/listing/1463048886/lanolin-organic-pure?ref=cart&variation0=3493271645 I have considered eating it, but I've never heard of anyone doing that. Does anyone know how d3 is extracted from lanolin?

My husband processes lambs and kids at home. We vacuum seal the whole livers and put them into the freezer immediately. These livers always taste sweet and good. At some times of year we run out of liver and buy some from neighboring farms that send their animals to small butchers/ slaughterhouses. These farms have good practices but I often find myself not able to eat the livers, the taste is so bad. One last year made me gag and my daughter just kept asking how it could taste so bad compared to our livers. With beef livers, the butcher will often cut them into strips which is the worst! My friend told me a story about the slaughterhouse calling him 4 days after he sent his lambs for slaughter to ask him about how he wanted the livers packaged. That means they didn't freeze them for 4 days. I think that the oxidation of liver is probably a large factor in what makes it taste bad and may make you feel bad. Putting it whole into the freezer immediately is crucial.

@wrl Thanks!

Seems like the content is no longer available to unpaid users. I can no longer search posts without upgrading my account.

Is there anyway to search Lowtoxinforum.com posts (aka old RPF posts) without joining? It's now telling me I have reached the maximum number of searches. This is just since the domain name change.

@yerrag This is awesome. Thank you!

@ThinPicking you might like this one one too. Mind blowing stuff. Hope more people start watching RFK more closely. He is certainly a significant player in this game. https://wrenchinthegears.com/2023/04/21/river-keeping-water-programming-upstate-new-york-and-a-camelot-campaign-some-working-notes/

https://wrenchinthegears.com/2024/04/30/ai-wellness-tokenized-democracy-game-b-will-the-health-freedom-community-buy-into-bobbys-bs/

Alison McDowell has done some in depth work on RFK. It's worth checking out
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2024/07/04/blockchain-badges-and-tiktok-school-choice-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas/

@FOR-THE-POTATO how do we know there isn't any that's pure? I have some from Forefront Health. They say it's pure. I have no way to verify that it is, but that's no different than any other supplement or processed food out there. I consider tossing all supplements and food from away all the time, but some have been very helpful lately.

@mostlylurking Thanks so much for the info. I should have said that I am taking 400mg of Magnesium from Mag Glycinate. I have taken a lot more in the past, but it's never helped the constipation. I'm going to try upping my riboflavin and maybe slowly add more TTFD. I did try thiamine HCL and got up to 2 grams without noticing too much.

Do you all think starch as opposed to just fruit and honey is important for growing children?

Can anyone using Thiamax thiamine share their experience, dosage and what they are taking alongside it?

I am up to 300mg and wondering if this is the max I should take, or if some people need more than this? I'm also wondering how much riboflavin and other vitamins to take in proportion to how much thiamine. I'm taking 25 drops of Idealabs Energin, 1000 mcg B12 as adenosylcobalamin, and 400 mg Mag Gylcinate.

I'm trying to remedy my chronic constipation and numbness/ tingling in arms and legs.

@Uroš I was just about to post the same question, when I saw your thread! I too have been searching the old RPF for answers about women and pregnenolone. I have found lots of unanswered questions.

Specifically, I'd like to know when it is appropriate for a woman to take pregnenolone?

If she is still menstruating, should she cycle it for one half of her cycle or take it continuously?

If she is already taking progesterone, what would be the benefit to adding pregnenolone? Why not just take DHEA?

Can pregnenolone enhance female fertility any better than taking DHEA and progesterone?

Brilliant
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/08/02/state/maine-woods-oral-rabies-vaccines-distribution/

@happyhanneke I wonder if they would let someone with cancer decline them. I found these articles helpful
https://doctorpapadopoulos.com/dental-x-ray-compared-to-background-radiation/
https://doctorpapadopoulos.com/dental-x-ray-cancer-risks-list-of-scientific-studies/
https://doctorpapadopoulos.com/dentists-without-x-rays-how-to-find-a-reasonable-dentist/
https://doctorpapadopoulos.com/best-holistic-dentist-baltimore-dc-annapolis/

Wish I was closer to DC.

@happyhanneke I recently tried to tell my "holistic" dentist I was trying to get pregnant and potentially pregnant and he said they x-ray pregnant women. Told me to look it up on the internet! They won't clean my teeth until I get a full exam with 3D. My husband also declined x-rays at his cleaning and then my dentist had us come for a special meeting and told us that he wants to drop us and my daughter. I got him to hold off and give my husband a chance to do the xrays, but I honestly feel so shitty about the whole thing I don't know if we should go back. In the state we live, it's the only so called holistic dentist. Basically they don't use fluoride and remove mercury fillings. But they'd x-ray a pregnant woman in the 1st trimester.

One option I just found out about was independent hygienists that just do cleanings. There is actually one I found that works at a holistic health clinic.