Posts made by skywxlker

@LinDaiyu
okay.

like 160g protein.
like 120g from ground beef. sometime's steak
.5 liter of goat milk

2-3 potatoes with ghee
like 300g of carbs from honey and maple syrup
and like a liter of oj and apple juice in total.

lots of carbs because my body is very wasteful. b1 has helped that out though. my lactate feels much lower.

I also take like 300Mg pregnenolone, 60mg progesterone. I also take vitamin ADEK. But I have not noticed anything different with these. occasional 100mcg selenium

before this, I used to take a collagen supplement. but I stopped because I don't crave it like before. same for eggs. I think it was the potatoes inhibiting choline breakdown because ever since I reintroduced potatoes, I don't crave eggs. I also don't crave seafood anymore. whereas before I used to.

I can really only see a connection with increasing beef cravings with benfotiamine. its strange how delicious I find beef atm. i think its the amino acids needed to make glutathione or something to do with methylation.

ever since starting...

• 400mg benfotiamine
• 200mg niacinamide
• 16mg b7
  (spread throught out the day with meals)

I now have ravenous appetite for beef. Just plain beef.

I usally find beef very boring but now it tastes delicious, as if I've been starving. I have a background of metabolic issues. The b1 is curing my insulin resistance too.

The taste of beef is so good. I think its the methionine or cysteine. Or perhaps another nutrient.

or possibly something to do with methylation and glutathione? benfothiamine may have effects on glutathione or iron. idk. my iron is in good range, saturation, ferritin etc. all normal.

I am hypothyroid by Ray Peat definitions. 227 cholesterol, 180 triglycerides (which went up after eating Peaty). 1.4 tsh. t3 and t4 "in range".

also my blood pressure skyrockets between meals.

any ideas?

@mostlylurking No they're not drops.

its just a form of oral riboflavin. It requires less conversion than the typical form of riboflavin you'll find in most products.

I find it works well (not sure if it works for photophobia or eye floaters) and I believe its more potent so you don't have to dose as much.

@mostlylurking alright. sounds good.

I'll update this post to see how things go. thanks again

riboflavin "5-phospate"

@mostlylurking thanks again. good to know. I just ordered some thiamin hcl.

while we're on the topic, should I pair thiamine with riboflavin?

I cant tell if its working or not, but riboflavin seems like something that would help me.

I do have light sensitivity and eye floaters. in my youth I had migraines, but I'm not sure.

my instict tells me to try B2 5p.

@idealabsrat hmmm. then I am not entirely sure. usually, abrupt changes can alter your metabolism... vitamins, minerals, hormones all going through different changes.

you're best off going to the doctor and getting a check up. hormones, b vitamins, iron, vitamin d, zinc, copper, immune system, blood cell count

@mostlylurking thank you. this is very helpful.

I have been under lots of stress, I'm sure my glutathione is in poor status.

I also felt better using B2, and B3 along with thiamine. and I do feel that the thiamine threw off my Magnesium metabolism. I often don't know if I should take more or less.

@idealabsrat being uncomfortably warm is not a good thing.

your body should be able to respond to the temperature of the environment. 70 degrees is somewhat warm for some people but your body soon adjusts to regulate your temperature.

you are probably raising your metabolism too much with all your supplements. the least I can tell you is to eat enough protein and carbs.

glycine because its sweet and looks like sugar

thiamine

pregnenolone

fat soluble vitamins

allopregnenolone

@cornwallis God speed brother.

How long have you had these issues and do you know if anything potentially triggered the onset?

Mine got worse after Peating for a year. I cut out kefir and starches, ate tons of simpler carbs. Then I caught covid 4 months ago and my issues became 10 out of 10 problematic.

@mostlylurking thanks. will do.

I didn't know TTFD would tank glutathione. I did get benefits at first and I believe some of these benfits were even from the sulphur. But then things became stagnant. and increasing the dose didn't seem to do anything more but to raise my heart rate.

I've long suspected EDS in myself after seeing some links between EDS and ME/CFS.

Some casual tests on myself show I am mild on the EDS scale. However I also have mild tissue deformities like a crooked rib, slight underbite, semi-flat feet, difficult to gain muscle, Osgood-Schlatter's in both knees growing up...

I suspect a glycine, vitamin A and K deficiencies along with any number of B vitamin deficiencies. Zinc, copper, manganese, possibly iron and cholesterol.

High estrogen, low androgens.

Idk if Weston A. Price ever talks about this specifically, but he emphasizes the importance of these nutrients coming from animal foods and organs.

And in my casual observations, it seems quite clear that deficiencies in these nutrients, create for a weak, feeble, dysgenic body as opposed to the strong archetypical high androgenized bodies.

Growing up I played sports and I was the runt of the pack while on the other hand I had some friends were absolute beasts. My body was flimsy, theirs were sturdy and built. Thick skinned as well. Never lifted weights but strong and powerful. And I noticed those friends ate beef and butter, home cooked meals. While the runts like myself ate processed foods and grains.

Personally I've getting success eating 5-6 eggs yolks, beef liver, cheese and supplementing with vitamin K, A, E, zinc picolinate, selenium, manganese, coq10, shilahit, raw honey and ghee.

cleaning up your environment, avoiding zeno-estrogens, soy, plastics, pesticides. living a more wild lifestyle, ie nature/hiking.

EDS people simply appear low T, low androgens. while the opposite are usually the strong among us... faster wound repairs, can take on more damage, not flexible, more gravitas in their physique.

define "peating"

what are you taking and eating? anything you cut out of your diet or environment?

@notmcas

never together but seperately yes. honestly that sounds quite horrid lol. maybe it's my gut taking though...

I have always disliked mushrooms. olive oil is good though.

@mostlylurking

interesting. I have high dosed TTFD and benfotiamine but never thiamine HCL. I will have to give it a try

@retard

Health Natura’s Pregnenolone has given me zero bad side effects as compared to this other cheap brand. If that’s worth anything.

My issues have also been plaguing me for a while. But seem to be exacerbated by covid infections and tweaking my diet too much.

Kefir has helped me. I stopped for a year and my gut health got worse. So I recently added it back in and it’s been going better.

BPC-157 oral tablets have also helped me.

@retard

Yeah dude it sucks. Have you tried hormones like preg or probiotics? Did you gradually worsen or was it a sudden onset?

@Hando-Jin

Interesting. I’ve just started to incorporate large doses of preg and progest. I’ve taken 100mg of preg for a few weeks but it didn’t help much, but I’m looking at taking .5-1g. My issues are quite severe.

Where do I get dht?

@Hando-Jin
Thanks. Yeah idk if it’s IBS. Never done a breath test and stool test didn’t reveal anything too malicious. But I think it’s IBS.