Dandruff or scalp irritation? Try BLOO.
@PunkinEater, yes, I took the same ssri and weaned off in about a year. I started by cutting the pill in quarters. I would take 3 of the quarters, and then half of the last quarter. I would go at least a month on that reduced dose, and then take off a little more. It went pretty good, considering the drug that I was getting off of.
I wish I had the Ray peat advice at the time I did it to take some progest-e.
My advice is don't rush it.
Read Ray Peats articles on serotonin.
Ssri increase serotonin.
HAIDUT has recommended cyproheptadine to help get off ssri
Comment from another site:
"Note to others; I received several PMs who found cyproheptadine very useful after discontinuing SSRIs. "
Ray Peats email response to getting off antidepressant use.
[Weaning off anti-depressants] Keeping the metabolic rate and cholesterol up is important, so that repair and adaptation will be quick. Progesterone reduces pain and anxiety, and pregnenolone would be the most convenient supplement for men, but it's hard to find products without allergens. Combining progesterone and DHEA or testosterone can produce the stabilizing effect without suppressing the libido. Benadryl and cyproheptadine are probably both helpful. Withdrawal from morphine and SSRIs and migraine involve some similar processes.
I knew someone who had been addicted to morphine and alcohol for 30 years, who was drinking quarts of beer and wine daily when he didn't have morphine, who had an opportunity for a good job if he could get sober. Starting progesterone at bedtime (and stopping the wine), he said it was the first time he didn't have a hangover in the morning. He used enough progesterone to neuter most people, but said it didn't affect his sex function; he was taking a lot of Cytomel and magnesium, but wasn't drunk again as long as I knew him, and his general health improved.
It depends on how much pregnenolone you can assimilate. People would use progesterone in amounts needed to stop the withdrawal symptoms, but pregnenolone doesn't have the powerful effects of progesterone, even in multi-gram quantities, so it's just a matter of seeing what it can do. As I understand the mechanism (migraine, withdrawal, etc.), estrogen-histamine-serotonin rise on a background of hypothyroid liver malfunction, cytomel (and/or sugar, selenium, B vitamins) allows the liver and other detoxifying systems to lower them, and the lower they are, the less progesterone or pregnenolone it takes to block the symptoms.
DO NOT cold turkey the anti depressant. You want to wean off low and slow. This should take many months. There is some good info in this article, but the suggestion it could be done in 6 weeks is not correct.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/going-off-antidepressants
Is anyone concerned about the reported nanoparticle technology RayPeat talked about with Jodelle? He said he had not used or recommended milk powder anymore, as he could not get confirmation that the milk powder was not coated with nanoparticles, which he said were cancerous and inflammatory.
Wow, an unheard interview with Ray Peat! That is amazing. I cannot wait.
Website, blog, forum. Working on a cookbook as well, I think.
https://raymendeat.com/category/eat/
@Jennifer , I would be interested to hear what you have found in the hydroxyapitite products- things that might work, things that don't. Please make a post. 
@DavidPS
It is interesting that chicken is higher than beef 
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I make gelatin weekly from pastured chicken wings, but I never end up eating the actual chicken. Maybe I should.
@Chud
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Knowing what I know now, I would have gotten a dula and a home birth. At least adjacent to your "regular " doctor.
I have never had medical problems in my life, so at that time I just did not have any thoughts it could be different with pregnancy.
Be prepared for the unexpected. I had a non eventful pregnancy at what the medical establishment considers "advanced maternal age".
I became pregnant when I wanted with no problem. Carried to term without problem. Then at a 39 week check my doctor said I needed to go to hospital and be induced. Something about the babies heart rate decreasing with contractions (to the best of my memory).
To this day, because of my ensuing distrust of the medical establishment, I am not certain that recommendation to be induced was necessary.
Be aware, if you are induced, there is an extremely high likelihood you will end up with a c-section. I did. It is the worst way to give birth. I believe my body was not yet ready and producing the high levels of progesterone it does at birth time, so an induced birth is agonizing.
Knowing what I know now, I would have a birth plan - Google that. Be prepared to never let baby out of your site. Be aware of injections they might give baby, do you want skin on skin immediately after birth before they go about their "medically necessary procedures". Do you want them to bathe the baby, or rub the vernix into their skin. Know your stance on vaccines and what they might try to give you or baby in hospital. And have a plan if your plan goes south.
Also, get a competent assessment for lip and tongue ties if you are having trouble breast feeding, or if baby has reflux.
And after you have successfully brought baby into this world, know that the days are long but the years are short. You will have 18 summers with them. Let them be messy, your house does not have to be perfect, do things, get outside, let them explore and be creative.
Get outside with baby in the morning light to set them up with a great circadian rhythm.
Self care for mom after birth: often overlooked in USA, but a standard test for Europe (so I've read) is thyroid testing. It is not uncommon for the thyroid to unload stored colloid after birth (according to Ray Peat), which will result in a hyperthyroid state, which should resolve itself in a few months. Ray talks about strategy for this. If you are not aware - as I was not- it might end in the medical establishment vaporizing your thyroid. Have a plan.
@onliest can you elaborate on the GHK-Cu serum?
This pub medical article makes it sound like a miracle substance:
The cadaver bag would just be longer and thicker than a trash bag. You could use it up to the armpits and tie it off the same way you would a trash bag.
@DavidPS my suggestion was not to lay flat, it was a solution to a big enough bag, as talked about by Ray Peat in the linked Patrick Timpone interview.
I personally would never use the CO2 bag in the house, though it seems Ray did as he talks about watching movies while in a CO2 bag.
@Mulloch94
Put tin foil over the zipper first, and then tape that down. This clip has Ray Peat describing taping tin foil over a Bathtub drain. He said it won't go thru tin foil, would slowly seep thru tape. Then (my thoughts), use the foil tape for sealing hvac venting.
@Mulloch94 the materials are said to be leak proof and water proof for the needs of the intended purpose. You could tape the zipper and get in from the top like any bag.