Dandruff or scalp irritation? Try BLOO.
@Verdad Even in the announcement coming back he can't help but push his anti-vitamin A madness. "reconcile" how about you reconcile and stop being a total lunatic @Charlie banning everyone for daring to even slightly disagree with you.
People in a cult can never see that they're in one i guess
I'm currently supplementing Androsterone along with Progesterone and DHEA to help prevent any conversion into estrogen. I take 5mg of andro, 5mg of DHEA and 40mg of progesterone.
I also noticed that taking them changed my body odour in my research this can be an indication of an increase of androgens.
I've definitely noticed a reduction in stress and a big increase in libido.
Glad to hear that the forum is not gone as i valued the library of posts that have been posted there.
Unfortunately I would almost certainly imagine that @Charlie will somehow rationalise this as evidence that there are dark demonic forces working against them and this was somehow a spiritual attack against his holy crusade to save us all by getting us to stop taking vitamin A and to "detox" using niacin.
Lisuride, tyrosine and phenylalanine combo, nicotine, androsterone combined with DHEA and progesterone.
@Peatful So you think that Carlie made an illegal unauthorised charge to your paypal account from when you were a forum supporter? I cancelled my support after he lost his mind.
No one has any idea why the ray peat forum is down i guess?
@Truth unreal. So it went from, this is not up for discussion or debatable and if you don't like it you can leave to ok you can post pro vitamin A studies again. Talk about a complete disaster show. I'm guessing he got to much backlash from that one even he realised he had to pull back.
However damage is done and continues to be done by this. Engagement gonna plummet as everyone afraid to engage for fear of being banned.
@ThinPicking of course Charlie finds a way to avoid the issue. He has been beating the drum of his new guru and all of a sudden said guru comes out against Niacin which Charlie has been aggressively pushing as the cure for basically all diseases. Sad to see someone devolve into delusion but not surprising as he basically sounds like a cult leader now.
@Verdad So a small update on this.
I had been taking a large dose of vitamin A for a number of months the reason for that is when i took other androgen boosting supplements i tended to get acne if i did not also take vitamin A.
Well I have not taken any supplemental vitamin A for a while and am still taking said androgen boosting supplements but I do not appear to be getting the same acne problems as before.
Could be that my liver has enough vitamin A stored but I also theorise that one of the main reasons is the lower levels of estrogen which is a big contributor to acne.
@haidut posted in the raypeat forum a study that indicates that acne is likely a sign of estrogen not excess androgens.
Great video here that breaks down the dumpster fire that is Charlie and the Raypeatforum.
He just posted a video that goes through the dumpster fire that is Charlie and the Ray peat forum today.
@latin I know people that used cyproheptadine to help come off of severe addiction to opioids.
One person I know who used cypro during his second attempt at quitting said that compared to the first time without cyproheptadine the one with cypro was like a walk in the park.
Both cypro and lisuride oppose serotonin many of the withdrawal symptoms are due to elevated serotonin.
Suppression of the drug-induced morphine withdrawal syndrome by cyproheptadine
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00421401
This case study shows an example of someone who was withdrawing from clozapine and were also taking cypro. When they stopped taking the cypro they experienced serotonin syndrome.
A Case of Serotonin Syndrome Following Cyproheptadine Withdrawal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578901/
@amizon In my experience with all these supplements that lower stress, if the body does not have enough resources to handle the improvement in metabolism it can make the situation worse. Some supplements such as progesterone or T3 if the body already is in a state of chronic stress, low glycogen levels with high levels of cortisol adding supplements can make the situation worse.
There is a tendency from a lot of people to overdose on supplements we take a lot more than we need and the body cannot handle it. Its always best to start off very slow and make sure the body has adapted to the dose.
In my early days of Peat i took way too many stress lowering supplements when my body was not ready for it and it made the situation worse.
Slow and steady wins the race.
@pineapple In my personal experience this has been due to having levels of cortisol and other stress hormones that are too high by adding supplements that increase the metabolism when the body is under stress is like adding fuel to the fire.
I can only take T3 when i also take a supplement to reduce cortisol levels such as Progesterone but i always take progesterone with a few mg of DHEA which helps to reduce the chance of conversion of progesterone into estrogen.
Charlie is now attacking methylene blue check out his latest "Methylene Blue is Toxic Poison...Destroying Livers & Brains"
This guy really has lost his mind. I think he is bitter that his health did not improve following what he perceived to be a ray peat diet so he is now basically burnign down anything that he sees as in anyway related to it.
Really quite sad.
No wonder that we seem to be on a never ending decline when it comes to young people's mental health. What chance do kids have when before they're even born they are exposed to even more and more chemicals that mean they are more likely to be dumb and sick.
One upside I guess is if you're aware of this and you and your partner don't eat PUFA you're going to have a child with an automatic leg up compared to everyone else.
Found the study on high dose vitamin A. It was posted by Haidut on ray peat forum
"This is a human study and as you can see it used up to 500,000 IU vitamin A daily for months for acne treatment without any serious signs of toxicity. Most doctors will warn you that vitamin A will cause liver issues, but as you can see this was not the case here."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6453848
"...Oral vitamin A (retinol) is generally not considered useful in the treatment of acne vulgaris. We conducted a study which showed that retinol was indeed ineffective at the usual doses of 50,000 to 100,000 IU daily. Retinol was highly efficacious in doses of 300,000 units for women and 400,000 to 500,000 units for men, toxicity was slight and limited mainly to skin (xerosis) and mucous membranes (cheilitis). The danger of hypervitaminosis A in this dosage range has been exaggerated. Retinol is a valuable drug for treating stubborn, severely inflammatory acne vulgaris. It is administered until the disease is brought under control, usually within three to four months. Then the dosage is progressively reduced relying on conventional drugs to keep the disease in abeyance."