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Idealabs TocoVit is unique and very good. I also got great results from Healthnatura’s “Whole E”

@pineapple not enough carbs leading to elevated FFA in turn leading to excess estrogen and prolactin, not enough vitamin B1 or magnesium leading to PDH underactivity, not enough vitamin A, not enough zinc leading to elevated estrogen/testosterone ratio, not enough vitamin E leading to elevated estrogen and prolactin, not enough vitamin D and calcium leading to systemic inflammation, not enough vitamin C causing elevated cortisol leading to elevated estrogen?

Androgenic steroids are strongly supportive of health, but I would suggest that testosterone specifically is not the most important androgen to increase. DHT and DHEA activity should be given the highest priority.

Cholesterol and zinc are two of the most important “ingredients” for making pregnenolone, the mother steroid, and its downstream metabolite steroids including DHEA, progesterone, testosterone, and DHT.

Cholesterol can be made in the liver from sugar, or from myristic acid, a saturated fatty acid found mostly in dairy fat and coconut fat. It can also be consumed directly — raw egg yolks work as I will explain below.

Zinc is found in oysters, beef, and lamb.

Having an adequate LDL cholesterol level is important for producing steroids. One thing which Ray told us can keep the liver from synthesizing cholesterol is excess endotoxin, or other intestinal irritation.

Choline is another necessary nutrient which allows the liver to export its stored fat as LDL. Choline is found in egg yolks and in liver.

Also to see androgens actually having effects on your body it’s important to keep cortisol from becoming elevated. A carbohydrate-based diet is indispensable for keeping cortisol down. Vitamin C is also very necessary for keeping cortisol down. It’s also necessary to have adequate acid/base balance and to limit lactic acid synthesis because another of cortisol’s purposes is to balance excess acidity levels.

I finally tried a starch free diet starting two days ago, eating nothing but Ray’s Orange Julius (fresh squeezed orange juice, milk, raw egg yolk, white sugar, gelatin, and vanilla extract blended together), steak, oysters, cheese, watermelon, grape juice, Haagen Dazs, carrot.

All day yesterday the skin of my face was oily like when I was a teenager. I also found tiny hairs sprouting from the skin of my nose this morning — I haven’t seen that since puberty. Libido was a lot stronger than it has been in years. I have been calm and optimistic with almost no anxiety compared to my baseline. If these things taken together don’t indicate a strong rise in androgenic activity then I don’t know what does.

I’ve tried a low PUFA, high sugar diet before but never with this result. I noticed a strong positive effect after starting to incorporate oysters a few weeks ago, but the addition of raw egg yolks and the omission of starch had a VERY pronounced effect, as if they were the last missing ingredient in my case.

@Mulloch94 I have a little experience with this. Back around I bought a canister branded “zombie caffeine”, it was a novelty with a label featuring cool artwork of the undead and text touting its benefits, “e.g. increases fat oxidation making you less appetizing to zombies.” At some point I threw it out. Must have been discontinued following the caffeine powder or energy drink deaths in the news from around that time because I can’t find it anywhere online. Anyone else remember this brand?

Anyway I still have an extra-small line of measuring spoons going as small as 1/64 tbsp which I bought when I started using that stuff but I will get a mg scale this time around to make sure the doses are what they should be. As for brand — it’s not USP but I’ll be going with PureBulk for the experiment… will let you know how it goes

@Mulloch94 there are always digestive disturbances with coffee for me as well — loose stools. Forgot to mention in the first post. But your suggestion re: USP caffeine powder is a great idea. Thank you so much. I will try it out and report back

@jwayne yes indeed. Unfortunately

In one of the raypeat.com articles Ray also implicated estrogen for the purplish color under the eyes

I love the taste of coffee but it seems to jack my adrenaline up like crazy. Whenever I drink it my facial skin becomes reactive even to gentle touches with the fingertips or rinsing with water — a bunch of red blotches appear all over following contact. It is to the extent that it’s alarming.

It doesn’t seem matter whether I have the coffee after a big meal, or with milk and sugar, or on an empty stomach.

My blood type is O-, and I’ve heard that this blood type has lower MAO activity than others, which could lead to sustained elevation of adrenaline. I’ve also read about CYP1A2 (hepatic caffeine/estrogen clearance enzyme) polymorphisms and I suspect that I have some kind of an underactivity or deficiency of this enzyme, and that my liver being “distracted” by the caffeine could lead to accumulation of estrogen.

Anyone have any insight into what’s going on here? Or ideas for solutions?

Amazoniac, you have much more knowledge of chemistry than I do. I would be interested in knowing whether you might have an opinion regarding the use of sodium acetate as a means of lowering lactic acid as recommended by Hatch in the book?

@questforhealth the problem seems to be that you’ll never approach 1mg of vitamin K2 from most foods. The most concentrated source is natto and even though it does have about 600mcg per the most common serving size, most people here won’t touch it because it’s a soybean food containing significant PUFA; also the form is MK-7 not MK-4, which is viewed as a disadvantage by most

@evan-hinkle FWIW his user name was natedawggh I believe, not natedawgg

Can we discuss this further please? Here’s another study which shows that aspirin’s inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis inhibition “ablates” Sertoli cells, seminiferous tubules, AND Leydig cells through arteriole constriction and ischemia, causing “degenerative and retrogressive effects on the testes…”

Scary stuff

Ablate

1. remove (body tissue) surgically.
2. gradually remove material from or erode (a surface or object) by melting, evaporation, frictional action, etc., or erode (material) in this way.

https://media.neliti.com/media/publications/430761-adverse-effects-of-aspirin-on-hormonal-a-884479c8.pdf

I’m starting to wonder whether the estrogen-lowering effects of aspirin might be due mostly to inhibition of the synthesis of the substrate of estradiol, namely, testosterone…

@S-Holmes I bought and read FPC in October of 2022 when I had just had a cancer surgery and was terrified at the prospect of metastasis being discovered and potentially having to do chemo. Finding Nate’s book was definitely one of the best takeaways from the old forum.

I finally tried the sodium acetate for the first time two days ago, and I wish I hadn’t waited so long. I work a stressful job which requires me to do the kind of traveling and meeting customers which disrupts the sleep schedule pretty badly. I’m on a plane right now having woken up at 4:45 and gotten no more than 5 hours of sleep last night or the night before. I always felt miserable beyond belief doing this kind of thing in years past, and barely functional no matter how much coffee, whereas today I feel totally fine. I did also take Progest-E on the gums and Kuinone on the navel last night and the night before as well, but I’m familiar with the effects and I can’t ascribe nearly all of this incredible sense of wellness to the progesterone and K2. The sodium acetate is a game-changer.

I think the guy has really taken the big ideas of Peat’s work and applied them to nutrition in an unprecedented way. The book is 100% worth buying and reading.

@basednigga2006

The messiah complex is a mental state in which a person believes they are a messiah or prophet and will save or redeem people in a religious endeavour. The term can also refer to a state of mind in which an individual believes that they are responsible for saving or assisting others.

The term "messiah complex" is not addressed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), as it is not a clinical term nor diagnosable disorder. However, the symptoms as a proposed disorder closely resemble those found in individuals with delusions of grandeur or with grandiose self-images that veer towards the delusional. An account specifically identified it as a category of religious delusion, which pertains to strong fixed beliefs that cause distress or disability. It is the type of religious delusion that is classified as grandiose while the other two categories are: persecutory and belittled’.

In terms of the attitude wherein an individual sees themselves as having to save another or a group of poor people, there is the notion that the action inflates their own sense of importance and discounts the skills and abilities of the people they are helping to improve their own lives.

The messiah complex is most often reported in patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia When a messiah complex is manifested within a religious individual after a visit to Jerusalem, it may be identified as a psychosis known as Jerusalem syndrome.