@LucH said in Chris Masterjohn Substack:

It's citrate who is required to solubilize oxalate.
120 ml lemon juice could do the job, mixed with 500 ml water.

The lemon juice has citric acid. Need to mix with baking soda to produce sodium citrate. I mix 16ml lemon juice with 1g baking soda to make sodium citrate. It's sodium though, but I don't mind as it's the citrate I want.

I had a bad experience with using industrially made potassium citrate. It is made by black molds. See haidut's thread on RPF.

Soon after that thread was started, I developed a really bad infection and when I recovered, I went back to my logs and realized I had taken potassium citrate for increasing by blood flow (via increasing zeta-value) and I had also unintentionally taken it while I was using tetracycline to treat infection causing my high BP.

I connected the dots and realized that the trace of aspergillus from the potassium citrate made the cell wall deficient bacteria (morphed from using tetracycline) morphed further into a more virulent fungal parasites.

Since then, I have been very cautious about using industrially made potassium citrate.

@LucH said in Chris Masterjohn Substack:

Potassium
I hardly reach most of the RDA (420 for M, 350 for W)

The RDA for potassium is much higher.

@LetTheRedeemed

Thanks. I got to read it. Am I getting it right though, as it seems to me the study is kinda inconclusive about the role of b6 in increasing glutathione?

@Peatful

I don't hate you. But if you feel it, it's because we're on different wavelengths on some areas, but not on all areas

That stuff about nihil obstat and imprimatur isn't an ad hom. But I ignore that because you know it's not. I don't want to defend myself on that because that never stops once we get into that.

But what I ever said to you never implied hate, and I'm sure I don't use that word on you. That would only happen between me and a person I have intense personal friendships with and ended up in great disappointment. We never were great friends.

But you can block me. I don't have to block you.

@Peatful

Go with Wikipedia as your Bible when you see fit.

Calling a cat a dog because Wiki says a dog meows is just peachy.

@ThinPicking said in Rudolf Steiner's Great Lectures Has Me As Impressed As When I Started on My Health Journey with Ray Peat:

@Peatful said in Rudolf Steiner's Great Lectures Has Me As Impressed As When I Started on My Health Journey with Ray Peat:

Rudolf was an occultist

"Voice your prophecy, shed us some light"

The ramblings of an occultist may be useful. Assuming I and all can be very very careful with it.

To throw shade at some great leader, saying he is an occultist can be likened to saying that he is the kind possessed with dark spirits that makes him capable of genocides such as the Holocaust.

Have you ever read that Hitler engages in the occult?

@LetTheRedeemed said in Whooping cough or 100-day cough treatments:

@yerrag Ray inspired me to use food alternatives to supplements, like providing precursors for glutathione production. B6 is a precursor for glutathione, found in liver

Thanks.

@Kilgore said in Whooping cough or 100-day cough treatments:

Went to the Doctor to get antibiotics prescribed for it but since she doesn't have a fever they won't give it to her atleast until it has been a month. Dumb system. From what I read that's what really helps

I learned from the aromatherapy book I read that before an antibacterial essential oil is used, EOs that are are mucolytics and expectorant are to be used first. As with mucus problem unresolved, new mucus from antibiotic or antibacterial treatment would still be blocking the lung passages. That may even worsen the blockage in the lungs.

Of course, if the phlegm is transparent, no antibiotics would be needed. Depending on the bent of the doctor, he may think it's viral or he may think there is no infection at all.

@LetTheRedeemed I agree about Glycine. Or gelatin as well. Sulfur-rich foods as well, as sulfur is used in the sulfhydryl (SH) bonds in forming reduced glutathione (GSH). A higher GSH/GSSG (reduced/oxidized glutathione) makes mucus thinner and less viscous and has a mucolytic effect.

I'm not familiar with the role of B-vitamins here, but would be interested in knowing about it though, although there are many substances with indirect effects that are not inconsequential when deficient in.

@xpat NAC helps as it thins the mucus and makes it less sticky and much more easily expelled or coughed out. As NAC increases the sulfhydryl bonds that make up GSH (or reduced glutathione), and when the GSH/GSSG ratio increases, the mucus becomes thinner and there is less resistance to the mucus being expelled or expectorated.