Posts made by yerrag

@Peatful

Last time we had a prez election, COVID wss in full swing. As an excuse to justify mail-in voting to hex the voting process.

This is an election year, so COVID or its ilk is not out of the question.

@S-Holmes

I don't know enough about Nathan, I joined RPF after he stopped being active. I didn't want to buy his book, but only because I don't know him and his abilities. But when he offered his book for free for a limited time, I passed up on it because I was busy and it was too late when I got freed up.

But Fuck Portion Control is a nice title, as it challenges the status quo. IMHO, it needs an asterisk next to it. Credulous guys like Cirion run amuck in the land of the free* and the brave*, and needed to be saved from the obvious implausibility of advertising with a creative license to do so. Though CICO cannot be disregarded, there is an element of truth to the folly involved in portion control. I eat until I'm full. And I don't exercise and walk a lot. I can understand Ray when he hardly exercises, as there is an opportunity cost to wasting time walking the mandated 10,000 steps a day of a pop culture of horizontally challenged giants fed like factory chickens and pigs.

I have learned a lot from research and experiments and well-reasoned logic from giants that Ray Peat himself gets his ammo to refute the tyranny of conventional wisdom that is ever present that distracts us from absolute truth. And there in fact is absolute truth, when mined among a multitude of fool's gold that keeps us from discovering them.

The literature and academia keeps discovering a new distillation and synthesis of establishes truths, amidst meager funding. Yet it always overwhelmed by what is blessed and sanctioned by institutions. Amidst this, in the absence of a shared set of truths that form a stable foundation of knowledge, one has to dig into his inner wisdom and logic to discern illusion from reality.

I, for one, would like to throw away all that bathwater, for indeed it is mucked up in filth and sewage. But Ibkeep this in my thoughts, for gold is still there but to be mined in my own way. Without having to subject myself to scientism and its evidentiary obstacle course. It is a great weight and even an impossible burden to overcome. Which is why In chose to work mostly alone overcoming what ails me. To argue where words and prose would fail to overcome the decades and even centuries of falsehood masking as irrefutable laws in the pantheons of Hollywood and academia and mass media is a task only the Almighty can render bare and hollow.

I say this because as much as I like to share my findings with others, I will always be taken lightly if not outright refuted, for lacking the requisite proofs. Already, COVID-19 showed us the FDA's outsized influence in shaping policies and actions, with all institutions behind it, to use expensive and maliciously designed trials to disparage and trivialize clinical trials across the world to push vaccines and Paxlovid and the harmful Remdisivir over alternatives such as Ivermectin to a hapless population. What more do I stand a chance? What more do you?

As much as we want to play by the rules, the rules are stacked against us when we have to wait for someone else to do the painstaking research for us. And now that Ray Peat is gone, we have one less giant to ferret out the fool's gold to find gems that form a mosaic of truth to work with. For every time we research ourselves into the available scholarly works, we are overwhelmed by the jingoism and the use of language to confuse us into thinking that it's better to leave it to the "experts," conferred with titles and degrees, to lead us out of perdition. It is not worth it to bury ourselves in researching the studies, when we can't really trust the veracity of these sources, as funded by impure motives. Thus, if we go through the straight and narrow, we likely will find no answers but keep living in the hope that continuing research will lead us to the land of milk and honey.

Our search will thus take an analogous and parallel route to our search in spirituality, to soldier on with hope- guided by the medical and pharma experts, just as much as we are guided by religion and the salvation of end times.

I say, keep experimenting on yourself. Believe what you discover yourself firsthand, for there is really no alternative that can be better.

@Jakeandpace

GG is in his own world? He asks "What am I missing here?"

Duh.

Well, maybe he is borderline vitamin A deficient and the small amount of niacin in bread taken over 8 months finally had an effect on his scalp and ...

... as we know Vitamin A deficiency is also expressed as dandruff.

The niacin probably accelerated the depletion of niacin in his stores because niacin led to an increase in NAD+ and increased metabolism, and increasing metabolism also uses up Vitamin A.

That answers his question, but he finds it hard to admit Vitamin A is needed and is not a toxin.

After all, my mom had her dandruff disappear after she began eating beef liver once a week.

I no longer needed to wear bifocals after a weekly serving of beef liver for 5 years got my eyesight so much improved. This, plus having good CO2 production which is also needed for the eye to maintain its transparency, the result of good mitochondrial metabolism which requires Vitamin A to play a contributory role as well.

As for niacin, I had slowly built up my tolerance for niacin, starting out at 30mg daily to now at 100mg. I was having rashes and it was itchy, but I persevered because I appreciate the mechanism and the beneficial effects of the inflammation it generates. I don't have rashes anymore . Nor do I itch anymore. We should allow our body the benefit of adapting and give it time.

I used to itch when in my childhood I get cuts and lacerations. Itching is a natural part of healing, I would learn that young. That lesson is still relevant now, though I wonder why I don't itch as much when healing. Maybe I should pause and think "Is this a good thing - that I lost the itch reaction when healing from wounds?"

@cs3000 I can bear witness to this.

When I was suffering from a year long condition that started with bronchitis, my eyelids were drooping. The lack of the usual amount of oxygen easily translates into low energy. And my eyelids were a good tell.

@thebodyelectric_

The Body Electric is fascinating. A question that perplexes me is why we can't regenerate the way a salamander does, although the book does gives some clues as to why. I have yet to finish that book, as with many books I've begun and never finished reading.

I don't doubt that we are energy beings, and the workings of the mitochondria in powering our body is in many respects a biological generator of energy, with the electrical form being an essential part of it.

Speaking of calcium and magnesium, as well as the electrolytic minerals in general, I can see the body in a state of balance, with the electrolytes in abundance and well utilized as crucial elements, as naturally driven to use electrical impulses to coordinate the workings of the body as one unifies biological machinery.

Calcium is not just something used to build bones, as we can see how the ratio of extracellular calcium to intracellular calcium, at around 15000, is an integral component of a body in balance. Without which the body would be distracted in needless work to try to compensate for a shortfall or excess. The needless work has an opportunity cost, the cost being the machinery becomes less efficient in doing its job as designed by nature in its wisdom, this wisdom being endowed by what we can call God.

Lacking a supply of needed dietary calcium would involve the body wasting energy to mine its store of calcium in its skeletal structure.

It is believed that while this osteoclastic process is underway, osteoclastic processes of bone building cannot proceed. It makes sense logically as the body is mining its calcium stores it cannot build its calcium stores, as building bones would just negate the process of increasing calcium concentration in the ECF.

I am not sure why this is so, but Ray Peat has written in one of his newsletters in his last 2-3 years (if I recall right) that mitochondrial respiration has to give way to other metabolic pathways while osteoclastic activity is ongoing.
My guess is that without the necessary extracellular-intracellular gradient of calcium in place, more harm would result if the body would continue mitochondrial metabolism in such less than ideal conditions.

With mitochondrial respiration suppressed, the production of ATP would be much lower, and this would affect the magnesium-ATP complex. With less ATP, there would be magnesium ions orphaned for lack of ATP partners in the previously abundant quantity of magnesium-ATP complex.
A down- regulation of energy generation, supply, and availability would result.

This can be expressed as a weakening of electrical impulses, resulting in the impairment of various bodily processes and functions.

Potassium balance would likewise be affected, given that potassium that is normally located in cellular membranes (or in the interface between intracellular and extracellular space, if we don't believe in the existence of cell membranes) would be released to the ECF in exchange for hydronium ions - just to compensate for a more acidic WCF resulting from having the ECF turn more acidic (from mito respiration producing the pH buffering capacity of CO2 giving way to metabolic pathways that produce lactic acid and keto acids).

But this general loss of balance, as far as electrolytes go, can be accompanies by the downregulation of electrical signals, as a natural consequence.

An external source of DC current can be helpful, if only to jumpstart the body back into balance, but not by itself, but together with addressing the imbalance that started it all.

Unfortunately, finding the root cause is the last thing the practice of modern medicine is interested in. So the resulting merry-go-round would water down the usefulness of DC currents in healing.

@Mulloch94

I have no idea how PTH would influence magnesium. It may but in away where magnesium would be indirectly affected in the sense where CCBs would have a systemic influence where all are affected.

I can speak to my personal observation. I regularly monitor my acid-base balance where I test the pH of both my urine and saliva.

Despite my high blood pressure, when I am not taking bp meds, I see more of a state of balance where my body is given free reign to adapt optimally as it area fit to a given pathological influence, which in my case involves a recurring unresolved state of low-grade infection and exposure to lead toxin. One aspect is in the way my body strives to achieve a state of acid base balance.

I don't feel any arthritic pains in my joints. I don't have a problem with my bladder holding on to urine. However, I wake up often to pee at night, which I associate with water being produced as a product of redox reactions where antioxidants neutralize spillover ROS, which comes to my immune system creating ROS to try overcoming pathogenic microbes and toxins. Still, I look for ways to resolve the infection and toxic state in order to resolve the root causes. While the root causes remain unresolved, my body is remarkable in adapting to this unresolved state. A symptom of this adaptation to the unresolved state is hypertension.

When taking the calcium channel blocker, I see lower bp but I also feel the price I have to pay for the appearance of health in the form of lower blood pressure.

My urine and saliva pH testing would show a marked departure from my state of acid-base balance. The CCB interfering with the calcium channel is expressed clearly when my urine and saliva pH testing reveals a constant imbalance in acid base regulation. Unlike when I am not taking CCB's, my body is always unable to catch up in ridding itself of excess acidity during rest, which occurs at night. So, I would urinate more frequently during both day and night, and I would be peeing in my pants (and feeling old and incontinent) even at times when my bladder is not even half-full. My knees and ankles would feel sore as well, which I suspect is the effect of uric acid precipitating on my joints.

If not for taking furosemide and spironolactone, both being diuretics, I would be developing edema at my ankles and my waistline would bloat from ascites developing.

I should stop now, as the side effects from taking bp medication (so far I have mentioned amlodipine, furosemide, and spironolactone) can have me go on endlessly.

And I am going off topic somehow, but I only want to bring home the point that interfering with the calcium channel has systemic effects. It just isn't worth it to take calcium channel blockers to appear normal bp-wise while ignoring the effects on other areas which our doctors trivialize and even consider coincidental.

I tried to find some authoritative sources on the effects of CCB's, but I have difficulty doing that. My research skills are not as good as that of you and @Amazoniac 's, and what I find are mainly topics that are peripheral and not central to the issue. I suspect it is so because such research or inquiries are frowned upon by the establishment. Unfortunately, I have been spoiled by Peat doing the legwork for me, and I wished he had expounded in his writings on CCB's.

One thing one of his last newsletters mentioned was that when the body is doing osteoclastic activity, it cannot at the same time do osteoblastic activity. Osteoclasts break down bone to provide the body with calcium when the PTH signal is high. In this situation, no osteoblastic activity can be done. Bone building requires CO2, so it goes that during this time mitochondrial respiration is halted to give way to other metabolic pathways. These other metabolic pathways often involve producing acids, such as lactic acids and keto acids.

When the metabolic pathway becomes anything other than mitochondrial respiration, the body becomes acidic more and more. And all sorts of imbalances and pathology result, especially when it becomes a permanent and chronic feature.

Even when one has adequate mineral stores in the body such as potassium and magnesium, they are not utilized in the way they should be, because the general condition that permeates, as determined by an acid-base imbalance,
overrules the salutary nature of these substances.

@Mulloch94

True enough what you said, as this applies to most people. And I believe most people to be magnesium a deficient, and as such needs serotonin to drive bowel movement.

But with a food lifestyle that supplies one with adequate magnesium intake, bowel movement is not dependent on having a gut flora teeming with microbes that supply serotonin to drive bowel movement.

I went from being dependent on serotonin to being dependent on magnesium to drive bowel movement, and it has worked well for me.

Lately, I was prevailed upon to take a calcium channel blocker (Amlodipine) for my high blood pressure. One of the side effects is constipation, and I experienced more difficulty with my bowel movement. This is not surprising, as with the movement of calcium into and out of the cell altered , there is a change in the strong gradient between internal and external calcium ( external calcium being around 15000 more than internal calcium) which drives muscle contraction and relaxation. This would affect peristalsis, involving the gut muscles that drive bowel movement. The energy from the magnesium-ATP complex is somehow affected negatively by the calcium channel blockers, and this makes the bowel movement less natural and less effortless.

@DavidPS Nice one.

I have yet to listen to it, but I find that the role of high metabolism greatly ignored in most people's mind, to the extent that they only understand oxidative stress and antioxidants, whereas they don't know about reductive stress and the role of oxidative energy in energy production and in providing the organism ammo in fighting pathogens. The common response couched in conventional wisdom have people taking antioxidants such as vitamin C and vitamin E but giving little or no thought to the importance of the B vitamins, such as B1 and B3, with the other B vitamins in a supporting role that is just as important.

Derrick Lonsdale, who knows more than anyone else about B vitamins, is still living at past a hundred, and some day we may yet find out - in more concrete terms - how the role of the B vitamins play in keeping us living past the usual expiry date, in good energy and metabolic and microbial health. But if not for the medical establishment constantly distracting us with false paradigms, and the echoes from "experts" who know but very little, and the simple minds are too ready to accept the stamp of approval from false trademarks such as the Nobel Prize and college degrees, it would be much easier to grasp the primacy of metabolism.

@Regina

It is bigger than charlie. I don't doubt that a bit. Charlie can be like GW for his "clarity of vision," but he isn't patricidal nor fratricidal. But now that he is eating his own and being cannibalistic and suicidal and all, he has been eaten whole by a shapeshifter. My thoughts and prayers for the Charlie we knew.

@peatolish Thanks. Glad that it;s still around.

@mostlylurking

Ooohhh!

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:

Nowadays you have to be flexible because there are great tools out there, but they will also spy on you, so you have to use the right tool for the job and be careful.

That is the crux of it!

@Kilgore said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:

@yerrag check out cryptpad.fr kind of like google docs it also has file storage 1GB free probably enough for your books. Its more of an anti big tech/government type thing. I like it cause I can share docs with people anonymously.

Thanks. I should begin familiarizing with these tools and start moving towards that form of life. It would too late if I don't begin now. It's just like ignoring bioenergetics and one day having cancer, and you're stuck with desperation and throwing yourself at the mercy of the establishment, who not only cannot save you, but will keep you from getting saved.

@Mulloch94 said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:

Cold storage is always the best way to store data like that. But if you did use a cloud, something like Skiff seems to be a reliable alternative to Google.

What is cold storage? I gather it can only mean that it's on deep freeze away from discovery by tptb?

Will consider Skiff. Just hoping I can find time to do that. I'll first have to whittle down my email storage at Google. Then still use Gmail as migrating from it risks losing something I might regret later losing.

I use custom Roms on old Samsung phones, but have continues to use Google's Play Service. I should get another Samsung phone, and play with a custom ROM and apps, Maybe, I'd have to establish a second identity altogether.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in My Collection of Ebooks in Google Drive Confiscated and Deleted By Google:

so a few lessons.

If you use a cloud system, you need to pay for it. No free levels.

There is a great deal of difference between free and paid. They don't monkey much with paid accounts, don't spy on them as much.

Also, you need to back up your cloud info. You can use a service like cloudhq to make backups. Or you can back up to your local drive. But you must back up your cloud info.

I pay for my Google Drive. Used to be free, but I don't clean up my email and it exceeded the free cap. And the next level of 100 GB is what I am paying for.

I would like to divorce from Google, but it is hard especially when I use Google Voice, and it is not only convenient to have this service, but invaluable to me. Skype is a terrible alternative, with Microsoft's unMidas touch ruining it.

It doesn't matter if free or not. Google just knows it can do as it pleases, but does it so that it stays under the radar and under plausible deniability.

@wrl

Those are good quotes of Ray's on persorption, which involves particles that are very small that they can very easily penetrate intestinal barriers and get into the bloodstream. These would inflammation which would not involve infection but involve toxicity, and would cause our immune system to react the way they would do to foreign substances.

Ray speaks of aluminum adjuvants used in vaccines, and he would consider mercury in the same vein, I imagine. The effect of mercury is the subject of a controversial subject which I believe RFK Jr. has written about in a Rolling Stone magazine, back when it was freer magazine not yet co-opted by the establishment. It involves mercury in vaccines being the prime cause of autism.

But vaccination is only one way such toxins get into our body, and the ingestion of particles that human processes transform into very small particles such as microcrystalline was is another.

They work pretty much to induce immune reactions that would become chronic if these particles do not eventually get excreted.

I think it is an energy sink that gets our body to waste its energy on an endless cycle of expending energy to futilely trying to get rid of the toxins. The immune system would continually create inflammatory conditions with the aim of eradicating these toxins. It would also make ROS to use it to eliminate these toxins, although it would be on a best effort basis, as more often than not it isn't made to be capable if handling such man-made toxins, and thus it would fail.

Unless these toxins can be sequestered and excreted, they would a continual source of immune-related diseases that plague a modern society in a silent and hidden undercurrent of denials that suit the narrative of a medical hierarchy invested in blaming genetics, a lack of exercise, and old age. For all we know, a virus could be made the scapegoat once again.

What I speak of as a reality I believe in most would scoff at mainly because of their programming to rely on the scientific establishment to give proof of an existential threat before any action can be taken to solve a problem involving disease. But to approach it this way would be ceding our ability to take the initiative to solve a problem, especially when the problem is squarely onbourbown shoulders. Which is why we as non-medically trained individuals have to unleash our intellect to pursue solutions that institutions cannot do for us.

Persorption is a real issue that would easily get sidelined. The establishment has little interest in prevention of disease as prevention is not profitable for an industry that profits from the seeding of all manners of diseases on its prime cash cow of humans.

Persorption involves substances that are almost invisible. If they don't instantly kill you, then they would be easily classified as GRAS as a de facto default classification by the USDA and the FDA. And they would be just one of the many, many insults thrown at the human organism, and trying to pin down a pathology from it would be hard to prove.

Proving culpability is very hard, and I elect to not sweat out these details that would have me swim upstream against a strong downstream current. The odds are not stacked in my favor. And that is an understatement.

I would just ask if it is natural. If it isn't, I will avoid it as much as I can. Which is not to say everything that is natural is good. For example, carageenan from seaweed is natural. So is lead. So is mercury. But it goes without saying there is much out there we already know to avoid, even if they're not small particles or nano-particles. But as a class, nano-particles are to be avoided.

I end by saying my perspective is shaped very much by my own individual challenges with my health. In trying to overcome what doctors have given up on curing, I have given up on relying on doctors to tell me what I can change and what I can't. And by this orientation, I have managed to learn more seeing my health improve at best, or some aspects of it stay unchanged at worst. In the process, I have a lot to thank for stumbling into Ray Peat, as he validates my attitudes. Especially on his emphasis on coherence. As this trumps our tendency to run towards the safety of experts, of whom many are merely priests relying on faith in their medical religion, which has been shown to be built on sand.

I can't say much more on persorption, as to say more would be presumptuous. I can only use logic and reason to convince myself that substances such as microcrystalline cellulose, that can be persorbed into our system, are better avoided than ingested. To thread on caution rather to use the lack of definite scientifically proven proof of its toxic effects, as an excuse to enjoy this kind of fruits of modernity.

@mostlylurking Yes. The itching I experience though, only happens at night. In the wee hours to be more specific. I think it is around the time when the liver is active in doing its maintenance, as it is one of those times when my spO2 can suffer a huge drop, reflecting liver activity as far as fighting internal infections go, which uses a lot of phagocytic activity involving ROS which engulfs and kills pathogens. The itchiness I would guess is indicative of inflammatory activity which allows neutrophils and other white blood cells to enter tissues to enable phagocytic activity on the deeper tissues which are less accessible to white blood cells normally. The phagocytes use a lot of oxygen in the respiratory burst of phagocytosis, which I think is what causes my spO2 to drop sporadically during the liver hours (according to TCM) between 1 and 3 pm.

The histaminic action causes the itchiness, and maybe causes me to wake up during the liver hours.

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Here's an article that you may find of interest:
Niacin, Riboflavin, and Thiamin

Thanks. I finished reading it just now.

It gave me a better idea of how niacin differs from niacinamide.

Also, it made me realize how thiamine can be exhausted when it is used more to compensate for the inability to produce NAD from tryptophan because of deficiency in one of these 3 substances - riboflavin (b2), pyridoxine (b6), and vitamin C - in the kynerunine pathway. and when there is also a deficiency in niacinamide, which is needed in the other pathway to make NAD.

As I had been taking a blend of thiamine hcl, niacinamide, pyridoxine, and riboflavin - 1000mg/500mg/30mg/50 mg twice daily the past 2 weeks, I noticed that my ataxia and vertigo has become less noticeable when I added ascorbic acid intake of 2 x 500 mg daily. This, I believe, says something about enabling the body to make its own niacin from tryptophan. It may also mean that the tryptophan being diverted to produce niacin is helping lessen its production of serotonin and estrogen.

Good insights. My own dosages differ a little from yours; I take: 1000mg thiamine hcl 2Xday, also 100mg niacinamide, 100mg riboflavin 4Xday, about 10-20mg b6 1Xday.

I seem to do okay with having a higher dosage of niacinamide than yours. But I had begun adding niacin, with just 2x30mg a day. Good thing I am extra cautious, as with that dosage I began to experience itching, and they were centered on my recent wounds (cat bite and claw marks) and my keloids.

Do you know if the cat injuries added to your health issues long term? Cat bites/deep claw injuries can be pretty bad. My brother was scratched when he was a child and got "cat scratch fever" from it, complete with swollen lymph nodes. I think the doctor cut the wound open to clean it; I remember he had about 4-5 stitches at the scratch site.

Thanks for the concern, but cat scratches and bites are nothing new to me. I use urea on them and the effects are neutralized. I also use urea on my cats when they get injured on cat fights and they heal quickly as well.

The reason I mention the cat scratches and bites is that for a long time I have not experienced the itchiness of healing from being wounded. I remember as a child that when my wound heals I experience itchiness and then I would learn to see the itchiness as a good thing. But now the itchiness resuming can only be seen by me as a good sign. Perhaps the intake of niacin is giving that itchiness back.

Maybe the itching shows that there's still something going on at the injury site? My husband and I have been using horse Ivermectin for skin problems; it seems to help. Ivermectin is a fungicide, antibiotic, antiviral, etc. Just a thought.... Could be the source for a continuing infection? Have you considered taking an oral round of Ivermectin for people? I don't know where you are. I'm in the U.S. so I went to Indiamart online and searched for USP grade Ivermectin and found a supplier in about 30 seconds. onlinereliefpharmacy.com, Iverheal is the name of the product. You would need to research the dosage needed; I rely on https://covid19criticalcare.com/protocol/i-prevent-covid-flu-rsv/ for dosage info. This might not even be pertinent, but then again, it might help.

I have also seen that on my nightly spO2 charts, my spO2 has not been dropping a lot as before, even as I held on on taking antibacterials. I wanted to know if these b-vitamins are helping me fight off the low-grade infections that I associate with the spO2 drops. I would have to see what that really means over the coming weeks as I observe the effects on me. It's a longer piece to explain, but I will save it for later as I can be rambling if I make conclusions prematurely.

I remember that I was very clumsy in the past, better now. There were times when I'd be just standing there (not moving around at all) and I'd just fall down/collapse.

Glad you improved from there. I seem to be more coordinated and balanced adding the small bit of niacin into my protocol. But it could just be in my head. Long term, I want to find stronger confirmation.

Perhaps you could research what else might improve your immune system. Maybe you already have. I've read that thiamine is needed to make nitric oxide which is used by the immune system. If you have high oxidative stress, thiamine counteracts it and also gets used up by it. I think that my own issue with mercury poisoning causes high oxidative stress which causes me to need the high dose thiamine to counteract that stress.

I think that thiamine and the other b-vitamins help my immune system. Not that many other factors don't. But this is a side I have not given much emphasis. It could be simply that the NADPH of the pentose phosphate pathway that uses thiamine a lot to produce NADPH needed to produce superoxide as enabling the production of ROS enables the immune system to fight off infections more effectively. And the other b- vitamins may be needed as well to produce anti-bacterial proteins that are used intracellularly. Altogether, the body's immune can be potentiated.

@zawisza

No doubt software is shit in the context of Google and their stealthy abuse of their position as being able to snoop and being able to work above the 11th commandment, which is "Thou shalt not get caught." Google Drive was a godsend for me since I have suffered many crashes that felt to me like the modern equivalent of a bricks and mortar fire that destroys memories. So it was easy for me to forget or actually cross my fingers regarding storing anything valuable with my enemy.

And that's shame on me. Knowing that many countries prior to WW2, entrusted their gold with the Zionist Federal Reserve only to be robbed of them. After the war, those gold were never returned. This happened to China and this also happened to the Philippines. I don't doubt that these two countries were outliers. But they had no choice really but to trust the Federal Reserve as they weren't aware of the malice of the Fed and if the gold wasn't transferred by submarine eventually to land in Fort Knox, those gold reserves would have been confiscated by the Japanese. My point was there was more risk in not entrusting their gold with the Fed, given what they did not know. Otoh, I know this kind of behavior was bound to happen, and still I slept with my enemy.

But not all is lost. I can find these books again. They may have culled a lot of ebooks as their bots combed the entire storage of Google Drive, but there are still many books, both digital and physical, that they would want erased from our consciousness, that are outside their reach.

But it's good to know that they have shown their hand. And knowing their hand, I am better positioned.

As for the scenario you spoke of, I can assure you there was no glitch involved on my part. It's inconceivable that what got lost were only the books. They were selective about what they needed to be erased. On my end, I have a 100gb drive subscription, of which only 25 percent is used. So no chance my storage became full.

Your point on having off-line storage is well taken though. As much as I hate being my own admin of my own home IT department, I am compelled to assume that role now.

@mostlylurking said in Fixing poor motor coordination?:

@yerrag said in Fixing poor motor coordination?:

@mostlylurking said in Fixing poor motor coordination?:

Here's an article that you may find of interest:
Niacin, Riboflavin, and Thiamin

Thanks. I finished reading it just now.

It gave me a better idea of how niacin differs from niacinamide.

Also, it made me realize how thiamine can be exhausted when it is used more to compensate for the inability to produce NAD from tryptophan because of deficiency in one of these 3 substances - riboflavin (b2), pyridoxine (b6), and vitamin C - in the kynerunine pathway. and when there is also a deficiency in niacinamide, which is needed in the other pathway to make NAD.

As I had been taking a blend of thiamine hcl, niacinamide, pyridoxine, and riboflavin - 1000mg/500mg/30mg/50 mg twice daily the past 2 weeks, I noticed that my ataxia and vertigo has become less noticeable when I added ascorbic acid intake of 2 x 500 mg daily. This, I believe, says something about enabling the body to make its own niacin from tryptophan. It may also mean that the tryptophan being diverted to produce niacin is helping lessen its production of serotonin and estrogen.

Good insights. My own dosages differ a little from yours; I take: 1000mg thiamine hcl 2Xday, also 100mg niacinamide, 100mg riboflavin 4Xday, about 10-20mg b6 1Xday.

I seem to do okay with having a higher dosage of niacinamide than yours. But I had begun adding niacin, with just 2x30mg a day. Good thing I am extra cautious, as with that dosage I began to experience itching, and they were centered on my recent wounds (cat bite and claw marks) and my keloids.
I have also seen that on my nightly spO2 charts, my spO2 has not been dropping a lot as before, even as I held on on taking antibacterials. I wanted to know if these b-vitamins are helping me fight off the low-grade infections that I associate with the spO2 drops. I would have to see what that really means over the coming weeks as I observe the effects on me. It's a longer piece to explain, but I will save it for later as I can be rambling if I make conclusions prematurely.

I remember that I was very clumsy in the past, better now. There were times when I'd be just standing there (not moving around at all) and I'd just fall down/collapse.

Glad you improved from there. I seem to be more coordinated and balanced adding the small bit of niacin into my protocol. But it could just be in my head. Long term, I want to find stronger confirmation.

However, I'm still suffering from a milder form of ataxia in terms of being clumsy. I had been having things fall from my grip, and just today I broke another glass, the t in 2 years, when I would not break one in ten years or more. Just goes to show being clumsy and prone to accidental breakage is a mild symptoms related to neurological issues that may be helped by more intake of b-vitamins.

It is my understanding that improvements from taking high dose thiamine hcl continue to happen for 6 months. Dr. Costantini said that, I believe. It takes a while for the workarounds that the body set up to keep from dying to unwind (per Dr. Chandler Marrs).

You might find the information found in Costantini's FAQs of interest.

Thanks. I'll give it a look.