Posts made by yerrag

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

I urge you to clearly spell out every point you are looking to make. You can't ascribe our lack of mind-reading powers to malicious intent such as trolling or feigned ignorance.

You are clearly denying the existence of an effort to make the practice of medicine in the US, which has been ongoing for already a century. I asked you about the Flexner Report and you chose to ignore it.

For someone who was very active in RPF, it is likely you are aware of the Flexner Report and what it represents. It would buttress my argument that the high incidence of chronic sickness in the US is not of God, but of man's evil intent ans action to inflict harm on society.

You goofed in what you said because you troll by habit and couldn't resist. Now you're caught foot in your mouth, and ignore answering for fear you will look silly.

Did I make you more silly by having to point this out to you?

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

But you are not, the people around you are not, and the masses at large are not. This is very much the wishful speculation I am motivated to point out. Those once-in-a-century men who are destined for greatness will inevitably manifest that, be they Christian or humanist. Such men raise the masses behind them and even change the direction of mankind. In absence of these men, however, it is pointless to rally people as if their leader already existed. It is far more productive to simply teach them to live righteously instead, and so deprive the evil powers of their sustenance.

I was asking you a hypothetical that isn't improbable as clearly there are men who could be great leaders and you your saying these people are so rare (once in a century?) makes me laugh. Where do you live that you have such as low view of people? You first say that people are sick and have themselves to blame matter of factly, and now you say there are very few good men around to become great leaders.

I have to stop here as clearly you are beginning to lose the argument by making baseless statements. Shows you to be the troll as you so often demonstrated at RPF and continue to be here.

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

Clearly it is both. Evil men can only ride on the backs of our sins. Their success is a dynamic testament to our failure to live responsibly. Their rule would end the minute we regained our sense of virtue. It's not a conspiracy when the ones being conspired against are willingly perpetuating the conspirators' power with their own deeds.

God gave us free will. He did not give us Fentanyl and he did not tell us to make money at all cost. He gave us food to make us healthy, not drugs that make us chronically sick to create a dependency on drugs and a health insurance system that makes us even more dependent.

For you to blame the innocent and gullible to trust the same kind of people that feeds on hoaxes such as COVID reminds me of our media, who preys on a gullible audience that mistakes false logic and deception for being fair and balanced.

Also the drug dealer who blames the addict for lacking will power to resist lapsing.

It's not too late for you to develop a sense of compassion. Maybe you have that, but you just can't see how cold your answer makes you look, but anything is fair game to win an argument, right?

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

Yes, living in an utopia would be nice. Due to the imperfections innate to man, evident in history and present day alike, there is no good reason to assume that this would be attainable. It is too easy to refute existing paradigms with pipe dreams, yet exceedingly hard to refute them with something that is known to exist or have existed.

Relative to the current state of world affairs in our current civilization, there have been meritocracies that far outshine Christian kingdoms and empires. and even those Christian kingdoms in the past, as flawed as they are, are not as hopeless as the current version of Christianity in the hypocrisy and pretenses it hides under. As each iteration of the mix of Christianity makes it more Jewish in character. More fundamentalist and more dogmatic and more entrenched in serving the Pharisees and Saducees and less in unity with what Jesus preached. Ironic as who can't disagree that the Evil Empire, the one with Satan as its god head, is the one pretending to be Christ's Kingdom on Earth.

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

feeding off this brainwashed mass of humans.

It seems that you are critizicing Christianity for its failure to be something which it was never intended to be. The most fundamental function of Christianity is to offer a permanent solution to a person who has actually tried their best to be good, and, like anyone who has attempted to be good, been unable to satisfy the uncompromosing standards of the law that is their own conscience. In other words, Christ gives an exit strategy to the person who wants to be moral yet is trapped in a vessel of immorality. Thus in general, an inability to fathom the need for Christ reveals a person who has never truly tried to be good.

That Christianity is used as a foundation to earthly culture or politics and is subsequently generating abominable outcomes is not at all the fault of what Christ is, does or advocates for, but the fault of how humans pervert Truth in their pursuit of an Earthly paradise. Every example in your reply serves to show precisely why we need more of the grace of Christ and less of our own, misguided deeds.

I hope you know what Christ said is the greatest commandment. If you knew, you would know Christianity is merely an umbrella for a group of religions and sects hasn't had the effect of bringing any semblance of God's Kingdom here on earth. All wars we see are not the just war that Christianity on paper sanctions where good triumphs over evil. It's only in movies where good
triumphs.

The inability to see this reality is what makes one blind and to hold one to using Christ as his security blanket due to one's inability to summon the courage and inspiration to make himself a vessel for God's love.

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

am unable to infer exactly what you mean by that. What is the difference between the two in the context of one's practical life?

The Holy Spirit is where you get inspiration and courage. It is from within you. It spurs you to think better and to act with wisdom and be filled with God. We could say our creativity does not come our own mind even, but from the Holy Spirit.

Jesus is whom you turn to in prayer to ask to come to your aid. In supplication, for forgiveness, for petitioning a change in state, in your condition or for someone else. You don't actively get yourself in the process of doing an action , but receive the grace from a favorable change in outcome from God thru Jesus. This is a grace that comes from the outside.

I don't know your religion and it may be hard for you to understand but let me know as I can explain it better next time with the Holy Spirit inspiring me.

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

The only sphere where an individual can realistically be expected to do good is their family and friends. Is it not so? How much influence do you really have over what is going on even in the government of your own municipality, let alone your country, or another country altogether? It is, in most cases, wishful or delusional thinking to believe that one's potential sphere of influence could reach much farther than their immediate environment. Therefore, the most an individual can be asked to do is to take care of the people close to them. If everyone did this, the world would fix itself. It is in no way the fault of the people doing just this that others are not doing it too. What are you doing more than your family?

Let's say you were able to become successful at being a great philosopher king kind of person and become the forerunner of a modern ruler that will not allow the COVID Hoax to be used to harm your people. Okay, say you were the mayor of a town that became so successful at getting rid of graft and corruption, and that you were also successful at getting a set of officials to earn their wings at good government. And that you were able to inspire a movement that will free your country from being a vassal to the US hegemony.

How likely is it that you will die soon? To keep you from fulfilling your goals of serving the people and the common good?

Do you not think that is what I meant when I said we are limited to a small sphere of influence? Or do I need to explain to you more? Please don't feign ignorance this time.

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

Evidently any possible hope for us humans, as well as the world itself, can be found in nothing lesser than God himself. Rather than learned helplessness, this is lucidity given by 10 000 years of hard evidence.

As I said, you can rely on the God from within and not on the God from without.

Let's just stick to the last 2000 years ok? Is that fair? By conquest, Rome has spread Christianity from the middle east to all of Europe and then to Asia and to the rest of the world. And what really has Christianity done? Does the American people really favor what their government and military has done in the Second World War? What is Christian Europe doing but for the most part be led by the chain to keep on making war for whatever flimsy excuse? And what do the Christian churches do but merely stand by and pray and pray, avoiding "violence" while allowing violence by not standing up with its faithful to the evil in their own governments? Where are the Christian martyrs? Where are knights in battle array ready to take up the sword to fight for justice for the "least of our brothers?" Instead, we see the fake Christian US Armed Forces, serving the cause of Zionism, supporting Israel because whatever sitting US president is a puppet elected by a largely Christian electorate brainwashed to support "the chosen people" because Jesus will save them in the Rapture to reward them for favoring "his people.." While the other Christian who think the Rapture is garbage eschatology and pure manipulation by Zionists, just stand by and pray the Rosary for Mary's intercession to Jesus to -what else- save them.

All are helpless. In need of saving! By an external all-[powerful entity in Christ Jesus the Messiah. And very hopeful but hopeless in the infinity of time that Jesus will come and save them. Faith in the non-existent that is to come keeps them as eternal slaves to the powers that be as they die and let their children, and their children's children, keep this nonsense going on while the Zionists and their sycophants keep getting more entrenched in feeding off this brainwashed mass of humans.

It's better off to be born without this brainwashing and abide by natural law, and to be guided by humanistic philosophies such as Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism. For that may still bring true hope that society will once again develop and not degrade as the government is formed by meritocracy where public servants are respected because they are raised on ethical standards and shame exists as a code exists that serves the common good. This is love expressed in the highest levels of society.

@TheSir said in New "Mission" of RPF:

It is mere supply and demand in action. What can Christians - or any group for that matter - do against a sick population producing the demand for a sick noosphere? A population has the masters it deserves, as the flaws of the masters are but a reflection of the flaws of the population and what the latter deems permissible (even if begrudgingly).

You betray a lack of perspective from not knowing at all any history behind the cause of the sick population. Was that a product of God's design or by a conspiracy by a group of evil men to game the system to slowly but surely build a population of sick and stupid people whom they can use as Orcs? Have you ever heard of the Flexner Report?

Being knowledgeable enough and having been in the RP Forum long enough, it seems you favor trolling with your pretense at ignorance with your line of reasoning.

@mexican_coke_fan

I have read parts of the bible, but not all of it.

I explained my reason for not believing in Jesus as God already. I don't believe in sola scriptura, so I don't believe in using the bible as the sole basis for what I believe in. If that were the basis for you, may I ask why you believe in that?

@Carracci

I don't have any reference to recommend save for Chris Masterjohn's Nutritional Testing, currently at v1.3 You can do a search and likely it would be something you could purchase online. It tells you how to test for hemochromatosis. I don't know how you were diagnosed for hemochromatosis, but different doctors have different ways to go about it. Some merely look at serum hgb being very high and quickly recommend phlebotomy to lower it. A cousin was diagnosed this way and since I'm no doctor, he went ahead with regularly giving away blood. I felt more testing needs to be done as there may be other causes why his hgb is very high, such as low blood volume. If the cause of his high hgb (hemoglobin) is low blood volume, and he keeps donating blood, does that make sense?

I once was diagnosed for hemochromatosis long ago and I donated blood to lower my high serum iron. I was a noob then and didn't even care to ask for details. I thought I would be regularly donating blood for the rest of my life, as the cause as I was told was genetic. But at that time, I was doing other things to improve my health, and I never had to donate blood anymore as my hemachromatotic condition never resurfaced again.

But there are other causes for high ferritin other than having a hemochromatosis condition. Your body may have an infection or have heavy metals where having free iron to feed microbes or to worsen a chain of lipid peroxidation that causes oxidative stress that eats away at your tissues, so it would store the iron away in your tissues somewhere where the iron is never used to further harm you. So the high ferritin could very well be a symptom of an anemia of chronic stress, where you are anemic because not enough iron is also available for you to produce enough red blood cells..

I am not sure whether you are hyperthyroid as much as you don't have stable blood sugar regulation. You're not overweight nor obese so you are likely to be hypoglycemic and that is why you get hungry often. You are mistaking low blood sugar for high metabolism it seems. As having high metabolism where a lot of sugar is burned optimally means you can burn and metabolize sugar well and that you get enough energy round the clock and you don't fluctuate from having high energy to low energy.

Your being sensitive to sugar is because you are hypoglycemic, where on an empty stomach especially (when well past meal time and your blood sugar is just on the border of being low, if you take one teaspoon of sugar, the sugar will intake will quickly turn into blood sugar like a flash flood and overwhelm your poor ability to absorb and metabolize sugar, and your blood sugar quickly goes very high (because it's not getting absorbed) and this causes an insulin reaction that very quickly would cause the liver to convert all that sugar to triglyceride, and overdo it, leaving your blood sugar very low. That could easily get you to experience hunger to sleepiness, to fatigue, to getting your nose to secrete watery mucous, to sneezing, to hiccup, to suffering from a sore throat, which may up with you getting a fever or flu the next day. It depends on your context if any or some or all applies. I had all that twenty years ago, but I am not glad I am well past that.

But regular doctors could not help me. And I'm afraid that is just too common and that your doctor may end up getting you worse off. What saved me was having a good naturopathic doctor and since not all naturopaths are perfect, I had to do my own part as well in getting me well. It is a very dramatic transformation for me as I was very sickly for most of my early years,, and I hated it and I was determined to make myself better. Still, determination cannot speak for success as the more determined one gets the more one can get frustrated as nothing seems to work when those you seek for help know little or nothing. And being rich and well funded does not guarantee you get the best doctors, just the best marketers. I had become skeptical of the world by then and my mind was ripe to question the prevailing conventional wisdom, especially medical wisdom.

At your age, it's not too late even and it's good your are seeking answers posting.

@yerrag We live practically in a Judeo-based "rules-based" order masked as Christian society and civilization.

@AltarandThrone said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@yerrag

I would also add that charismatics are oriented towards the God from within in the Holy Spirit while the Fundies are oriented towards the God from without.

Interesting take… Are you a Christian?

I was raised Catholic.

From personal experience, I suffered for doing the right thing for my immediate family. My famiy is deeply religious Catholic.. They follow rules without by the letter. They are programmed to rigidly follow everything the Ten Commandments says to the letter.

That made me realize that is how that kind of thinking made us chained to allowing injustice to continue with the false notion of leaving everything for Jesus in the afterlife or at end times to remedy. We cannot remedy it ourselves, even though Jesus told us about the Holy Spirit, who gives us inspiration and courage.

I consider myself a believer in God the Father and the Holy Spirit, but not a Christian as that requires a belief in Jesus as God where all Christian need to go thru in prayers - thanking, praising, petitioning, asking for forgiveness. The hopefulness all Christians possess in acting for an externality in Jesus to be a magic bullet for all evil is a vehicle for extreme helplessness as it doesn't allow each believer to take corrective action to make the world better meaningfully. The sphere where they do good is limited to their small bubble of family of friends, but on a larger scale they allow the noosphere to be controlled by a perpetual evil set of masters that would never give peace and justice a chance.

Christians don't know it, but they are mostly driven by fear rather than by love. A humanist following ancient codes such as the Baghavad Gita are better Christians in spirit than Christians in understanding Jesus in spirit.

@the-MOUSE

I doubt you have too much stomach acid.

How could you have too much when your condition of being both low in CO2 and NaCl disposes you towards making less rather than too much stomach acid, being that your condition of metabolic acidosis deprives you of hydronium ions (being hydronium ions in blood would be transferred to the cell in exchange for the potassium ions inside cells, which explains why you are high in serum potassium - as that is how the body adapts to metabolic acidosis by trying to make the blood more alkaline with potassium ions brought in to blood by that exchange between hydronium and potassium ions.

You are also short on salt (as well as sodium and chloride) that you are low on chloride needed to make hydrochloric acid aka stomach acid.

Because you are low in CO2, your platelets cannot carry serotonin into your lungs, as CO2 is needed to enable platelets to carry serotonin to the lungs. It is in the lungs where most of your serotonin is deactivated. If serotonin is not being deactivated in your lungs nor carried by platelets, you have plenty of free serotonin which would end up also in your brain.

Taking cyproheptadine hasn't worked for me when I was having problems with my lungs when I had bronchitis. I couldn't sleep for days on end and I think the problem was simply too much serotonin messing my brain.

@Kilgore said in Temperatures:

@yerrag said in Temperatures:

. I prefer to use two other free (or cheaper) proxies for testing thyroid status

Do I just go to the doctor and ask for these? Ask for what exactly?

For the Achilles tendon reflex test, it's a bit tricky as you need someone to hit your Achilles tendon with a neuro hammer and observe the speed of the reflex. If you don't trust the person to make a judgment on the reflex speed, you can record a video of it and make a judgment yourself.
Since this is an old method, it is rare to see doctors using this method unless he is a naturopath, but not all naturopaths know this either. The physical therapists that use a neuro hammer don't know how to use this to test this either. So you to DIY and when you use it you may find there is a learning curve needed, and once you feel confident in it, you still have to teach someone to do it on you. I have that predicament, so I opted to use an ECG that can calculate the QTc value for me.

The QTc is a measurement of how fast the heart relaxes after it contracts, expressed in milliseconds. The heart is a muscle and works like any other muscle in that it contracts and relaxes, and the muscle relaxes fast enough after contracting. When it relaxes too slowly, you are low in energy and are hypothyroid and when too quickly, you are hyperthyroid. I asked Ray Peat what value constitutes being euthyroid (normal) and asked if 440 msec is normal, and he just told me it is lower than that. So I have to just make a practical range to work with, based on measuring a sample of readings I've taken from myself to friends and family, and I consider 380 - 420 msec to be euthyroid, but that is my opinion and not set in stone. Someone else more knowledgeable likely will beg to differ.

I use a personal ECG monitor that calculates automatically the QTc value as well as show a graph. Looking at the graph, I can confirm whether the calculated QTc value is correct, as I can see the QTc calculation being off. The device I use costs in the neighborhood of $100, and has its limitations. It definitely lacks the accuracy of ECGs used in diagnostic labs and in doctor:s offices, but gives me enough guidance. To be certain, I would from time to time go to a diagnostics lab where I could get a more accurate reading. But you can't just walk in on a lab and ask for an ECG in the US. You need a cardiologist to do an ECG test of their prescription for a lab to do it. Well, that is the law in the much ballyhooed "rules-based" society we are under.

@Kilgore It looks good as far as temperature is concerned.

But relying on temperature alone is not enough. I prefer to use two other free (or cheaper) proxies for testing thyroid status instead of the expensive thyroid panel (using TSH, T3, T4 and the reverse T3), as it's expensive (especially rT3, which conventional doctors don't use). The other three markers are used by conventional doctors, but are so inaccurate that it's easy to get a false negative on hypothyroidism.

Also helps to not rely too much on temperature as having a persistently internal load of bacteria couldnput tour immune under a chronic state of alertness that raises temperaturem This may lead one to conclude he is euthyroid when he really is hypothyroid.

@the-MOUSE

I think all I can do for you is to try interpreting your blood test results. I have the feeling that I don't have the complete picture and your doctor knows enough of your history and you're right in having to check with your doctor what you learn from me. I hope he would consider what I've shared with you though chances of that happening are slim. Perhaps if you went to a another doctor and the doctor told you the same thing I did, and you told your doctor you have a cousin who is a doctor overseas and that he gave you some suggestions, your doctor would be more receptive as he won't feel insulted you asked for a second opinion, and he would be more open to considering what you share with him.

But I'm still lacking a lot of information on your history and your use of substances in the past such as psychiatric drugs that altogether make your condition what it is now. Filling that gap is hard. For example, I don't know what led to you becoming nauseous. I also wonder how SSRIs got into picture and whether you have been a long time user of SSRIs.

I would make no attempt to second guess your doctor. It is bad enough if your treatment is hampered by having so to speak too many cooks that spoil the broth. If you stsy with your doctor, you must have confidence in him enough to keep on being treated by him. If you think he has not diagnosed you satisfactory, then you have to consider whether to see another. Although that is easier said than done as most patients cannot discern whether their doctor is a good one or not. My sister, for example, likes a doctor because he is very bubbly and friendly and I wonder if competence ever came into the picture. Then again, it is hard to differentiate a Big Mac from one Mickey D branch to another.

What I'm in effect saying is that it would be difficult for me to help you if I have an incomplete understanding of your context. If your intent is to simply be to have your blood work interpreted, I hope I have been able to do that satisfactorily.

@the-MOUSE

I'm trying to make sense of why your triglycerides are below reference range. It's either a liver problem or you're not making enough insulin. Since your liver looks ok (based on your AST and ALT enzyme test results), Insulin signals your liver to convert blood sugar to triglycerides, and a lack of insulin secretion from the pancreas could keep the liver from getting the signal to convert blood sugar to triglycerides.

But I am not sure as your blood sugar is not so high. It is only milldly high, and so it's possible you are metabolizing sugar well enough or that you're not eating enough carbs such that your intake of sugar/carbs is such that your sugar metabolism is not really put to the test. Are you on low carb, or keto, or carnivore diet or doing intermittent fasting? As using these methods are a poor substitute to deal with having a faulty sugar metabolism.

@mostlylurking said in my recent subhuman bloodwork for recurring nausea/anxiety:

Could you rephrase the above paragraph? I'm having a hard time understanding. What is being taken in possibly too high a dose? Or did you mean to say the thiamine dose was too small?

My brain and typing coordination had a miss (I wonder if there is a pathology to this. Happens to me too often). Sorry. I'll rephrase:

Last week I discovered I was thiamine insufficient, even with my thiamine daily dosage being high (at
250mg) relative to rda. Just like me, you may just need more thiamine. In my case, I had to increase my dosage to 1500mg. You could be either thiamine deficient (below rda) or thiamine insufficient ( above rda but still lacking in thiamine intake).

@mostlylurking Thanks for adding your thoughts and references. I could use them also.

@the-MOUSE said in my recent subhuman bloodwork for recurring nausea/anxiety:

idk why it wasnt tested again this time, but my ferritin was very low at 34 around a yr back, although other iron markers were fine like tibc

Ferritin at 34 ng/ml isn't low. When you say transferrin saturation was normal, was it between 30 and 40%? If so, your ferritin level is fine.

I'm not sure if I can interpret your serum calcium not knowing if it is ionized calcium or total calcium, and even then not knowing your PTH values and vit D status makes the determination difficult.

About your metabolic acidosis diagnosis, that isn't a main cause as much as it is the result of various factors.

You mention your intake of electrolytes being lacking, but I doubt if you can drink plenty of electrolytes to make your body stores of it. It's better to get your mineral that replenish your body with electrolytes on a regular basis, as these minerals are constantly being used and excreted. When you sweat and urinate and defecate, these minerals are excreted. You get a lot of calcium from milk, cheese, and well-cooked green leaf vegetables (as well as vitamin K and magnesium from Leaves). Potassium from meat and from fruits and vegetables (but little calcium and magnesium). And salt from adding salt liberally to taste. Are you eating enough of these in your nutrition lifestyle? If you're not, you end up having to rely on supplements and there is the matter of whether they are absorbed well in the body. On this aspect, eating whole foods offers this advantage. I'm not even sure I could run into deficiencies if I eat a diversity of foods with enough quantity that fills me up enough as that is what people have been doing at earlier periods in places where there is a variety of food sources to choose from.

And if I ate without having to resorts to fads like carnivore or ketogenic diets and just ate like I never attended universities and took coaching lessons such as the Mediterranean diet or Atkins diet, of which there is dizzying array of in the US, and get good air and sunlight, and not even have to walk 10,000 steps a day or workout, but just attend to manual chores (just being active), I would naturally be living a Peaty lifestyle already without knowing who Ray Peat is. Ray Peat is like a prophet telling us to go back to where we started, as the world teems with false prophets of every stripe.

I simply test my health daily with simple methods that work very well. I would add my own markers to Ray Peat's body temperature with simple tests such as breath rate, which is a proxy for serum pH (instead of an arterial blood gas- expensive and painful), and a urine and saliva pH test using test strips I buy from Amazon (Hydrion pH 5.5-8). With these I know my acid-balance status, which when optimal, and used together with a very reliable blood glucose test I do at home, I get a very good indication of my oxidative metabolic health and overall health. These give me red flags way ahead of time, and I can nip at the bud something bad from developing into worse conditions. I have other tools as well but I don't want to overwhelm you. Those can come later at a more advanced level.

One reason being able to just know how to achieve acid-base balance is it is very reassuring to know that it reflects a general state of balance that keeps me confident that I won't develop stones in the kidneys and that my organs won't develop soft calcification. As with a body in this kind of balance, the electrolytes are doing their job to keep my organs young and healthy. An example is that with the body in this state, potassium in our cells and tissues can very well regulate the entry of calcium into our cells and tissues to where calcium is used to enable our muscles and to contract and relax optimally (eg our heart beats better, we don't experience cramps) without risking too much calcium gets in our tissues and stay there. The balance is naturally expressed as intracellular potassium to being in a 30:1 ratio with extracellular potassium, and extracellular calcium at a 15000:1 ratio with intracellular ratio.

This relationship becomes disturbed when our body becomes very acidic and this is when our blood potassium becomes very high in potassium, which is our body's attempt to move potassium from its cells to its extracellular fluids, as reflected in plasma. Then the doctor will see that and tell us we have "too much potassium." And now we know that is nonsensical because we know better now. But in fairness to the doctor, he will just be exasperated explaining this to the average person.

Anyway, moving on to more diagnosis:

With your high blood glucose (at => 100 mg/dL or 5.555 mmol/L:, and anion gap being high and CO2 or bicarbonate being low, you may have a thiamine deficiency, and with that your metabolism may be stuck at glycolysis which produces plenty of lactic acid, and this could explain why you have metabolic acidosis.

I am not sure is there is such as thing as not being hypothyroid but having low metabolism, but if there is such a thing, then you are a good example because your ECG QTc value of 396 msec puts you at either slightly hypothyroid or euthyroid, and not hypothyroid. So, if I were to hazard a guess, making you sufficient in B1, if that is the only limitting factor in your getting to mitochondrial sugar metabolism and improving your acidic condition.

Maybe just like me just last week discovering I am thiamine insufficient, supplementing with thiiamine, or more thiamine if what you're currently taking is too (which was the case with me) would be a good and simple way to start you on your way to better health.

@mostlylurking I would appreciate if you have adding to add.

Add: I don't trust the QTc on its own. If I can view the ECG graph as well, I may get a more confident reading of the ECG results as to whether or not hypothyroid.

@AltarandThrone said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@TheSir @CO3 I come from steep fundie roots, and have been ingrained in the charismatic community for my entire adult life -- while the latter has a lot of former fundies, they are diametrically apposed. I'll say, Charlie comes across as a basic fundie/evangelical who's deranged and isolated. I found his invocation of God in the vitamin A matters, to have been disrespectful, and trying to rebuke Georgi's Vitamin A beliefs, in Jesus' name sacrilegious!!!

Since the Protestant reformation (especially in America), Protestants have had a propensity for looking for divine justification of their revolutionary validity. Martin Luther claimed the Islamic siege on Vienna was God's judgement for the Catholic church. The Munster rebellion is a great tale of Protestant insanity following prophecies of the Return of Jesus. America has had several fundie Quakers/Freemasons that fall under this "saw an angel/went to heaven/esoteric download" charismaticism they use to create a whole denomination. While it could be called charismatic, it should not be confused with the modern charismatic / Pentecostal / New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement.

The Modern Charismatic community / NAR, would be best described as reactionary. They believe in reconciling the Protestant and Catholic communities (and consider their differences little more than a Hegelian dialectic), and desire to return to the Church practices found in the book of Acts -- essentially believing that decadence and decay saw the Church's stagnation and loss of miraculous and divine power and authority in culture (trading it for governmental papacies). They believe in practicing the gifts that Paul described -- which almost all fundies, even the charismatic ones, don't like in practice.

Note that fundies and charismatics hold to all the same "essential doctrines."

Very observant. You capture it succinctly.

I would also add that charismatics are oriented towards the God from within in the Holy Spirit while the Fundies are oriented towards the God from without. But I think that distinction matters little in practical terms.

Totally believing in the God from within, absent Jesus Christ as our Messiah is important to have practical relevance in enabling God to improve humanity and make it turn away from fear and act out of true love. With Christianity almost wholly tied to the concept of praying thru Jesus as an intermediary, getting inspiration and courage from the Holy Spirit becomes merely a fallback and does not get the top billing in our minds and hearts.

Asking for Jesus all the time, and petitioning saints and those departed and those who live to pray through Jesus (for Catholics and perhaps and Orthodox Christians and some Protestant sects), or going directly to Jesus (Evangelicals) very well means we all tolerate the injustices to persist in the world while praying Jesus will deal with the wicked transgessors eventually in the afterlife, or when Jesus finally comes back as the Messiah, as promised by the Virgin Mary in Fatima, or as putatively foretold in the Bible in the Rapure, as Evanelicals believe.

Mankind is thus disempowered of any meaningful action at reform in making the world a better place- to be born into a lesser earth and to leave the world better when he leaves, because Christianity and its followers are an impregnable wall to overcome.