Posts made by yerrag

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First off, if you've been vomiting a lot, you need to replenish your salt as with each vomit you are losing stomach acid and the chloride in salt. While you serum sodium is still within range, it is near the low end of range and as you continue to vomit, your sodium levels will continue to get lower.

Looking at your RBC and hct and hgb, which are way beyond normal range, it may point to lo blood volume as a result of low salt levels in your plasma which keeps the plasma ecf (extracellular fluid) from osmotically drawing water from the non-plasma ECF to your plasma ECF. This will make your blood contain less plasma thus lowering blood volume. This makes your blood have more RBC per unit volume (as well as hematocrit and hemoglobin) very high.

I don't know how if you could increase oral intake of salt and whether you need sodium chloride IV instead. And I don't know how much you need to take. But I think some action is needed as when your salt level drop beyond range you may have to be rushed to the ER. But to be safe, a visit to the ER to consult with them would be a good step to take. Explain to them your situation and they may just tell you to take more nacl tablets, or they could put you on IV.

Secondly, it appears you have metabolic acidosis. With your urine being very dark, it may also be that you have oliguria (low urine output). I recently had that condition, and I'm not sure why acidic urine and oliguria goes together, but I suspect that your urine is very acidic because your body is very acidic but because your blood volume is also low, there is not much water that can be excreted with water being taken out of your blood to form urine. Why I think you have metabolic acidosis is because of your high anion gap and low HCO3 (bicarbonate).

I wonder if you also are experiencing edema in your ankles , calves, or even tour thighs and your torso, as I had them when I was having very dark urine with oliguria.

Can you also send the ECG graphs if you have them? I'd like to see how high the QRS wave is. The QRS wave I the positive spike that is usually high. Helps to know more about your heart since you have palpitations and ectopic couplets.

I'm still looking at other markers and I'd like to have your answers the soonest.

@jwayne said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@ilovethesea Meanwhile they're insulting @yerrag in his own thread and praising the ban.

https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/unlimited-oxygen-intake-is-crucial-but-taken-for-granted-until-your-lungs-no-longer-provide-it.50689/page-9

Also, Charlie breaks his own Rules:

j. Use of AI.

When he posted a hilariously bad speech by ChatGPT.

k. Disparaging of forum.

When he disparages Ray Peat and forum members

b Harassment of other users, name calling, etc.

When he permits insulting @yerrag's character, etc.

Thanks. for sharing. I didn't get to go back to read these, so they are new to me. I know it's easy to assassinate someone's character when one knows the subject cannot respond. It happens all the time after one leaves a company he used to work in, or after one dies. It's par for the course. I learned that early and I'm never going to repeat that mistake in judgment. Some people you just never know who they really are. But saying that, just one post said about me by a person may still be well-intended even though the way it was said could be seen as derogatory without much more context to it. Some people are impulsive in mouthing off and what they say wouldn't come out right. So all is good with these people. Some of them are already with us in this forum. Glad to have them here as well.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

@yerrag said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

@yerrag said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

banana bags

you mean for thiamine iv infusion?

Yes. There's a good article at that link.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

I'm very hopeful that you will be able to fully recover. Or at least achieve tremendous improvement.

I am very confident of this as well.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

I had ataxic gait fall of 2020; I kept bouncing off the walls. I also developed a tremor in my right hand. But these resolved via high dose thiamine hcl. When I got so sick, I was taking thiamine hcl, 100mg, 2Xday, but I took it with orange juice (oops). Many of the patient Before Treatment videos show people having a hard time walking, so the Ataxic Gait seems to be a tell tale sign.

I just learned of the term "gait ataxia" or "ataxic gait.." Is this your first time to hear the term as well? Seems like had I know of this term earlier, I would not refer to it as "a symptoms of parkinson's" or "myasthenia gravis." As it would be easier to see it associated with beriberi and to vitamin b1 deficiency.

I learned about "ataxic gait" in 2020 when it was happening to me. Dr. Chandler Marrs has a video where she talks about the deterioration of her mother's health; maybe that's what made me really understand it.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

It seems that all of the thiamine experts that I have relied on are clinicians; they all have had hands on experience treating actual patients rather than only being off in some laboratory working with test tubes and computers. There's tons of good research you can find on line about thiamine, but expensive double blind studies are scarce because no one can patent thiamine.

Very true! This is where the practitioners of "evidence-based" scientism lord it over clinicians all the time. Sad that a majority worship at the temple of scientism. The irony is that the more "educated" one is the more he relies less on other measures of evidence that includes observation and perceiving and thinking. And rely on curated google searches and wikipedia as their research.

I hate Wikipedia; at best it's the consensus of the brainwashed.

The problem with "evidence based" scientism is that the ones in control (medical industrial complex + "science" post Project Paperclip) demand empirical double blind human studies for the "gold standard" of proof. The only entities that can afford to do that type of study are the pharmaceutical companies for things that they can patent to make big bucks on. The system is broken.

Why we are in this forum is to sidestep that illusion, yet many people here still trust google as the final arbiter.

Searching for good studies online is time consuming; the ones they want you to find are at the top; the better ones are buried further down. Using "quotation marks" around key words can shorten the search.

I'm just as glad as you are that we used this forum to confirm each other's experiencing gait ataxia and if I can confirm megadosing b1 is effective, it strengthens our "clinician" equivalent approach to the other "evidence-based' approach. If this forum can do more of this kind of discovery, it would become far more helpful and useful than other forums.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

Elliot Overton counsels clients in nutrition. He has a lot of good videos about thiamine.

Dr. Chandler Marrs treats patients at her clinic.

Dr. Derrick Lonsdale was a pediatrician at the Cleveland Clinic. He's retired now, is over 100 years old, takes TTFD daily, and still responds to questions in the Comments (below the articles) at hormonesmatter.com.

Dr. Costantini (died 2020), treated thousands of Parkinson's Disease patients successfully in Italy with thiamine hcl.

I have to find more time to view/read those links you shared earlier. Thanks a lot!

You're welcome.

There's an enormous amount of information on line about thiamine. It seems modern science cannot keep it hidden so well. For example, if you try to search for Thiamine and Cancer, the first studies that show are the ones about oncologists saying thiamine can cancel out the effect of their chemotherapy drugs so thiamine's bad. But further down the screen, you will find helpful research that includes info about low dose thiamine being carcinogenic but high dose thiamine is anti-carcinogenic. There's also a broad range between the low dose and the high dose that is neither carcinogenic nor anti-carcinogenic.

What serendipity, CMJ has an article on hi-dose supplementation on what to look out for in implementing hi-dose b1 supplementation. It's free for a day on substack. I wonder what's the best way to save it for my use. Perhaps print to PDF;

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrismasterjohnphd/p/thiamin-supplements-not-for-everyone?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

BTW, On the third day of 1500mg b1, I saw my overnight O²Ring chart go from a score of 7.5 to 9.3, indicating lower frequency in spO2 drops, and lower levels of drops in magnitude, which had been ongoing as far back as 3 years ago, when I began tracking it.

I also saw my ECG's QRS curve increase in height signifying strong electrical voltage restored in pumping my heart, which I track to ascertain how much free my lungs was free from liquid (pleural effusion). My QTc value , a proxy marker for testing for hypothyroidism Ray has talked about, has improved from 440 msec to 385, pushing me towards hyper to normo-thyroid territory.

Still waiting for my gait ataxia to disappear.

More about the CMJ's article about thiamine:
He writes:
"Dr. Derrick Lonsdale writes in the book he authored with Chandler Marrs, Thiamine Deficiency Disease, Dysautonomia, and High-Calorie Malnutrition that every case he saw of a “paradoxical” reaction to thiamin was self-resolving, with benefit arising after the initial hump of difficulty. My experience from a different and broader context suggests that there are many people who get adverse reactions that do not end until thiamin supplementation is stopped rather than these self-resolving paradoxical reactions."

Please note that "paradoxical reactions" to thiamine discussed by Dr. Lonsdale are specifically about TTFD thiamine. In contrast, Dr. Costantini, who used thiamine hcl exclusively for treating his patients said that there should be NO negative reactions to taking thiamine hcl. He did say that rarely a patient would experience a negative reaction to it; his solution was to stop the thiamine for a week, then invite the patient to resume the treatment at half the dose.

Dr. Costantini's Therapy info

Please note that TTFD thiamine is a synthetic newer version of thiamine that does have some advantages. It is easily absorbed in the gut so the size of the dose is much smaller than the oral dose needed for thiamine hcl. TTFD is also supposed to "get into the cell" much easier than thiamine hcl which may be an advantage for some people with genetic variations that make thiamine absorption on the cellular level less effective/blocked. TTFD doesn't have the "transport" issues that thiamine hcl might have for some people? Lonsdale, Marrs, and Overton know a lot more about TTFD than I do and all three seem to prefer recommending TTFD. Elliot Overton is affiliated with the company that makes Thiamax TTFD. He has stated that if you find a type of thiamine that works well for you that you should stick with that type.

Yes. I suspect that the higher thiamine dosage gave my phagocytes enough ROS to kill pathogenic bacteria as well as swallow sequestered lead for eventual excretion out the system. It potentiated my immune system enough to make toxins and pathogenic microbes.

As these toxins and pathogens are killed and excreted, they no longer have the staying power and with each day their numbers are reduced, and my immune system would be using less and leas oxygen to make ROS. So the spO² drops would be less and less over time and hopefully they will be gone.

@ora I'm testing responses here and so far I've made two posts in response to the subject of blood sugar and got no responses. I'm not sure whether my answers were too difficult to understand or despite my putting it in clear explanations, it was still too hard to understand.

my answers are not the typical banal answers and requires some bit of contrarian mindset to overcome the inertia of going with the false but seemingly logical and intuitive way we tend to think, in the same way that sometimes we need a coach to show us a counterintuitive way to do things to overcome a wall in our development as in kayakers learning to do a combat roll, a dancer trying to pirouette without getting dizzy and in driving thru a curve without needing to slow down as much.

But the lack of response shows me that people generally have lost interest in pursuing the subject which led them to post a question and instantly gave up at even asking a follow-up question showing a lack of going thru a process of their mind processing and trying to understand, as needed to overcome their present state of relative ignorance and to heal themselves. It betrays a lack of understanding that making quality products and robust health is not about taking magic bullets and instant panaceas, something the medical system has molded our minds into thinking, but to have a willingness to learn how to start with a good foundation of knowledge, and a willingness or patience of a turtle (as opposed to the speed of harebrained hare) a turtle to let the right process of steps take hold in the same way fine wine matures or strong masonry cures and sets.

That attitude is needed for anyone wanting to turn themselves from the seemingly hopeless state of being a low energy, very unstable and sickly individual that spends most of his life unable to do much because he is recovering always from something or has many allergies and resigns himself to blaming his condition as genetic or some kind of blessing like a stigmata.

Into being highly energetic and immune to the various insults thrown by nature or by man.

I hope that by referring to my post in RPF, I give the person a good reference in the same way most works are referenced if more detail is needed. Ray does that in his newsletters. It's good because he makes the reader do some extra research work, and the reader will do that research because he values that extra work enough to do the extra leg work. I think also it's not a good idea to write and share all I know in one sitting.

I would follow Ray's style and leave it hanging. That is an invitation to the reader to follow up with a question. This way, I know that guy is reading and wanting to know more. It's like when you shout and no one responds, do you know if anyone heard you?

@Truth

The avalanche had already snowballed. Charlie running for his life. And acting now like a gentleman. Praising realneat for being gentlemanly.

While before he wasn't praising the gentlemen whom he banned.

Saving face and acting too late and doing too little.

Realneat- nice try for a purple heart award from charlie!

@CO3 said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@yerrag Mind your manners, boy!

If only you can stop and think and look at yourself in the mirror once in a while, you would start healing your own tendency to inflate yourself to lofty heights and keep looking down on people whose ideas and experiences do not conform to yours, and you could even be wrong.

Stop to think your own context is not everybody's.

Stop saying your one experience is that of the majority.

Not all are fooled by your pomposity though many would because your air of confidence makes up for your lack of understanding.

With all due respect, your highness!

@Jam I knew you would pop up one of these days. Welcome!

@nomaanali212 This is a long explanation that I feel if I explained it, I would be spending a lot of time on it. Because it is long because it needs to be thorough, I find it to be too complicated for anyone to even give it a try.

Since I already explained it in detail already before, it's better if you go to RPF and search using my name and keyword "oral glucose tolerance test" to get the answers to the questions.

I have graphs as well there showing how improved my blood sugar control and how one could use the graphs to help figure out where the problem lies in their blood sugar control, as identification of the cause is vital to solving problems in blood regulation.

Sorry if I won't do it again here as honestly, no one there really came back to me about using the method I outlined and I have better things to do than be disappointed no one would try it. But this is a method used successfully by naturopath's and I further refined it and I successfully improved my sugar metabolism and transformed myself from very sickly into being free of many common issues.

@DG I'm not concerned how high my uric acid is as much as whether the uric acid is precipitating into crystals or not, causing arthriric ain in joints and gout.

My uric acid levels are on the high end of normal range. Yet I don't feel any arthritic pain. I believe it is because my good sugar metabolism produces a lot of CO2, and this helps with keeping my body in a state of good acid balance. In this state, uric acid hardly ever precipitates into crystals.

I'm not sure whether my uric acid levels are that high but I believe it's not so much that I'm producing a lot of it as I'm retaining a lot of it. When I check my urine for uric acid, it is very much lower than normal. They means I'm retaining a lot of uric acid.

As to why I'm retaining it, it may be that my body needs it more given that as much as I try to lower conditions of oxidative stress, I am not in that sweet spot where my body deals with a minimum of oxidative but on the contrary a lot of oxidative stress is ongoing. Causes range from lead toxicity still present to a high microbial load as indicated by wbc counts that speak of a high level of low-grade (no fever) infection.

Uric acid is part of the body's primary antioxidant system. It is protective. I would pay more attention to ensuring I have an optimal acid-base balance rather than lowering my uric acid levels. I have no arthritic pains whatsoever. No hour either. But go consult a doctor and you will be advised differently.

Usually people will do take the road well traveled, and stay within the safety in numbers. The majority is always right or always wrong? Conventional wisdom has it that majority is always right.

@risingfire not gonna lie either. I hate to disappoint but all there is - pipsqueak

@brad Yessiree!!!

@Peatful said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@ilovecats

Why…
Does…
He…
Stay?

Honestly
Needs to tell them to fuck off.

He's waiting to offer charlie a buyout. As a member, he may be in Charlie's good graces to be considered when he decides the site has more value with charlie out of the picture. Haidut right now is a critical collaborator. He may do more good being a member not just for himself. Protecting his investment in the posts of studies and commentaries he has made over the years if he leaves or is banned leaves all that in the hands of charlie.

Before I got booted out, I made an offer for the site for 20¢ on the dollar for the site in jest in a post. But that was incidental as I had a fallout with charlie. I got to learn of his arrogance and left based on that alone. Little did I know he was to follow up his arrogance with action consistent with his true nature.

And so here we are as refugees welcomed into a new home. Thanks @brad

Brad I'm trustful that your nature is different from that of charlie and I look forward to be under your tent. I find being a good moderator requires a lot of good judgment and wisdom. I once left a Telegram chat group because a lot of disrespectful modern women (coarse and loud and gratuitously disrespectful to me). A weak male member was supporting them and telling me to mind my manners instead, and the active moderator wasn't doing anything about it. I wasn't banned but I gave time for the moderator/s to act before I left in disgust. You've seen me here having disagreements and I can carry my own when I am disrespected and I fight back especially when slighted upon. I welcome being told when I'm wrong but when there is a gray area I will use reason to defend myself. When defense is useless, I won't hesitate to kick it up a notch on offense. That is how I felt is only right. Words can hurt. And I try my best to use such words sparingly. I don't like bullies but I can bully a bully into submission if that is what it takes.

Anyway, after I left the forum, another moderator, who was the charlie to blossom in RPF, contacted me and invited me back after he removed those members and the other moderator, but I had moved on and being invited back in I felt would bloat my ego and I would not be back as just another member. I thanked him and said I would appreciate if he could leave the door open until such time that the dust has settled.

I don't take being a member here lightly, and I appreciate the welcome door here you have set for all. Your guiding hand speaks in the way you have designed the site, and in how your benign presence is expressed in your seeming absence. I am hopeful you will get more members to come that will contribute to the site in a positive manner. And that will keep building on energetics consistent with Ray Peat's ideas and the pioneers whose minds, writings and ideas he had used to synthesize a healthy framework that is coherent.

May we all live long and prosper!

@Amazoniac said in A list of members banned from the Ray Peat Forum:

@yerrag said in Banned from RP forum : Can you do better than this.:

Que lastima! Blossom is loyal to charlie to a fault. I nominated her to replace him in one of my last posts before I got banned. She had been an admin there for a long time, and doing a good job. But her banning @Amazoniac was something that is a mystery to me.

yerrag, there is no mystery: if something triggers the leaders of that forum, you're discarded without remorse.

A Chinese fable has an adventurer going to the yonders in a land with plenty of tigers that devour humans. Seeing an inhabitant, he asked why he lives there. The answer was: Here, I am free from dictators.

RPF has both a wounded and dangerous lion and a dictator.

@saturnuscv Sticks n' Bones can father a child?

@saturnuscv Truth gets the prize of copulating with you. My condolences to @Truth

@saturnuscv said in Banned from RP forum : Can you do better than this.:

@Truth @yerrag my outsider analysis of this argument has concluded that you are both extremely gay

Will you be my lover?

@Truth Now resorting to baby talk.

You remind me of the monkey.

Chained to the tragic consequence of being chained by his own inability to let go of a banana, hands locked by a coconut.

Due to his own inability to free himself from his own anal retentiveness.

Visualize this and be self-aware and see if you can free yourself of your obsession.

@Truth Your illusory conclusions only serve to make you look even more delusional with each post. Every question you have posted, and every answer I make you twist and even overlook. You're not lacking in comprehension is obvious, but your willingness to misrepresent and mischaracterize and character assassinate as you perch yourself on your flimsy high ground on vacuous rationalizing have you looking like an anachronous throw back into your previous lives as an inquisitor of innocent people cast as witches and of a crazed instigator of lynch mobs. Keep up with your pretenses and your virtue signaling but you're fooling no one but yourself.

@Not_James_Bond said in Banned from RP forum : Can you do better than this.:

@yerrag He is just being obtrusive, best ignored

And deliberately obtuse, but hey, playing dumb is his MO, and he has the gall to accuse me of name calling when he can't even count his own use of it as he gets more flustered. Must be one tough SOB for people around him. At least his mom loves him.

@Truth You really fail in everything. Feel sorry for you.

Just look into your own Johori window and get to understand that the whole world is laughing at you. While you tickle your fancy with me.

I have the last laugh, but you must still fail what that means.