Re: Gbold's Theory
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m_arch post_id=1944 time=1508414895 user_id=66 said:
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Potassium correlates with cortisol. If you have super high potassium, then you have high cortisol. <br/>
@Orion can you confirm you have high cortisol? I saw in your hair test your potassium was high. Dunno if you've done a cortisol test before or not?<br/>
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If this is the case, I think you might fit into case #1 and instead maybe you should try those protocols. Orion is doing fasting + progresterone I believe. <br/>
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I tested for normal levels of cortisol, doing a 24hr saliva test.<br/>
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I am on day 4 now of my attempted 40day Breuss fast, 300mg Prog yesterday and 300mg today(Fri/sat will have 300mg each as well). Changes in skin texture and quality is really dramatic.<br/>
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Here are most of the gbolduev quotes relating to potassium/cortisol/progesterone.<br/>
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Progesterone receptors depend on Potassium inside of the cell. So, if Potassium is high in the cell, receptors get downregulated.<br/>
So, anything that puts Potassium in the cell will downregulate Progesterone receptors. I guess Potassium bicarbonate will downregulate the receptors, but then to start up the system you will need to take Zinc with a lot of HCL to get Potassium out of the cell to jump start 3 beta HSD<br/>
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If body needs Potassium it upregulates 3 beta HSD. (reason for the hairloss in the first place). Potassium makes the cell sensitive to thyroid hormone, without Potassium in the cell, no cellular CO2, hairloss. Nothing to do with DHT.<br/>
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Also, you can get propecia symptoms from excessive masturbation. When you do that your Zinc levels are kept low for a while and your 3 beta HSD (Zinc dependent) and NAD is low for a while. This upregulates your Progesterone receptors almost identical to propecia and you crash with POIS syndrome.<br/>
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Therefore, fasting helps this syndrome. fasting for 30-40 days will downregulate Progesterone receptors since body will need tons of Cortisol while you are fasting.<br/>
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Cortisol also makes the cell sensitive to thyroid. So if stressed your temps go up not down. Cortisol raises potassium in the cell, zinc raises potassium in the cell for slow oxidizers. For fast it is the opposite zinc lowers potassium.<br/>
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That is why if you are deficient in zinc your cortisol will be upped to raise potassium in the cell instead of zinc. and that is why when you take zinc, it lowers cortisol. Cortisol supports thyroid in this case, and to lower cortisol in this case is like turning off your thyroid<br/>
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calcium lowers thyroid that is why, zinc increases thyroid, copper lowers thyroid. Peat is totally wrong on this. Calcium lowers potassium in the cell zinc increases potassium. Fast oxidizers have high potassium in the cell and you called them not zinc deficient. Potassium is what makes the cell sensitive to the thyroid hormone. So, when you take calcium, potassium will go down in the cell, and thyroid will have to produce more and convert more t4 to t3. Peat says thyroid goes up, WRONG.<br/>
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If your thyroid is high and potassium is higher than calcium in the cell then body will use ceruloplasmin to cap off the thyroid, since copper same as calcium lower potassium in the cell. that is why for fast oxidizers taking thyroid will move ceruloplasmin. Copper is there to lower thyroid. To cap it off. SO when thyroid goes up copper will be raised to try to cap it. But if you have adrenal problems thyroid will be turned off with turning off conversion of T4 to T3<br/>
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Progesterone always goes into aldosterone and cortisol pathway)))) it is made for that reason. I said that if you give progesterone it will raise cortisol at first then it will lower it, if you needed cortisol spike. If you need cortisol at a constant rate, progesterone will raise cortisol. Don’t forget progesterone increases potassium in the cell. Cortisol rises with potassium. That is why to raise cortisol people can use potassium supplements.<br/>
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Without potassium, you can’t make insulin. Also without ionized calcium you can’t release insulin. For calcium to stay ionized you need to have magnesium. Without magnesium, your potassium will go down, since aldosterone will stay sky high.<br/>
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Potassium goes in the cell when the venous blood is more alkaline. Thus, in alkalosis potassium goes into the cell. This potassium is a receptor of a thyroid hormones and increases metabolism which increases CO2. Thus, when you increase ventilation this causes the venous blood become more alkaline and this causes potassium go into the cell, increasing your metabolism<br/>
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Just understand in alkalosis, potassium goes inside of the cell this increases metabolism, in acidosis potassium goes outside of the cell, it decreases metabolism. It is very obvious and logical, since metabolism increases acidity by creating CO2.<br/>
So, if you are more acidic then body will want to lower metabolism to decrease production of CO2. and if you more alkaline body will want to increase metabolism to increase production of CO2.<br/>
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In case of potassium deficiency progesterone receptors will be upregulated and progesterone level will be up. <br/>
Progesterone increases potassium. potassium receives thyroid hormones. Potassium goes too high, thyroid gets downregulated since less of it needed<br/>
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Prolactin regulates calcium. Zinc lowers copper, this lowers estrogen and this causes prolactin to decrease. Zinc increases progesterone.<br/>
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Progesterone regulated potassium, potassium regulates aldosterone sensitivity. Estrogen regulates aldosterone. So basically, if you screw up your progesterone somehow this will affect your aldosterone sensitivity also. And this will not allow estrogen nor DHT to work.<br/>
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</s>Accutane causes increased progesterone. So, in some cases accutane will cause progesterone insensitivity.<e></e></B><br/>
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Also, I wanted to point out, it seems depo provera effects MR receptors also very strongly. And I think this is where licorice comes into play. Estrogen raises sodium in the cell. So, if sodium is already high, estrogen can’t become sensitive. Licorice lowers aldosterone sensitivity and when you get off, sodium actually falls and estrogen is raised which makes DHT sensitive<br/>
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antagonizing or agonizing progesterone can do the same thing. Since progesterone effects potassium. And if potassium is high aldosterone becomes supersensitive and if potassium is low aldosterone becomes super insensitive. So, you can say also that progesterone screws up, effects aldosterone sensitivity afterwards which does not allow DHT to work. I basically outline this connection in the theory before. But I think we need to concentrate on this also.<br/>
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there could be too cases here as I said before. If he has high potassium in the blood. and low insulin. means zinc deficiency is likely. since zinc is what will make insulin. If he had low insulin and low potassium, that is understandable.<br/>
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If potassium is low in the cell, usually you have high progesterone. If potassium is high low progesterone. or you can have simply low progesterone on its own since zinc is deficient and body can’t make insulin. and this stops from producing progesterone, since progesterone will require sugar in the cell, but if there is no insulin, then no sugar.</r>
