Yura log

[Yura]

@RebelWithACause yes FC pride was in the same time as K1. It was great. Yeah it is probably hard to find a gym with "normal" people. For that reason something like Karate, Teakwondo etc. ism uch better I am sure..

Yes it is crazy sport(if we even should call it sport lol) especially MMA. They are simply different breed of people and I simply couldn't do it and that's why I love to watch it.

Btw MMA is still ok I think. Because you really can win for example without single punch. So if you are really good, smart etc.. Just look at Khabib Nurmagomedov. That guy was the best in the world. Without single loss. He was never KOd, I didn't even saw blood once on his face his whole career LOL..
Now compare it with boxing. All they do is hitting eachother into the head for how long 30 minutes? It is crazy.. With big boxing gloves there is less tissue damage, but more brain damage and you have also something like bare bare knuckle boxing for example where they are limited with the punching power because they could easily break bones in their hands, but wit those bare knuckles you get insane tissue damage on the face. I mean it is ridiculous to watch.
But what is even more ridiculous from all those sports is "power slap" I hate it that UFC started with this. It is fucking stupid. I mean they just stand there and take slaps until someone gets KOd..

In comparison with that MMA is healthy sport hehe..

 

[RebelWithACause]

@RebelWithACause yes FC pride was in the same time as K1. It was great. Yeah it is probably hard to find a gym with "normal" people. For that reason something like Karate, Teakwondo etc. ism uch better I am sure..

Yes it is crazy sport(if we even should call it sport lol) especially MMA. They are simply different breed of people and I simply couldn't do it and that's why I love to watch it.

Btw MMA is still ok I think. Because you really can win for example without single punch. So if you are really good, smart etc.. Just look at Khabib Nurmagomedov. That guy was the best in the world. Without single loss. He was never KOd, I didn't even saw blood once on his face his whole career LOL..
Now compare it with boxing. All they do is hitting eachother into the head for how long 30 minutes? It is crazy.. With big boxing gloves there is less tissue damage, but more brain damage and you have also something like bare bare knuckle boxing for example where they are limited with the punching power because they could easily break bones in their hands, but wit those bare knuckles you get insane tissue damage on the face. I mean it is ridiculous to watch.
But what is even more ridiculous from all those sports is "power slap" I hate it that UFC started with this. It is fucking stupid. I mean they just stand there and take slaps until someone gets KOd..

In comparison with that MMA is healthy sport hehe..

True boxing is the worst. But you have guys like Floyd Mayweather barely get hit. Bare knuckle boxing is just street fighters/street fighting who get a stage pretty much.

Powerslap is just stupid pure entertainment for clicks fast dopamine. It's a sport but like borderline... just like arm wrestling and stuff. Powerslap even worse though.

I would never put potential of long lasting problems (unless you are god tier level Khabib/Floyd Mayweather) for some money or fame. But maybe I am a pussy lol

 

[Yura]

@RebelWithACause arm wrestling is ok. You can't compare it to stupid power slap lol..
I don't know what you mean by bare knuckle boxing is just street fight. It is actually pretty big now. They make good money. Mostly ex MMA fighters from UFC are doing it. Now the king is Mike Perry he was pretty good in MMA as well.

 

[Yura]

Can sameone help me to understand what effect has taking hydrochlorid acid in from of 3.5% solution or betaine HCL has on potassium in the body?
I remember Gbolduev saying that any acid will lower potassium even taking HCL and so I wonder if I am doing more hamr than good with taking 3.5% hcl during meals for digestion.. SO far it seems to make me more constipated lol. Low potassium can cause constipation right?
I remember when I was saying that I take HCL Gbolduev was like not a good idea with your low potassium on hair test. But so why he was recommending betaine HCL with every meal in his electrolyte protocol? I am taking potassium chloride with salt on my meals as well..

 

[RebelWithACause]

Becaause it lowers metabolism without kcl, it lowers potassium too Yes

 

[Yura]

@RebelWithACause what you mean without kcal.. Anyways I am taking like 40-50 drops of 3.5% hydrochloric with 2-3 meals. Acording to chatgpt 1 capsule of betaine hcl has the same amount of hcl as around 70 drops of 3.5% hydrochloric acid. So I am taking even less than 1 betaine hcl capsule with a meal. I will try it little longer if it is the cause of that constipation or it is just result of dehydration, not moving much because I am sick.. Somene here posted link on Ray Peat forum where some girl was taking 60 capsules(30g) of betaine hcl a day for a month to kill infection. I would have to take like 5000 drops of what I am taking to match the amount of HCL LOL.. And I know I have issues with chronic infections 100%.. So I will try it for little longer.

 

[Yura]

My hairloss is out of control. My top will be without hair within couple of months WTF. I think it started around the time I started taking T4.. Next week I will do another blood test. Since I switched brands and dosage from 50 to 75mcg like 30 days ago. If I don't see better numbers I am done with it.. Maybe it has to do with copper/estrogen that are probably very low all the time? Should I stop even that 15mg of zinc I am taking and start eating more copper rich food or what. Like I was always ok wit losing hair. But in normal rate slowly over years and not getting completely bald on top within a year WTF.

 

[RebelWithACause]

kCL I meant. I think the 15mg zinc is fine dude. Sometimes lowering carbs can help I found when I get hairloss

 

[Yura]

I wonder if taking that T4 makes sense in my case. It lowers TSH, but it is obvious that the body doesn't want to pump all that extra T4 into free T3 because that free T3 is lower now than when I didn't tak anything. So reverse T3 has to be really high now. Unfortunately I can't test it here in Czech Republic. If I am correct you can have even decent free T3, but if reverse T3 is high it will block that free T3 from working..
What is really fucked up is that I tried and stop taking that T4 3 times already. So obviously I am going in circles.. Trying T4 not getting better. Stopping it. Not getting better trying it again and repeat lol..
@RebelWithACause yeah I think I have to keep some zinc there. Especially when I don't eat any red meat due to lowering iron. Ironically this lowering of iron maybe is the cause of my hair loss as well lol..
Yeah excess of carbs is bad, but What I want to try out now for couple days before the blood test is to not restrict calories/carbs much. Because that can cause higher TSH and lower free T3 as well..
Simply taking T4 and doing calorie/carb restriction is a bad idea becaues all you do is to push that T4 into inactive reverse T3...
I wish I had report from ARL from that hair test and not from that practitioner.. But at least the results were so similiar to my previous hair test that I probably know what they would recommend..
Will see what the blood test will show. If even my lipids don't get any better that was also the reason why I wanted to try T4 again due to my high Lp(a). THere are some papers that fixing high TSH with T4 lowers Lp(a) but if it's not the case I really don't have reason to keep taking it. So if nothing will improve I will just drop it..

 

[Yura]

I wonder if taking thyroid hormones like T4 stops production of other stuff from thyroid gland as well like calcitonin?
Was reading on Ray PEat forum that that is probably the cause of hairloss while taking T4. Low calcitonin that results in tissue calcification including scalp.
I do feel weird feeling on my head.. Interesting thing is that I can pull hair easily from all kinds of places now. Even armpit wtf.
I am thinking should I really do another blood testing and spend 200 euros to see bad results and to feel like shit because of that..
Even if the numbers like TSH, free T4 will look better, but I feel the same, and I am getting bald are those numbers even relevant?
Wanted test D3 as well. Well if it's low what I will do start taking D3 pills? How much? How do I know how much is not too much so I don't end up with even more soft tissue calcification?
I mean this is disaster hehe..
I really need to revaluate how much I am making my health situation worse by all this shit I am doing or how much I am making something better.
I think that I am making everything worse. Just adding stress and making it harder for my body to work properly. Really have to be honest with myself here..
Just eating balanced diet. Trying to hit RDA fro all micros and not think or do anything else. Yeah I think that's the plan. Just have to figure out what is the best way to go of those meds. If I should drop it at once or what. Bodybuilders don't give a shit. They just drop it when the prep ends heh.

 

[Yura]

Just for comparison. Hopefully the next photo after couple months will be with no visible scalp lol

https://imgur.com/a/n1kSpYQ

 

[ruprmurdoch]

Yura I don't know which symptoms you have. But:
- for sure t4 make bones weaker
-there is not straightforward connection between t4 and calcitonin;calcitonin corresponds with pth
-one thing i know is that you mention you have copper problems, you can cycle pine pollen and according to helen your copper will work and i think that in your case he is right. beacuse your progesteron receptors are not sensitive. t4 for sure make progesterone insesitive. thus on t4 you will loose bones and hairs. to make progesteron sensitive, copper work you should do pine pollen cycles and stop t4. like 10-21 days pine pollen then rest 10-14 days. listen to yourself beacuse first cycles might be hard, probably you will feel very sleepy/weak. and after cycles you can take for few days an and mn beacuse overdo of pine pollen might also cause hairloss. but personaly i think that after that t4, on pine pollen your hair will get stronger. after each cycle you should feel better

 

[Yura]

@ruprmurdoch what is the mechanism of pine pollen making copper works? Copper is about estrogen not about progesterone right? SO they say take resveratrol that is estrogen like substance that is chelating copper? Like if it makes things even worse and after that better. That could mean my hair on the top will be gone within days lol..
I really don't want to experiment or do anything stupid to make things much worse. I am ok with stabilizing. Not losing any more hair and slowly get to where I was before.
Taking minerals according to HTMA so apart from main electrolytes chromium, manganese, zinc, selenium etc.. But I am thinking add some copper as well. So I don't crash my sodium which zinc and magnesium is lowering a lot for sure and I don't know if taking some manganese is enough to keep sodium from dropping..

Btw I don't have progesterone measured, but I had these numbers in june
Testosteron 19,59 | |*| | 8,64 - 29,00 nmol/l
Estradiol 47,0 | |*| | 40,0 - 161,0 pmol/l

I would love to really know what I caused by taking steroids. Having high testosterone and estrogen makes you copper toxic right. Now with all that copper stored in the body. The body kees estrogen low why. So I don't start to absorb more copper? Everyone says copper toxic = estrogen dominance. I have the opposite. Low estrogen issues. I really have to figure out how to increase that estradiol and so copper can work and be used and meanwhile I would keep taking zinc, chromium, manganese etc.. so the elements get balanced in the body. Once it's done I am ok and will never ever again take any hormones again.. Like Gbolduev said ideally not even food that has hormones like dairy etc..
How taking that pee pollen that has hormones like estrogen and testosterone will help? It is like taking steroids all over again? Gbolduev says it tanks potassium? My is aldready crazy low.. How that helps..
I have to chelate copper. But don't know how to do it without killing myself from zero copper in the blood.. Maybe HG7 protocol EGCG? Seems to work for the guys..

 

[Yura]

Dropped T4 meds from 75 to 50 and now taking like 8 days 25mg and will probably do another 7 days on 12,5mg and that's it. Started to feel like shit(especially with the combination of colder weather now). My TSH is probably really high now. But will not do new testing it is pointless. Just hope that it will go back to where I was before I started taking it without losing more hair.
Btw started drinking homemade goat milk kefir.. Found from some guy really nice kefir grains that make nice thick kefir even from goat milk. Usually kefir from goat milk is like water..
I felt like my diet is really bad just meat and starch and veggies. Had really bad constipation lately(stool like hard pellets. Don't know if it's from hypothyroidsm due to stop taking T4 meds or just my diet sucks. That's why I started that kefir. The amount of reviews how it able to fix serious gut issues is really interesting.. Regular cows milk products would kill me, but goat milk properly fermented will be OK hopefully. After I drink it I feel hungry soon after that should be good sign that it is digested well. No wonder goat milk A2 caseine that is broken down by all those microbes from the grains, no lactose and in terms of goat fat. It has much smaller particles that are easier to digest and on top of that like 30-40% of those fatty acids are MCTs.. Just have to make sure that I don't ferment it to long so there is not higher % of alcohol and not drink more than like 500g a day.. That will give me decent amount of calcium. So I don't have to use calcium citrate.. Will see what the probiotics can do. Hopefully they will help my immune system, kill excess of candida etc.. There is in one 250ml glass of that kefir more probiotics than whole bottle of the most powerful probiotics on the market that you can find..

 

[RebelWithACause]

Dropped T4 meds from 75 to 50 and now taking like 8 days 25mg and will probably do another 7 days on 12,5mg and that's it. Started to feel like shit(especially with the combination of colder weather now). My TSH is probably really high now. But will not do new testing it is pointless. Just hope that it will go back to where I was before I started taking it without losing more hair.
Btw started drinking homemade goat milk kefir.. Found from some guy really nice kefir grains that make nice thick kefir even from goat milk. Usually kefir from goat milk is like water..
I felt like my diet is really bad just meat and starch and veggies. Had really bad constipation lately(stool like hard pellets. Don't know if it's from hypothyroidsm due to stop taking T4 meds or just my diet sucks. That's why I started that kefir. The amount of reviews how it able to fix serious gut issues is really interesting.. Regular cows milk products would kill me, but goat milk properly fermented will be OK hopefully. After I drink it I feel hungry soon after that should be good sign that it is digested well. No wonder goat milk A2 caseine that is broken down by all those microbes from the grains, no lactose and in terms of goat fat. It has much smaller particles that are easier to digest and on top of that like 30-40% of those fatty acids are MCTs.. Just have to make sure that I don't ferment it to long so there is not higher % of alcohol and not drink more than like 500g a day.. That will give me decent amount of calcium. So I don't have to use calcium citrate.. Will see what the probiotics can do. Hopefully they will help my immune system, kill excess of candida etc.. There is in one 250ml glass of that kefir more probiotics than whole bottle of the most powerful probiotics on the market that you can find..

Dairy is hit or miss... I do well on dairy. But also had a turning point at one point where I couldn't eat as much. Body constantly adjusts for me personally... can't just eat 1 diet for years and no problem. For me it even is sometimes month period where I crave a certain food and just eat it a lot and then boom one day all appetite for it is gone. Now for example few days haven't eaten much dairy.

 

[Yura]

@RebelWithACause Well there is dairy and dairy. So many types and products. I would love to just go to the shop and buy normal cow milk products like yogurt, cheese etc.. But it would give me serious issues. I think to handle regular dairy products you simply need to have really good and healthy digestion. Same with gluten foods etc.. Like if I ate pizza with gluten and cow milk cheese together I would be mess for two weeks lol. With this goat milk kefir I feel some negatives as well. But wonder if it is just from histamine etc. or some die off because it completely changes microbiome for sure. It kill all kinds of pathogenic stuff.. I think with kefir it is 1 step back and 2 step forward kind of thing.. But I was worrying that the homemade kefir has a lot of methanol etc. until find out that fruits like ripe banana or apples have like 20x more lol. Nutritional balancing is not recommending fruits at all. Will try no fruit. No sweet stuff at all..

 

[Yura]

Apparently manganese induces cholestasis which is my main issue? Now when I think about it the diet I was eating in Croatia when my bile flow was best ever was all kinds of meats and sea food + mostly potatoes and cornflakes in the morning = low manganese diet? Once I ate oats at home which are high in manganese I had pale and, hard to pass, floating poop almost instantly?
Why ARl pushes on people so much manganese if it stops bile production? Also if you try to lower iron manganese absorption goes up. I was eating oats and macadamia nuts during my bleeding days. So I have good manganese intake LOL. Will try to lower manganese as much as possible and will see if it does anything. I see it is even harder to avoid than copper. Having just RDA for manganese around 2mg per day means basically no nuts and seeds, legumes, grains, cocoa and all kinds of other stuff like pineapple, teas etc.
Was I poisoning myself with manganese? Especially when I consider the excess is eliminated with bile exactly the same as copper.. I think I am toxic in manganese as well not just copper...
Interestingly the young guys in nutritional balancing don't like to recommend much manganese and think low levels in slow oxidizer mean excess like with copper..
Hehe and I was eating the most expensive nuts which are macadamia because 30g serving has around 3mg of manganese lol..
If I have to keep manganese intake low as well what is left to eat. White meat low in iron with some lettuce lol..

 

[Yura]

Start to really think that I was poisoning myself with manganese. ARl would recommend for my hair test like 15-20mg on top of what is in the diet.. Now I think I believe more those young practitioners like Luke who don't recommend taking it if you are slow oxidizer with low number on hair test. They have it in report together with copper, iron and heavy metals..
For sure I will not take it anymore and for now I am trying to lower my dietary intake as well. But even without any manganese high foods like oats, brown rice, nuts and seeds just eating white rice, some corn pasta or black eyed peas I am still on 4-5mg a day lol.

https://imgur.com/a/h20qRUV

 

[merebalacy]

I would LOVE to do hair test on my armpit hair. They look like copper wires lol.
Hydrochloric acid is here. Will use it as betaine HCL basically. Fill the capsule and take with meals + very diluted in water like 5 drops in 2dcl of water between meals. So it can go systemically and clean garbage in my lymphatic system.. I was reading some comments how it can basically put leukemia in remission. But they use it even intravenously or as enemas lol.. I will not do that it is not needed I think. Oral therapy is perfectly enough..
It is basically electrolyte protocol. They talk also about alkalosis in presence of low stomach acid and how there is no cancer without alkalosis basically..
Also keeping near infrared sauna sections daily if I can. I sweat so easily now.. Upped my sodium and potassium chloride intake as well. I think it is a must for slow oxidizers.
For minerals I take only 15 mg of zinc once a day. I think taking insane amounts like most practitioners recommend is nonsense. All it does it completely tanks metabolism because so much zinc nukes sodium to zero. So you are like zombie adrenals are sleeping.. What is point of that..

Oh you have these fucked up hair textures too? My whole body is fucked up like that, I have hEDS so that shit is magnified.

 

[Yura]

@merebalacy what is hEDS. I simply observe that body hair on different places looks different and also changes. Color, texture. So it is obvious the composition of elements in those hair has to change as well.. I said it many times that I was surprised that Helen/Gbolduev was so surprised when he saw completely different hair test results from diffrent kinds of body hair. I mean it makes sense. For example pubic hair I think has much better blood flow than scalp hair for sure and that could be just one reason why the results could be so different. Also different tissues accumulate different stuff so it makes sense that the hair in that area will accumulate different stuff as well. Hair on my chin is fucked up. Mostly white and half of chin hair is gone from alopecia barbae. It seems to be related to autoimmunity from chronic stress. So it is probably good indicator for me once I will have chin full of hair again it should be sign that I am doing better..