Hi everyone,
I have been a member of the forums for a number of months but my wife and I have been implementing ray peats ideas with the help of Danny & Haidut’s podcast episodes. We came from your typical paleo low carb, fat as fuel crowd but with hi intensity training sort of similar to @haidut. What we are hoping to do is utilise science and the broad knowledge of forum users to fix ourselves and in the process assist others through our personal experiments, trials, failures and successes.
Our goal is to not only reach an optimum health but obtain a certain level of leanness and return to functional strength and conditioning in a smart way (yet to be determined J)
Firstly I am hoping to get some help with a few questions and I’m confident all you good folk can assist. Thanks very kindly for your help. I do lack any formal scientific training so am just trying to make sense of it all and grow my knowledge in this area whilst fixing my wife and myself.
Is the following blood test list is complete or would any not need to be done etc? I have combed through the forums for these and also got some advice from learned friends but am hoping to finalise a list.
TSH, TFTH, LFT FBC Reverse T3, Whole blood serotonin (plasma serotonin is also good if they don't have whole blood), Estrone sulfate (E1S) or Estrone (E1) if unavailable, Vit D, DHEA, Progesterone
Estrogen, Testosterone, Prolactin, Parathyroid, CO2, Lactic Acid, Free fatty acids (NEFA), Histamine, Albumin, Total Cholesterol, C-Reactive Protein (inflammation marker), Sodium, Magnesium, Calcium
Potassium, Glucose, Phosphate.
What is the best magnesium type? Chelate, citrate etc
We currently take the following:
Vit K2 – 2 drops on the tongue and 2 on the liver
Vit E – 2 x 400ui capsules
Vit B Complex – Now superfoods brand – Will commence just B3 as well as only 100mcg in complex.
Magnesium citrate – half level tsp
Egg shell calcium – 1 tsp
Solprin dispersible aspirin – 1 x 300mg tab – has sucralose is this an issue?
Vit A – 25,000ui
Pregnenolone – 50-100mg per day
We get plenty of daily sun all year round over 2 hours all year round more on days off etc.
My wife also takes 3 grains Thyroid S NDT and I take 5-10 drops 5-10mg of DHEA dissolved in DMSO
I did a run on Cypro at 4mg tab in quarters across the day prior to doing bloods which I’m not sure is good or not. We would like to try MB for liver and apparently to help shift out of the cycle of fat for fuel – hopefully @haidut can chime in here if it is needed? I would also like to try Haiduts candida destruction post about aspirin, MB & cypro in tandem as an effective fungicidal as I get a rash on my face that only goes away following application of ant fungal cream – so at a guess I have overgrowth? But not sure.
Diet is as follows:
Limited muscle meat if we do have it will be grass fed mince and we have gelatin with it
we are trying to limit this further in favour of more digestible foods.
Skim milk in abundance
Coffee - lots 5-6 cups a day with sugar
Raw carrot 30 min prior to brekky and lunch
Eggs
Cook in coconut oil
Great lakes gelatin
Fruit: Citrus/papaya/bananas/apples/pears/blueberries occasionally/pineapple/mango/all types of melon
OJ without pulp
Grass fed WPI but will look at casein when gone as I've read this is better for lower tryptophan?
We are low fat currently and looking to push PUFA out of our cells etc. as is suggested in haidut's post but following this will implement back some cheese.
We do still have some starch cooked pumpkin/squash, Zucchini and white potato but have heard recently we should take out these starches to fix digestion? We will also try the potato juice cold press scramble for the keto acids shortly.
Thanks for reading everyone, I look forward to finding health with you all.
Cheers
I have been a member of the forums for a number of months but my wife and I have been implementing ray peats ideas with the help of Danny & Haidut’s podcast episodes. We came from your typical paleo low carb, fat as fuel crowd but with hi intensity training sort of similar to @haidut. What we are hoping to do is utilise science and the broad knowledge of forum users to fix ourselves and in the process assist others through our personal experiments, trials, failures and successes.
Our goal is to not only reach an optimum health but obtain a certain level of leanness and return to functional strength and conditioning in a smart way (yet to be determined J)
Firstly I am hoping to get some help with a few questions and I’m confident all you good folk can assist. Thanks very kindly for your help. I do lack any formal scientific training so am just trying to make sense of it all and grow my knowledge in this area whilst fixing my wife and myself.
Is the following blood test list is complete or would any not need to be done etc? I have combed through the forums for these and also got some advice from learned friends but am hoping to finalise a list.
TSH, TFTH, LFT FBC Reverse T3, Whole blood serotonin (plasma serotonin is also good if they don't have whole blood), Estrone sulfate (E1S) or Estrone (E1) if unavailable, Vit D, DHEA, Progesterone
Estrogen, Testosterone, Prolactin, Parathyroid, CO2, Lactic Acid, Free fatty acids (NEFA), Histamine, Albumin, Total Cholesterol, C-Reactive Protein (inflammation marker), Sodium, Magnesium, Calcium
Potassium, Glucose, Phosphate.
What is the best magnesium type? Chelate, citrate etc
We currently take the following:
Vit K2 – 2 drops on the tongue and 2 on the liver
Vit E – 2 x 400ui capsules
Vit B Complex – Now superfoods brand – Will commence just B3 as well as only 100mcg in complex.
Magnesium citrate – half level tsp
Egg shell calcium – 1 tsp
Solprin dispersible aspirin – 1 x 300mg tab – has sucralose is this an issue?
Vit A – 25,000ui
Pregnenolone – 50-100mg per day
We get plenty of daily sun all year round over 2 hours all year round more on days off etc.
My wife also takes 3 grains Thyroid S NDT and I take 5-10 drops 5-10mg of DHEA dissolved in DMSO
I did a run on Cypro at 4mg tab in quarters across the day prior to doing bloods which I’m not sure is good or not. We would like to try MB for liver and apparently to help shift out of the cycle of fat for fuel – hopefully @haidut can chime in here if it is needed? I would also like to try Haiduts candida destruction post about aspirin, MB & cypro in tandem as an effective fungicidal as I get a rash on my face that only goes away following application of ant fungal cream – so at a guess I have overgrowth? But not sure.
Diet is as follows:
Limited muscle meat if we do have it will be grass fed mince and we have gelatin with it
we are trying to limit this further in favour of more digestible foods.
Skim milk in abundance
Coffee - lots 5-6 cups a day with sugar
Raw carrot 30 min prior to brekky and lunch
Eggs
Cook in coconut oil
Great lakes gelatin
Fruit: Citrus/papaya/bananas/apples/pears/blueberries occasionally/pineapple/mango/all types of melon
OJ without pulp
Grass fed WPI but will look at casein when gone as I've read this is better for lower tryptophan?
We are low fat currently and looking to push PUFA out of our cells etc. as is suggested in haidut's post but following this will implement back some cheese.
We do still have some starch cooked pumpkin/squash, Zucchini and white potato but have heard recently we should take out these starches to fix digestion? We will also try the potato juice cold press scramble for the keto acids shortly.
Thanks for reading everyone, I look forward to finding health with you all.
Cheers