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  1. haidut

    Alcohol Mostly Benign For The Liver, Causing Injury Requires Endotoxin (LPS)

    Peat wrote in one of his articles that alcohol is getting a bad reputation for causing all sorts of liver disease and even liver cancer, but alcohol by itself is fairly neutral for the liver and that the role of PUFA, iron and endotoxin is being neglected by mainstream medicine. The study below...
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  2. haidut

    Alcohol "addiction" Driven By Endotoxin (TLR4)

    I posted a few threads in the past about addiction, and especially alcohol addiction being driven by high cortisol and low dopamine. This new study adds more pieces to the puzzle by implicating endotoxin in that process as well. Just as importantly, the study found that the desire to drink...
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  3. haidut

    Thyroid May Treat Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

    The so-called fetal alcohol syndrome has been on the rise over the last 2 decades and its symptoms largely overlap with the "adult" alcohol syndrome or at least the behavioral parts of it. Broda Barnes once wrote that he never treated an alcoholic who was not also hypothyroid and that he also...
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  4. haidut

    Candida Overgrowth Is A Major Factor In (alcoholic) Liver Damage / Cirrhosis

    Over the last 5 years or so it has become very fashionable among many "naturopaths" to throw the diagnosis "Candida overgrowth" at every symptom of gut dysfunction people present with at the doctor. Peat has spoken about Candida overgrowth and how the fungus typically only becomes an issue in...
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  5. haidut

    Loneliness Increases Alcohol Tolerance, May Explain "addiction"

    I posted several studies in the past about the connection between stress hormones and "addiction", especially alcohol. This new study adds more evidence to that link and now also draws serotonin in the picture. Apparently, social creatures are much more sensitive to inebriation effects of...
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  6. haidut

    Stress Leads To Lower Dopamine And More Drinking

    The study was really on alcohol consumption what affects it. It has been known since the 1960s that people drink more when under stress but to this day mainstream medicine denies that there is a causative link between stress and substance abuse. I posted a few studies showing that "addicts" have...
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  7. haidut

    Low-dose Glycine May Treat Alcoholic Delirium / Hallucinosis In Humans

    The symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and its associated delirium are due mostly to serotonin overload and functional GABA deficiency. As such, anti-serotonin drugs can be very beneficial but they often have side effects and cannot be freely obtained. This human study showed that a single...
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  8. haidut

    Dopaminergic Drugs Like Bromocriptine May Treat Alcoholilsm

    This study is interesting for several reasons. On one hand, it combines well with previous studies on addiction I posted about - i.e. that "addiction" is a physiological state in which a person attempts to mitigate the effects of "inescapable stress" as animal studies commonly call the issue...
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  9. E

    Testosterone Increases In Men After A Low Dose Of Alcohol

    Testosterone increases in men after a low dose of alcohol. - PubMed - NCBI After intake of alcohol (0.5 g/kg, 10% w/v), an acute increase in plasma testosterone (from 13.5 +/- 1.2 nmol/liter to 16.0 +/- 1.6 nmol/liter, mean +/- SEM; p < 0.05), a decrease in androstenedione (from 5.1 +/- 0.4...
  10. haidut

    Recovering Steroidogenesis Inhibited By Alcohol And Drugs

    As many of you know, drugs like Finasteride are really bad not only because they cause a variety of CNS effects as a result of inhibiting 5-AR, but also because they systemically inhibit the entire steroid synthesis cascade. Toxins and alcohol do the same and currently there is no approved...
  11. haidut

    Ethanol Intoxication / Sedation Caused By Adrenaline

    I came across this during research into increasing dopaminergic activity without also increasing adrenergic tone. Apparently, the feeling of getting drunk as well as the sedation produced by alcohol is due to the increased synthesis of adrenaline (epinephrine). Blocking that synthesis by...
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  12. goodandevil

    Alcohol Increases Ferritin

    Ray said ubiquinone is better than ubiquinonol. The alcohol function is presumably what interacts with iron. "CONCLUSIONS: Alcohol intake at low level increases ferritin and, by inference, body iron stores. This may be either beneficial or harmful, depending on circumstances. The response of...
  13. CJ_87

    The Hangover Cure Diet?

    I have noticed that many of the recommendations of Ray Peat correspond to the advice I've seen regarding what to eat in order to prevent or counteract an alcoholic hangover. For example - orange juice, eggs, coffee and fruit are often cited as the best foods to consume after an alcohol binge...
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    • Forum: Diet, Recipes
  14. haidut

    Blocking Cortisol May Treat Alcohol "addiction"

    This is yet another piece of evidence confirming Ray's views and the findings of the Rat Park experiment. Here is another recent study, showing elevated stress hormones in another type of "addiction". viewtopic.php?f=231&t=8386 In other words, there is no such thing as "addiction" but rather...
  15. M

    Alcohol Effects

    I have been drinking less and less as i get older. In part because i don't go out that much to socialise due to having a 2 y/o. I will have a glass of wine occasionally and i reckon i probably have 2 glasses per month approx. I went out this weekend for a christmas night out with male friends...
  16. haidut

    Alcoholic beverages as a source of estrogens

    A good review from the NIH. http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh22-3/220.pdf
  17. haidut

    Chronic Ethanol Consumption Same As Chemical Castration

    As Ray said, alcohol is estrogenic and should be consumed in moderation and preferably using clear spirits. The fact that castration and chronic alcohol consumption did not have synergistic effects suggests that alcohol consumption alone matched the effect of castration. Effects of chronic...
  18. haidut

    Caffeine protects the gastric mucosa from NSAIDs and alcohol

    The alcohol case is clear and it is well known that it damages the mucosa. The drug used to induce damage was ibuprofen, but I don't see why the results and conclusions would not translate to aspirin as well, thus making an even stronger case for combining aspirin with caffeine. Effective human...
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  19. T

    Caffeine Can Shorten Life Expectancy - But Alcohol Lengthens

    Any thoughts? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... xpect.html cheers thomas
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    • alcohol coffee diet lifespan telomeres
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