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  1. U

    Progesterone use in pregnancy causes homosexuality?

    I am starting to doubt progesterone supplementing in pregnancy since I know someone who took natural progesterone and it made her spot during early pregnancy. This study claims that adults whose mothers took progesterone in pregnancy are more likely to be gay or bisexual. I was under the...
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    • cortisol estrogen homosexuality pregnancy pregnant progesterone study sugar transgender
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Female Issues
  2. Hans

    Perfect health trilogy for reducing stress, lowering cortisol and improving health

    Hi guys, I haven't been writing a lot of articles lately since I've got a lot on my plate atm. Soon I'll start writing more again, but in the meanwhile, I'm relatively active on my YT channel. I thought I'd share this vid about stress management since keeping stress at bay is one of the most...
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    • Forum: Articles & Scientific Studies
  3. haidut

    Blocking cortisol may treat terminal pancreatic cancer

    Recently, I made a post about some truly amazing results in treating terminal cancer patients with the glucocorticoid/progesterone antagonist Mifepristone (RU486). Some of the cases were stage 4 and possibly terminal. Now, a new case study below reports possibly curative effects on a confirmed...
    • haidut
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    • cancer cortisol cure mifepristone pancreatic progesterone ru486 terminal
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  4. haidut

    Stress (cortisol) causes pre-term birth by blocking progesterone

    If you ask a gynecologist what causes premature birth, the answer will usually be something along the lines of "insufficient progesterone" often accompanied by mumbling about "genetic predispositions". Yet, how exactly is insufficient progesterone responsible for premature birth has remained a...
    • haidut
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    • cortisol fetal labor maternal pre-term premature progesterone stress
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  5. Hans

    How to lose fat safely while Peating

    This is a frequent topic on the forum. What about fat loss and fatty acid oxidation, glucuronidation, cortisol, thyroid, etc? All are discussed in the article. How to lose fat safely while Peating
  6. haidut

    Glucocorticoids may increase inflammation in the long run

    Glucocorticoids (both bioidentical and synthetic) are some of the most widely used drugs in the clinical setting, as well as in outpatient treatment for all sorts of ailments - i.e. autoimmune conditions, joint pain, post-operative inflammation, asthma, and even infectious diseases such as...
    • haidut
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    • cortisol cox-2 glucocorticoid inflammation omega-3 omega-6 prostaglandins pufa
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  7. haidut

    Childhood stress causes mental illness in adults by blunting androgens

    Yet another great study solidifying the evidence on just how detrimental early childhood stress is. It has been known for decades that childhood stress leads to early puberty, and that the latter is associated with greatly increased risk of chronic diseases later in life, as well as early death...
    • haidut
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    • brain childhood cortisol dhea hpa mental illness poverty stress testosterone
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  8. haidut

    Cortisol may drive COVID-19 mortality

    The reason I decided to do a post on this study is that over the last several months, various public health authority bodies around the world have adopted "treatment protocols" for COVID-19 hospitalized patients, and virtually all such protocols contain a potent synthetic glucocorticoid such as...
    • haidut
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    • cortisol covid-19 dexamethasone exacerbation glucocorticoid hospitalization mortality
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  9. haidut

    Stress (cortisol) as the driver of hyperglycemia in type II diabetes

    To most of my readers, the title of the post may seem like something completely obvious and not deserving explanation of clarification. However, according to mainstream medicine (until now, at least) cortisol does not really have a causative role either in the development of diabetes type II or...
    • haidut
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    • blood glucose cortisol diabetes hpa hyperglycemia obesity stress
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
  10. haidut

    Sugar (sucrose) lowers stress-induced cortisol

    Just a quick post to give some props to the much-vilified sucrose. The study below demonstrates that sucrose consumption for just 3 days prior, blunted most of the negative effects of stress, and especially the rise in plasma cortisol. The HED of sucrose was about 4g/kg, which matches closely...
  11. A

    Cheap and effective anti-cortisol supp/alternative to ashwaghanda

    I have taken ashwaghanda and it really gave me that idgaf feeling, I enjoyed it definatly but upon hearing about the side effects I won't be using it again as I don't want anhedonia. Are there any cheap anti-cortisol alternatives that are effective and can give you that complete control and at...
  12. FitnessMike

    Did you try CT3M ?

    as above.
  13. Charger

    Peating, Politics, and Passivity

    I've noticed since focusing on maximizing a high dopamine, low serotonin, low cortisol state that I've become much more passive regarding topics that I was much more fired up about a few years ago. I've spoken of having much more (far) right leaning views during the most stressful periods of my...
  14. C

    Feverfew/Silk Tree as Replacement for Cypro/Meter

    What are your guys's thoughts about this? I can't use metergoline as an anti-serotonin supp because when I stop I get horrific symptroms of DAWS. Cypro is okay, but I don't like the dopamine receptor antagonizing effects and I am also finding it very hard to stop. Any time I stop the cypro, I...
  15. FitnessMike

    Your CT3M method experience?

    What was your experience with CT3M?
  16. Mr Joe

    Combo High Dose (B1 + Cypro + B3) + T3 for recovery

    2 Years ago Symptoms : All day Anxiety, Depression Emergency state. Any bad thought would cause belly contraction and a cycle of stress diffucult to calm. Sleepness, GERD intense headaches when doing mental effort. I am understanding now that all of these could be symptoms of very low metabolism...
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    • anxiety cortisol cyproheptadine high-dose metabolic disorder ptsd serotonin stress thiamine vitamin b1
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Mental Issues
  17. FitnessMike

    Can you judge your adrenal reserve after doing The short Synacthen test?

    As above
  18. thingsvarious

    Adrenal fatigue: Best methods to increase cortisol naturally

    Hey, I am a final year medical student. For years I had incredibly fatigue and other low-cortisol issues. After doing a LOT of research, I collected a list of methods we can try to raise our cortisol naturally and therefore to help get rid of HPA-dysfunction. I share this here because I am sure...
  19. FitnessMike

    ""Low Serum AM Cortisol The Cause Of My Problems?""

    Hi all, Wanted to share post i found that might be interesting for peoples who do not tolerate thyroid due to low cortisol, as below: """Hello, everyone. Thought I'd drop back in with a final update as I've managed to fix all of my problems. It turned that whilst my cortisol was high-normal...
  20. U

    Effects of nofap on women?

    I’m a young female and I have sex once or twice a week, but I stopped masturbation and sometimes even withhold my orgasms. I am aware that the negative hormonal effects of masturbation is worse in men, but I am curious the effect it has on women. I have noticed that my body hair grows slower...
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