lvysaur
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I've been using Thorne for a couple of weeks now, with great results. The amount was one drop a day, occasionally 2 drops.
On Monday, March 7, I did 3 drops, followed by 2 drops on Tuesday. I started to see some bad side effects, so I dropped it on Wednesday, March 9 completely.
On Friday night, March 11, I was feeling stressed, and ate a high glutamate meal (noodles with soy sauce). It was calming rather than exciting like glutmate should be, though this might be due simply to the glucose in the noodles.
I ate the same noodles the day after, and noticed clear excitatory symptoms.
I'm thinking that during round 1 of the noodles, I still had an excess of vitamin K in my body, so it "used up" the glutamate. On round 2, I might not have had enough leftover K, since I had stopped the Thorne, so the glutamate was exciting because it wasn't being used properly.
Also: Asians seem to eat very high glutamate foods on a regular basis, and the umami taste (which is dependent on glutamate ions) is central to Japanese, Korean, and Chinese cooking (probably in southeast Asian cooking as well). Asians also have a lot of traits that I associate with vitamin K supplementation.
Examples: Better insulin sensitivity/glucose metabolism, wider jaw, less hair loss, sparser and finer facial hair, straighter head hair, lower secretion rates of lactase, bigger head:body ratio.
All of the above are traits that are common in Asians. All of the above are also things that have been reported by others on vitamin K, or things known by science to be affected by vitamin K (or multiple of these options). I experienced every single trait in this list while on vitamin K.
Another thing I experienced with K was a lighter pigmentation all over my body (hair, eyes, skin, mucous membranes). I think it might be a push in a "neotenous" direction, to some extent, because so many of these traits are childlike.
I should note that vitamin K reduced my lactose digestion rate, but didn't make me lactose intolerant, because I think I was holding food in my stomach for a longer period of time. I'm estimating my lactose digestion rate based on the amount of mucus I get in my throat after drinking milk. Galactose seems to be a mucus-inducing sugar, so strength of phlegm after milk consumption should be indicative of a very high rate of lactase secretion. On vitamin K, I experienced small but noticeable amounts of phlegm. I usually get a lot.
On Monday, March 7, I did 3 drops, followed by 2 drops on Tuesday. I started to see some bad side effects, so I dropped it on Wednesday, March 9 completely.
On Friday night, March 11, I was feeling stressed, and ate a high glutamate meal (noodles with soy sauce). It was calming rather than exciting like glutmate should be, though this might be due simply to the glucose in the noodles.
I ate the same noodles the day after, and noticed clear excitatory symptoms.
I'm thinking that during round 1 of the noodles, I still had an excess of vitamin K in my body, so it "used up" the glutamate. On round 2, I might not have had enough leftover K, since I had stopped the Thorne, so the glutamate was exciting because it wasn't being used properly.
Also: Asians seem to eat very high glutamate foods on a regular basis, and the umami taste (which is dependent on glutamate ions) is central to Japanese, Korean, and Chinese cooking (probably in southeast Asian cooking as well). Asians also have a lot of traits that I associate with vitamin K supplementation.
Examples: Better insulin sensitivity/glucose metabolism, wider jaw, less hair loss, sparser and finer facial hair, straighter head hair, lower secretion rates of lactase, bigger head:body ratio.
All of the above are traits that are common in Asians. All of the above are also things that have been reported by others on vitamin K, or things known by science to be affected by vitamin K (or multiple of these options). I experienced every single trait in this list while on vitamin K.
Another thing I experienced with K was a lighter pigmentation all over my body (hair, eyes, skin, mucous membranes). I think it might be a push in a "neotenous" direction, to some extent, because so many of these traits are childlike.
I should note that vitamin K reduced my lactose digestion rate, but didn't make me lactose intolerant, because I think I was holding food in my stomach for a longer period of time. I'm estimating my lactose digestion rate based on the amount of mucus I get in my throat after drinking milk. Galactose seems to be a mucus-inducing sugar, so strength of phlegm after milk consumption should be indicative of a very high rate of lactase secretion. On vitamin K, I experienced small but noticeable amounts of phlegm. I usually get a lot.