Ray peat was right about everything. Im a good case study. I was given birth control instead of steroids. Destroyed my health. Post cycle my testosterone was “58” and my estrogen was quadruple range.
All I know is during that time my liver just stopping freaking working. From that acute exposure my system just went haywire and stored all that estrogen. And PUFAS and iron. Crazy copper toxicity as well. And then I couldn’t get my brain back to working once I visibly saw where my hormones were at. My whole reality flipped. Almost caught in a bad shroom trip for 3 years basically.
Tanked thyroid. Rapid weight loss, autistic symptoms, forgetting who I was, schizophrenia,tremors etc etc. i could just simply not stop the onslaught of negative thinking and stress hormones. At one point I was losing weight at well over 5550 calories. A complete crumbling of who I was. I basically had to reinvent a person from the ground up. It seems like it was a traumatic brain injury without a physical injury.. if that makes sense. PTSD.
So I tried everything to lower estrogen but nothing was working. After the initial rise in estrogen my estrogen labs then tanked. So I was confused but then realized it was in tissues from rays work. Aspirin thyroid progesterone vitamin e sugar. Nothing would get anything to budge. Mostly I was trying to raise my progesterone to liberate the stuck estrogen. My progesterone was non readable low.
I realized this was all counterproductive because I wasn’t addressing any of the stored estrogen and only hurting my already tanked e2 blood estrogen. I needed to first get the estrogen out of the tissue.
Zinc. Zinc. Zinc. Did more for me than imaginable. It very quickly raised my progesterone and pregneleone dramatically. Completely normalized elevated rbcs hemoglobin hematocrit and rose my below range ferritin(detoxing iron from liver) And then most importantly my e2 finally rose too. Was also using boron, k2, selenium. But zinc was the magic.
I realized that all the fancy hormones and supps couldn’t work until I fixed my mineral issues that were at the route of all this at the most fundamental level. I’m sure using all the other tools with zinc would have been good.
If you see the photos you see my literal non existent level change pretty marketably. Also worth nothing is rays idea that estrogen is stuck because progesterone is low. I had really low e2 also. But as my progesterone went up my e2 also went up to normal range and my Estrone sulfate lowered. I think that’s great and estrogen is starting to get into blood.
I think what ray maybe never touched on enough though was how balancing zinc can be.
The first two photos where I’m terribly skinny fat at 165lbs at 6’3ish we’re about 2 months ago. I went from 205 to 165 in less than 6 months while eating consistently over 4500 calories. Catabolic beyond belief. The last picture is from today. I don’t live in that house anymore so it’s not the same mirror but I think you can see a clear difference. Also I still haven’t lifted a weight in over a year. That pic on the right is just from stopping fear based thinking, getting zinc up, drinking more coffee, and speeding up metabolism I guess.
All I know is during that time my liver just stopping freaking working. From that acute exposure my system just went haywire and stored all that estrogen. And PUFAS and iron. Crazy copper toxicity as well. And then I couldn’t get my brain back to working once I visibly saw where my hormones were at. My whole reality flipped. Almost caught in a bad shroom trip for 3 years basically.
Tanked thyroid. Rapid weight loss, autistic symptoms, forgetting who I was, schizophrenia,tremors etc etc. i could just simply not stop the onslaught of negative thinking and stress hormones. At one point I was losing weight at well over 5550 calories. A complete crumbling of who I was. I basically had to reinvent a person from the ground up. It seems like it was a traumatic brain injury without a physical injury.. if that makes sense. PTSD.
So I tried everything to lower estrogen but nothing was working. After the initial rise in estrogen my estrogen labs then tanked. So I was confused but then realized it was in tissues from rays work. Aspirin thyroid progesterone vitamin e sugar. Nothing would get anything to budge. Mostly I was trying to raise my progesterone to liberate the stuck estrogen. My progesterone was non readable low.
I realized this was all counterproductive because I wasn’t addressing any of the stored estrogen and only hurting my already tanked e2 blood estrogen. I needed to first get the estrogen out of the tissue.
Zinc. Zinc. Zinc. Did more for me than imaginable. It very quickly raised my progesterone and pregneleone dramatically. Completely normalized elevated rbcs hemoglobin hematocrit and rose my below range ferritin(detoxing iron from liver) And then most importantly my e2 finally rose too. Was also using boron, k2, selenium. But zinc was the magic.
I realized that all the fancy hormones and supps couldn’t work until I fixed my mineral issues that were at the route of all this at the most fundamental level. I’m sure using all the other tools with zinc would have been good.
If you see the photos you see my literal non existent level change pretty marketably. Also worth nothing is rays idea that estrogen is stuck because progesterone is low. I had really low e2 also. But as my progesterone went up my e2 also went up to normal range and my Estrone sulfate lowered. I think that’s great and estrogen is starting to get into blood.
I think what ray maybe never touched on enough though was how balancing zinc can be.
The first two photos where I’m terribly skinny fat at 165lbs at 6’3ish we’re about 2 months ago. I went from 205 to 165 in less than 6 months while eating consistently over 4500 calories. Catabolic beyond belief. The last picture is from today. I don’t live in that house anymore so it’s not the same mirror but I think you can see a clear difference. Also I still haven’t lifted a weight in over a year. That pic on the right is just from stopping fear based thinking, getting zinc up, drinking more coffee, and speeding up metabolism I guess.
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