Koveras
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Does Ray Peat still do paid phone consultations? I would be willing to pay for help at this point.
Partner has had a cough for 2+ months now. The cough has been dry with no phlegm or mucus whatsoever.
Chest X-Ray (x-rays are bad, I know) revealed pneumonia which was cleared up in less than a week of Augmentin(Amoxicillin+Clavulanic Acid). Infection was confirmed cleared up by another X-Ray.
Maybe 2 hours after taking the x-ray my partner took 1600mg of Vit E, 200mg of Vit C and sleeping with red light shining on chest overnight.
Things we tried BEFORE the pneumonia diagnosis:
-Honey
-Aspirin
-1000 mg Niacinamide (he broke out in hives from head to toe)
-Vick’s Vapo Rub
-Essential oil diffuser
-Vit E
-Lots of milk and egg yolks
-Vit E
-Thianine (200mg)
-Neti Pot
-Rinsing with salt water and/or listerine
-Caffeine/large amounts of coffee and green tea
He also took Singulair after being diagnosed. He was also prescribed Tessalon pearls but did not take this because the side effects seem severe and likely even in small doses.
He still has a cough and it is not getting worse, but not getting better.
Interestingly, he had a period of maybe 2-3 hours without coughing until he eiaculated and then started coughing.
Does Prolactin have any effect on lung function?
The doctor in the ER said although the pneumonia is cleared up, there will be residual inflammation within the lungs which is responsible for the cough. That made a lot of sense actually, but if that is the case the inflammation should not last this long.
Ray speaks about the majority of health issues in the modern world relating to excess reductive stress, which is very likely true, but as with anything it is possible to go too far in the opposite direction and get out of balance.
Believe the innervation for the esophagus is primarily parasympathetic and functions such as appropriate mucous production depend on acetylcholine production.
When the balance of the nervous system shifts towards the sympathetic, more often associated with oxidative processes, the mucous production tends to dry up. Sympathetic agonist drugs such as beta agonists are used for this purpose - to clear mucous and open the airways.
Excess mucous is annoying, but mucous in generally forms a protective barrier around the tissues and helps to clear pathogens and debris. Excessively dry tissue exposes those cells to pathogens and damage more readily, necessitates a stronger immune response, and requires more nutrients for the repair of cells as well as the proliferation and differentiation of new cells.
Prostaglandins stimulate the production the mucous, so aspirin can be counterproductive if mucous production is excessively low to begin with. This may be especially true for someone who has been following a diet with a very low content of unsaturated fats for an extended period of time.
B3/niacin/niacinamide & caffeine will tend to stimulate oxidative processes and can aggravate things.
After orgasm, parasympathetic processes are stimulated and acetylcholine is involved in the release of prolactin, opioids/endorphins, vasopressin and some related hormones. In theory this stimulation could divert and strain resources if the nutrients needed for acetylcholine production are already in short supply.
There are many nutrients involved including choline, vitamin A (for both mucous & lung surfactant), protein, zinc, B1, B2, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12, magnesium, etc.
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