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@alexm HTMA never really did anything for me, but that was all before low VA. So I am not sure how I would respond now. But I will say any supplement I have ever tried, from hormones to minerals, always backfired on me back then, so very wary of using lots of them now. I use small amounts of B5 now, and only food.
Going to give low VA a few more years, I am doing better then ever, but would still like to see more sustain sleep and digestion improvements. I have the opinion now that it is not a patch. But with my history of accutane and massive VA supplementation I am probably a not the best case study!
One note, I am at my heaviest body weight, 205lbs and at my leanest body fat levels in my life, without hardcore diet/exercise.
@jiri Hey, still basically the same but with 3 eggs per day.
beef, chicken, pork, eggs
homemade bread, potato, whole wheat cereal, rices
parsnip, cauli, turnip, celeriac, cabbage, apple, banana, strawberry, peanut
coconut, olive, palm oils
unfortified oat or almond milks
@orion you are the same weight. Do you have some meal plan or you just cook whatever from jor food list? What is your macro ratio and calorie intake? Do you eat lean meats or you enjoy even the fatties cuts?How much salt you using? Btw why peanuts basically the worst food "nuts" possible? 😀 Because they taste good? Also do you care about calcium/phoshorus ratio at all or do you take any vit C, vit K2 or anything?
Quote from AlexM on April 21, 2023, 3:33 am@orion Ok thanks for your answer, do you eat organic food or non organic?
Also I saw that Helen/Gbold guy say that thyroid hormones deplete vitamin A stores since it increases the production of retinoic acid to supply ceruloplasmin.
@alexm I have always wondered if taking thyroid would speed up VA depletion, would help increase transthyretin.
I don't worry about organic vs. non-organic anymore. Unless buying direct from a farmer you know, I doubt there is any difference.
@dom Most of my fiber would be from apple, potato, brown rice and some other vegg I throw in. Bowel movements are decent with this low amount. I think low choline and heavy on the beans, did some real damage to my digestive tract.
Quote from Jiří on April 20, 2023, 9:46 pm@orion you are the same weight. Do you have some meal plan or you just cook whatever from jor food list? What is your macro ratio and calorie intake? Do you eat lean meats or you enjoy even the fatties cuts?How much salt you using? Btw why peanuts basically the worst food "nuts" possible? 😀 Because they taste good? Also do you care about calcium/phoshorus ratio at all or do you take any vit C, vit K2 or anything?
Hey @jiri No meal plans, just try to eat meat and starch for 3 meals. Not sure of my ratios, I don't track that anymore. Most of the meat would be lean, I do find heavy fat meals, don't make me feel the best. I use 50/50 Na/K salt and apply liberally to taste and don't measure. I use small amounts of peanut butter occasionally, so not worries on overdoing peanuts 🙂 No worrying on Ca/P, I do use Apple juice, apples and taters for VitC. I have bottle of K2, I was using, it doesn't seem to have a pro or con effect. So I may take a drop here and there.
How have you been doing, and new progress? or big changes?
@orion thx for the answer. No change or progress.. I am trying taking good dose of sunflower lecithin for choline, but no progress in bile production/flow. I need new hair test to see what is going on if I dumped some metals etc.. I have a lot of white hair. So I don't know if it's from oxidative stress or just my copper is too low. Hard to tell even with blood tests.. Btw can you show me what 50/50 salt are you using? I tried some, but there was so many additives and some of them really toxic.. So I have just pure potassium chloride that I add to my food if potassium intake looks low..