I've been familiar with Peat's ideas for a couple of years now but only recently have things slowly began to come together. Male, mid 20s, have had hypo symptoms since mid-late teens with lowered libido, holding excess water, etc. Mainly through the work of Haidut who has really helped to clear up and consolidate things into an easy to understand way. I am still coming up on things that make me confused as to how I should approach liver function and supplement/diet change down the line
I've realized that since I have gluten intolerance I also probably also had liver inefficiency (I actually remember around 8 years ago or so I had a mildly fatty liver and I'm currently under 30) so it looks like the first step is to make my liver as efficient as possible. I started on vit k2 and caffeine 4 weeks ago now, and just around 7 days ago or so I was up to 1g a day when suddenly I started to experience what I think are high estrogen symptoms. Bloating, holding water, thighs became bigger, etc. I'm not sure if the vit k2 and caffeine made my stress hormones go up or what because I was consuming more than adequate amounts of organic OJ with white sugar, protein mainly from cheese sticks/eggs/cottage cheese and other items in my diet included sugar pepsi/grapes/occasional chipotle.
I've consumed activated charcoal and carrot salad/coconut oil as well to try and clear up as many endotoxins as possible.
Yesterday I purchased glycine and taurine from vitamin world, and took 3g of glycine and 1g of taurine. I also purchased solgar vitamin e (I am ordering Haidut's Vit. E product shortly) as a stand in and took about 4000 IU in a day (400IU a capsule) and today have noticed significantly less bloat.
So moving forward, I am consuming 800g of caffeine per day in caffeine pills, consuming mainly cheese sticks/organic OJ w/ white sugar/grapes/egss, 3-4g of glycine a day, 1-2g of Taurine per day, vitamin E, 15mg of k2 a day, and estroban 8 drops a day.
So with a brief overview, my main points of concern are:
1. How do I establish more regular bowel movements, or will this simply come with time? Right now I may have 3 or so days in a row where everything is good, and then a slow down of a couple of days
2. Is my perceived raised estrogen (manifesting itself with bloat/water retension/etc) a symptom of a sluggish liver that's struggling to remove endotoxin/process estrogen curable with continued use of caffeine to the tune of ~1g a day + vitamin k2 + taurine, + glycine, or are there some other steps I should take?
3. I have temporarily discontinued the use of niacinimide and aspirin while I look to make my liver more efficient, is there a point where I should reintroduce them?
4. I will begin using TocoVit (Haidut's strong Vit E supplement extracted from Wheat Germ Oil), should I look to use over 400iu a day indefinitely to keep estrogen under control and then discontinue at a certain point once liver function looks to have improved to take over estrogen detox in the body?
5. Will other supps help expedite this process? I assume a B-complex vitamin product such as Energin would, but at the same time it looks like I will be highly dependent on supplements which for me is fine if it's going to help fix things or get me up to speed faster; if not I'm open to keeping things as simple as possible
I've realized that since I have gluten intolerance I also probably also had liver inefficiency (I actually remember around 8 years ago or so I had a mildly fatty liver and I'm currently under 30) so it looks like the first step is to make my liver as efficient as possible. I started on vit k2 and caffeine 4 weeks ago now, and just around 7 days ago or so I was up to 1g a day when suddenly I started to experience what I think are high estrogen symptoms. Bloating, holding water, thighs became bigger, etc. I'm not sure if the vit k2 and caffeine made my stress hormones go up or what because I was consuming more than adequate amounts of organic OJ with white sugar, protein mainly from cheese sticks/eggs/cottage cheese and other items in my diet included sugar pepsi/grapes/occasional chipotle.
I've consumed activated charcoal and carrot salad/coconut oil as well to try and clear up as many endotoxins as possible.
Yesterday I purchased glycine and taurine from vitamin world, and took 3g of glycine and 1g of taurine. I also purchased solgar vitamin e (I am ordering Haidut's Vit. E product shortly) as a stand in and took about 4000 IU in a day (400IU a capsule) and today have noticed significantly less bloat.
So moving forward, I am consuming 800g of caffeine per day in caffeine pills, consuming mainly cheese sticks/organic OJ w/ white sugar/grapes/egss, 3-4g of glycine a day, 1-2g of Taurine per day, vitamin E, 15mg of k2 a day, and estroban 8 drops a day.
So with a brief overview, my main points of concern are:
1. How do I establish more regular bowel movements, or will this simply come with time? Right now I may have 3 or so days in a row where everything is good, and then a slow down of a couple of days
2. Is my perceived raised estrogen (manifesting itself with bloat/water retension/etc) a symptom of a sluggish liver that's struggling to remove endotoxin/process estrogen curable with continued use of caffeine to the tune of ~1g a day + vitamin k2 + taurine, + glycine, or are there some other steps I should take?
3. I have temporarily discontinued the use of niacinimide and aspirin while I look to make my liver more efficient, is there a point where I should reintroduce them?
4. I will begin using TocoVit (Haidut's strong Vit E supplement extracted from Wheat Germ Oil), should I look to use over 400iu a day indefinitely to keep estrogen under control and then discontinue at a certain point once liver function looks to have improved to take over estrogen detox in the body?
5. Will other supps help expedite this process? I assume a B-complex vitamin product such as Energin would, but at the same time it looks like I will be highly dependent on supplements which for me is fine if it's going to help fix things or get me up to speed faster; if not I'm open to keeping things as simple as possible
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