Let's start with what my situation looks like. 178cm, 85-90kg,muscular, 22 year old male. Had acne since I was 13, used Accutane and just gave me depression instead of cleaner skin. Current health problems are scalp and back acne, digestion issues, dandruff, white coated tongue, low temperature and cold extremities, can't remember anything else right now.
One year ago I had some thyroid tests that showed a very low TSH, cholesterol and vitamin D. My retarded doctor said I was hyperthyroid and gave me meds to increase my TSH and along with it, my suffering. Digestion was getting worse by the day until I decided on my own to stop the meds. After that I tried a lot of diets. I grew up eating lots of PUFAs. Ages 15-19 I was vegetarian and the bulk of my calories came from peanut butter. Then I tried fasting, up to 84 hours of dry fasting, yet it didn't fix anything. Then I tried carnivore and I couldn't stick to it, and even the couple weeks I did, I felt like absolute garbage. So I had basically lost all hope and just continued eating starches and PUFAs, without even knowing what a PUFA is.
Then some threads about Ray Peat started popping up on the fitness image board I use to lurk. I started searching about him and tried to adopt his dietary suggestions but it just wouldn't work. I decided then to buy some NDT. Aside from the first use that gave me 120 pulse rate and anxiety, I only saw change in my acne.
I was never a big coffee drinker. Peat suggested coffee, but every time I would try to include it I would get diarrhea, because I was drinking too much at once without having enough sugar with it. I had heard haidut saying there are 2 reasons thyroid might not work. Fatty liver and infection, and if aspirin raises the temperature it means there's an infection, which I was suspecting all along, because why would a 22 year old possibly have fatty liver disease right? Then I saw a thread saying that caffeine, glycine, taurine and vitamin K all clean the liver, along with the uncoupling thread suggesting that I should be constantly drinking coffee in low doses instead of 1 big dose. So yesterday I did exactly that. 2 liters of 1.5% fat milk along with 18 tbsp of sugar and 250mg of caffeine were consumed. I reached a peak temperature of 36.5C,w hich is a very good temp for me that I rarely reach since I wake up at 35,4C. Today I did the same, but also drank some chicken stock I made from chicken feet, with some salt and coconut oil. My temp reached 36.8C for the first time in probably years. Then I took 1 scoop of LGS NDT and that's when magic happened. I was feeling so great that I can only describe it as the feeling I get when things go perfectly in my day. And it lasted like 3 hours!
Then I got some aspirin, because I wanted to test out the theory of infection. I was expecting it to raise my temp. It didn't. Then I realized it. Liver disfunction, that I was not only correcting with caffeine, but also with the glycine from the stock. And when I took the NDT, it finally worked like it should.
The blog post seems to be getting too long so I'll just stop right about here for now. The future of my health seems brighter than ever. I'm excited.
One year ago I had some thyroid tests that showed a very low TSH, cholesterol and vitamin D. My retarded doctor said I was hyperthyroid and gave me meds to increase my TSH and along with it, my suffering. Digestion was getting worse by the day until I decided on my own to stop the meds. After that I tried a lot of diets. I grew up eating lots of PUFAs. Ages 15-19 I was vegetarian and the bulk of my calories came from peanut butter. Then I tried fasting, up to 84 hours of dry fasting, yet it didn't fix anything. Then I tried carnivore and I couldn't stick to it, and even the couple weeks I did, I felt like absolute garbage. So I had basically lost all hope and just continued eating starches and PUFAs, without even knowing what a PUFA is.
Then some threads about Ray Peat started popping up on the fitness image board I use to lurk. I started searching about him and tried to adopt his dietary suggestions but it just wouldn't work. I decided then to buy some NDT. Aside from the first use that gave me 120 pulse rate and anxiety, I only saw change in my acne.
I was never a big coffee drinker. Peat suggested coffee, but every time I would try to include it I would get diarrhea, because I was drinking too much at once without having enough sugar with it. I had heard haidut saying there are 2 reasons thyroid might not work. Fatty liver and infection, and if aspirin raises the temperature it means there's an infection, which I was suspecting all along, because why would a 22 year old possibly have fatty liver disease right? Then I saw a thread saying that caffeine, glycine, taurine and vitamin K all clean the liver, along with the uncoupling thread suggesting that I should be constantly drinking coffee in low doses instead of 1 big dose. So yesterday I did exactly that. 2 liters of 1.5% fat milk along with 18 tbsp of sugar and 250mg of caffeine were consumed. I reached a peak temperature of 36.5C,w hich is a very good temp for me that I rarely reach since I wake up at 35,4C. Today I did the same, but also drank some chicken stock I made from chicken feet, with some salt and coconut oil. My temp reached 36.8C for the first time in probably years. Then I took 1 scoop of LGS NDT and that's when magic happened. I was feeling so great that I can only describe it as the feeling I get when things go perfectly in my day. And it lasted like 3 hours!
Then I got some aspirin, because I wanted to test out the theory of infection. I was expecting it to raise my temp. It didn't. Then I realized it. Liver disfunction, that I was not only correcting with caffeine, but also with the glycine from the stock. And when I took the NDT, it finally worked like it should.
The blog post seems to be getting too long so I'll just stop right about here for now. The future of my health seems brighter than ever. I'm excited.