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    TRT, Therapeutic Phlebotomy, Low Ferritin, and Iron Replacement

    None of the classic issues just yet, the noticeable issues were my morning erections were not as strong/weaker, and I was also starting to feel the higher T - tense, impatient, wired up in the mornings. I may be one of those slower metabolizers. The trough was consistently increasing...
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    TRT, Therapeutic Phlebotomy, Low Ferritin, and Iron Replacement

    I've not measure my ferritin in a while - I'll ask Defy to do so at my next blood test. I've been eating more fish, adding eggs on weekends, and some sea veggies now and then. I understand it's a slow process so frequent measurement is not something I think is warranted. Right now our focus...
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    Diet in a Taubesy-Turvy World - David Katz

    Dr David Katz is on my favorite writers - a proponent of a whole-food, primarily plant-based, common-sense approach to eating. Looks like Taubes is still at it with his much-refuted theories on low-carb, apparently upset by the Hall study...
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    How Safe is your Ground Beef (Consumer Reports)

    http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/how-safe-is-your-ground-beef.htm Great article, very thorough - and clearly identifying the differences between grass-fed and conventional beef. More than 80 percent of beef produced in the U.S. is processed by four companies. Cattle can be...
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    Everything You Know About Cholesterol Is Wrong

    First Intelligent Design, then Kendrick the Low-Carb crackpot - you sure like posting dubious resources -- The Con Artist: http://carbsanity.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-great-cholesterol-con-artist.html And Kendrick the Hypocrite -- (ProKardia) - "He writes about conflict of interest, then...
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    Zinc Supplements Can Lower Good (HDL) Cholesterol

    You'd want to eat a wide diversity of stuff - not try and get any one nutrient from one source. See for example: http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=115 Scroll down to the bottom for a detailed list of foods - I regularly eat 6 to 7 of those foods daily. I use sites...
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    Zinc Supplements Can Lower Good (HDL) Cholesterol

    "Everything is farmed and genetically modified?" Exactly what is farmed and genetically modified? The top sources for zinc according to examine.com and the NIH are eggs, meat, and beans. Plenty of free-range or organic sources are available. Then there's sources as oysters, crab, and...
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    Government Guidelines on Low-fat Diet Were Not Supported by Science

    I would take a statin only as a last recourse - or any drug or supplement for that matter; and endeavor to make all lifestyle changes that I could to avoid doing so - in fact, I *am* doing so now. Nothing is truly safe, without side effects; not vitamins and supplements, certainly not any...
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    Effects of High vs Low Glycemic Index of Dietary Carb on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

    This gets to be ridiculous - the human body / nutrition / our genome and long evolution through all kinds of climate change and resulting changes in available food supplies, is far too complicated for this kind of reductionism. Did you know for example - we used to be able to manufacture our...
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    Government Guidelines on Low-fat Diet Were Not Supported by Science

    Healthimpactnews.com????? Look at this: We publish articles in this category from the senior editor of Health Impact News, Brian Shilhavy, that look at the ancient cultures in the Bible and how they viewed health. We also feature writers and articles from the Discovery Institute and other...
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    Effects of High vs Low Glycemic Index of Dietary Carb on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

    Full title: Effects of High vs Low Glycemic Index of Dietary Carbohydrate on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Insulin Sensitivity @ http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2040224 Conclusions and Relevance In this 5-week controlled feeding study, diets with low glycemic...
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    FDA approves first treatment for sexual desire disorder

    According to the NY Times - "In one trial, for instance, women who took the drug had an average of 4.4 “satisfying sexual experiences” a month, compared with 3.7 for women getting a placebo and 2.7 before the study began. The drug did not increase desire more than a placebo when measured by a...
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    Question about thyroid supplement

    I gave up researching this stuff - opinions on 'optimal' ranges varied widely - so it came down to symptoms. As of now, I am not aware of any symptoms. These numbers have been consistent for a while, going back at least a year. TSH 2.060 uIU/mL 0.450 - 4.500 Triiodothyronine,Free,Serum...
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    Study - Low-Carb diets don't work the way we thought

    I saw that Examine.com article Nelson. Need to go back and re-read. But as I do not need to lose weight - in fact - it seems I have to really eat to maintain, let alone gain; I don't worry about what carbs or fats I eat. Seems like since I went to an increased dosage of cypionate, my...
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    Peak testosterone level?

    Why the increase in dosage? To lower Free T and increase SHBG?
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