Recent content by FDV70

OK. Ferrous bisglycinate chelate is non-heme iron, not heme iron. So that eliminates that oddity I couldn't figure out. Seeing your labs before iron supplements makes me wonder if you have an a-globin gene mutation. It would explain why your MCV and MCH are low while not taking iron and why...

OK, I got some labs in my inbox thank you. This is very unusual; I've had guys take heme and see an explosion in their hemoglobin. Like RAPID rise. I am trying to understand this, it's really anomalous. Iron is serum iron and fluctuates 10 to 12 times per day. That's not useful in any context...

I tried it after reading on a popular nootropic forum in a website beginning with "R" where people take all sorts of things at once and can't accurately report. Anyway, a user in Longecity posted some lab notes in an email from an assistant to the creator of Dihexa warning of uncontrolled...

Hey all, can I get some crowdsourcing help on a supplement quick reference? I have a hard time remembering what many supplements do, so I created a Google sheet to quickly look things up. Please add to it and edit as appropriate. I do understand that some supplements are not all that...

Be sure to read the original page and not just the intra-thread summary as I have massively re-organized things and tightened them up and made some changes. Minor, but still. https://vorck.com/erythrocytosis.html#ferritin

I wish there were. The basis of raising hepcidin is iron overdose or raising an inflammatory cytokine, Interleukin 6. Real world data show HGB goes up with less than 60mg of non-heme iron and any dose of heme iron. I even tried to raise IL-6 with Turkey Tail which is an "immune booster" (immune...

I made this prediction formula into a calculator on my references website. https://vorck.com/trtreferences.html#calculators

Right after donating. Next time slot after your donation. Donated at noon? Start my protocol at 3pm. Etc.

Works thx

That's right, not as much as phlebotomy.

So first we need to understand where serum ferritin originates. Ferritin comes in different types (isoforms) (adapted from my site): H-ferritin (Heavy chain, FTH1). “Heavy” but stores less iron. Typically stores 500–1,500 iron atoms. Heavy has a less stable ferrihydrite core which allows for...

hCG is just an LH stand-in. There is no mechanism for it to reduce hepcidin either directly or indirectly. "And your second: Can you clarify -- my understanding is that the high hematocrit on TRT is due to most iron being utilized for red blood cell production in lieu of being bound via...

It's either something I wrote or something of mine someone added to Here is the whole protocol https://vorck.com/erythrocytosis.html Here is the trial version of Protocol 2: https://vorck.com/protocol-revision-apr2025.html

Thanks so much FunkOdyssey! 8 units was good for 2 hours. Much appreciated. [The only curious thing was that it took 10 minutes to 'hit' even with massaging it around, but no matter.]

I finally got bimix that works, I was getting a premix product and not a lyophilized product. It was probably inert from lack of refrigeration. I did 4 units of a 30mg Papaverine, 1mg Phentolamine per 1ml product. I got a chub for about 40 minutes. My "antidote" vial is on backorder so I want...