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Four years ago I started taking Telmisartan 40mg for high blood pressure. Everything I read said it had other benefits... reduces weight gain increases total energy expenditure increases expression of key mitochondrial enzymes in skeletal muscle multiple mechanisms to protect...

Yes eat as much as you can!

Article was assembled based on many reports funded by the Academt of Nutrition and Dietetics. "The association is funded by a number of food multinationals, pharmaceutical companies, and food industry lobbying groups, such as the National Confectioners Association." So the food industry doesn't...

Sorry that was sent before I finished. Milk thistle brings my ALT/AST down to 15/15.

Milk Thistle NAC

" reasons why my SHBG would be on the higher end" My notes tell me SHBG is driven up by cortisol, probably where I'd start.

It's oregano oil that comes in a small bottle, Whole Foods or Amazon have it. Just 3 or 4 drops daily on some food to absorb (some of) the intense taste! I believe it's a strong antibiotic, antiviral and anti-inflammatory. I wouldn't take it for more than 2 - 3 weeks.

Your liver is manufacturing that cholesterol within a feedback circuit. If you are going to interfere with that mechanism by suppressing the manufacture of cholesterol in your liver then maybe you first need to consider the downstream impact. Cholesterol is the precursor of the five major...

But you only need it once in your life! :)

Hi Vince, Up to 50% of the population have one of the, I believe, three types of MTHFR mutation. It causes systemic inflammation by interfering with methyl group processing in the body. It impacts homocysteine metabolism (it did for me). I just read Mayo Clinic notes on the mutation test...

Absolutely, the most likely scenario is prostatitis, an often symptomless bacterial infection of the prostate. You will also find many threads on this site discussing sex, bike riding etc as possibly the cause. Inflammation can also occur for known and unknown reasons, so there's way more...

Blinky, the American Journal of Emergency Medicine says "Intravenous magnesium has been suggested as a treatment for certain emergency conditions for more than 60 years. It is currently proposed to be beneficial in treating asthma, preeclampsia, eclampsia, myocardial infarction, and cardiac...

It must be really annoying for the men with low levels of these hormones who got PC during this study. It's a bit like all the people who die of heart attack and stroke and have low cholesterol.....

I just take cialis with me. I leave the supps in the belief that I'll do fine for a week or two without them, plus the tiny hormetic stress response of stopping them might be good for me.

Here is another FWIW. In 2016 I had a surprise test result... PSA 5.6 No symptoms. Off I went to a urologist. DRE normal. Urinalysis said no infection. I got the statutory course of antibiotics from the urologist and... PSA went down over next three months 2.2, 2.1 and finally 1.3. I think...