Recent content by sammmy

Guarana, extract or powder, has very clear anti-inflammatory properties in my experience. It kills headaches and tendon aches and is used for rheumatism: The active ingredient for the anti-inflammatory action is not the caffeine in Guarana. I also use caffeine sometimes and it doesn't work for...

The most sensitive test for H Pylori is the stool PCR: H. Pylori Test | A Comprehensive At-Home Stool Test for Helicobacter pylori, Virulence Factors and Antibiotic Genes. The other tests can give you false negatives.

Not eating simple sugars is indeed the best way to reduce gum problems. You can also try swishing Xylitol powder to starve the bacteria.

What people don't know is that many tests that you do at your doctor's office are not actually accurate. Do NOT trust any single test. That's why they are called "tests". I am currently "negative" on SEVERAL stool antigen tests for H Pylori but positive on GI-MAP (which is a way more sensitive...

You should eat bread/pasta/gluten before the test so that it can detect a gluten sensitivity if you have one. If you have gluten sensitivity that gives you "brain fog" (it makes me very sleepy even after minimal gluten/gliadin) but you don't eat gluten foods before the test, it may not detect it.

Do a GI-MAP test to see if it will find digestive problems: GI MAP (GI Microbial Assay Plus)

Check your gut and digestion. Many with "brain fog" have some kind of ongoing intestinal infection like H Pylori or have digestion problems (gluten sensitivity, low stomach acid, low pancreatic enzymes etc). As said above, if you don't address the actual problem, you will be just covering up...

Try Collagen Peptides (fully hydrolized collagen), above 10g per day. It helps people with arthritis. Since I started taking it, my body is not hurting as much after physical activity. I'm not sure how it works but it's not the same as taking whey protein or eating meat. The collagen aminoacids...

Pseudo-scientific nonsense that always fails to estimate the magnitude of the effect. Correlation is not causation because gazillion other factors have changed since the industrial revolution. A few nanograms of plastic in you has insignificant impact compared to stuffing yourself with sugar...

Morning wood is due to nerve activation in the genital region in the morning. It means you want to pee or take a dump, pardon my French LOL

That sounds strange, to gain muscle initially and then lose lots of it on the same regimen. Something doesn't check out.

You should use it at lower doses. You don't have Parkinson's.

Guarana helps a little with dopamine (enjoyment and interest in life, libido, easier to get to orgasm) and it's not due to its caffeine component because pure caffeine doesn't do that. I'm getting an Amantadine prescription soon. Pramipexole is another option that has been mentioned in the forum.

It's always comical on this forum when they claim that TRT solves all sexual problems. In reality, TRT resolves problems only when they were due to really low T before TRT, but many people get on TRT to "enhance" themselves, not because they actually had low T. Testosterone is a weak...

Here is an example that actually addresses the problem in a scientific way instead of spewing generalities: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/16/6/897 One of the components of "dysthymia" is lowered libido and Amantadine helped with that because it is acting on the dopamine system.