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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

I got these frozen kelp cubes free as a deal, and put one on my smoothies now and then: ( http://www.vitalchoice.com/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=2251&idcategory=867 ) All I know (and I contacted the company and they do not know for sure either) is that the iodine is 105% of the RDA, which...

Labrat - What ERO and Coastwatcher say is my experience. My doctor(s) (a PCP initially then sent to an Endo) kept me on gel for a year, and I never got out of the 400 range. I was up and down - I would have a good day, then a few bad days with low energy, brain-fog, and just not feel good...

Ah the eternal low-fat vs low-carb religious battle :) Kind of like Catholics/Protestants in Ireland, Duke vs UNC, Paleo/Vegan and so forth. I bet a lot of the low-carbers are not even low-carb at all, and maybe some of the low-fat are not as low-fat as they think. No matter what -...

How about this (from 2014). Endothelium and Its Alterations in Cardiovascular Diseases: Life Style Interventionhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955677/ Skip down to Section 7 - Exercise / Diet; and lengthy discussions of red wine and olive oil; vitamins C/E; and melatonin. I...

I went looking - at the NIH site -- a bit more information here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_154095.html It's in the August "Cell Metabolism". If you look further on NIH - there's numerous other studies of low-carb on NIH - seemingly contradictory results from...

All over the media last week. http://blogs.webmd.com/breaking-news/2015/08/low-carb-diets-dont-work-the-way-we-thought.html?ecd=wnl_nal_081415&ctr=wnl-nal-081415_nsl-ld-stry&mb=uYTVXyVam6%40C2nGo8NRjYOHnVev1imbC0wnF4ZZLaCU%3d A sample size of only 19 - however - it looks like to me that...

I traveled out of the country earlier this year and packed my syringes and cypionate in my carry-on and customs never said a word during the entire trip.

Talking about corporate interests, just look what Coca-Cola is doing - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/?ref=health&_r=0

Are you doing shots? If so, dosage, frequency per week?

Holy triple crapola. I wonder how much this so-called "perfect diet" was influenced by corporate interests??

Thanks for that link. These guys do not appear to be so healthy if I read the tables correctly. Baseline age was 67.6. Avg BMI was 28. In the T group, 40% were obese, 22% had diabetes, 71% had hypertension, 80% had hyperlipidemia? There is another chart for the T group that showed...

Press release out today. I'd like to see the details of this study, ostensibly a 3-year double blind study using gel, I get the feeling the dosage was likely inadequate. http://www.brighamandwomens.org/about_bwh/publicaffairs/news/pressreleases/PressRelease.aspx?sub=0&PageID=2128 The...

Is LDL-P the measurement for small LDL particles? If so - my last test had it at 601 (nmol/L) and the test range recommendation is below 1000. The issue with grains is that "whole" grains are hard to find in this country as most of it is processed in some form. I eat quinoa/buckwheat...

They got more carbs then you might think. Here's a good summary of their diet -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_diet "However, evidence has shown that Inuit have a similar prevalence of coronary artery disease as non-Inuit populations and they have excessive mortality due to...

I was pretty sure you were doing this specifically to get a reaction :) Did not want to disappoint you. If you want to read a good book about human evolution and a perspective on Paleo - try: "The Story of the Human Body" by Daniel Lieberman - head of the dept of human evolutionary...

"Perfect Human Diet"? Right. More Paleo dogma. A diet myth not supported by real scientific data. I swear the Paleo folks are as bad as Scientology - it's become a cult. Next you know there will be Paleo Churches, where they will sacrifice loaves of bread in bonfires. And following...