Cannabis
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No! There are other, healthier ways to use cannabis for wellness, here are 3 of them.
Maybe. I would count on “yes”.
Many of the drug tests look for compounds, molecules of THC, the cannabinoid that often makes people high.
But some tests look for other cannabis compounds and different companies, different entities, might run differing tests.
As well, if one is using a “whole plant” CBD-rich hemp derived product, there are still/or should be, tiny amounts of THC as part of the full spectrum makeup of the cannabis product.
Typically salves stay on top of the skin and do not reach the blood stream. HOWEVER, some salves are made with carrier oils as the base or additive to the salve that DO travel into the blood stream, such as olive oil or some synthetic or even essential oils. So any cannabis compound might end up in the blood and/or saliva, hair, whatever is tested.
As a note, THC can last for weeks throughout some parts of the body, such as the hair. So if someone is trying to “beat the tests” with some special product purchased online– BEWARE. If your entity tests for something else that has not precipitated the THC out, one might still test positive for it. As well as the person could be poisoning themselves by using such a purgative product.
And transdermals– of THC-rich, of CBD-rich, any of them, of course are manufactured with the chemicals needed to cross into the body. That’s their nature.
So if passing drug tests are important to you, I suggest never use cannabis of any kind, of any formulation, in any form at all.
If any of the cannabis plant, the leaves, stalks, flowers/buds, any part of the plant with the trichomes of medicine on it easily dissolved their medicine compounds of CBD, THC, or any of the myriad other cannabinoids readily into hot water, we wouldn’t have people blowing themselves up with chemical explosions trying to extract them!
Cannabis cannabinoids do NOT dissolve in water. They are NOT oils but are extracted INTO oils, like coconut oil, olive oil, butter, the dreaded MCT oil, salad oils, etc. The oils actually ALSO help the medicine work better in the body.
The cannabinoids are ALSO readily extracted into solvents of very high proof alcohol, butane, naphtha, propane and other solvents that then need to be purged from the final product before consumption.
And they still don’t dissolve in water.
There are solvent-less methods of removing the trichomes full of medicine FROM the plant material using filters and icy water– but in order to USE the trichomes and extract the cannabinoids after that, the trichomes must be heat pressed (or smoked or both).
But hot water? Not so much. Not at all.
What one is getting in these designer tea bags is the chaff, the trim, the shake– and a lot of plant chlorophyll that might make the water green, or brown. Maybe the company added some other fragrant herb to the tea bag because otherwise soaking this stuff in hot water is really off-putting. The delicate terpenes that cause any certain strain to smell the way it does will be waning or gone all together, which in the case of the skunk-smelling ones is a good thing!
Often the tea bags material has not been decarbed (heat activated at temps higher than boiling water to release the medicine to our bodies).
So adding hot water does nothing. Completely nothing. It’s a fraud.
Companies selling CBD “tea” bags, or selling recipes of how to make cannabis THC tea are just jumping on some marketing bandwagon to sell anything CBD (or cannabis).
And the recommendation is to beware of what other drug might be fraudulently included in the tea bag to cause some reaction, like feeling high. Be really careful.
There are some tea recipes made from the leftover high-THC marijuana buds after properly decarbing them and infusing what could be extracted into say coconut oil and then adding some hot milk to the oily spent buds (which would also remove some of the oil-infused THC from the remains) and calling it “Chai-Tea”. Those type teas are just wringing out what THC was left from another proper extraction and can be potent.
But selling cannabis in tea bags for what most people think is an “herb” tea, not.
ISO cannabinoid CBD is only an important-sounding marketing term.
It’s basically extracted, concentrated ISOLATE of the single molecule of CBD I talk about in the CBD section.
I did look up this product, HMB’s™ Immune Shield and again, the maker’s website is written by marketers to sell the products. The site looks all kinds of professional and authoritative. The product being sold is listed for many tens and hundreds of dollars. The words they use to describe the product, the descriptions of their processes are NOT based in cannabis science or fact.
They are furthering more of the fraud rampant in the cannabis industry. There is NO SUCH THING as “oil” coming out of anything cannabis except the seed and that’s pure PUFA (poly unsaturated fatty acids).
And the other ingredients in this touted “immune support” product which is actually damaging to the immune system, is full of dangerous or problematic other items— traditional ascorbic acid vitamin C with it’s heavy metals, a large quantity of zinc people will wrongly take daily (see the Dangerous Items list), quercetin extracts of 500 mg (a huge amount) that the body can rarely utilized except to give heartburn symptoms, vitamin D of HUGE dose! Two capsules (the recommended dose) contains 125 mcg vitamin D (5000 IU). This is too much for day to day vitamin D maintenance.
And in each TWO capsules of the amount of CBD isolate (pure CBD only, no entourage effect with other cannabinoids, there ARE NO OTHER cannabinoids in CBD isolate (ISO), no THC but no other cannabinoids either)? Only 25 mg in TWO capsules. Laughable when one needs several 100 mg per dose for CBD to be effective.
I would not use this product at all. I consider it a fraudulent cannabis product with possible dangerous side effects from the other ingredients.
I hear you. First, do not be tempted to try illegal cannabis!
Not only could you be punished royally if discovered, you could injure yourself further consuming plant or product that could have other dangerous stuff in it.
The best way to try your initial experiments in your situation, is to plan a “cannabis vacation” to a legal state. Try to spend at least two weeks in the legal state but if that’s not viable, at least plan a full, whole week.
And never take any cannabis anything away from the legal state when you go home! The state borders, the airports, travel terminals are all watchful for people traveling OUT of the legal states with contraband.
There are travel companies that arrange cannabis holidays. Those mostly cater to recreational users.
But you can take the information I suggest here on this site with how to get started and plan your own holiday where you will stay somewhere safe, not driving, etc. and try the various forms of consumption recommended to see what you think.
Before you chose your planned location, make sure you make a lot of phone calls to the local dispensaries near where you will stay to be sure they will have the few items you will need to try it out.
No need to spend much on the cannabis tools or anything else. Just the very simple ideas of Getting Started.
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Food
First, Dr. Peat does not advocate for or have a Ray Peat Diet, a Ray Peat Protocol, or a Ray Peat Pro-Metabolic Diet.
Next, though the nutritionist disclosed she had studied and appreciated, and been influenced by some of his work, her review clearly shows she appears to have not spent much time reading his books, newsletters or listening to or reading his interviews where he talks about foods that are useful or not for humans and why.
She reviews things that are right (has those somewhat correct). But the reasons she gives for her reasons not to follow his suggestions show her lack of understanding of his work and betrays her own belonging to the current problematic-at-best established medical cartel.
Her reviews also clearly show her own lack of correct training in physiology, human biology, human chemistry.
She mentions for example that Peat suggests drinking “quarts of orange juice”, eating “pints of ice cream”, “experimenting with supplements without supervision from a practitioner”, and suggests that Peat only suggests doing what works on his own body.
The nutritionist mentions her worries about vitamin A toxicity from eating huge amounts of certain foods (quarts of orange juice, carrots, dairy, liver).
The nutritionist thinks it’s ok (it’s NOT) to eat unsaturated fish and chicken oils and dangerous omega-3s.
Well. Though in interviews and occasionally in his writings Peat shares what works for him (lots of ice cream at times, ages ago lots of coffee until he changed something else, other things), he clearly documents when his research has lead him to mentioning that “lots of orange juice” might be taken (during short term treatment of a metabolic emergency), or why eating ice cream (these days ONLY homemade with raw milk and farm pastured eggs) in example might be useful.
And Peat doesn’t just suggest like the nutritionist says “eating lots of tubers, mainly carrots and potatoes, squash” (the nutritionist takes his meanings out of context) but Peat clearly suggests preparing the carrots a certain way (and RINSING OFF the carrot “juice” carotene in the process), adding salt and vinegar and olive oil for a purpose. Peat talks about potatoes and why he suggests eating them and using caution because they can be grown in soils full of toxins IN THE WAY THEY WERE GROWN if not certified organic and/or glyphosate-free-tested, and other.
In my notes, squash is NOT suggested by Peat as a particular food that might be usually beneficial.
Peat cautions against supplementing with vitamin A because of its high toxicity. But Peat also says that vitamin A is critical to get. He mentions getting it from eating liver—BUT eating liver NO MORE OFTEN THAN ONCE A WEEK.
And as for experimenting with supplements without guidance and supervision from—who? Someone else as clueless as we are because they haven’t been properly trained through no fault of their own?
We are responsible for our own health and wellness. We have to review the informed consent we can get on anything we will be putting in and on ourselves and not proceed if informed consent cannot correctly be given (gotten by asking trusted others (and why are they “trusted”—because they wear a white coat, or are they trusted because we have been entrained to think “they” are trusted after watching ourselves get glued to and programmed by smart TVs and social media sites?).
But better to get consent for ourselves, gotten by a little self research pro and con entered into a search box and/or researched from hard copy documents.
And needing to have permission from and be watched over from “a practitioner” incorrectly trained is what got a lot of us into our ill health in the first place.
If we don’t look in different directions, think critically and look up information for ourselves, experiment (SLOW AND LOW) ourselves when appropriate, ask for help from those knowing more than we do and thinking about that too, we will always be slaves—not to the misunderstanding of the nutritionists or other licensed medical professionals, to them too, but to those globalists who in at least THIS day and age, are the ones training and “authorizing” the corruption of these nutritionists and medical personnel, and corrupt and purchased by Pharma regulatory agencies as their corruption is passed along the systems they have purposely put in place.
More "My Notes from Peat"
For me and others, I know in just 4 months time I can easily create an extra 10 lbs, all in belly, just from eating too many servings of guacamole (avocados so dangerous in other ways too), PUFA (poly unsaturated fatty acid) chips, snacks and traditional holiday foods. Losing it can take 8 months to a year of eating ONLY the Real Food list and being exquisitely careful to not eat ANY unsaturated fat, not chicken, not guacamole, none of it.
But Peat and others mention a huge problem around belly fat creation in stress situations– and I will say in “Keto” dieters refusing to eat enough carbohydrates one can often find those who have gained weight instead of the loss they were expecting. See Constance Martin’s quote about that below too.
Here are some of my notes from Peat:
Belly Fat, Cortisol, and Stress
“In experiments, progesterone was found to be the basic hormone of adaptation and of resistance to stress. The adrenal glands use it to produce their anti-stress hormones, and when there is enough progesterone, they don’t have to produce the potentially harmful cortisone. In a progesterone deficiency, we produce too much cortisone, and excessive cortisone causes osteoporosis, aging of the skin, damage to brain cells, and the accumulation of fat, especially on the back and abdomen.” – Ray Peat, PhD
“I think fat develops around the abdominal organs during stress as a defensive measure, similar to the padding effect that you mention, for walking, sitting, and moving. Around joints, fat pads fill in spaces between tendons, muscles, and bones. When stress becomes too generalized, for example when we live in a toxic environment and eat toxic foods, that produce inflammation, then fat deposition can lose its simple mechanical function, and, especially when the stored fat is highly unsaturated, it can become an internal source of inflammation and toxicity. The polyunsaturated fats that contribute to inappropriate fat storage, producing prostaglandins and toxic free radicals, also interfere with good muscle development, and eventually lead to the sarcopenia of aging, in which the body’s muscle content shrinks as the fat content increases. A good layer of abdominal muscle, subtly padded by fat, produces the most attractive body contour.” – Ray Peat PhD
“Fat does not provide substantial quantities of carbohydrate, but some of the latter is needed to maintain body functions. If it is not in the diet, then body protein catabolism will be accelerated for gluconeogenesis. In some individuals, sufficient protein destruction will result to provide glucose for synthesis of substantial quantities of new body fat.” -Constance Martin, PhD
The location of fat stores can provide feedback regarding hormonal regulation. The stress hormone, cortisol, is linked to the accumulation of belly fat.
[References provided by Peat:]
Psychosom Med. 2000 Sep-Oct;62(5):623-32.
Stress and body shape: stress-induced cortisol secretion is consistently greater among women with central fat.
Epel ES, McEwen B, Seeman T, Matthews K, Castellazzo G, Brownell KD, Bell J, Ickovics JR.
OBJECTIVE:
Excessive central fat puts one at greater risk of disease. In animal studies, stress-induced cortisol secretion has been shown to increase central fat. The objective of this study was to assess whether women with central fat distribution (as indicated by a high waist-to-hip ratio [WHR]), across a range of body mass indexes, display consistently heightened cortisol reactivity to repeated laboratory stressors.
METHODS:
Fifty-nine healthy premenopausal women, 30 with a high WHR and 29 with a low WHR, were exposed to consecutive laboratory sessions over 4 days (three stress sessions and one rest session). During these sessions, cortisol and psychological responses were assessed.
RESULTS:
Women with a high WHR evaluated the laboratory challenges as more threatening, performed more poorly on them, and reported more chronic stress. These women secreted significantly more cortisol during the first stress session than women with a low WHR. Furthermore, lean women with a high WHR lacked habituation to stress in that they continued to secrete significantly more cortisol in response to now familiar challenges (days 2 and 3) than lean women with a low WHR.
CONCLUSIONS:
Central fat distribution is related to greater psychological vulnerability to stress and cortisol reactivity. This may be especially true among lean women, who did not habituate to repeated stress. The current cross-sectional findings support the hypothesis that stress-induced cortisol secretion may contribute to central fat and demonstrate a link between psychological stress and risk for disease.
Obes Res. 1999 Jan;7(1):9-15.
Stress-induced cortisol, mood, and fat distribution in men.
Epel EE, Moyer AE, Martin CD, Macary S, Cummings N, Rodin J, Rebuffe-Scrive M.
OBJECTIVE:
A previous study in our laboratory (Moyer et al., Obes Res. 1994;2:255-62 found that, in response to uncontrollable laboratory stress, women with a high waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) had higher cortisol reactivity, poorer coping skills, and lower anger responses than women with low WHR. We aimed to compare high WHR men’s stress responses to these women.
RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES:
The current study examined cortisol reactivity and psychological data of 27 healthy high WHR men exposed to the same laboratory challenges as the women from our previous study. Men’s data are discussed in relation to that of the high and low WHR women.
RESULTS:
Men responded to the stress with increases in both cortisol and blood pressure. In comparison with the high and low WHR women, men had significantly higher total cortisol on the stress day. However, when comparing a sub-sample of men and women matched in WHR’s, differences in cortisol secretion were greatly diminished and no longer significant. In addition, men had higher desire for control than both high and low WHR women, and lower mood reactivity than low WHR women. Despite the lower mood reactivity of high WHR groups, the high mood reactors among the high WHR women, and to a lesser extent, men, tended to have higher cortisol reactivity.
DISCUSSION:
These results suggest that the psychological differences and greater exposure to cortisol observed among the high WHR men and women may have played a role in contributing to their greater abdominal fat depots.
Obes Res. 1994 May;2(3):255-62.
Stress-induced cortisol response and fat distribution in women.
Moyer AE, Rodin J, Grilo CM, Cummings N, Larson LM, Rebuffé-Scrive M.
Recent studies have shown an association between uncontrollable stress and abdominal fat distribution. It has been suggested that changes in cortisol secretion might represent one possible mechanism for this relationship. This study investigated whether body fat distribution, determined by waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), is related to salivary cortisol levels in response to laboratory stressors. Subjects were 41 overweight women with a Low or a High WHR. Multiple measures of cortisol and mood were obtained during a session of stressful tasks (eg., timed arithmetic) and during a time-matched, control rest session. Also, background life stress and psychological trait variables were assessed. Compared to Low WHR subjects, High WHR subjects secreted significantly more cortisol during the stressful session after 60 minutes of stress, and considering the total area under the curve of secretion. This difference was not seen on the rest day. In terms of background and psychological measures, High WHR subjects were characterized by poorer coping skills and differences in mood reactivity. Specifically, although all subjects became more angry in response to the stressful session, High WHR subjects showed smaller increases in anger. This could indicate that they are more likely to evidence a helpless reaction to uncontrollable stress. These findings support the hypothesis that cortisol secretion might represent a mechanism for the observed association between stress and abdominal fat distribution. Furthermore, differences in coping and appraisal may suggest that a particular psychological pattern might influence the reactivity of the adrenal-cortical system to stress, and subsequent fat distribution.
Psychosom Med. 2010 May;72(4):357-64. Epub 2010 Apr 5.
Low calorie dieting increases cortisol.
Tomiyama AJ, Mann T, Vinas D, Hunger JM, Dejager J, Taylor SE.
OBJECTIVE:
To test the hypothesis that dieting, or the restriction of caloric intake, is ineffective because it increases chronic psychological stress and cortisol production–two factors that are known to cause weight gain; and to examine the respective roles of the two main behaviors that comprise dieting–monitoring one’s caloric intake and restricting one’s caloric intake–on psychological and biological stress indicators.
METHODS:
In a 2 (monitoring vs. not) x 2 (restricting vs. not) fully crossed, controlled experiment, 121 female participants were assigned randomly to one of four dietary interventions for 3 weeks. The monitoring + restricting condition tracked their caloric intake and restricted their caloric intake (1200 kcal/day); the monitoring only condition tracked their caloric intake but ate normally; the restricting only condition was provided 1200 kcal/day of food but did not track their calories, and the control group ate normally and did not track their intake. Before and after the interventions, participants completed measures of perceived stress and 2 days of diurnal saliva sampling to test for cortisol.
RESULTS:
Restricting calories increased the total output of cortisol, and monitoring calories increased perceived stress.
CONCLUSIONS:
Dieting may be deleterious to psychological well-being and biological functioning, and changes in clinical recommendations may be in order.
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 Nov;293(5):R1864-74. Epub 2007 Sep 12.
Social stress and recovery: implications for body weight and body composition.
Tamashiro KL, Nguyen MM, Ostrander MM, Gardner SR, Ma LY, Woods SC, Sakai RR.
Social stress resulting from dominant-subordinate relationships is associated with body weight loss and altered body composition in subordinate (SUB) male rats. Here, we extend these findings to determine whether stress-induced changes in energy homeostasis persist when the social stress is removed, and the animal is allowed to recover. We examined body weight (BW), body composition, and relevant endocrine measures after one or two cycles of 14 days of social stress, each followed by 21 days of recovery in each rat’s individual home cage. SUB lost significantly more BW during social housing in a visible burrow system (VBS) compared with dominant (DOM) animals. Weight loss during social stress was attributable to a decrease in adipose tissue in DOM and SUB, with an additional loss of lean tissue in SUB. During both 21-day recovery periods, DOM and SUB regained lost BW, but only SUB were hyperphagic. Following recovery, SUB had a relatively larger increase in adipose tissue and plasma leptin compared with DOM, indicating that body composition changes were dependent on social status. Control animals that were weight matched to SUB or male rats exposed to the VBS environment without females, and that did not form a social hierarchy, did not exhibit changes in body composition like SUB in the VBS. Therefore, chronic social stress causes social status-dependent changes in BW, composition and endocrine measures that persist after repeated stress and recovery cycles and that may ultimately lead to metabolic disorders and obesity.
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2013 Sep 2. pii: S0306-4530(13)00287-4. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.07.022. [Epub ahead of print]
Psychosocial stress induces hyperphagia and exacerbates diet-induced insulin resistance and the manifestations of the Metabolic Syndrome.
Sanghez V, Razzoli M, Carobbio S, Campbell M, McCallum J, Cero C, Ceresini G, Cabassi A, Govoni P, Franceschini P, de Santis V, Gurney A, Ninkovic I, Parmigiani S, Palanza P, Vidal-Puig A, Bartolomucci A.
Stress and hypercaloric food are recognized risk factors for obesity, Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). Given the complexity of these metabolic processes and the unavailability of animal models, there is poor understanding of their underlying mechanisms. We established a model of chronic psychosocial stress in which subordinate mice are vulnerable to weight gain while dominant mice are resilient. Subordinate mice fed a standard diet showed marked hyperphagia, high leptin, low adiponectin, and dyslipidemia. Despite these molecular signatures of MetS and T2D, subordinate mice fed a standard diet were still euglycemic. We hypothesized that stress predisposes subordinate mice to develop T2D when synergizing with other risk factors. High fat diet aggravated dyslipidemia and the MetS thus causing a pre-diabetes-like state in subordinate mice. Contrary to subordinates, dominant mice were fully protected from stress-induced metabolic disorders when fed both a standard- and a high fat-diet. Dominant mice showed a hyperphagic response that was similar to subordinate but, unlike subordinates, showed a significant increase in VO2, VCO2, and respiratory exchange ratio when compared to control mice. Overall, we demonstrated a robust stress- and social status-dependent effect on the development of MetS and T2D and provided insights on the physiological mechanisms. Our results are reminiscent of the effect of the individual socioeconomic status on human health and provide an animal model to study the underlying molecular mechanisms. September 1, 2010
It’s good to check your thyroid and vitamin D status when there are gallbladder symptoms. – Ray Peat.
Per the “Dangerous Items” article, beets are completely too full of oxalic acid that can cause kidney stones and possibly gallbladder stones. The iron and copper in them are also completely toxic and harmful. Add to that most people irritate their IBS symptoms and their gut from stomach to intestines eating beets—cooked, raw, powdered in capsules, any of it can often make the gallbladder attack more intense.
I myself have been down that road.
I think people think the beets are helping because everything hurts so much they reduce food intake of any kind.
And then start eating beets so often (because the slick magazine articles and “medical and alt professionals” say to) (and continue eating too much food in one sitting) that at some point another attack is triggered and they never associate the beets and the heavy food eating as part of the cause.
But don’t ever cold-turkey fast if you can help it. Use salt-added sugar water and/or salt-added broth sipped all day while you are taking a food vacation and during an attack.
But what I’ve and others have found to consistently and often stop the attacks in the first place is to NEVER eat too much food of any kind in any one sitting. Eat only as much food as will fit in the palm of your hand during any one meal.
And definitely check the vitamin D levels and begin to chart thyroid symptoms and supplement if indicated.
In addition, keep in mind that even having a gallbladder removed because of frequent attacks does not mend the problem. IBS and gallbladder-like attacks and pain can continue unless the diet and supplements are changed.
During an attack I have found the following to be more helpful:
- Take a vacation from everything, every food, every supplement currently taken except thyroid supplement and vitamin D supplement (unless you are taking too much) and aspirin (add aspirin if you are not currently taking it).
- If you are not currently taking penicillin, take a daily 1/4th tab of a 250 mg tablet of penicillin or tetracycline or erythromycin if you have that instead. NEVER use ANY OTHER ANTI-BIOTIC of ANY KIND.
- Drink sugar water with a bit of salt in it. Just sip it all day long, for one or 2 days until the attack is gone. Use only pure white bleached granulated sugar. See the Peat Newsletter on Sugar at the bottom of the Honey and Sugar article.
- If you can find the original version Coca-Cola with phosphorous in it, you can drink some of that during the day. There is a Standard Process product called PhosFood if you can find the original version from a practitioner and use a dropperful in a glass of water per the directions.
- Even the first day if tolerated, but the next day or two drink salted real beef bone broth cooked from beef bones. If you don’t have the real broth, be careful with the packaged. If you have purchased some to have on hand from a farm, that’s ok but otherwise most commercial (even “organic”) bone broth who knows what’s in it. Use the pure gelatin instead, heated/melted into pure water, with some salt and sipped during the day.
- As you start eating food again, use the REAL food (scroll to the bottom of the article) and begin to add each item in to what’s eaten during the day little by little.
As a note, I had horrible experiences using HCL and bile salts that seem to be recommended throughout the internet. These items for some people can cause severe IBS symptoms with immediate and severe diarrhea and cramping.
The old (more than 100 years ago) recipe for gallstones was belladonna or jimson weed or atropine or scopolamine to relax the sphincter, and swallowing some lemon juice and olive oil make the gallbladder contract. When a stone is stuck and causing intense pain it works, otherwise I doubt that it’s beneficial.- Ray Peat.
AVOID:
- All dried/frozen/canned fruit and vegetables (possibly washed in citric acid or mag chloride)
- Dried mashed potatoes (as above)
- Raw bullet carrots (as above)
- Dates fruit
- Bananas
- Pineapples
- ANY cheese made with “enzymes” of ANY kind (enzyme/vegetable rennet which is most cheeses), only eat animal rennet cheese for awhile (hard to find)
- ANY orange juice that is commercially “fresh squeezed” or otherwise produced, definitely NO PULP FREE, NO “with PULP” either, NONE
- All dried garlic powder, chili pepper, spices (possibly have had sulfite washes and above)
- Vinegar that has “sulfite” on the label, or “mother of vinegar” on the label (an enzymes problem)
- ALL wheat of ANY kind
- “Nice smelling” coconut oil… no “cold pressed”, no “coco crème”… organic or not, all types of salad-oil terminology for coconut oil is bad (only use 76 degree melt or type advertised as made without enzyme or chemical processing)
- Folic acid
- Magnesium carbonate or other magnesium
- No most uncooked greens, broccoli (cooked or uncooked), cauliflower (cooked or uncooked), lettuce, chard, etc.
- No strawberries, no grapes, no other fruit or vegetable unless listed in an ok “to eat” list
- No avocado, no asparagus, see above “no other”
- No ice cream WITH: “gum”, “enzymes”, “guargum”, “carageenan”, etc.
- NO ALMONDS of any kind
- No nuts/seeds
- No black pepper (really no chili peppers either or red/green bell peppers either)
Chlorine in a drug is a good indication that it’s synthetic. There are good things in citrus rinds and pine needles that have a variety of therapeutic actions, and they aren’t likely to have the worst side effects of the synthetic drugs, so it might be a healthy distraction from the cult that has developed around those drugs.- Ray Peat.
(White Pine) Pine needle tea recipes and how-to-make-pine-needle-tea can be found all over the internet. Some enterprising sellers sell the needles on Etsy and other. Basically steep a bundle of the correct type pine needles for a few minutes in hot water and drink. I did hear from the virologist mentioning the brew to only drink small amounts of the tea, maybe 1/2 cup per day and NOT the many-cups recommended throughout the internet. Pine Needle tea is said to have a suramin substance in it (suramin [a former created chemical compound that was used to help autism problems and suramin was later banned by the regulating bodies] also mentioned as an antidote to covid and covid vaccine problems) I don’t know any more about suramin in particular.
Here is the recipe for the citrus rind tea formula for the homemade hydroxychloroquine that is talked about in interviews and some of the alternate news sources (I don’t know about this recipe ACTUALLY containing hydroxychloroquine or not):
In a gallon enamel or glass pot, best with a glass lid, peel the rinds off the citrus with a sturdy spoon or your fingers, and use just the rinds/the peels of the citrus.
Do NOT eat the fruit of the grapefruit, those give estrogenic responses in the body. Toss away the grapefruit fruit/juice part.
The lemon juice fruit pulp though is marvelous for more vitamin C and other uses such as to put in other drinking water.
But for the hydroxy recipe only use the peels (rinds) and don’t add the juice part to the steeped peeled part– use the lemons’ pulp separately:
3 organic lemons
3 organic grapefruits
2 quarts and a little more of clean filtered water
Cover the slightly torn up rinds/peels in the pot with filtered/clean water.
Bring the mixture to a boil and then turn down to a very low simmer with the lid on for about 3 hours (but DONT boil all the water away! keep the lid on and the simmer very-very low).
Then after 3 hours, turn the stove off and let the pot cool down a few hours.
Strain the water/cooked rinds into 5 or 6 small mason glass jars, cool in the fridge, and freeze all but one.
When thawing out, thaw in the fridge on a piece of cloth (or the frozen jar will crack the jar if you put the frozen glass jar on a glass shelf).
Take 2 tablespoons of the liquid 2 times a day (or more). The thawed mixture lasts a few days in the fridge.
Supplements
I can only address the CynoPlus and CynoMel products.
Experiencing effects (“side” or otherwise) from supplementing with this will be different depending on if you are new to supplementing it and still have excess adrenaline problems, have been using other thyroid supplement products and are now new to CynoPlus/Mel, or instead have been using it consistently for 2-3 months, what is happening with the diet and foods chosen to eat while supplementing it—and if a person is also supplementing progesterone, aspirin, coffee/caffeine (and how much) and vitamin D (and how much).
Extra effects depend on the base metabolism of the body as well as if someone is ingesting other pharmaceuticals, and/or has prior endocrine damage, or is missing their thyroid gland, other.
The CynoPlus/Mel charting, quantities that most use, spacing in doses can be found here.
Generally most people find one-half tablet or less of CynoPlus formulation 120 mcg/30 mcg levothyroxine/liothyronine suitable per day.
People take this one-half-tablet and split the half further into two or 4 pieces (gets tiny) and a small piece is taken the same time every day, every two hours (or just one tiny piece once) withOUT food (so maybe only the one, or two-spaced doses upon arising and before eating in the early morning).
Generally, and for most people, once the diet is eaten as recommended, and the few recommended supplements like progesterone and aspirin are incorporated into the daily routine, and more body toxins are eliminated (by stopping eating the toxic foods, supplements, drugs) over time, once the daily coffee consumed is minimal 1-2 cups only per day, and once the vitamin D levels remain around 50-60 ng/mL blood and the D supplement is then only 1000-2000 IU per day, and all these items are generally followed for about 3 months or more, then extra effects of taking too much thyroid can be recorded as side effects, rather than as helping to heal and balance the endocrine system.
And when the other systems are in place and habit, often thyroid supplementation can then be further reduced or even with some people eliminated.
Using any supplement of any kind, “natural” or pharmaceutical or whatever is never “one and done”. Our bodies are complex as well as they continuously change day to day, year to year in the activity called daily physical living!
But to answer the question, those side effects can often be experienced as hyperthyroid symptoms which are similar to any in the list of the low-thyroid hypothyroid symptoms (about anything adverse…).
Or more often in a lot of people after all else is remedied, taking too much (more than one-half-tablet, or more than a whole tablet per day) can cause hot flashes (overheating) or again, maybe because of over-doing coffee or vitamin D in combination with the thyroid supplement, then even shortness of breath, dizziness, racing heartbeat (all more too-much-caffeine suspect as the cause than thyroid, most people experiment by withdrawing from extra coffee and/or vitamin D in excess of 3000 IU doses first for these symptoms) can be experienced after exercise or exertion, or even resting, especially if one’s coffee and/or vitamin D are also higher than recommended.
So is it the side effect of the thyroid supplement taken correctly or the side effect in combination with out-of-balance caffeine or D?
Or the side effect of how these supplements are reacting to the entire body environment such as out-of-balance eating of toxic foods and toxic supplements, toxic drugs?
Look to the synergy of all the components and use all in moderation, low and slow.
And thyroid, caffeine and vitamin D are unfortunately not any of them supplements where immediate adverse– or beneficial– effects can be felt– or remedied– if withdrawing from the supplement or overdosing on the “supplement”.
Thyroid adjustments often take a couple of weeks to feel any adjustment to dose in the beginning as well as long term, and many months of more correct use in combo with correct foods and other.
And usually the same for vitamin D and caffeine intake. Some (I sometimes do) might feel more immediate effects from cold turkey stopping a supplement (like stopping coffee for a day can give withdrawal symptoms of headache or other), or immediately taking an overdose of vitamin D, but most people need a few days or more to feel the effects of more or less of these.
Yet all these 3 items are a critical base to get in balance…with clean water, clean and correct food, few supplements, elimination of current toxins in the body.
It’s worthwhile to keep charts of what you took and any symptoms during the day as you experiment with them, but keep all the doses relatively low and choose different, more real, clean foods and other supplements for better results.
Read and research about thyroid supplementation here and here and here. Supplementing thyroid requires more personal responsibility. Yet for so many people correct thyroid function is often a key to healing many other maladies.
More mainstream medical establishment side effects and interactions with pharmaceuticals with levothyroxine/liothyronine information can be found here.
