Being a US expat retired in Ecuador, I can get most meds here OTC, especially the ones for covid (started your brain stack a few weeks ago). I put myself on 500mg metformin every other night for the reasons above & for the longevity benefits. However, no molecule is perfect. I'm homozygous MTHFR and metformin does not play well with that (I checked my homocysteine recently and it was normal). https://mytavin.com/results/?q=Metformin
Raw milk kefir and monoculture milk ferments, the latter made using sous vide cooking at 100F for 36 hours are the best and long-term cheapest method of caring for your gut microbiome IMO. As you well know, resistant starches to cultivate SCFA like cassava starch and plantain flour are plentiful down here.
Didn’t your post recently say they’re trying to basically through Pharma running clinical trials basically remove a lot of the useful supplements from supplement status via FDA regs?
Hallo Paul. I managed to get hold of berberine complex her in south africa but have done the fopmaps test for getting these headaches, since using it. Is it an indication there is something in these ingredients that can give me these headaches: Berberine hci 500mcg, chromium 20mcg, "probiotic blend" 100 mg (Probiotics are lacto acidophilus, bifidolongum, bifido bifidum and bifido lactis) , vit b1 @ 12.5mg, vit b6 @ 12.5mg, vit b12 @12.5mcg. To be taken 3 times per day with meals
A question: i was under the impression someone i know who has been using metformin for a couple of months now, complained she us def getting constipated by it. I know they are calling it the wonder drug, but she is def sure that being by nature a constipated person, she is experiencing it since metformin use at an even worse scale. It seems that metformin has a good effect on the ackermansia probiotic, but not with her. She is also sensitive to oxalics and i don't know if her problem with metformin is more than just insulin resistance, being that she has neuralgia which she constantly have to baby by not eating foods high in metals as well as not too much calcium either, especially citrate type, which cause tremendous pain in the myelin sheath.
Being a US expat retired in Ecuador, I can get most meds here OTC, especially the ones for covid (started your brain stack a few weeks ago). I put myself on 500mg metformin every other night for the reasons above & for the longevity benefits. However, no molecule is perfect. I'm homozygous MTHFR and metformin does not play well with that (I checked my homocysteine recently and it was normal). https://mytavin.com/results/?q=Metformin
Raw milk kefir and monoculture milk ferments, the latter made using sous vide cooking at 100F for 36 hours are the best and long-term cheapest method of caring for your gut microbiome IMO. As you well know, resistant starches to cultivate SCFA like cassava starch and plantain flour are plentiful down here.
I so appreciate the practical and informative posts. The 17-hour Islamic fast has one key difference to non-Islamic fasting: it is a DRY fast.
Any thoughts on Akkermansia supplementation directly, such as this product? It's fairly pricey.
https://pendulumlife.com/products/pendulum-akkermansia?dsc_appld=true
When you highlight in yellow I can see the highlighted text. Any other color, and I cannot read the text on my phone screen. I try so hard!
Didn’t your post recently say they’re trying to basically through Pharma running clinical trials basically remove a lot of the useful supplements from supplement status via FDA regs?
Hallo Paul. I managed to get hold of berberine complex her in south africa but have done the fopmaps test for getting these headaches, since using it. Is it an indication there is something in these ingredients that can give me these headaches: Berberine hci 500mcg, chromium 20mcg, "probiotic blend" 100 mg (Probiotics are lacto acidophilus, bifidolongum, bifido bifidum and bifido lactis) , vit b1 @ 12.5mg, vit b6 @ 12.5mg, vit b12 @12.5mcg. To be taken 3 times per day with meals
As well as milk thistle 20mg
A question: i was under the impression someone i know who has been using metformin for a couple of months now, complained she us def getting constipated by it. I know they are calling it the wonder drug, but she is def sure that being by nature a constipated person, she is experiencing it since metformin use at an even worse scale. It seems that metformin has a good effect on the ackermansia probiotic, but not with her. She is also sensitive to oxalics and i don't know if her problem with metformin is more than just insulin resistance, being that she has neuralgia which she constantly have to baby by not eating foods high in metals as well as not too much calcium either, especially citrate type, which cause tremendous pain in the myelin sheath.
Good to know!!
I was thinking several months at least not days