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Brilliant. plus the lucid dreams you get on melatonin and valerian root make night times come alive.

I will write a post today about a terrible conspiracy I think is playing out and will link this article.

I will post here again when its done.

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I cant find the dosages for melatonin and quercetin. Covids finally here. Wifey and 16 yr old.both on stack.but only .5mg melatonin and 200mg quercetin.

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oh you need about 10mg of melatonin. i have to drive to a neighbouring country to get my fix... 0.5 is not enough.

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Actually i may have asked this before.im getting deja vu.😄. Many thanks. Wifey is balking at taking 10 different vitamins already. If i increase the melatonin x 20 she will laugh at me.

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John, I have bad (maybe good) news.

"About 2yrs ago a friend of mine in his 60s told me he cured seasonal allergies by just taking probiotics. I couldn´t believe it, but I was in the middle of a sneezing fit so I started looking into it and also into what else affects gut biome. This is when I stumbled across a podcast with Rogan and Rhonda Patrik talking about aspartame essentially nuking your gut bacteria. I had been an avid coke Zero drinker for about 15yrs. So I decided to go cold turkey on the diet drinks and also take probiotics. Within 2 weeks my allergies had totally dissapeared. It was the middle of May I could go outside without 10 tablets and 20 asthma spray puffs. It was absolutely life changing."

via https://cubecubis.substack.com/p/2030-you-will-own-nothing-feel-crappy

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I follow Cubis, and I can guarantee you my problem is not Coke Zero, since I can stop at any given time, and there is literally no changes in my health (there are measurable changes in my produticvity). Remember, I am brazilian, my microbiome is fairly different from most of my reader (99% Europeans and Americans).

Probiotics are for rich people here too lol. Anything that helps you is usually "expensive".

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Yogurt, kombucha, sauerkraut (all homemade), are all great probiotic foods.

Better safe than sorry and good for you regardless.

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My house is a fungal chasm, it is impossible to make fermented anything until I move out. Also probiotics don't stick around you need to supplement them forever basically.

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That doesn't make sense to me. Once you've populated your biome you should only need to do it periodically (esp after antibiotics, or perhaps a bad bout of Montezuma's revenge). But, you could do worse for your health than eating fermented foods daily (many cultures do this, e.g. Korea & kimchi).

I wouldn't worry about fungal spores. They're literally everywhere, all the time. The salt used in traditional fermented foods takes care of them.

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Go look into fecal transplant or any microbiome/pro-prebiotic research paper that resembles any form of clinical trial.

Any change provided by the modulation of your microbiome with exogenous microbes does not persist, as far as I know, last a maxium of 6 months after AGGRESSIVE modulation, goes back to baseline (previous state) after that.

I have never taken antibiotics in my life, to my own detriment.

It is not fungal spores, fermented food grows literal MOLD unbeliebly quickly. Again, I have tried, I am not talking out of my ass, I have tried for 5 years. No can do in this house.

But I did create novel strains of fungi though. Ever closer to my flesh eating candida auris (this is a joke, the flesh eating part).

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Any thoughts on C-60? Should it be added to the stack? (Given its ability to lower ROS and inflammation)

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A interesting option, but as usual I still hold NAC above almost every other antioxidant for dozens of reasons, could be added to each persons personal stack.

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Excellent! So helpful!

Can I take quercetin everyday long term?

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Yes you can. Some people prefer cycling. X months on, X weeks off.

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Wondering the same about NAC.... on and off as well

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You can go on and off, it is up to personal choice, if you are healthy, low stress, etc, you don't need it everyday.

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Infrared light seems to boost the production of melatonin in the mitchondria.

https://www.melatonin-research.net/index.php/MR/article/view/19/213

Go outside or buy a cheap infrared light (for the winter time).

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Nov 7, 2022·edited Nov 7, 2022Liked by Moriarty

Thank you!

I just briefly alluded to your prior article on Doorless Carp!

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Question.

Melatonin seems to have the opposite effect on me. It makes me jittery. Will it upset my circadian rhythms if I take it in the morning instead of at night?

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Dec 29, 2022·edited Dec 29, 2022

Dear John

FISETIN ( where do you get FISETIN from/ QUERCETIN ( apparently QUERCETIN has different forms with different absorption rates, which form you recommend?)

PEPTIDES:

(Ac-SDKP) - where do you get yours?

BPC-157 and TB500 - where do you get yours from?

If you buy bulk I would be more than happy to buy it from you (just saying)

Thank you sharing you knowledge and taking care of us.❤

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I much prefer Fisetin over Quercetin, it is much stronger, with better properties, with other effects in the body, one could use both, or just Quercetin. Fisetin is too expensive here, so I never got around using it much, I don't have a preferred brand.

Peptides are even harder (borderline impossible) to get here, BPC-157 I got from a common site many use, can't seem to find it now, Google plus the region I am at are giving me the worst results possible.

You can order from PeptideScience, it is a well known and used website, but many of the google results are trust worth it, I usually tell people to buy where they read the best reviews with the best cost.

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Excellent post as usual .!Seems melatonin works sgreat with vitamin C ascorbic acid...that might be investigated!

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It does work great with ascorbic acid, among a few other supplements, there is quite a few paper about it. I prefer taking Melatonin at night, Vitamin C during the day

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If I were to take melatonin long-term as a daily supplement for overall health, what would be a good dosage?

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Depends on your health, age, inflammation. Start low, and go up as you fill confortable. I take 10 mg most days, with some weeks taking up to 30 mg daily.

The older you are, and the more inflammation you have, the more you need.

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