http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_83182.html Here is another interesting cause and effect question. Dr. Nieca Goldberg, director of the New...
HRT May Protect Women From Colon Cancer(Print Version)HRT is a therapy with lots of complicated pros and cons. Here is another pro. I generally send just the...
Being a fan of Gregory Cochran and Paul Ewald, I believe that most common, serious diseases are caused by infections. Genes and germs are both shared in...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_83293.html If you remember, I posted a CDC map a week or two back showing the distribution of Lyme disease in...
Just finished your book, Russ. Quite an intersting read. This article claims tryptophan supplementation lowers cortisol, probably by boosting serotonin. ...
Hi Daniel, Thanks for reading The Potbelly Syndrome, and for the article on tryptophan. Tryptophan had already been outlawed in the U.S. before I became ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12431857 This one is complicated. The abstract is below. Russ www.potbellysyndrome.com Biological vulnerability for bipolar...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/429505 My impression, after looking at abstracts for a couple of hours, is that tryptophan raises cortisol, or has no effect...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16772415 A PubMed search for chlamydophila tryptophan brings up 41 hits. It is an area worthy of a lot of research. I think...
... It's available again in the US, although pricey. About $20 for 60 500mg caps...which will last you a month if you only take 3 at bedtime. Its a much more...
Hi Daniel, I remember that soon after tryptophan was outlawed, it was found that most of the problems blamed on it could be traced back to a single batch....
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13611194&subjectID=531766&fsrc=nwl Here's an article on the pros and cons...
Read an interesting article at http://www.intarchmed.com/content/1/1/7 Background The role of cortisol and its increased action/availability is implicated in...
On Fri, 08 May 2009 16:17:16 -0400, sivaa1 <sivaa1@...> wrote: To evaluate our assumption we have administered dexamethasone [low [50 μg/kg/day] or...
Hi Daniel, I started this group to encourage people to ferret out and share exactly the kinds of data you found in the Ray Peat article. Thanks. Not long after...
Daniel was kind enough to post the URL for the Ray Peat article on tryptophan. I'd like to recommend that everyone take a look at Ray Peat's website:...
I like to think I'm an independent thinker, not easily led astray by fads and passing fancies. But I frequently find that I have been led astray. Most ...
This is off topic, but it is something that should interest old people who get a lot of xrays. My sister wrote to me and said: I found out I am allergic to...
In the Ray Peat article on tryptophan that Daniel found, there was a paragraph that has been rattling around in my brain for a couple of days. It reads: When...
... OTOH, intermittent fasting has also been shown to increase growth horomone, lower insulin and increase cell's resistance to stress, so perhaps it more than...
Hi Jeri, I think you're right. There seem to be many positive feedback loops involving cortisol. Fat is associated with inflammatory cytokines that raise...
Hi Daniel, Thanks for finding another interesting paper. The PDF of the full paper is available at: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/85/4/981. Just thinking...
... A rise in LDL is not in itself alaraming. It depends on what kind of LDL. My feeling on cholesterol is that its a symptom, not a cause. Studies on Ramadan...