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What is an alternative to cruciferous veggies for lowering estrogen?

Shitted Scaredless said:
I've had an upset stomach/intestines for a few days and I assume it's a stomach bug. It could also be due to me living off coffee and like one meal a day. How do I make it pass faster? I'm impatient.
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Doing any better?
 
NoReturn said:
What is an alternative to cruciferous veggies for lowering estrogen?


Doing any better?
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The whole testosterone/estrogen/progesterone system is complicated, lowering one can elevate others. You want to lower estrogen without concern for other hormones, or you are looking to bring down one that is high and balance them out? Different goals require different approaches.

Also, avoid eating too many crucs if you can, they are also typically anti-thyroid and anti-several other important nutrients.
 
Manul Otocolobus said:
The whole testosterone/estrogen/progesterone system is complicated, lowering one can elevate others. You want to lower estrogen without concern for other hormones, or you are looking to bring down one that is high and balance them out? Different goals require different approaches.
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I got really bad period-like cramps while working out last week, and it's happened a few times before. Looking into it, it looks like elevated estrogen levels can make that more likely to happen, especially during ovulation.

Manul Otocolobus said:
Also, avoid eating too many crucs if you can, they are also typically anti-thyroid and anti-several other important nutrients.
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I don't like them anyway, and not in a childish sense, I mean they actually make me feel gross, not sure what that's about either.
 
Star Platinum said:
Yeah, I've had a ton of labs including an ANA. Based on my bloodwork and X-Rays, you'd apparently think I was the pinnacle of health. But even ignoring my own subjective pain and weakness symptoms (which can be psychosomatic), I have had multiple people comment on noticeable redness and swelling in my joints, eyes, and extremities when my symptoms are flaring.
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When you say your eyes are involved, you mean they are red, swollen, or both. Also, can you find a picture on the internet that resembles the type and severity of redness and/or swelling that you are experiencing to demonstrate what you are seeing (normally I'd ask for a picture of the person when it is happening, but we don't want any potential doxing on this site)?

The fact that people notice it in your eyes tells me that this is almost certainly something and is in no way psychosomatic. Just have to narrow it down a little more.

NoReturn said:
I got really bad period-like cramps while working out last week, and it's happened a few times before. Looking into it, it looks like elevated estrogen levels can make that more likely to happen, especially during ovulation.


I don't like them anyway, and not in a childish sense, I mean they actually make me feel gross, not sure what that's about either.
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Unfortunately the differential and treatment for something like that can be fairly difficult. Your best bet is to consult an OB-GYN to R/O (rule out) anything that could be more problematic.

Shitted Scaredless said:
I've had an upset stomach/intestines for a few days and I assume it's a stomach bug. It could also be due to me living off coffee and like one meal a day. How do I make it pass faster? I'm impatient.
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Unless its shooting out one or both ends, its probably not a common bacterial or viral GI infection. Almost all the common transient acute bacterial and viral GI infections one can acquire incidentally are typically rather acute, to put it mildly, in presentation.

I'd also advise against living on coffee and one meal a day.

I'd generally advise Famotidine (Pepcid) 20 mg PO BID (by mouth, twice a day) taken together with 2-3 Tums (Calcium/Magnesium bicarbonate). The reason for this is that the Tums actually make the Pepcid work better.

If it works, you most likely have simple gastritis from stress and/or having the diet of a homeless person or a university student. Continue treatment for 2 weeks and you should be fine. Consider smaller meals through the day, buffering the acidity of the coffee, and managing stress or it will likely come back.

If it doesn't improve starting from a week after first symptoms, gets worse, or new symptoms appear, see your primary care physician and/or a gastroenterologist. If you see a sudden severe increase in symptoms, go to the emergency room/accident-emergency department.
 
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NoReturn said:
What is an alternative to cruciferous veggies for lowering estrogen?
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  • Don't be fat
  • Don't eat like a retard
  • Get enough high quality sleep (no caffeine after like 1pm)
  • Don't take birth control
  • Don't drink or do drugs
Basically be a normal, heathy person. I haven't run across any over-the-counter pills you can take that will lower estrogen, at least for men. Natural aromatase inhibiters all seem to be bullshit.
 
Tren Shapiro said:
  • Don't be fat
  • Don't eat like a retard
  • Get enough high quality sleep (no caffeine after like 1pm)
  • Don't take birth control
  • Don't drink or do drugs
Basically be a normal, heathy person. I haven't run across any over-the-counter pills you can take that will lower estrogen, at least for men. Natural aromatase inhibiters all seem to be bullshit.
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Check on all of the above. We're in the anomaly-zone but I don't want pills. I'd rather put up with it than deal with pharmaceutical bullshit when there's probably something I can do under my own power to make it better.
 
NoReturn said:
Check on all of the above. We're in the anomaly-zone but I don't want pills. I'd rather put up with it than deal with pharmaceutical bullshit when there's probably something I can do under my own power to make it better.
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Yeah, the pharma stuff is a last resort after you've determined you have high estrogen and it's a serious issue. Elevated estrogen is so much better than murdering your estrogen levels because your doctor is a fucking retard, which happens shockingly often.
 
People in the Chantal thread get kind of pissy if you make whatever posts there and I can't think of a better thread to post this:
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Just look how much gut is ahead of the spine vs behind it. How is she not falling forward? What muscles are keeping her upright and how are they not torn to shreds from constant use without pause?

This picture is a testament to the human body and I just wanted to post my appreciation of its design.
 
Always continue practicing brain games and learning new things even if you're losing your memories from dementia. It goes easier to feel a sense of progress in a time of cognitive decline. If you're afraid that you'll think so little during the late stages, remember that childhood amnesia was caused due to a lack of comprehension of language and thus you won't have a point of view without language. You won't remember anything from this stage and it would feel like an extreme blur if as you'd put that when you manage to gain terminal lucidity or if you ended up at the end of your life.
 
NoReturn said:
Check on all of the above. We're in the anomaly-zone but I don't want pills. I'd rather put up with it than deal with pharmaceutical bullshit when there's probably something I can do under my own power to make it better.
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You should check your diet/drinking water. Sometimes people have sensitivities to things like soybean or corn that will affect you. I know someone who had fluoride sensitivity and it would give him joint pain. Obvious note to cut out the processed shit too.
 
Whatever stomach bug is spreading around in the USA is very infective and severe. At least 9 people in my family are battling it, including myself. First night it made my shit smell so bad I puked. Felt fine the next day and 3rd day I'm dehydrated, queasy, hot, and my diarrhea is straight up water.

I got some Pepto, ginger ale, and electrolytes so hopefully it will pass. My aunt literally lost 7 lbs in 2 days from this stomach bug. Just warning people it is going around.
 
StyrofoamFridge said:
Whatever stomach bug is spreading around in the USA is very infective and severe. At least 9 people in my family are battling it, including myself. First night it made my shit smell so bad I puked. Felt fine the next day and 3rd day I'm dehydrated, queasy, hot, and my diarrhea is straight up water.

I got some Pepto, ginger ale, and electrolytes so hopefully it will pass. My aunt literally lost 7 lbs in 2 days from this stomach bug. Just warning people it is going around.
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Is it a norovirus?
 
Does anyone know if skin fungus can get resistant to piroctone olamine and undecylenic acid like they can to zole antifungals?
 
Sparkling Yuzu said:
Does anyone know if skin fungus can get resistant to piroctone olamine and undecylenic acid like they can to zole antifungals?
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Resistance is possible in any situation. It all depends on the fungus, what is has been exposed to, and for how long. If it's community acquired that's generally a very different situation than a nosocomial (hospital based, or in origin from) infection.

If something is topically azole resistant using something piroctone or undecylenic acid based wouldn't be where I'd go next. I'd want to know which of the azoles it has resisted and how it was applied. If it wasn't applied using proper administration its entirely possible it is sensitive, it just resisted improper administration. When it comes to anti-fungals one really needs to follow the directions to the letter. If its just the imidazoles it's resistant to, I'd switch to the triazoles/thiazoles along with other treatment, and vice versa. The next step should have been one of the allylamines (and assuming its superficial, topical butenafine). If for some reason that wasn't an option I'd probably go to nystatin. If it failed all the azole families, allylamines, nystatin, & butenafine I'd probably resort to micronized griseofulvin, but I wouldn't be happy about it. If it was demonstrating polydrug resistance I'd probably throw everything and the kitchen sink at it to avoid the possibility of extensive resistance, so I'd probably suggest employing citronella and tea tree oil topically

It's hard to suggest a proper course without knowing the exactly fungus and exactly what has failed. If something is truly completely azole resistant and was also resistant to the allylamines &/or butenafine, I'd probably get a specialist involved. If one just keeps throwing things at a fungus you can end up with some really nasty shit and desperate options.
 
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