Ok, an update here coming up on 3 months taking the HCL supplements:

 

Up until January,as explained before, I was on an all meat/eggs/raw milk etc Primal Diet which made my bowel movements nice and regular, usually around the same time a day, and they were always nice and formed (compared to back a year ago when I was on the SAD when they were always loose and messy and resulted in painful over whiping). Come January/February when I started eating low PUFA in general intead of all raw (my raw diet was very low PUFA as well), adding back in some carbs like potatoes and sprouted bread it made my stools a little looser, required some whiping, though still little compared to the SAD days, and they were less regular.

 

Now, with the use of the HCL my stools are back to regular (though now they are less one larger chunk and now more lots of little "nuggets" or a single piece that is very obviously composed of the "nuggets" with some nugget companions. That isnt an issue, is it?) requiring little to no whiping and are more regular around the same time of day.

 

In addition, I believe I am obtaining more energy from my food. In the earlier days of low PUFA (before HCL) I had good energy but would sometimes have periods where I would get very tired for a little while and would need to take a short (10-15 min) nap and I would be fine. Now I dont ever get tired during the day and am more clear headed in general.

 

My rosacea, though, has not seemed to have gotten any better. I have been very low PUFA for a year now and it only seems to have gotten worse (though It hasnt really changed in the last 5 months or so). I am taking 2 pills (each pill contains 650mg Betain HCL and 162mg Pepsin.  Solaray brand) in the middle of each meal (I tried taking 3 and it usually made my chest burn after a little bit so I reduced it to 2), but over the three months I havent had to reduce the dosage to less than 2 pills (once in awhile my chest will burn slightly with the two pills, but its very rare, once ever several days, and I think thats because I didnt eat much food).

 

What do you think Hans? Should I continue taking 2 pills with each meal until it starts making my chest burn, or increase/decrease the dosage? Take something else? Is Pepsin useful? Do you remember how long you were low PUFA before your rosacea went away? Of course considering "doctors" dont know what causes rosacea, ours could have different points of origin.

Thanks!

 

-Drew

Can you recommend a place to buy gelatin supplements? That is one thing Ive read about some but have yet to add to my diet. How much is necessary to take or is it dependant on something like protein intake?

Also, did your rosacea slowly recede (if so, how long do you believe it took to be completely gone from the time you noticed it receding?) or did it just one day no longer appear?

-Drew

Do you buy gelatin in capsules like this http://www.iherb.com/productdetails.aspx?c=1&pid=6856499424828984646&utm_source=shc&utm_medium=c&ppnshpng

 

Or do you just buy powdered gelatin that one would normally use to cook with (you said the local supermarket might have it). Do the supermarket brands usually have any other ingrediants that are bad I should watch out for?

The funny thing is, is I just bought that brand from a local health food store. The Porcine (Type A, I believe) kind. Does it matter from where the Gelatin is derived? Type B is from beef/bone. Ive read about making broth from bones because of the gelatin on Ray Peat's site and such, so does that mean it is preferred to the way they make the porcine gelatin (described on the site you linked me to).

I bought some Knox gelatin (gelatin is the only ingrediant) and have been taking about 1 gram of that with each meal. We will see how that goes after a couple months unless you suggest more or less per meal.

Sorry to hijack this thread even more, but I didnt know if I should start a new one with this unrelated question. Can you give me links to the old studies done on rats that show we dont need the EFAs that was done back in the 40s or whenever it was, as well as the flawed study done earlier than that that supposedly proved we do need the EFAs? Or tell me where I might find them if they arent on the internet?

Further using this thread for my personal questions...

 

What brand of brewers yeast do you use and how much do you take and when?

 

What were your bowel movements lik throughout your whole transformation from SAD to no more AA in your cells? Back when I was on the "primal diet" with all the raw meat and eggs and such my BMs went from being awful and messy (from when I was on SAD) to being nice and formed and regular. Then once I went on just a low PUFA diet and added back in some various carbs and changed my diet around it went back to somewhat looser but not too bad. Then once taking the HCL it formed back up (went through stages of being lots of solid "nuggets" to slowly being more large solid pieces). Now that Im down to taking about 1/3 the HCL I started with and the BMs are a mixutre of the nuggets and larger pieces but I only have to have a BM every 2-3 days. I dont feel constipated or anything and I dont have any problems. Is that regular/ok with the knowledge that its not causing problems?

 

-Drew