Easy, regular bowel movements are a positive sign and one useful indicator among many for supporting long-term health.

If you're 46 with testosterone of 893.5 and free testosterone of 10.8 then it does suggest SHBG might be a bit high. Very low fat intake might be a factor and higher fat has been shown to lower SHBG in small human trials. Taking too much fibre can raise SHBG though too. Sleep

I made some oat flapjacks and had one with a cup of green tea and chamomile. Quite low salicylate overall with a lot of polyphenols. Green tea sometimes listed as high salicylate but I was trying for some EGCG which is a potent antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective.

In low vitamin A world the most disingenuous thing you can do is blame dairy and eggs in the same sentence as beef liver for your health problems because of the Vitamin A. 100 grams of beef liver has about 200 times more retinol than 100 mls of unfortified whole milk and at least

It's 4 years now since I began eating 3-4 eggs a day. I was low vitamin A for 2.5 years and whilst I was able to eat organic spelt again after a long term gluten problem there were some issues. I was still drinking a glass of wine with meals and so sulfites added to wine were

Low vitamin A hasnt fixed anything if you cant eat an egg, dairy, fish, nuts, seeds, extra fat, beans, polyphenol rich fruit and vegetables without getting a bad reaction of some kind. Normal healthy people can cope with significant amounts of Vitamin A usually above the RDA at

It's so obvious now that I've had an endotoxemia issue for a long time. Start sneezing for some indeterminate reason like an artificial perfume or overdoing salicylates and I take a zinc supplement and sneezing and runny nose disappear. Further back before I started eating more

It's also worth noting that endotoxemia may reduce absorption of choline too so your toxic bile acids will have less protection and bile flow might be slower.

You could be increasing zinc, increasing fibre and lowering fat for your endotoxemia and intestinal barrier integrity and doing worse because the low Vitamin A is unable to counter LPS damage. Tight junctions and epithelial integrity can remain compromised leading to more LPS

If healing is slow for the big issues you have then consider leaky gut is reducing absorption of B1. It's a vicious cycle too as low B1 may slow the healing of the gut barrier. You might need to emphasis B1 foods like pork, sunflower seeds, oats, beans and macadamia nuts or

Some people need to take the polyphenols slowly. High polyphenols tend to be high salicylate and there's probably more salicylate sensitivity problems in those who went very low vitamin A. You might react to the highest ones like berries, green tea, turmeric, oregano, red grapes,

People arent eating enough meat and eggs. Avoiding egg yolks. Low intake of folate and B12. Leaky gut might be a problem too. Sulfite toxicity also loses choline at the betaine aldehyde point in conversion to betaine. Then there's the factors worsening fatty liver and increasing