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I consume around 25-30mg total per day, the 15mg is just from my supplement.15mg/day is not enough for me. However I do not know how to determine how much is enough for anyone else.
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I consume around 25-30mg total per day, the 15mg is just from my supplement.15mg/day is not enough for me. However I do not know how to determine how much is enough for anyone else.
I've heard that if you can taste zinc, you have enough in your blood. I never checked to see whether that had any validity. Zinc supplements, or welding galvanized metal that wasn't cleared off well enough, always tasted like zinc to me.15mg/day is not enough for me. However I do not know how to determine how much is enough for anyone else.
I occasionally have brain fog, but not generally. I thus have little experience with it. However, my belief is that it is causedbrain fog
I dont think mine could be related to those medical facts you have outlined. As i dont recall any brainfog or cognitive issues 2016-2021 after my onset of ME in 2016. It only randomly came late last year when i couldnt handle brightness of screens all or a sudden and for 1 week i had double vision with screens which dissapeared randomly a week later after rest. Then a few months later i got a random cold and now find myself much worse with extra symptoms. Its all been viral for me. Bloods have never found a thyroid issue besides High Rt3, but Rt3 is super skeptical- and arguably normal for someone like usI occasionally have brain fog, but not generally. I thus have little experience with it. However, my belief is that it is caused
(1) if your thyroid is not right (TSH in range 1.0-2.0) or
(2) if you do not make enough dopamine... which can be from a number of reasons, including not enough of several B vitamins, iron, tyrosine/phenylalanine, or from clearing it faster, which might be caused by free radicals or genetics or ...???. So I have COMT +/+, which means I clear dopamine slowly. However, if you search online, you can find foods which are COMT inhibitors, which would likely raise dopamine.
Foods that have demonstrated COMT inhibition include:
or (3 )I would get it if I had adrenal exhaustion and did not get enough salt... so people who overcaffeinate, for instance, like I used to do, will lose salt when their adrenal gland is overtaxed.
- Epigallocatechin and epicatechin (the major polyphenol in green tea)1
- Chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid existent in coffee1
- Morin, chlorogenic acid, (+)-catechin, alizarin, fisetin and rutin2
- Oleanic acid, betulinic acid and celastrol3
idk if this helps you.... but my spidey sense tells me brain fog is likely one of those things.
Same here. I didn't monitor my Tsh as a result of T4 or T3 supplementation, but neither had any noticeable effect, other than a double dose of T4 making me feel jittery. T2, however, gave temporary remission the first few times, and also blocked an otherwise worsening of my ME symptoms. Quite odd, since T2's effect lasted a consistent 21 days, after which those symptoms abruptly increased until I took another dose. That problem disappeared when I cured my PEM permanently, so there's some link there. One possibility is that T2 was affecting RNA transcription of something.when i started T4 therapy it made no difference to my symptoms that i could detect