A quick search away from my normal base has not found the answer to this. I need to check the powder itself. I have not been using it as I am happy with my current process.
Interesting reading regarding BPC157…I am on another forum and a group of us are just now putting our heads together to make a rapa toothpaste in hopes of helping receding gumlines. One of the gals in our group is pretty knowledgable about peptides and suggested adding BPC157 and hyaluronic acid to our DIY toothpaste. Since we would be brushing but then rinsing and not swallowing the toothpaste I would love to hear some opinions on adding the BPC157 to the paste. Thanks in advance for any info you could share!
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Seems like uncharted territory, so if it were me and since there are several of you, I would have a control group of paste only, a paste+bpc group, and a group that adds the rapa. A rapa only group of possible. How many of you are there? 
I have no idea whether BPC would be better absorbed topically through gum tissue vs. arriving at the tissue through the bloodstream via subq injections. Please keep us posted! It would be nice if you could all get your pockets measured by dentists before and after.
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Thanks for the reply! I do have a dental appt. in February. But it is only a cleaning. Usually the hygenist doesnt measure pockets but I am going to ask if she can at least measure a few of them. If i record the few she does I go back every 6 months for a cleaning and she can check then. (Good idea, thanks!) I am also in another group called Peppys.chat. It is a group for peptide users. We have some pretty knowledgable people in there and i may ask them their opinion about mixing BPC-157 with rapa. There are only about 6-7of us altogether interested in starting this and i think i might be hard pressed to ask some of them to be a control group. lol. The biggest hurdle right now is finding a safe source for rapa. Would love for someone to share a source they use regularly and have had good success with. It is my understanding that sending peptides or other compounds off to testing can get pretty pricey. I feel like Janoshik charges about $400 to test a peptide. Yipes! Thanks again for weighing in and yes, I will keep you posted as we go and let you know our results!
I’ve been in peppys for a long, long time… but I go by another name. 
Oh how funny! I love Peppys! My screen name there is dorothyline. Oh how funny! Can i ask yours? If you go to Peppys and type in “Peptide for regrowing receding gums” you will see our chat thread on this.
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I just PM’ed you,. Hope thats okay
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Popular sleeping pill Ambien also known as Zolpidem linked to an increase in Parkinsons and Alzheimers. If you are taking it, you should consider stopping ASAP!
Popular sleeping pill shown to block brain’s critical cleaning cycle
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I have a prescription for ambien only for “emergencies.” I am ashamed anytime I have to use it but there are nights about once a week when I am unable to fall back asleep after using the bathroom in the middle of the night. The ambien helps me sleep another 3 hours before it’s time to start my morning.
It’s not healthy in any way, but I think it’s the lesser of two evils when comparing it to being a complete zombie all day instead.
I also make sure to get a good workout on days after I had to take it, in case it can offset any potential harm.
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This happens to me as well. And when it does, I take 2 gr of Taurin. Then I slowly fall back to sleep after 20 - 30 min or so. Sometimes I take taurine with 150 mg magnesiumcitrate or with 5-10 mg melatonin. I am happy I can fall back to sleep with a that lind of rather healthy intervention. But sleep deprivation is a terrible state. So we do what we have to do.
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IIRC you take Trazadone, why not just take another dose of Trazadone when you wake up in the middle of the night? (Probably you’ve tried this and it didn’t work)
I tried it but it made me drowsy and slow to start my mornings. It also isn’t a slam dunk to work since I notice my body builds a tolerance to Trazodone, unfortunately. With the ambien, the effect seems to be really fast acting. Like, enough for a nap but not a full night of sleep. That’s how my body handles it at least.
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There are different physical forms of vitamin E. Only some occur naturally in foods and are used in our bodies. Most commonly natural supplements are exclusively or predominately composed of d α-tocopherol where the d refers to the Latin word for right. It is much cheaper to make vitamin E synthetically from petroleum than to derive it from biological sources that would yield just the natural d alpha form or d alpha along with other natural but probably less common forms. Similar differences are found for other molecules. I stick to the more expensive formulations of natural molecules. I think it is less risky. Some research agrees with this, some does not. At least 20 years ago there was a debate about whether vitamin E would reduce cardiovascular disease and/or blood clots. There was a large physicians study that rejected a positive cardiovascular role for Vitamin E. A large nurses study that examined blood clots as well as cardiovascular disease was published later. The latter found no negative effect on cardiovascular disease but a notable positive effect in women who were genetically susceptible to blood clots. The doctors used a synthetic version; the nurses a natural-it is unclear whether this made the difference in their findings. It could also have been due to differences in gender since at the time gender sharply distinguished these professions. There was a similar debate about forms of estrogen — here the lit on these chemically slightly different forms finally was eventually relatively clear that the similar but slightly different cheap estrogen derived from mare’s urine was not a healthy replacement for natural estrogen as found in the human body.
Oat pesticide causing fertility issues.
So what you’re saying is that the small amounts of pesticides in these foods act as a hormetic stimulus for longevity, and as we know longevity is linked to low fertility🤣…/jk/
It’s a growth regulator, not a pesticide. The suffix cide means “to kill”. Nothing is being killed here. It makes plants shorter so that they don’t fall down from wind or the weight of the grain.
I don’t know why they don’t just buy oats from here where nobody has even heard of this stuff. We buy oats for the goats from neighbors and they are clean and cheap. It’s easy to raise pesticide free oats because they grow so fast and are drilled, so cover the ground fast. Story makes no sense.
Interesting list of things causing liver injury to the woman in question. I’ve literally taken all of those things. Turmeric, ashwaganda and horsetail are daily supplements for me. (These days I call “daily” 5 times weekly with rest days on Wednesdays and Sundays. But for the first 25 years of so of supplementation, it was literally 7 days a week.)
Though I’ve taken kelp in the past, these days I get iodine via Lugol’s solution–seven days a week on that one. All of these things go back decades for me. I’m 68 but have been heavily into supplementation since my early 20s. Resveratrol was more recent, of course, since it wasn’t around back then, though that’s been more like only twice weekly intake and some periods of not taking it at all.
Also calcium was mentioned in a prior post above as another no-no. I take that daily as well, though with magnesium, silica, K2, etc. This dosing goes back decades, too.
My liver enzymes are usually much like my last blood test from four months ago. AST - 19, ALT - 21, GGT - 14. All super low. I do take liver-healthy milk thistle supplement and take trimethylglycine which should help with liver methylation, so those might help account for my apparently very healthy liver. But I also think the supplements in question are not all that problematic for most people.
I had a calcium scoring exam about a year ago. My doctor took one look at that and said, “Well, maybe in a hundred years or so you might have a minor concern with calcium build up.”
I also take 300 mcg of melatonin nightly, which was also mentioned in other posts above as a potentially problematic supplement. I’ve never had any issues with it. That dosing goes back about 25 years.
So I wouldn’t take one person’s bad outcome, like that of the Nutrafol consumer noted above, and put too much stock in it. If a bunch of people had the same result, that’s another story, of course. But plenty of people, like myself, have no such issue with the supplements mentioned, even with long term daily or near daily usage.
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- Resveratrol
- Metformin for non diabetics
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin E
Makes me want to dump all my leftover Resveratrol down the drain.
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I doubt these four supplements negatively impact longevity.
Watching the video:
(1) ‘Blunting’ effect of exercise from resveratrol: baseline characteristics are different so the groups aren’t equal. The placebo group was leaner and fitter to begin with.
(2) The effect on testosterone levels – the study was in women with PCOS which can’t be generalized to men
(3) Metformin study ‘blunting effect’, is bad. Why? The Metformin group had a baseline glucose of 150 mg/dl, while the exercise only group had one of 100 mg/dl! They didn’t even randomize. It was just people who were already taking metformin in the exercise+metformin group, and the exercise only group with those who didn’t take metformin.
(4) The testosterone study for metformin had a decrease of -10%, not clinically significant. I didn’t look at anything else.
To sum up, no resveratrol or metformin does NOT negatively impact your longevity based on what was claimed in the video.
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