has anyone tried natto?
I saw a really scary increase in BP last week… It’s usually 100/70 but I saw it as high as 131/92 a few days ago… and 126/78 today. I did take some rapamycin with ketacon* like 1.5 weeks ago or smg and I guess I have to monitor something I’m not used to monitoring
at A4M last december i was tested low on NO. I should be getting more garlic and ginger [small amounts each time] though they aren’t easy to eat in bulk
doesn’t seem “whole enough” but might still be worth trying
I take that nattokinase, plus add another 2000fu to it. I don’t think it affects BP. I would say to take citrulline, eat lots of celery and avoid mouthwash. @Joseph_Lavelle had a couple episodes on this I think, and NO is a big deal.
Some good information by @Ziegelhausen about how to purchase and use the Aktiia continuous blood pressure monitor from outside Europe. I think I might want to get one of these this year (and before they start selling officially in the USA).
Blood pressure change after beginning taking 5 mg Rapamycin pr. week (just as RapAdmin I had a slow ramp up). There’s no real blood pressure effect on me.
I went from a monthly average of 142/92 to 137/92 (my blood presure has been too high for two years, now daily taking 100 mg Losartan Medical Valley for it, BMI 26,0)
This is a low dose rapa article. Favorable. Chat at the consumer level just looks at the cancer and organ transplant cases with high rapa doses and make generalizations.
You have to specify low dose to get accurate research articles.
Sorry - I wasn’t too precise (my fault)
Last summer my blood pressure was 142/92 (with the prescribed 100 mg Losartan, daily). Then I began Rapamycin 5 mg pr. week. Now 6 month later my blood pressure is 137/92 (with the prescribed 100 mg Losartan and 5 mg Rapamycin).
That’s good to see it has gone down some in your systolic number! Those are still relatively high numbers though… Does your cardiologist know you are taking rapa? Curious to what their thoughts are.
Do you have known CAD? Do you check your glucose levels too?
Thanks! Cheers to health!!
A doctor (EU Doctor) started my Rapamycin medicine cure. I did inform her about the blood pressure medicine. Over 3 month I got 3 Rapamycin prescriptions (covering half a year).
No CAD’s - all good numbers (checked every 6 months by my GP). Glycose 6,1 mmol. My cholesterol however, is too high, LDL 4,3 mmol/l (which is a pre-rapamune condition I have to work on)
I haven’t told my GP about my “dietary supplement”.
Cheers
For fasting it is in the pre-diabetic range. It is probably worth getting HbA1c done and maybe running a CGM for a week to see what is happening.
Different people have different ranges
Fasting blood sugar test. A blood sample will be taken after you haven’t eaten anything the night before (fast). A fasting blood sugar level less than 100 mg/dL (5.6 mmol/L) is normal. A fasting blood sugar level from 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L) is considered prediabetes. If it’s 126 mg/dL (7 mmol/L) or higher on two separate tests, you have diabetes.
It’s tricky to get an accurate fasting glucose reading in a lab. It changes every minute. I wear a monitor and it would show 70 mg/dl at 6 am, then 80 when I get up at 7:30 am, at the time when I reach the lab by 9 am, it’s already 100+. My point is that without a monitor it’s almost impossible to know your accurate fasting reading.
That’s an interesting point. I have not myself worn a CGM when fasting. Obviously glucose will vary, but not as much as when not fasting (or I would assume so). I have in fact implanted a CGM this morning to monitor the effects of an intervention I am planning for Saturday. It would be quite a good idea to track glucose with a CGM when fasting to get an idea of the variations.
FWIW, my blood glucose varies more from dawn effect, exercise, etc than food. It’s easier to pinpoint when (and often what kind) of exercise I’m doing in my CGM graph than it is to see where the meals occurred.
