Also see: Protective Altitude Lactate Paradox: High Altitude and Exercise Altitude Improves T3 Levels Protective Carbon Dioxide, Exercise, and Performance Synergistic Effect of Creatine and Baking Soda on Performance Altitude Improves T3 Levels “Over the oxygen supply of the body carbon dioxide spreads its protecting wings.” - Friedrich Miescher, Swiss physiologist, 1885 “People who live [...]
Also see: Sodium Deficiency in Pre-eclampsia Nutrition and Brain Growth in Chick Embryos PUFA, Development, and Allergy Incidence In the fetus and newborn baby, sodium promotes growth. Progesterone, sodium, and glucose are limiting factors in the growth of the baby’s brain; whey they are deficient, cells die instead of growing. -Ray Peat, PhD Pediatr Nephrol. [...]
Also see: The Brain – Estrogen’s Harm and Progesterone’s Protection Gelatin, Glycine, and Metabolism In the spring, with increased day length, the brains of song-birds grow, with an increased proliferation of cells in the part of the brain involved in singing. The production of progesterone increases in most animals in the spring, and it is [...]
PLoS Med. 2007 May;4(5):e167. Childhood conditions influence adult progesterone levels. Núñez-de la Mora A, Chatterton RT, Choudhury OA, Napolitano DA, Bentley GR. BACKGROUND: Average profiles of salivary progesterone in women vary significantly at the inter- and intrapopulation level as a function of age and acute energetic conditions related to energy intake, energy expenditure, or a [...]
The estrogenic effects of bisphenol A (BPA) create a potential model of estrogen’s harm of mother and fetus. Arch Toxicol. 2006 Oct;80(10):647-55. Epub 2006 Apr 8. Toxicokinetics of bisphenol A in pregnant DA/Han rats after single i.v. application. Moors S, Diel P, Degen GH. Bisphenol A (BPA) is an important chemical in the production of [...]