30-07-2012, 10:08 AM
Morning Isabelle,
So what all are you doing on your House? I know I have a long list too. Funny how the to-do list gets longer and longer, and to make matters worse, the older I get the less that comes off the list
Two nights ago I tried 5,500 mg of Dried Hops, chopped up a little in a small food processor and mixed with Oatmeal. I can't do it anymore. At 5,500 mg that's ALLOT of Dried Hops to add to anything. It is over powering and, for me, down right nasty.
I'm decided to stick with my Liquid Hops Extract. The effects didn't real feel any different whether I was taking dried hops or liquid hops extract.
Yesterday was "Lab Rat" day ... here's the journal
• 8:30 AM … 8,000 mg of liquid Hops Extract in water (intent, anti-androgen)
• 8:30 AM … 1 ½ tubes of Testim
• 10:00 AM … feeling tingly on my boobs and chest … getting a slight headache … vision is like I usually notice when I am feeling extra estrogen (like looking into a tunnel, foggy)
• 10:05 AM … had breakfast … scrambled eggs and 1 slice of buttered bread
• 11:30 AM … 2 Bag Mug of Spearmint Tea
• 1:30 PM … getting lower back pain … estrogen dominance?
• 1:35 PM … 8 FG Capsules
• 4:30 PM … 8,000 mg of liquid Hops Extract in Tuna Fish Salad
• 7:00 PM … 8,000 mg of liquid Hops Extract in Yogurt
As you can see I had a significant amount of Hops yesterday and 4,480 mg of FG. Well I think I've come to a realization that I'm NOT one of the people that digests Hops into 8-pn. With that amount of Hops, if I digested it into 8-pn I had thought that I would have felt a "hormonal difference" ... but I didn't. What seems to make a difference in my program is how much Testim I use ... not how much "digestable Hops" I add to the program. I'm reasonably certain that Hops is a DHT Blocker for me ... nothing more. With the amount of Hops that I have tried I'd suspect that Type 1 5a-reductase is just about totally blocked. As I add more Testim I feel more Hormonal Effects, when I take less I feel less.
With 1 1/2 tubes of Testim along with my morning dose of Hops with water I experience "signs" starting around an hour and a half later ... with only one tube I experience fewer signs ... and if I load up on "digestable Hops later (liquid or dried) I really don't feel much more.
So I think what I have so far is a way of blocking DHT with Hops along with my Testim to create Estradiol ... FG to play with swelling ... Spearmint Tea to help "ensure" DHT is being blocked ... but not much as far as pthyo-estrogens.
karen
So what all are you doing on your House? I know I have a long list too. Funny how the to-do list gets longer and longer, and to make matters worse, the older I get the less that comes off the list
Two nights ago I tried 5,500 mg of Dried Hops, chopped up a little in a small food processor and mixed with Oatmeal. I can't do it anymore. At 5,500 mg that's ALLOT of Dried Hops to add to anything. It is over powering and, for me, down right nasty.
I'm decided to stick with my Liquid Hops Extract. The effects didn't real feel any different whether I was taking dried hops or liquid hops extract.
Yesterday was "Lab Rat" day ... here's the journal
• 8:30 AM … 8,000 mg of liquid Hops Extract in water (intent, anti-androgen)
• 8:30 AM … 1 ½ tubes of Testim
• 10:00 AM … feeling tingly on my boobs and chest … getting a slight headache … vision is like I usually notice when I am feeling extra estrogen (like looking into a tunnel, foggy)
• 10:05 AM … had breakfast … scrambled eggs and 1 slice of buttered bread
• 11:30 AM … 2 Bag Mug of Spearmint Tea
• 1:30 PM … getting lower back pain … estrogen dominance?
• 1:35 PM … 8 FG Capsules
• 4:30 PM … 8,000 mg of liquid Hops Extract in Tuna Fish Salad
• 7:00 PM … 8,000 mg of liquid Hops Extract in Yogurt
As you can see I had a significant amount of Hops yesterday and 4,480 mg of FG. Well I think I've come to a realization that I'm NOT one of the people that digests Hops into 8-pn. With that amount of Hops, if I digested it into 8-pn I had thought that I would have felt a "hormonal difference" ... but I didn't. What seems to make a difference in my program is how much Testim I use ... not how much "digestable Hops" I add to the program. I'm reasonably certain that Hops is a DHT Blocker for me ... nothing more. With the amount of Hops that I have tried I'd suspect that Type 1 5a-reductase is just about totally blocked. As I add more Testim I feel more Hormonal Effects, when I take less I feel less.
With 1 1/2 tubes of Testim along with my morning dose of Hops with water I experience "signs" starting around an hour and a half later ... with only one tube I experience fewer signs ... and if I load up on "digestable Hops later (liquid or dried) I really don't feel much more.
So I think what I have so far is a way of blocking DHT with Hops along with my Testim to create Estradiol ... FG to play with swelling ... Spearmint Tea to help "ensure" DHT is being blocked ... but not much as far as pthyo-estrogens.
karen