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Hello NBE family 

I am taking a break because I am having lots of changes lately in my personal life and professional career, I barely have time to be around here.

I'd like to tell you though that I still planning to pursue NBE. However, as Lotus suggested on this thread, there are tons of things I had to think about and change:

1- So far, I have changed my diet (90% anti-inflammatory diet, reduced gluten and dairy to make it easier), working out with a plan (AKA not stressing a lot my body because it makes no sense to be tired AF and go to the gym, yeah, I am masochist sometimes lol) and improving my sleep schedule (my #1 priority, getting better week by week). 
2- I also try to have steady glucose levels, so yes, that implies to eat differently (first fiber, then protein and fats and lastly carbs) and get a little help of vinegar (long story short it helps with getting lower spikes). I do eat this way though since 2021 and definitely my acne is gone since then, so I bet I don't get huge spikes now but anyway I am conscious always about this step. I try to not skip the order of the food. 

3- My period is on time, I am tracking it with an app & some months is 29 and others is 32 but it is pretty regular yep.

4- I also introduced vitD, Green tea (during follicular), magnesium, MSM (almost at 3g per day) and I take L-carnitine & HMB when I workout.  

5- A friend of mine introduced me a great adaptogen called Ashwagandha. I have been researching on this herb for a month (I am a patent&trademark attorney so I have read the patented inventions from this adaptogen and from that perspective I looked into the papers). I decided to give it a try with the minimum dosage (currently at 150mg, usually people take it between 250-600mg daily). From day 1 (I started at 80mg) I have been feeling less anxious and very calm, so it has helped me with sleep a lot. I have never slept like this in my adult life for sure. I plan to reach 250mg by the end of April.

Now, for damn sure it helps with cortisol. But, I am not sure what it does to Estrogen. As far as I know cortisol and Progesterone are related, meaning when one is high the other is low. So it can help with raising P levels I guess. However, thing is, I have read in clinical studies it affects sex hormones, and it is known to increase T in men. There are a lot of studies confirming this. But, in women, apparently is not that clear: it helps with menopause and I have read some studies that says it doesn't raise T in women but there is not enough data regarding this matter. Women on forums like Reddit are afraid of taking it since it is widely spread it raises T for males. So we have little evidence what can do on a female body. 
[b]It is also effective with NCAH (it is a disease that affects the adrenal glands) according to some studies.
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I am taking it though but I am not sure 100% if it is NBE friendly to grow the girls (maybe Lotus can add more info on this?) but I can say for stress and sleep is definitely working.


6- I plan to add forskolin and hyaluronic acid (HA) to my NBE routine soon. I believe in May or so (therefore I would only take l-carnitine and HMB during luteal phase because during follicular would be too redundant, forskolin is a cAMP activator so it can aid me in the fitness field too, like a fat burning helper). 

Good information here: About the hyaluronic acid, I have been looking into patents as well: turns out you we have to look into its molecular weight to be more effective. There is a company which patented and trademarked a HA called INJUV.  They gave tons of licences to other companies to use it in their formulas, so if you plan to get HA, make sure you see INJUV in the label. This way you know you are getting a good source of the compound. 

7- My right boob is almost a cup smaller than the left one. It could be because the right side of our bodies gets more blood flow or it could be I am made this way lol, but it frustrates me.  Any ideas what I could do to make it grow?




Much love