Hope Tipton

Glad I broke free and became a free thinker.

@Will_of_Europa Great way to think. I am the same way.

I've never much cared if somebody had a dark past or retarded takes prior. I only care if their modality is correct now. Goes for me as well. I hate my prior iterated models. I cauterized them so that I could be now above them all. And the cauterization continues.

@Will_of_Europa I need to get all the info on my phone, laptop and head onto paper. Lol

@HopeTipton6 High extracellular sodium can drive the NCX into "reverse mode." Instead of pumping calcium out, the cell begins to pull ionized calcium in while pushing sodium out.

High sodium acts as a pro-inflammatory stimulus. This systemic inflammation increases levels of hepcidin, the master regulator of iron. Hepcidin causes the degradation of ferroportin (only known cellular iron exporter), effectively locking iron inside macrophages and hepatocytes.

@Will_of_Europa And, to add to that, calcium and copper are both required for iron regulation. In a lpw calcium state, you can even make the loved lactoferrin everyone is using for iron overload or ceruloplasmin that binds copper to keep it from causing problems.

@Will_of_Europa Yep! However, low to moderate sodium intake actually helps calcium absorption. A delicate balance. This is why getting things from food, of possible, is best. Supplement only when needed and not long term. And, of course, a balanced diet that has all the good minerals. 😁

@HopeTipton6 High sodium intake increases urinary calcium excretion. To compensate for this loss, the body may increase parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. Elevated PTH has been shown to increase calcium entry into fat cells

@Will_of_Europa Yikes! Glad it got corrected, though!

Apparently one of my vertebrae have been out of alignment for a year and only just this last weekend corrected. Had to do with the liver too. Body is weird.

@JennyJones64 @AndrewDBaird1 @Will_of_Europa Thank you. Me, too. I think I saw things before I realized I saw them. I started really piecing it altogether when I started doing consults for them. I feel bad for those still there. I saw the light and followed that.

@HopeTipton6 @AndrewDBaird1 @Will_of_Europa Glad you are out of the cult Hope. And seeing things properly again. I used to worry about you and all the others. I stayed longer that I should to try and help. I’m a PhD and thought I could educate. But when the aim is marketing and not truth🤷‍♀️

Garrett Smith has made so many mistakes on Vitamin A toxicity it's laughable to suggest he's making meaningful content. Perhaps you don't recognise your issues in these points. Then one day you do your own research and find out he got it wrong. 1. He thinks you detox Vitamin A by lowering Vitamin A to near zero. No, that's not the way you treat hypervitaminosis A. 2. For the last 7.5 years until recently he thought very small amounts of retinol in eggs and dairy were toxic. This made a mockery out of Vitamin A toxicity and now he's reversed his position saying 1,000 IUs of Vitamin A is still low. He's lost all credibility: Vitamin A supplements 25,000 IUs per day for 4 years reversed then 250 IUs toxic even in eggs for 7 years and now they are low and okay. 3. His stance on eggs being toxic deprived people of one of the most nutritious foods that benefits liver health. 4. His toxic bile theory without mentioning how helpful phosphatidylcholine proves what a lightweight he is. 5. He claims to be doing a detox but then ignores the importance of methylation for detox. 6. For years he ignored the advice that B vitamins are necessary co-factors in enzyme reactions. 7. His myopic thinking about Vitamin A toxicity and soft tissue calcification led him to overlook the importance of calcium intake. 8. Vitamin A is essential for intestinal barrier integrity and his whole very low vitamin A sabotaged any hope of reducing endotoxemia for some people. 9. Interpreting every twinge and bowel movement as being about Vitamin A toxicity and bile leaks stopped people thinking more clearly and identifying what was really going on. Low calcium, salicylate sensitivity, leaky gut, sulfite toxicity, oxalate dumping and glutamate sensitivity being some possibilities. 10. Interpreting Vitamin A as a poison from the beginning leads you to draw many wrong conclusions regarding serum retinol. Ruling out deficiencies means you never realise retinol not converting to retinoic acid is causing some problems. And there can be a few reasons for that including the leaky gut caused by the very low Vitamin A. 11. This was a new subject to him and his inability to take on board suggestions and experienced points of view in a timely fashion was a dreadful mistake that many have suffered because of. Folinic acid and nicotinic acid being mentioned years after he was told about them. 12. Experimenters who did badly were ignored and neglected whilst he moved on to the next great thing. Those experimenters actually provide useful and potential correcting information that the vitamin A is indeed essential. Particularly, those who don't convert beta carotene to retinol well. People needing calcium. Those with choline deficiency and not eating much meat.

@Will_of_Europa @embodiedthinkr Yes, but that much Zn can also cause problems, especially if your Cu and Ca is already low. I know people who couldn't take even a few mgs of Zn caused low Cu symptoms, but they were told they were dumping Cu. Balance is key. I see no reason to supplement Zn unless you overdo Cu.

@embodiedthinkr @HopeTipton6

Taking 30mg zinc daily raises MT levels, meaning you'd need about 9 raw Pacific oysters to get 6mg copper (which absorbs to only 0.9mg). Oysters also have extra zinc anyway. Unless you're eating 20+ raw oysters a day, copper isn't something to worry about.

@Will_of_Europa Aren't you my age?

I'm just a sensitive young man (I'm old af)

@Will_of_Europa Not to mention they are both avoidable when you have your good minerals balanced.

Focusing on nickel toxicity as 'the next big thing' isn't the right step. Nickel toxicity is no different than say lithium toxicity. Pretty similar disease pathways too. But it's not universal nor causal in most people.

@Will_of_Europa @embodiedthinkr Yep. Copper is an essential mineral. However, you need enough calcium to help put it in the liver so your body can make ceruloplasmin for proper utilization.

@embodiedthinkr @HopeTipton6

The copper lifestyle isn't without its downsides like: -cortisol gets too low -skin looks too tight and youthful -mind becomes sharp -reading a lot more -intuition is raised -getting too strong -wounds healing too fast -respiration is too efficient -etc

@RibSteaks2022 @DrSteveGoeddeke Ca helps mitigate the negatives of every form of vA. There's even a study where 1000mg of Ca inhibited 100% of all carotenoids in a liter of carrot juice. VA causes bone resorption. Ca helps bone growth. It is used for so many things, but you actually have to dig for them.

@DrSteveGoeddeke Hmm. Curious about the calcium and nitrates.

The vitamin A topic is officially BORING to me. I have a lot of direct experience with the topic, having "maxed" it for many years, and then did a low vitamin A diet for 3 years. I hope I my experiences can add to the understanding of the complexity around the topic. First of all, nobody is deficient. If it is important, it's really not that damn important if you can do a very low A diet for years and not get significant problems, and it takes 3 years for your blood levels to even start to drop. It didn't cause Grant problems, and it didn't cause me problems after 3 years, that weren't already there. I don't have a full explanation why yet, but my wife got super sick on the diet. Was it heading in that direction already? Probably. I'm guessing it had little to do with the low vitamin A and probably more to do with low calcium and low nitrates. That probably broke her redox and NOS pathways. Did the same thing to me. This eventually affects the immune system regulation and the vascular system. I got 95% better with sacroiliitis, and maybe 75% better with spine and joint pain. It was great, but also wasn't the root cause of my health problems. The interesting thing about it is this: it's "SUPPOSED" to pump TReg cells and suppress TH17 immunity. In most it probably does this. But in people like me and many others I've spoken to, in extreme excess it cranks TH17 through the roof and causes sacroiliitis, gut issues, possibly all kinds of spine and joint pain. Excess can cause hypercalcemia and all kinds of organ stress. Don't overdo vitamin A. But also be aware that if you are toxic, your body is probably dysregulated in some other big way to cause that, because you should be able to clear it faster so you're not accumulating. Lowish vA is a good practice and good crutch if you're sick but it's probably not the deepest root cause of your problems. And if you do a low vitamin A diet, make sure you don't break your NOS systems on the low calcium and nitrates. Don't drink the kool-aid all the way.

@tiefighter19921 @DrSteveGoeddeke That is a good approach and I hope to get there, but sadly, I need supplements right now. Glad you are doing better!

@HopeTipton6 @DrSteveGoeddeke Ancestral meaning local seasonal constitutional aligned diets, not raw meat type of weirdo stuff

This curve has basically stopped going down, and HR still stays 105-110 for an hour post exercise still. Vision issues lessened but did not go away. So I'm getting off the dysbiosis-as-dominant-cause wagon. Part of the picture, certainly, but I'm zooming out. I was already coming into the nitric oxide pathway understanding but after spending time with a chiropractor friend of mine from school who's deep in functional medicine, my eyes are open to a whole new world of how this interacts with the immune system, inflammation, and redox balance. So my supplement stack is pretty big now, admittedly. I'll be dropping most of what I was doing. Keeping L. Reuteri yogurt, S. Boulardii for now. To help gut barrier and increase Tregs. Adding a nitrate stack. Beet root powder. citrulline. Folate/b12 to improve BH4 recycling. Vitamin C to stabilize NO. Calcium/mag. Adding curcumin and resveratrol to reign in TH2 , TH17, and support Tregs. NAC is back in, but not for biofilms, but glutathione antioxidant support. Also working on diaphragmatic breathing, reducing coffee. No high intensity exercise for a while, sticking to zone 2 cardio and lifting with 2-3 reps in reserve instead of pushing hard all the time. Protecting my nervous system for a bit. So I won't even be testing my heart rate recovery every week, maybe once a month.

@Will_of_Europa @orangearky @AndrewDBaird1 I don't feel I post much. Let's put it that way. Lol Not as much as I'd like, anyway. Life gets in the way.

@orangearky @HopeTipton6 @AndrewDBaird1 I see you all over, Curt's stuff and Adam greens stuff. Based af!

Lactoferrin and retinoic acid work synergistically to support epithelial growth, intestinal development and immune related functions. In multiple studies retinoic acid has been shown to induce or enhance lactoferrin gene expression eg. promoting IgA production when combined with lactoferrin. Whilst it's possible high Vitamin A toxicity could be a problem the balance of evidence points to it being better to consume some retinol to help lactoferrin. That may be why there's Vitamin A in cow's and breast milk to support infant growth, immune protection, gut development and overall health. Taking isolated lactoferrin on a very low Vitamin A intake doesnt make sense. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9828118/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15738240/

@tiefighter19921 @DrSteveGoeddeke Low calcium was shown to cause the worst civid experiences. So, you may also need some calcium.

@DrSteveGoeddeke Hey bro. Not to sound weird or anything but have you tried semen retention? It along with topical magnesium really helped me out of the worst of long covid and dysautonomia. Each long streak made improve a step further.

@ThorTorrens @peter_peater You won't get fully detoxed unless your Ca is in good standing. The liver can't even release vA with too low Ca because of the damage it does. Ca protects you from all forms of vA damage. Low Ca CAUSES cholestasis, too.

You’re missing the nuance here It’s not that dairy is evil it’s that it’s no good for someone who has already over burned by VA After spending 3-5 years detoxing vitamin A being able to introduce dairy on one hand while staying under the RDA for VA on the other hand is a great thing I definitely am going to do a little raw Parmesan or Swiss once I’m fully detoxed

damn garrett smith straight up reccomending dairy, i remember he argued with me that Peat was wrong about calcium lowering PTH, i told him he was too full of his own ego, what a clown.

@peter_peater This is also after almost a year after he fired me b/c I started taking Ca and people asked me about it & I told them the benefits. He made a huge fuss over it. I knew this would happen, though, as Ca is too inportant to keep out of the diet. It does too much and he knows this.

@orangearky @AndrewDBaird1 I don't have much on there. I'm bad with social media. 😅 I'd consider that seeing the light & not blinded anymore. Working on a site with all the information on it. Hopefully, will have it up soon. He does! I would also follow @Will_of_Europa, @weldonwilliford,@DrSteveGoeddeke.

@HopeTipton6 @AndrewDBaird1 Hey Hope Annemarie from VitA detox, well ex detoxer lol Just wanted to say hello, u were always so amazing for information & support! 🧡

@orangearky @AndrewDBaird1 Hey Anne, Awe! Thank you!! I did/do my best still. 💜