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BlackRidge

BlackRidge

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Glad to have stumbled upon this community. After spending some time reading quietly and chasing various "research" leads elsewhere, I keep getting pointed right back to this spot.

At 36, I'm on the younger side, and I'm several months out from surviving a heart attack. Before that happened, I had almost no dealings with the medical world, and it's certainly lived up to its reputation. Right now I take 7 medications—a few of them are managing side effects brought on by the others—and I keep hitting walls when it comes to finding doctors who want to dig into underlying causes and prevention rather than just managing symptoms. I've also been informed that some of the harm my heart attack caused can't be undone, which doesn't quite line up with certain clinical findings about specific peptides. I'm very eager to explore how GLP's and peptides might play a role in recovery. Looking forward to picking things up here.
 
What do you want to achieve for yourself?

A few years back, my dad suffered a heart attack and required open heart surgery. He also deals with old injuries. I've been thinking about whether bpc157 or the wolverine stack could help him, but there doesn't appear to be any data
 
I’ve been digging into a lot of material on using peptides for recovery after a myocardial infarction. You can find a few articles scattered around, but I haven’t come across anything conclusive.

Not long ago I picked up Reta, BPC-157, TB-500, GHK-Cu and KPV. The big picture for me is to cut down inflammation and maybe shrink some of the scar tissue left by my heart attack by regrowing part of that tissue. I’ve heard that today’s medicine offers no way to undo damage that’s already there, but if there’s any chance these peptides do something, it’s worth trying. Right now I’m on 7 prescriptions, a few to support recovery and a few to manage side effects brought on by the others. It would be great to stop swallowing a handful of pills twice a day just to chase symptoms.

With my situation, there’s honestly no way to confirm it’s working beyond my own subjective “feeling”. Perhaps some bloodwork and a cardiac MRI later on, but at this point I’m just trusting how I feel.

As it happens, today is day 1. Tonight I pinned my first dose of Reta, and my plan is to pin the rest one per day across the next four so I can isolate anything odd if it shows up.
 
When it comes to peptides and whether they can assist with healing heart tissue, you're in territory without a map — no studies exist, unfortunately. That said, research on how BPC 157 might affect the prostate (or the area around it) is equally absent, yet for me it brought almost total relief from really nasty prostatitis symptoms. On top of that, what a substantial body of studies does demonstrate is that diet plays a major role in inflammation — it can either help bring it down or set it off in the first place. And a big chunk of the medical system pretty much overlooks those studies.

With peptides you're already wandering into the unknown, but if you haven't yet, it could be worth looking into how a ketogenic diet (or really any diet) affects health overall, and different types of fats as well — what's usually labeled "heart healthy" frequently isn't! Should that interest you, I can pass along the names of a few people who've dug into this topic very thoroughly.
 
Flexon said:

When it comes to peptides and whether they can assist with healing heart tissue, you're in territory without a map — no studies exist, unfortunately. That said, research on how BPC 157 might affect the prostate (or the area around it) is equally absent, yet for me it brought almost total relief from really nasty prostatitis symptoms. On top of that, what a substantial body of studies does demonstrate is that diet plays a major role in inflammation — it can either help bring it down or set it off in the first place. And a big chunk of the medical system pretty much overlooks those studies.

With peptides you're already wandering into the unknown, but if you haven't yet, it could be worth looking into how a ketogenic diet (or really any diet) affects health overall, and different types of fats as well — what's usually labeled "heart healthy" frequently isn't! Should that interest you, I can pass along the names of a few people who've dug into this topic very thoroughly.
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I appreciate the feedback! It's awesome that things have worked out so well for you, and I'd definitely be interested in checking out whatever you'd be open to passing along!
 
BlackRidge said:

Flexon said:

When it comes to peptides and whether they can assist with healing heart tissue, you're in territory without a map — no studies exist, unfortunately. That said, research on how BPC 157 might affect the prostate (or the area around it) is equally absent, yet for me it brought almost total relief from really nasty prostatitis symptoms. On top of that, what a substantial body of studies does demonstrate is that diet plays a major role in inflammation — it can either help bring it down or set it off in the first place. And a big chunk of the medical system pretty much overlooks those studies.

With peptides you're already wandering into the unknown, but if you haven't yet, it could be worth looking into how a ketogenic diet (or really any diet) affects health overall, and different types of fats as well — what's usually labeled "heart healthy" frequently isn't! Should that interest you, I can pass along the names of a few people who've dug into this topic very thoroughly.
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I appreciate the feedback! It's awesome that things have worked out so well for you, and I'd definitely be interested in checking out whatever you'd be open to passing along!
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I’ll list some names and a handful of links so you have a starting point. The core point is that the widespread claim that plant-based diets are healthy isn’t supported by solid science. What may connect most directly to your issue is Dr. Paul Mason’s presentation on the “root cause of heart disease”. The individuals I’m mentioning tend to speak with a lot of nuance, and at times they get quite technical, but I’d rather have that than a watered-down “just do this” method—though that can work for some people too; the trouble is when someone’s situation isn’t that straightforward. If you’d like, I can also give you names for that simpler approach.

Naturally, the standard caveat—you have to do your own research and make your own choices!

What I’ve been through: I saw enormous improvements once I shifted my eating toward mostly animal fats and protein, but sadly it’s not as easy as eating only fatty beef or eggs and bacon, like some online evangelists claim. That works for some people, but in the end it stopped working for me (I’m 56, and who knows what damage decades of a Western diet did to my gut), so after several years I had to bring back some vegetables because my digestion struggles with food in general. So now my digestion is better, but a few old issues came back, such as allergies, rashes, acne, etc. Still, overall I’m far better off than I was before I changed my diet. I hope that someday I’ll figure out what’s causing my digestion problems, so I can at least cut down plant intake a lot. Don’t misunderstand me—I enjoy food, and I’d love to be able to eat anything without paying for it afterward!

Dr. Paul Mason

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdMpkUyF2BU

L. Amber O'Hearn

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4qUc3IdzU&t=748s

Dr. Georgia Ede

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REHWvw-eQaQ&t=769s
 
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