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Wow! Pancrease is back, I keep forgetting to try it again. Now four years ago I devoted the better part of three years learning everything possible about bowel health, specifically CF bowel motility. Enzymes can be dialed in or titrated using tests like fecal elastase and steatorrhea and some...

Keep building your specifications. This is a great step. Maybe post something similar, asking for complaints or problems. Addressing a number of complaints in a product is key to the concept. Searching through the site archives could hold some great ideas. When I suggested a UV sterilization...

Unless you've lived at high altitude, you are in for a dry experience. I frequently hosted people from coastal Asia including Southeast Asia where dry weather means it isn't raining. I had several surprised people when they experienced boogers, desiccated nasal mucus. Most were miserable and...

Taylor Hayes, Congratulations on your school/career choice. Maybe Hannah, the potential drop out is reading your post. I'll play devel's advocate for your design ideas if you like. I have an unusual and varied background that might make it fun. My careers have spanned from a luthier to a...

Haritaki, that other thing, is available from Amazon and of course all the same vitamin stores on line. I haven't studied haritaki, it is an herb and as such proceed with great caution. P.a. is so hard to fight, I won't discount anything out of hand. Learn everything about it and involve your...

I believe the word is chelated, not cheated. No worries, chelating is an extraction process that goes way back to days when chemistry was alchemy. Some people ascribe a quality to an mineral derived by chelating. As long as a person believes chelated minerals are superior and the premium cost...

Asked that question and tested it a few times. Tepid 160F (71C) water like brewing temperature for coffee and tea kills virtually everything by three minutes steeping. That coincidentally, is the temperature for pasteurization, so don't drink day old tea that has been open to the air at room...

Thank you for the link. I pretty well read everything I could access. Learning how to approach life and living isn’t a native skill awarded at birth. Not all philosophies fit all people but studying different life philosophies helps us form the best approach without making all the mistakes in...

Sorry, most CFers have some kind of medical team and easy access to affordable medications. I've been in countries where a pharmacist is a prescribing/diagnosing medico and if I could say it, the pharmacist was willing to sell me what I wished. There also is a bit of sketchiness in obtaining...

E-cigs deliver an actually safe vapor of nicotine. It is so much safer than dip or smoke it's a simple choice. You do have to consider nicotine sessation if or when you develop issues associated with narcotics like chronic constipation, IBS, Crohn's disease and GERD become issues. Regardless...

Thanks, Hashimoto’s syndrome certainly fits. Unfortunately it is also has been mistaken for about everything from mental illness to rheumatoid arthritis and visa versa. I am so sorry, if a person could die from frustration, you might be at risk. Hashimoto’s syndrome can take years to confirm...

Yah, I don't know of a testosterone cream. I checked the internet searching for "testosterone cream" and I didn't find a prescription testosterone cream. What is being sold as non prescription testosterone cream is all DHEA in an transdermal delivery. I could be wrong, what is the exact name of...

From all indications Enzo has low testosterone levels and his level should be close to the maximum value at 19. All patients are tested prior prescribing testosterone and are periodically monitored. A value of 1200 is the normal maximum but the natural maximum can be nearly doubled during...

I still don't believe this but caffeine is not a stimulant! It in fact counters our body's natural rest inducing hormones. We go to sleep when a set of hormones flood the body and they slowly clear upon waking. Culture has a lot to do with how we resist or embrace the natural cycle of these body...

Over a year ago at least, I noticed my CF specialist come into the exam room with a brand new in the bag stethoscope and a sterile disposable smock. Both went in the trash as he finished and left! My first thought was a bit of disbelief and after a couple repeats of the new procedure I had to...

There's a lot of supposition in what reasons the doctor has for why you aren't skinny. We are still impacted by the same health issues that affects the general population. I don't hear much about this but I certainly keep reading about CF's impact on all gland structures like the pancreas and...

My first experiments with testosterone repeated the discovery of how testosterone affects animals. We took newborn chickens, chicks, and simply made half roosters or males by injecting them with testosterone for a few weeks. It is potent stuff that will turn a woman's outward appearances male...

D- aspartic acid (DAA) is a testosterone precursor so yes it may up your testosterone levels. I don’t know who has advised you on this but if your doctor is suggesting it go ahead. I ran an empirical test last year with my doctor using DHEA with great results. You might consider taking it as...

Actually, CF impacts all stress hormone glands and testosterone production is supercharged by CF. This can lead to slower sexual development because of the body’s high demand and early burnout because of the stress of CF. An equivalent situation happens with women, robbing them of their...

BreeAlysia, Pleurisy and pleural effusion are caused by infection at the pleural membrane in some form or other. Antibiotics, yah, I know, anyway antibiotics typically clear up the infection causing either pleurisy or pleural effusion. That's the only treatment I've ever gotten for it and it...