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Brian Moore's avatar

still reading, but want to second you the melatonin thing - my experience is that 3-5mg is WAY too much, and that you want more like 300 mcg, (pretty sure newer studies support the lower dosage regimen) and even then, only "as needed to reset sleep windows" rather than "every night forever"

"It could be that there’s some sort of self-limiting body fat dynamic at work, which would explain why people yo-yo so much when dieting."

Also my experience, I repeatedly plateau until I do a 2-4 day fast. Please don't make this into an experiment on yourself, but would various "cheats" like that cryo-therapy or liposuction "work" (in the physical sense, not in the "I-recommend-this" sense) in this case? If you had a low-PUFA diet, but had (as you describe) a bunch of old bad PUFA-rich fat cells, could you liposuction them out and skip the "“battle” the broken cells" stage? Or perhaps less surgically, might the autophagy that fasting people are always talking about wipe out those cells in a "they don't dump their LA back into your blood" way?

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Lynn Razaitis's avatar

Last summer I started a 6 month experiment having 1 oz of salmon roe/day plus 6 oz of fatty fish at least tiwce a week. For fatty I used wild arctic char mostly ( it's quite fatty and delicious). I also occasionally used fish oil.

My goal was to improve osteoarthritis in an ankle and it did help for a while then the opposite began to happen. By month 4-5 my joints were slowly getting stiffer and heading back into the terriotory I was in before I got serious about no seed oils.

Of course my omega 3 scores on omegaquant were fantastic ...right at the top of the ideal range.,,,for what that's worth.

I stopped this experiment about 3 months ago and my joints have been improving. I still eat fish occassionally and use salmon roe a maybe 4 times a week but I will not try again to blow my omega 3 levels out of the water.

Oh yes....one more problem I noticed was my eyesight which had improved to the point of no need for glasses to drive took a nosedive. I now use my glasses to drive.

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