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Category Archives: Veganism

The Shiitake Experiment

26-Oct-09

And the results of the shiitake experiment are…. inconclusive. After taking shiitake for a week or so, I noticed I was hungry all the time, even just after eating. I realized I must be taking an appetite stimulant. Shiitake was the only thing I’d added to my supplements recently. So I stopped taking it, [...]

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Excess Facial Hair Prevention

08-Oct-09

One of the side effects of my PCOS is excess facial hair. It’s kind of hard to find information about preventing or curing that. It’s easy to find hair removal information, but I’d rather prevent the growth. Over the years I’ve tried various things to get rid of the excess hair, and there are a [...]

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My Weight Loss Plan, Part 1

22-Sep-09

I’m about 50 pounds overweight. I have PCOS and insulin resistance. That makes it harder to lose weight, but not impossible. For a while I was doing The Insulin Resistance Diet, which was great. It made me feel better. I get lightheaded and woozy when I have too many carbs. But after a while that [...]

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