AndyJ's Body Enhancement Thread

I know its winter but the best thing for healthy vitamin D levels is Sun. The good ol Sun. Plenty of it. Nothing better than the Sun. The “avoid the sun because it causes cancer” is another bullshit that comes from the allopathic medicine. MD’s. Low vitamin D levels is just another MD caused disease.

People get cancer from the sun for one simple specific reason: Same reason as always. Severe chronic deficiency of essential nutrients. If your diet and supplement intake is on point, you will only see benefits from the Sun. Plenty of them, ZERO risk of cancer. I live in FL and spend hours under the sun during the summer. As my father and mother did, as grandparents did. It feels awesome, it makes you feel awesome after, nothing better and healthier than spending time in the sea water under the hot summer sun getting that dark tan while absorbing more nutrients from the sea.

Tell me more… I catch natural vitamin D i.e. sun at every occasion. Today it started to snow… But on my balcony from march I spend every day at least an hour in the sun. Thus getting adapted to stronger sunlight during summer. The tan almost stays whole year through.

The sun rays energy charges my body and gives so many positive vibes…

Got the weight bench set up. I did some sitting curls, then ordered a weight belt. Well, two that I can link together around my waist. I don’t see why biceps and shoulder muscles should involve the abdomen at all, but it seems to work that way.

It’s called the core for a reason. You’re probably involving your legs as well.

Yesterday I decided to make some more flatbreads/burrito wraps/whatever. Most recipes call for whole eggs or egg whites. I had bought a small box of eggs, but my wife ate them. So I surfed for a recipe that didn’t need eggs.

One called for 1 cup chia flour, 3/4 cup almond flour, 1/4 cup coconut flour, and salt. I had all that on hand, so rock on.

When I opened the sealed bag, the chia flour had a funky smell that I didn’t care for. I went ahead and mixed everything up, mashed them on my tortilla press, and threw the first one in the frying pan. The smell became an odor of magnitude worse. I wound up opening some windows for ventilation. By the time I had cooked them all, the whole place stank.

I broke off a piece and chewed it. It tasted like nothing. And it still stank. After due consideration, I walked outside and put them in the trash bin. And when I got back home, I had to wash my hair and change my clothes; the funk was on me.

As far as a recipe, it was dead easy - four dry ingredients, mix, dump in a cup of water, knead, let the dough sit for ten minutes, mash out and cook. The wraps cooked in half the time the almond flour ones took, and were strong and flexible; I could bend and roll them without cracks or breakage, and it took some effort to pull a chunk off. Everything you could ask for in a keto wrap, except dear $DIETY, the stench. That’s a recipe I won’t try again.

Fifth TRT injection this morning. Again, I had some leakage, though only a few drops. But it doesn’t take a lot of drops to make 100ml.

Like anyone else, I turned to the web and typed in "intramuscular injection how to stop oozing out." Aha! Different instructions from when I looked up "how to give an injection" weeks ago.

The trick appears to be the "Z-Track" method, where you press down near the injection site with one hand while you stick the needle in with the other. When you release the adjacent pressure the tissues try to go back to where they were, but they’re constrained by the needle. When you withdraw the needle the tissues go back to their at-rest state, causing the injection track to bend, which helps reduce chance of leakage.

The site below has a clear explanation, with drawings: Z-Track Injection | Definition and Patient Education

What the hell? Had the flour gone bad or…is chia flour just like that?

I don’t know. It’s pretty freakin’ nasty, though. I’m not inclined to buy any more to see if it’s different.

TL;DR: don’t Kegel in the Size Doctor

I did some Kegels to push some blood up into my glans when the bell of the Size Doctor tried to slide off. Seemed to work OK, but my glans was sore after the session, and the next morning, and the next day. Third day now, much better. I’ll resume my pump-and-extend cycle tomorrow and see how it feels.

During my short break from shaft work I decided to work on my balls. There’s only so much time to be had for PE, and they’ve been a low priority.

TL;DR: I should have listened to the “use heat” people

A while pack I had bought a nifty “hand warmer/phone charger” from eBay for $15. It’s a lithium battery pack about the size of a pack of cigarettes, with USB ports and a heating element on each side. You can use it to power a USB device or use it as a heater. Temperatures are selectable between 45C and 60C.

I set it for 45C and tucked it under my balls. I gave it twenty minutes, then applied my usual 2-1/8” tube and pumped it to 4”Hg and wrapped it with my heating pad.

I’d previously gone from “high and tight” to “some hang, sometimes”, but after an hour’s pump, I had a scrotum the size of my fist when I came out of the tube, that I could wrap my thumb and index finger above my balls in an “OK” grip and pull down. I’ve not been able to do that for a long time. I put a stretchy cock ring on above my balls to maintain the size. The first time, I only left it on for 15 minutes, the second, for 30, and the third, for an hour. No sign of loss of blood circulation - well, it worked fine on my penis too - but I didn’t want any unpleasant surprises.

There’s a noticeable difference between 1/2 hour and 1 hour pumps. I have some sore spots where the mouth of the tube rests on my pelvic bone, so I’ve shortened the sessions some, alas. I looked around for a thick rubber gasket like the full-package pumpers use, but I didn’t find anything small enough to fit a 2” to 2-1/2” tube. (if anyone knows of one, please mention it!)
All the gaskets I found were thin, intended as combination air seals and cock rings, like the ones that come with cheap oversize “one size fits all” pumping kits.

Back at my desk, I make an “OK” and dug out a ruler. Huh, the opening is more square than round, I’d never noticed. Averaged out to 1-1/2”/38mm, more or less. I wanted a ring to keep my balls down. I had bought a couple a year ago, but my scrotum was so tight I couldn’t even start to get them on. One of them might work now, but the right testicle still fluctuates in size; I don’t think it would stay in place for long. Since I bought the rings I’d discovered the oval ones, but most of them were still large enough on the narrow axis that I questioned whether the smaller testicle would pull through. I found one that had internal dimensions of .71 x 2.68”. That’s 2.3 square inches. A 1-1/2” circle is 1.9 square inches. Tight enough it shouldn’t fall off, loose enough it shouldn’t cut off circulation. The only source was in China, so it’s not scheduled to show up until mid-January, subject to further “supply chain issues.”

The rings I bought a year ago, I just wanted as jewelry. At least the new one will have a practical use as well.

The chelated zinc came in. They’re 50mg tablets. I took one, and ten minutes later I had the same headache/nausea as the regular tablets.

The regular ones are long and skinny, and easy to cut with my pill cutter. The chelated ones are tall and fat, but the cutter seems to work OK with them. Hopefully one doesn’t get stuck going down (sharp edges).

I wonder if you’d get that from freeze dried liver. Maybe. I doubt you’d get if from liver au natural (that’s basically a time delay caplet).

By the way, I know I’ve mentioned this but liver is really nice. The trick is to sear the outside fast and leave the inside raw.

I mixed up a new batch of Glop a while ago. Shea butter, cocoa butter, hyaluronic acid, and L-lysine powder. The shea butter was from a new half-pound tub and it was very lumpy. After spending far too much time trying to stir the lumps out, I stuck the container in the microwave for ten seconds. That was all it took to turn it into a runny liquid. It turned into the usual semi-solid when it cooled down.

I wasn’t all that happy with the smell of the first tub of shea butter. The new tub has noticeably less odor to it. The cocoa butter doesn’t smell like anything in particular.

I’m only using the Lubriderm lotion as a pumping lube now; for everything else I’ve moved to the Glop.

I think I’ve had chicken liver once and beef liver twice. I didn’t care for the chicken liver. The beef liver… it skipped past “don’t like” right to “gag and hurl”. And then I encountered it a second time, a couple of decades later, served to me at a dinner. I thought it was roast beef and gravy. (here in Dixie, they put gravy on the damnedest things…) I managed to spit it out without causing a social faux pas, but it was a near thing.

It appears there are supplements made out of freeze-dried beef liver.

Yes I linked them a few posts up.