I understand and that’s why I’m talking about diet: it affects the whole body.
28 years ago, I went to Mexico, slept on the beach, got up at sunrise and then spent the whole day with only a swimming suit and no sunscreen until sunset. I got so burned my face was swollen, I could barely open my eyes and my whole body peeled… Twice.
After that and for the last 28 years, I had large dark spots all over my face and body. That is, until I did this ketogenic diet for 11 months. Most of the spots in my face disappeared, not in one month but gradually over 11 months, and the remaining ones are lighter and fading away.
I’m 51. My face has less wrinkles now, barely any, than a year ago. Also I used to bruise very easily. I would just carry a heavy box and I’ll have bruise on my arms. After 11 months of diet, I don’t bruise. Even after my motorbike accident, during which I felt on my hip, I didn’t bruise although the hip was painful for a few days.
I had a pre-cancer something (complicated name I don’t remember) patch on my back. It was like a bump, scratchy and itchy and I had it for decades. In the last 11 months, my body rejected it and it peeled away.
I had dandruff and red patches on my scalp: disappeared. My skin is more elastic and radiant than before.
Those are all skin issues fixed by the diet.
Not to mention pain in some joints, the hips and knees, and I was tired all day, couldn’t always walk, couldn’t climb two flights of stairs without a break in between. All went away.
A few more things went away within the first week of completely cutting carbs and increasing meat and animal fat: brain fog, anxiety, depression and splitting headaches I would have 5 days a week, for the whole day. I haven’t had a single headache in 11 months. Eventually I could exercise and carved myself a nice six pack instead of the pregnant belly pot I had.
That was done not just by reducing carbs but by cutting them off 100%. I’m not saying it would entirely fix your problem in a week, but I’m positive you would see skin and energy improvements. And by the way: it’s healthy, not dangerous. The trick is to push slowly while doing the transition in order to not rush the body.
Some people are complaining about spasm: ketogenic diets have been used for a hundred year to reduce spasm in epileptic patients. The diet reduces Glutamate and promotes GABA. It improves memory even in Alzheimer patients. What am I to do ? Bring up ketogenic diet every time someone complains about anxiety, spasm, brain fog, headaches, fatigue, derealization or skin problem ?
It’s weird the first thing a veterinarian would ask for a sick dog is what it’s been eating, while our doctors barely ever ask what we’re eating. Diet is no joke: you are what you eat !.
It’s so annoying !. People are eating like dumpsters, obesity is up, IQ is falling (yeah, you gain IQ points by going keto !), anxiety, depression, arthritis, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes are all up and the pharmaceuticals are making money. People think it’ normal to eat 300-400 gr. of carbs a day, the RDI is 130 gr. minimum supposedly just for the brain to function and that’s bullshit. I had less than 10 gr. a day for 11 months and my brain just got better. You can thrive on 0 gr. a day and I’ve done it for weeks.
But I get censored when I bring this on social media. It’s too much against conventional norms. 2019 ? might as well be George Howell’s 1984. I can’t go against the direction the whole of humanity has chosen. So I’ll just sit back, shake my head in disbelieve and feel sorry for all this suffering. (It’s not like 7 billion people can all only eat meat. There’s just too many of us). I think I’ll just go back to write on my own threads to document what I’ve done to recover if it interests anyone.
Meanwhile sleep is back to 8 or 9 / 10 and that’s my last pfs symptom. I crashed a little over a year ago. I’m not cured but I believe I will within 3 years.
Lol. Sorry for throwing a tantrum. I guess this very moment is the moment I’m accepting things as they are and choosing to stop wanting to change things I have no power upon. From this point on I should cool down.
To the administrators: If you choose to ban me, please let me download my logs before you do so. I want to write down a protocol that would be safe when started from the first week after the crash. Something that doesn’t involve supplements before at least 3 month and avoids drugs altogether if possible (and I wouldn’t be the one suggesting drugs. There’s an army of doctors out there to do that). It would be something along the lines of slowly going into a healthy and safe low carbs diet as early as possible to avoid the damage done in those first 3 months.
Also I understand what you’re doing and have no grudge. I appreciate the effort of putting up this forum, I think it’s helping many.