Garlic is reducing inflamation and killing some fungus and your ED getting better. I think our symptoms most of chronic inflamation which is my doctor diagnosed me prostatis and other inflamation problems.
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I did a inflammation blood test and it was normal. What was the name of it? Wish i could remember. Was a hormone that indicated levels of inflammation in the whole body and brain. It was in range.
EDIT: CRP it was crp i think. @nasa01 what is your treatments about your doctors diagnosis?
Are you recovered ?
No, I’m not completely recovered, but I am recovering. I haven’t been on here in months, as I have been trying different things. I’ve had a lot of luck with amino acids, but the positive affects do eventually stop working as well. I can mix it up to different ones, get some good help that may last for a couple of months, but nothing is permanent. I have noticed that in the two and a half years I have been doing this, I am definitely better than I was, not completely recovered though.
@Ozeph has been preaching a carnivorous diet on here. I finally decided to give this a try seeing as how I have nothing else to lose. I haven’t gone full carnivorous yet, I am doing more of a keto type diet, but I have been eating zero sugar and very low carb. Here’s what I have found. Without taking any supplements, my symptoms are better than they have ever been and as long as I stay on the diet, they remain good. One of the biggest problems that I have had has been the very dry and badly cracked hands that no amount of lotion can cure. I have been eating this way now for about 7-8 weeks and my hands have not cracked at all. Now, just to experiment with it, one night I ate a small amount of sugar just to see what would happen. When I did, within an hour my hands started stinging like they would before, when I knew they were fixing to start cracking and bleeding. It didn’t last long seeing as how I only ate a small amount of sugar. The next day, I did it again just to see what would happen. Same thing, within an hour my hands started stinging. I have since just avoided it altogether.
I reached out to @Ozeph a couple of months ago right before I started this permanently and he said he has 10 other guys eating this way and they are all benefitting from it. From how I am feeling so far, I believe it.
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I haven’t wrote here for a while as my symptoms are still getting better (not that I had much left) and, well, no news good news except it doesn’t help anyone here.
So I’ve been carnivore /ketogenic since July 2018. I had 4 symptoms that started years before I stopped fin and crashed. Those were anxiety and insomnia, but dating back even longer (2012) I had burning eyes and burning lips. I needed to put Vaseline on my lips 24/7 because it was hurting too much. As for the eyes, it was not constant but hapened when I was sweating or washing my face with soap, so anything that would slightly irritate the eyes did so a lot more to my eyes.
The symptoms I had before stopping and crashing are much more persistent than the ones I had after crashing which are all but gone except maybe brainfog after a night of insomnia.
I was going to post soon, but now is a good opportunity. The eyes burning problem is 98% gone. It will show up very rarely after washing my face with soap, would last only while I shower and be gone when I’m out.
The lips burning problem has been decreasing in the last 6 months. It was manifesting itself when I was brushing my teeth, especially if I shaved on the same “shower time”. It’s also a soap problem. Currently, after brushing my teeth, my lips are a little dry but not hurting and I can choose not to put Vaseline on.’
Anxiety is non-existant except when I have multiple stressful situations coming from different angles and converging in time, like a rush of orders, deadline I’m not sure to meat and a fight with my wife. It’s much better than what I would get in the 10-12 years pre-crash.
Insomnia is still an issue, I’m taking meds and herbs, but instead of building tolerance I increasingly sleep better. I can usually count on 5-6 hours of deep sleep, I would wake up still drowsy, and would manage to sleep another 2-3 hours waking up and tossing frequently. However, I do get some deep sleep and normal dreams in between the wake ups.
All together, symptoms are on a slowly decreasing constant trend. I can project that within 3-6 months I won’t have burning eyes or lips anymore. During the same period, anxiety should go down but I can’t predict it will be gone, neither can I make predictions on insomnia (which is not that bad at all comparing to what I had, which was similar to what some of you guys have).
If I look at the trajectory and if I’m being realistic, I’m looking at another 3 years of dieting, eating once a day, exercising and doing the David Sinclair tricks (see below).
Taking a NAD+ boosters such as Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) seems to have kicked in a faster recovery for the eyes and lips problems. It makes sense since NAD+ is anti-inflammatory.
I wish you all the best !
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@Ozeph
Glad to hear from you that you’re doing well.
How many carbs do you ususally eat in a day?
Right now I’m following the paleo aip diet and I feel much better. I’ve also reduced the amount of carbs because of you and other members had good sucess with a keto diet.
But I’m still suffering from issues like insomnia, low stress intolerance and weak erection when I try to masturbate or try to have sex.
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I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better !
Ideally, I eat no more than 20-30 gr a day. Most of my calories are from fat, most of it from ghee.
I also have around 80-120 gr of protein.
Hey great news @Ozeph
I have been on a keto diet for the last 2 months and it has helped insomnia and got rid of mental sides. However it doesn’t help the sexual sides (ED, libido, numbness). Have you had any success in this department with the diet?
That’s really great news.
My mental sides were quick to go, the sexual ones took longer. I started seeing small incremental changes after 9 months. 2 years and half after starting the diet, my balls are not hurting anymore and they haven’t for a year (they were hurting 24/7), erections are normal, morning woods normal, sensitivity a bit lower but it varies. Sometime I can be hypersensitive (like: come in 1 minutes). Sex drive is lower, from wanting sex 3 times a day to twice a week. I took fin almost 20 years and I’m 53yo. My sex drive is higher than some of my 50+ friends, lower than others.
I suggest you just keep at it, IMHO you’ll have similar results.
I wish you the Best !
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Thanks for the reply, I will keep at it then!
You’re lucky to see progress. I only took one pill but I am 23 years old, this is way too young to feel like a monk…
Crossing my fingers and trying my best!
Agreed.
On the other side, your body is more flexible, adaptable at 23 than at my age. Plus you’ve already seen benefits therefore it’s having an effect.
Other tricks to repair the epigenome:
- Exercise while glycogen depleted (carbs depleted)
- Run until you get out of breath
- Fast 1-2-3 day. Short fasts are good as you can do them more often. Fast 1 day a week or do intermittent fasts (eat once a day)
- Take cold shower (I know, it’s freezing, that’s the point). It doesn’t have to be long
- Take hot saunas ( and then plunge into the cold pool for twice the benefits)
It all helps but don’t do too much. Better to do less than to break and abandon. More important than how much you do is how persistent you are at it.
I’m sorry I haven’t found a faster way. The way I’m doing takes time but it works for me and it’s natural. There’s not many ways available to us !
Good Luck !
Hi guys, I’m interested in this protocol, I really have nothing to lose since I love something aggressive, but I am a bit confused, there is a lot of information, any recommendations on how I could start?
Simplifying, I suffer from all kinds of effects, from bleeding gums, cold feet, brain fog, digestives …
The most notorious are the mental ones (absence of emotions, motivation, mental clumsiness, poor memory, etc.)
Digestive, physical (very dry and ugly skin). The sexual ones are in a decent point, they improved a lot.
Thank you
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hi，Ozeph my sister also advices me take Gynostemma.how do you feeling about it know？thank you.
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At first I wasn’t sure what that was, over here in Asia it’s called Jiaogulan.
I took a lot of it after crashing, never had any bad reactions to it and you remind me I should drink some again. It’s delicious and refreshing. (I make a cold herbal tea out of it)
It’s an adaptogen and brings some hormones and neurotransmitters to their normal middle range. It’s also reputed to bring longevity, and according to research aging is mostly due to epigenetic damage. It could be that Jiaogulan (Gynostemma) helps repair the epigenome. Idk.
It’s worth a try, and I’ll drink some myself. Thanks for reminding me !
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Hi alteredlife and Ozeph,
thank you very much for all this useful information, really appreciated. I tried BCAAs yesterday and today and I felt way better for the first time in weeks. Even if it only works for a few days/weeks, I’m grateful for experiencing feelings and better energy again.
I couldn’t sleep at all. 100% insomnia. I had muscle weakness and couldn’t stand up for long or climb 2 flights of stairs. I had speech slur and it was difficult to put words together or thoughts for that matter. I was bloated, food was not going down (or out) so the content of my stomach was pouring out in my throat. I had sever headaches almost constantly. I had coordination problem which is why I couldn’t drive.
Of course I had depression, severe anxiety, suicide idealization (I really wished I was dead), brain fog, anhedonia. I didn’t care about my children whereas before they meant the world to me. I had sexual symptoms but they were the least of my concern.
I’m glad I didn’t end my life. Each day was hard to go through but eventually life got better. It’s been four years and a half. I’m still not cured but I’m functional and can now live a normal life, a life with a moderate handicap. It’s a nuisance but I can work, travel, meet people and move forward. I’m still on a very, very low carb diet. Maybe I will get better in the future, maybe not, but I intent on living this life to its natural end. There’s still a lot of things I can do.
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Are your muscles back to normal? If so, what did you do about the energy, did it come back naturally? I’ve lost a lot of muscle since my crash; soft muscles and lack of strength and some muscles disappeared. I have muscle pain throughout the day.
Yes, my muscle are back to normal. I went on a carnivore / ketogenic diet, limiting carbs to the minimum (around 20gr a day). Digestion went back to normal within a few days, headaches disappeared, energy came back. It took me maybe 6 weeks to start lifting weights and since then I have more muscle than I ever did.
I try to eat 1 to 1.5 gr of protein per kilo of body mass.
I have to add, I eliminated almost everything plant based except lettuce, cucumbers and a few other very low carbs veggies. After 4 years, I can now eat more veggies and limited amounts of fruits but my main source of energy is still meat, eggs, healthy plant based and animal fat.
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Did you feel body aches? During the day I feel body aches coming and going.