They don’t. They have to do with my very restricted diet which doesn’t bring all I need. Also notice how many vitamins I cut in half or take every two days.
The vitamins, minerals and amino acids are specific to my case. My point posting this is to show people the diet I’m following. The vitamins, minerals and amino acids did nothing to take away the symptoms. Not that I know of anyway. But 72 hours in the diet and most neurological symptoms were gone so clearly the diet is the main thing here.
It’s not hard to take a lot of vitamins daily when you just use pill boxes and set them out for the week every Sunday or whatever. Requires no thought whatsoever, really. The other pills he takes aren’t for the diet but rather for his insomnia.
When I tried a keto diet it was very good for removing brain fog. The problem I have is sustaining the diet - family meals, friends, holidays. The diet is very disruptive to any sense of a normal social life.
As soon as you eat more than a tiny amount of carb, all the fat going round your blood stream is going to stick straight to your artery walls.
Perhaps keto is a price worth paying. I haven’t found much else that consistently keeps the brain fog away.
By the way, as a note for anyone who Accutane - be careful with supplementing vitamin A. You can end up making a mess of yourself.
That’s certainly not what happens.
Incorrect IMO. low density cholesterol, short threads, stick to the arteries to fix damage done by stress. Nothing to do with carbs or insulin. Ketogenic diet does fix arteries and remove the need for cholesterol to fix damage.
Ketogenic diet produces high and low density cholesterol, but in long threads. Does not clog arteries as much as carbs.
Taking carbs will raise insulin and put all that fat into your cell and fat cells. Eating carbs and fat together makes you fat. Eating fat alone makes you thin. Eating carbs alone makes you fat (lots of it converts to fat)
I can give you tricks to deal with those: on airplane trips, I bring tubes of ghee and dehydrated meat or I fast.
On family reunion, I eat the non carbs items or I fast.
When you’re fat adapted (3-6 months in the diet) it’s always easy to stay 1-2 days without eating.
I kept the diet for almost 3 years. I intent to do it all my life.
Here are some extraordinary claimed benefits for normal people:
(I won’t link the science behind so research it if you like)
Counters diabetes with claims of reversing type 2 diabetes.
Great for fat loss. Makes people thin and gain muscles
Greatly lowers heart diseases
Greatly lowers chances of getting strokes (I don’t even bruise anymore)
Greatly lowers chances of cancers, most of which feed on carbs. (but a few on ketones)
Reduces chances of Alzheimer, dementia and cognitive impairment due to age.
Gain IQ points ! (2 pts apparently). Makes the mind noticeably sharper.
Makes skin beautiful and even removes freckles with time
Reduce or reverses the damage done by aging. Extend life.
Most of all, makes 40+yo people not feel age. I can be fit until I hit 90 then suddenly die… I don’t need to be sick from 50 to 90 (if I ever reach that on a normal diet)
Fixes all joints. I have no more joint pain and I’m not cracking anymore…
Removes belly pot, reveal six pack behind, reduces dangerous brown fat.
Here’s me 3 months ago. I’m 53yo, no grey hair, no wrinkles, no glasses, people gives me 30+:
congratulations, spectacular body,
only advice I would give you is to try to reduce melatonin,
in Italy it is forbidden to prescribe more than 5mg, they say that below 5mg gives drowsiness, above 5mg gives restlessness and reduces sleep,
Interesting. Thanks for the tip !
I know a psychiatrist who says sees a lot of patients that have become dependant on Melatonin and will just go up and up and up on dose and it loses all effectiveness as sleep aid. Just another thing to keep in mind. No judgement on Melatonin, just sharing something one might be wary of.
Melatonin heals the epigenome. I’m not taking it to sleep.
I see that you use clonazepam, is that only for insomnia?
A year after i quitted fin, i became addicted clonazepam and it almost went wrong for me. Its a strong sedative benzodiazepine, i think many would argue that this would slow the recovery time from pfs, what do you think?
I actually felt alot better on clonazepam and my sex life was better. But i strongly advice people to not use this drug, specially if they also have anxiety problems.
Yes it is. My insomnia is so bad I have to fight it with all kinds of things. I don’t think it’s good but it’s better than not sleeping. In that aspect, not sleeping would slow my recovery much more than taking clonazepam IMO.
I don’t see what clonazepam has to do with the epigenome, the body’s ability to fix it or the androgen receptors. Maybe you could clarify in which way clonazepam interact with PFS and slows its recovery.
We don’t lack ability to produce GABA IMO, what we have is a poly-glutamine toxicity which increases to toxic levels of all glutamine metabolites. Relevant to my condition: Glutamate, the stimulatory neurotransmitter which also antagonizes GABA.
In 2018, the disease disabled me. I couldn’t work so I had to find a way to be functional. All in all, I’m maybe just kicking the can down the road. I’m 53. I have a factory in Thailand and right now we’re producing at full capacity to provide goods for the newly printed money. I am not building any tolerance to clonazepam so I can probably go on and extra 2-3 years, by which time the printed money scheme should have imploded, I could shut my factory and retire with enough money to afford being disabled with 3 kids.
Meanwhile, I’m doing all I can to heal the epigenome. From the success stories, it looks like it took 4-6 years to those who recovered. That’s 3 years from now for me, with most symptoms currently already gone… Maybe I would have time to recover from the poly-glutamine toxicity and then deal with the clonazepam addiction without having extra high Glutamate to prevent any GABA from manifesting itself ?
Wish for the best and plan for the worst. Meanwhile, in my experience, Things are not as bad as the worst I can imagine and not as good as the best I could wish for so I guess I’ll have something in between in the future.
I cant clarify that at all, it was a thoughtless assumption.
Don’t worry. In order to move forward on a disease that has very little study behind it, we have to make assumptions. We just need to keep in mind that they are assumption and be careful…
Congratulation for your success in symptoms relieve and your body 
Are you doing some weight lifting or is this a natural body transformation with your diet?
Glad to hear you are making strides in your recovery Ozeph!
On the topic of Melatonin… Melatonin is also a potent free radical scavenger in the brain. It’s use as an antioxidant shows very promising potential for reducing cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disease. Most people take in the order of 20mg/d for anti-ageing. It personally makes me feel extremely depressed the following day, so I avoid, but there is large benefit I see to taking high dose melatonin on the brain.
Curious, have you ever had your gut microbiome analysed? I am interested to understand how strict ketogenic lifestyle would affect the microbiotia. As I understand, the number 1 predictor of a healthy microbiome is the abundance and diversity of plant based fibers in your diet. As someone who is trying to fix their microbiome (I have the bacterial profile of somebody with CFS/ME), I’m interested to hear your thoughts on keto vs high fiber diet.
Best wishes and very happy to hear your progress.
I did do weight lifting now I’m doing maintenance push ups and pull ups etc… but not nearly as many as I would do if I was training.
The diet increased my muscle mass and made the fat melt…
@Alex50 Melatonin helps repair the epigenome and does a lot more. It’s a good supplement IMO. 5mg will make you sleepy but more will be excitatory. I have yet to test taking 20mg in the morning.
Your body looks incredible for 53 man congrats!
Thank you.
That’s because of the diet and tricks to reverse aging. It also repairs epigenetic damage as it’s the major cause of aging.
