hi, i’m the cdnutsologist here 
cd nuts started carb backloading only some time after he felt healed, just to put up muscles.
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Haha, cdnutsologist! 
Thanks Sonic for that info. Makes sense too in a way…
New Game Plan:
Keto Diet from Tuesday to Thursday ( for easing into the fast and healing through bhb)
Fasting from thursday evening to sunday morning (for healing through high level of bhb)
Carb backloading from Sunday to Monday (for raising testosterone)
I just crashed myself again through too much omega 3 supplements. Let’s see if I can better myself with this regimen…
“Inhibition of the enzyme can be classified into two categories: steroidal, which are irreversible, and nonsteroidal. There are more steroidal inhibitors, with examples including finasteride (MK-906), dutasteride (GG745), 4-MA, turosteride, MK-386, MK-434, and MK-963. Researchers have pursued synthesis of nonsteroidals to inhibit 5α-reductase due to the undesired side effects of steroidals. The most potent and selective inhibitors of 5α-R1 are found in this class, and include benzoquinolones, nonsteroidal aryl acids, butanoid acid derivatives, and more recognizably, polyunsaturated fatty acids (especially linolenic acid), zinc, and green tea.[8] Riboflavin was also identified as a 5α-reductase inhibitor” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5α-Reductase
Polyunsaturated fatty acids are 5ar inhibitors
And fish oil/omega3 are polyunsaturated fatty acids…
don’t carb backload, avoid it till you heal
Be careful how you formulate things. Reads like a command…
I suggest you heal yourself first and then you might be in the position to provide some friendly suggestion.
If we are honest to ourselves, all we do right now is still pretty much fishing in the dark.
sorry if it looked like a command, it was not, it was a suggestion
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I have gone keto and found that it has massively improved my focus and memory. Still nothing like pre-PFS, but I can actually read a page of academic text and remember key points from it now, before I couldn’t even remember the paragraph I had just read.
This is week 4 of keto and I am going to keep it going.
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For the PSSD people out there, keto can make anhedonia worse for us. Have seen it happen often, including myself.
nice to hear. hope you get better
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Can you elaborate? Are you still on keto? Does it help with anything?
I do more low carb now. Keto decreases glutamate too much. This is often already too low in people with PSSD, giving them anhedonia. The calmness that comes with keto is simply making me even more dead. Things like sarcosine can sometimes help against this, or not eating keto.
Never heard of this. Has this been confirmed?
They also use it for this reason in autistic kids, raising GABA, reducing glutamate. Read this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722878/
Keto can be very good for people who deal with anxiety after PFS/PSSD/PAS. Not so good for the anhedonics.
I have emotional blunting and did keto for a couple months. Didn’t notice any effects in either direction.
I think others like @BrongFogBoy recorded the same
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I have some level of emotional blunting, vastly improved on a year ago, having pursued low carb most of that time. No worsening so far, 4 weeks into keto. If anything, it has improved because my improved cognition has given me a mood lift.
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I should say, blunting from PFS can be different from blunting from PSSD. Other causes.
Hi guys im on Carnivore diet for 4 weeks and got some small morning wood improvements, nothing drastic now. Apart from trying to stay positive and away from this site, i get depressed some days and think how we actually may deceive ourselves and think this condition is not 100% reversible… i really feel time to time this is permanent and we missed the train you know… I want to ask:
Do you guys think is there a chance to recover for the people who suffer for 5+ years? When i read the recovery stories, the %90 of them happens max after 3 years of suffering… so this is my 5th year with Post Accutane Syndrome and i just got worse with time…
Im starting to think that my body is adapted to this new normal? Am i thinking pessimistic or 5 years is not a deadline? Good thing is my penis is never got androgen deprived i get daily erections cuz im a mild case. Thank you all. Any long time sufferer experiencers or references appreciated.
I really can’t remember a good recovery story who had pfs for 5+ years… before. It made me think.
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The time you are suffering is not the key factor, so don’t worry for that.
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