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My sister has Hashimoto’s And Type 1 diabetes. I have narcolepsy without severe cataplexy. Medical troubleshooting used to be my passion. Supposedly T3 (triiodothyronine) without T4 (levothyroxine) is a far more effective treatment. And most people just get T4. Also oral histamine can help tremendously with both thyroid and gut issues. And pregnenolone. Basically with hypothyroidism you want to increase cortisol and thyroid but you also want to decrease iodine and adrenaline. It’s very subtle research to actually find that this is the case but it used to be my passion. Plus, I’ve been through an insane amount of troubleshooting-away my own fatigue as I have narcolepsy — though the fatigue is nothing compared to the fact that I have to enter REM sleep first before going into true sleep onset; this causes terrifying hallucinations that made me procrastinate going to bed every night but it was a blessing in disguise as I basically got a free DMT trip every night for a decade, and this did provide a lot of insight. Meditation skill allows me to deal with it like it’s nothing now.

I have actual narcolepsy. What helped me? histamine pregnenolone If you have thyroid issues: T3 (if they give you T4, try to get T3, it is way more effective but way less sides), histamine, pregnenolone, DHEA, cortisol (nasal spray), keto diet, fasting can all be tried. One by one. Also get testosterone level checked!

Pregnenolone. I repeat, pregnenolone...

Awakening isn't necessarily associated with any change in our experience. It involves a change in our relationship with experience. And who we really are and aren't.

Medicine of One (love his Ramana Maharshi book reads) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdOC7z42O2fxeBje5QXpQQ/videos and Samaneri Jayasara (Teresa of Avila reading, tons more, etc) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz6X8QK9_JG49hJxnzAu-1w/videos

Listen to some of Rob Burbea's talks over on dharma seed. I DL them to my podcast app. His "practicing the Jhana's" (2019) and "meditation on emptiness" (2010) are incredibly inspiring, soulful, and informative. He just died a couple months ago due to pancreatic cancer. He was about as spiritually developed as one could be at his age (60 or so) and I think he even invented a new post-Buddhist-awakening framework called "Soulmaking Dharma." Although, nothing will motivate quite like tasting Jhana . Come back to it organically if you don't currently have the burning desire to be a master of perception.