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What does your day routine look like? Basically your body goes through endocrine and neurological shifts from the moment you wake up and it is important to align those peaks with how you spend the day. For example you should get a proper daylight every morning within 60 minutes of waking up. Also you should make sure you eat that first meal within that time too. It really matters from the endocrino-neurological perspective. This is also the best time to get some exercise, early on in the day. Next thing you also want to make sure that as the day progresses you use less and less blue light and switch to more warmer lights. Put blue light blocking glasses on at about 6 pm and wear them till the bed time. At this time of the day i'd gradually start weaning off from all stimulating activity. Switch off your PC about 90 minutes before bedtime latest and don't use phone or watch TV after that time either. I wouldn't eat a high carb meal too late either. This time you can actually light a candle and carry it around. Keep just enough light to avoid bumping into the walls. This time is ideal for reading, yoga, meditation, some light journalling but you want to absolutely stay away from all types of dopaminergic or adrenal stimulation (e.g. exercise, phone, video games etc) Andrew Huberman has a great video on this where he goes in-depth on these phases Of course overall nutrition is important but that would be too complex to break down here. In terms of some support, you could experiment with drinking chamomile tea in the second part of the day. Make sure you don't drink coffee after 12 am, you might be sensitive to caffeine so worth experimenting with that too. Some Valerian Root tincture could help as well as an additional support. If stress or anxieties are preventing you from falling asleep it could be that your cortisol is peaking in the evening for some reason. Could be the structure of the day (e.g spending too much time indors) but could also be other things like different types of worries and fears which ofcourse need to be worked on. The temperature of the room matters a lot. If it is too hot, sleep will be difficult. Tune the heating down & open a window if possible. You want to keep your room slightly cool but not cold Other than that I'd need more info to give more specific advice. Hope this helps

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If you've been struggling with it for a while, it may not be enough as those things aren't that nutritious on their own although they do have some nice antimicrobial properties especially garlic. The body is depleting a lot of calories and micronutrients fighting the virus so there also have to be some larger meals. What I recommended above, the vegetable lentil soup with 5-10 vegetables and a cup of lentils and a cup of olive oil is a good way to get more nutrition is that is easily digestible and will resuply the body with zinc and some protein to keep up the immune battle. Also I think warm meals are better than cold ones to battle infections but I have no research to base this argument on, it's a gut feeling.

@Preety_India itst a cysteine containing supplement that helps accelerate production of your master antioxidant called glutathione which gets used up a lot during infection, fever and inflammation I wouldn't take it all the time but it can help when there is a lot of inflammation going on or during sickness

That "fever medicine" might be making things worse. Unless your temperature is 39 degrees Celsius plus don't use that stuff. Your body is raising the fever to accelerate movement of immune cells and slow down viral replication. It has bunch of immunological benefits. Again if it is 39+ take it. What you need is to be making huge batches of vegetable & lentils soups with loads of garlic and cruciferous vegetables. Stop eating animals, stop eating sugar. Even cold things like smoothies i wouldn't recommend. If you have some NAC you can take that too as well as some exhinacea tincture if you can get your hands on one. This might be too late to check your vitamin D levels but if they are below 35 that will complicate the healing and eventually you need to get them up ideally in 60s - 90s Otherwise stop exericising but go outside for mild walk at least once a day. Keep your room ventilated well and sleep a lot. Good luck

Maybe 100 years ago this would have been true. Nowadays, most agricultural animals are obese, malnourished (in terms of nutrient quality), fed the poorest quality of food. They are fed the most contaminated, the shittiest and the cheapest food the poor underpaid farmer can get. Do you really think eating that animal's organs is gonna make you somewhat stronger? This person chose to focus on copper, ok. Copper can easily be found in huge abundance of plant foods too. You can get too much copper from liver as well as too much iron. Once upon a time people who have had to eat animal organs because frankly.,..food was scarce and when the optins were potatoes, onion and cow you ate everything you had to. Nowadays we've moved past that and we don't have to eat foods like that anymore (unless we choose ofcurse) Btw liver is not super clean either, if you dig into pubmed research you'll very quickly find articles showing high lead content, high cadmium and even high arsenic content. The world is fucked up and the more complex cellular structure our food has (e.g. animal tissue) the more possibility for contamination there exists.

Just cut them off and start filtering your water. Don't drink coffee from plastic coffee cups, don't heat food in plastic containers. Also get rid of a water boiling kettle if it is made of plastic on the inside and get a glass one. The half-life of BPAs and phtalates probably isn't as excessive compared to heavy metals and with removed exposure, your body will naturally get rid of that stuff. Water filtration has been discussed several times on the forum, check the topic history

He might be on a cocktail of meds keeping his blood pressure and cholesterol low for all you know. I wouldn't expect him to feel a need to share that with the world. Could also be strong genetic component such ad increased detoxification efficiency, improved antioxidant recycling, longer telomere caps etc Eventually eating that way he will die way before what his potential longevity could have been but sometimes people get away with a lot Having a strong sense of passion and commitment seems so somewhat protective for people tho, especially mentally so that will be a factor here

Regular rice isn't even that great of food. Glycemic Load through the roof, nutritional content poor, fibre super low. The typical white rice with 0.6 grams of fiber per 100g is a poor source of nutrition, shoots your blood sugar through the roof as if you just ate a snickers bar. There are better choices such as wild rice, brown rice, red years rice. All of those contain significantly less Arsenic and there are ways to remove up to 75% Arsenic content. @Average Investor made a youtube video on how to do that on it recently, check that out. But whenever worried about rice go for other wholegrains, much better sources of fibre and nutrients: buckwheat, quinoa, millet, amaranth, teff. kamut, oats, (and other ancient grains) compared to typical low fibre white rice, yes definitely. Compared to something like high fibre brown rice, buckwheat or other whole-grain, not really. But nutritionally speaking, potatoes are a pretty complex food and a good source of many nutrients. Sweet potatoes are a better choice tho Also, one thing about arsenic is that you can't avoid it 100%. Because it is a natural component of the soil and over milenia humans have actually got pretty good at eliminating with half-life being only about 5 days. So another strategy is not to have those foods all the time to allow your body to remove any trace arsenic. So it comes down to eating a large variety of foods and not sticking to traditional meat & rice diet. Also, fibre and different polyphenols in plants may help you remove arsenic even more efficiently so again it is not as simple as "rice is bad because of arsenic" , it comes down to what else is on the plate. This is a same issue with mercury for example. Absorbtion from a can of tuna if it is combined with shitload of vegetable swill bee significantly less then is you just eat can of tuna with bread, with insufficient fibre, colonic transit is slowed down and heavy metals have more time to leach onto carriers and be absorbed and even reabsorbed again once detoxified through the hepatic circulation. Gut health is also important. For example overgrowth of colonies of beta-glucuronidase can accelerate the reopening of toxins that passed through glucuronidation pathways(used to detoxify xenobiotics and many drugs) and lead to reabsorption of toxins that have already been processed. Typical low fibre high meat diet is a paradise for beta-glucuronidase overgrowthSame if the gut health is messed up, one will probably absorb way more toxins.

Could lactose intolerance develop throughout life even if there wasn't anything during childhood? How common is that?

Both are tough conditions to deal with but not incurable. Endometriosis has a strong genetic & hormonal component but diet, lifestyle, exercise, stress reduction (potentially even shadow work as many women suffering from endometriosis have had past abuse & trauma) and sleep are absolutely crucial here. They may not be able to achieve complete remission. Endometriosis may respond beautifully to a combination of trauma work, nutrition, herbal medicine and acupuncture As for SIBO, it requires somewhat different treatment. This is more mechanical and more focused on biology and the gastrointestinal system. Guidelines on diagnosis still differ so she needs to start with finding an open minded gastroenterologist who will be willing to do the proper testing. The gold standard for testing is called "jejunal aspirate" and should be combined with the 180 minute hydrogen/methane breath testing to confirm diagnosis 100%. She should not self-diagnose and neither should she just jump into some sort of popular internet protocol without first being sure what's going on. Once diagnosed, low FODMAP diet appears to be the most effective thing (or at least the best researched) protocol we have but it doesn't work for everyone. I've seen a client of mine respond very well to this combined with herbs and gut sealing protocol. Some people respond really well to Rifaximine or some of those gentle antibiotics that work well on small intestinal microbiota. Other people do better with an antimicrobial herbal protocol. Best find someone who specialises in gut health. Basically she should work on several levels of support. Her medical doctor - to confirm diagnosis and to ensure nothing is being missed or ignored. Herbalist to help her create powerful tincture for hormonal balance & antimicrobial brew for that SIBO. Most herbalists can also work with homeobotanicals and bachflower remedies which seem to work well on the emotional side of health and with processing of emotional pain naturopath or nutritionist - for general dietary support, gut support and lifestyle optimisation Childhood trauma or shadow work therapist to help her process any suppressed emotions and traumas that may be manifesting as physical symptoms + potentially some acupressure work A combination of the above could bring about profound healing Good luck to her!!

Depends on how deep you wanna go into it. It is extremely difficult to find an unbiased nutrition book without an agenda these days. Elson Haas' - "Staying healthy with nutrition" is fairly unbiased but it is INSANELY huge so only buy it if you're serious studying this in-depth. It goes beyond nutrition into ethics, ecology, sustainability, life-cycle nutrition, supplements etc. Otherwise the Nutrition for Dummies one actually has decent reviews (personally I love the "for Dummies" series) Other than that pop into your local bookstore and see what resonates with you. But every time a nutrition book has in its title "keto, paleo, vegan, etc that's a red flag for not buying it unless you are already doing that diet. Same if the author is a journalist or an influencer like Josh Axe or Eric Berg. Basically you want some boring vanilla academic books written by a University professor who is buried elbows deep in research

While it may seem counter-intuitive, the poor bioavailability of complex oligosaccharides containing carbohydrates is actually their greatest advantage. It means that an abundance of fibre containing chyme is moving into the colon (large intestines) and becoming a feed for the colonies of the microbiota which can then process the undigested fibre and turn it into short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate & butyrate) which have fundamental immunomodulating properties and send important signals into the brain. This is the main reason why plant foods that are rich in indigestible fibre are the greatest protection from colorectal cancer...that and being kinda of a "gut broom" accelerating the colonic transit and reducing the chances of toxin recycling and protein purification due to slow motility (common problems on diet low in fibre and high in animal produce). it is true that animal products like eggs are the most bioavailable foods we have, agreed! Well, them and majority of processed foods. But eating only a diet high in highly bioavailable foods may cause microbial starvation and them turning on our intestinal mucosal layer as a secondary source of nourishment potentially trigger extraintestinal inflammation and even IBD once they get close to the intestinal walls where they have no business being and start getting picked up by the immune system as foreign invaders . Most carbohydrate-rich foods contain an assortment of easily digestible monosacharides & disacharides that are easily turned into glucose e that our body can absorb for energy. The rest was never meant to be used for energy anyway, it was meant to help form the bulk of the stool or to be eaten and fermented by our gut microbiota. Same argument would go for the majority of processed foods that most people would agree isn't always ideal. I guess the challenge would be "where do we draw the line between good highly bioavailable food and bad highly bioavailable food.

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@Yarco if we would only eat what grows on a tree or is readily available 90% of food would be off limits and humans would have died out thousands of years ago not to mention starve iver winter. Being able to process food through heat and grinding is an adaptation that increased our survival rate not the other way around. Most humans thrive on consumption of whole grains (i suppose we are not talking about white toast) and life expectancy and disease prevention goes up for people consuming whole grains and legumes despite what many quacks would have you believe

It's basically an altered variation of vitamin B3 (niacin). Humans can convert it to nicotinamide dinucleotide NAD, a hydrogen carrier that can potentially recharge glutathione and other antioxidants or donate that H+ to energy metabolism pathway. On a paper it is kinda useful but generally body is pretty efficient at making its own NAD unless person suffers from some sort of highly inflammatory disease and all antioxidants are being used up or high stage of diabetes shunning all NAD carriers down the polyol pathway (emergency route) Might have potential for therapeutic use in diabetes maybe even cancer but i wouldn't waste my money on day to day use.

@John Paul Why don't you grab a generic nutritional book? A lot of the questions you have could be answered in there and making nutritional choices is easier once you reach a degree of holistic understanding rather than collecting a bunch of facts. No judgement, just thought it may actually be easier. Chances are the person who wrote that book have gone in-depth into the research to answer many of those complex questions.

I'd like to believe that some sort of Integrative medicine is a future of the public health care but tbh don't see that happening anytime soon. Big Pharma spends a lot of $$$ to maintain status quo

Quakwatch is highly biased by evidence-based medicine which, as we know, is self-limited in its own biased way and it has a blindspot on its own inadequacies. Over the years I've seen them be incredibly unfair and rough in pissing over people who are offering genuine value to the world just because they do not back every statement they make by research. At the same time they do good work picking up many "rotten eggs" in the basket as the world of health is filled with charlatans and snake oil salesmen. The reason there are so many unknown variables is that environmental medicine is a new field that is still in diapers. We don't have reliable tests, reliable assessment methods or reliable treatments. We don't have a lot of human data and it is INCREDIBLY hard to study this because same as cancer for ethical reasons you can't give people toxicity by injecting them experimentally with bunch of mercury in a lab and then try to detox them experimentally or see if they pee more out if we give them DMSA. We ca do this with rats but rats are not humans. SO we only have cohorts of people who we think are sick but we don't even know that for sure because we don't have reliable testing of brain testing and brain toxicity. So we play guessing games based on symptomology, self-observation & anecdotal reports. Yes, chelation is the best we have (at the moment) but that does not make it the most effective thing there is....it's just that "best we have for now" or should we say "most evidence-based thing we have" the two aren't necessarily the same thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2SPeJ740z4 Consider watching this. My buddy recommended me watching this. Dr Pizzorno is one of the leading authorities in the world on Environmental Medicine and they talk a lot about chelation etc. I found this a nice summary of the topic. Soz, I know this does not answer the provoked urine question. No idea about that one but thought I'd add this comment for some perspective. All the best on your detox journey!

Agreed with @Vincent S . The best way to do a raw foodie diet (especially fruitarian) is to move to countries with a wide abundance of affordable fruits and tropical climate year-long Unless you want to eat 30 bananas a day like Freelee at one point you gotta consume more of the fatty and meaty ones like jackfruit, durian, coconut and some of the other fancy stuff they have. It is hard to do that here...especially on a budget. Most raw foodies in West that I've seen drastically undereat and suffer a huge amount of symptoms by drastic nutritional deficiencies (which they always associated with detox symptoms). If you're gonna be raw foodie in Northern America, Canada or Europe (especially now) you'll probably end up with dental problems, skin issues, digestive complaints etc. Not to mention the rapid drop in energy and muscle density. It can be done but it is very self-limiting and IMO raw foodie diet should only be done for the short term and only in summer as it is also very cooling and kinda Yin which blends the best with YANG environment of hot & dry summer days not dark & cold YIN days. In Chinese medicine excess YIN is associated with fatigue, cold extremities and hormonal deficiencies Why not add some nuts, seeds and maybe an occasional fish, egg, some unprocessed whole grains? You'd probably feel much better

Many attempts have been made on this one over the years but hey, good luck!

Chat with @flume, her support has helped me get over a lot of numbness and suppressed emotional emotions that have been holding me back since I was a kid. I can personally vouch for this to be an extremely effective method. Talking therapy is useless and in most cases a complete waste of time. ALtering brain chemistry with SSRIs works only temporarily, eventually giving you even more numbness. In the end, deep work has to be done if true healing is to occur. Additionally doing 30 minutes of any sort of exercise first thing in the morning can help you as well. Read "Spark" by J.J.Ratey to understand how exercise can help with depression or anxieties. The heart pumping of exercise is not the same process as when anxiety kicks in. You can retrain your amygdala (the fear driving brain centre) to learn to be comfortable with that feeling of exercise induce heart pumping and in fact it can help the brain and in fact it helps to reinforce new brain pathways which is essential when you're trying to break old patterns of thinking. But of course without deep work, exercise alone won't do it. Together though along with tinkering with diet and maybe some herbs or supplements, one can heal profoundly

One of our members @Average Investor made an interesting video just on this topic yesterday. Maybe check that out.

In most countries in the west the label is meaningful and there are protocols for control & testing. Now, are there loopholes that devils are abusing to get certified for selling shit products? Yeah, probably. Still, not consuming any fruits of vegetables in fear of residue pesticides and toxins will be more detrimental to your health that consuming fruits & vegetables that have been sprayed. It is that cost vs benefit ratio again and so far according to research we have, consuming an abundance of plants and minimising consumption of animal products (especially beef, processed meat & butter ) will lead to better health outcomes nearly all the time. But it is an issue and I assume the rise in allergies could also partially be attributed to pesticide overuse. Eat organic when you can but if that is not an option it shouldn't deter you from eating abundance of fruits and vegetables. Our elimination organs are also gradually adapting to the environment in which we live and we become more efficient at clearing that stuff out. That is not to say that we should stop giving it our best and educating ourselves about main sources of toxins, pollutants and heavy metals.....it's just that 100% avoidance is no longer possible....not even if you live on the Arctic circle.

Consider getting checked for chronic gastritis or acid reflux. smokers (even ex smokers) often have compromised stomach lining integrity so it could be more sensitive to spices and acidic foods