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oh man, I remember this conversation I got carried away a bit back then. Glad to see you come around full circle. It would appear this was exactly the way it should have been. Experiment for yourself and see what works.

I bought them from a friend herbalist in UK. I'd suggest you find a herbalist locally and ask them to put something together for you to help with allergy. Querciin powder (not in capsules) was the most effective acute remedy I found. It does not fix the issue but it stops most allergic symptoms while you worked on the underlying thing. Take care! drop me dm if I can help with anything.

maybe @Flowerfaeiry can help answer that, she has a whole Instagram channel on natural cosmetics & sustainable living, you should check her out. (#sarahmargaretnaturals) <-- hope she won't mind me sharing I'm not an expert on this sort of stuff but we use Beauty Kitchen UK quite a bit so google some of their products and try to find something similar maybe? Stuff like this https://beautykitchen.co.uk/collections/body-wash/products/the-sustainables-minty-fresh-organic-vegan-body-wash-500ml You'll pay extra for those, I'm not gonna lie but I'd rather do that if it means freeing up some of the toxic burden

btw on this, you have to look and see. Google how moldy surface looks. You're looking for dump smell and those surfaces with black dots. Look at places such as bathroom, behind beds, at wall that is often covered but also at the door of bathroom, corners as well as around kitchen sink, cupboard etc. If you identity anything, be super super careful with cleaning it. Sometimes it is better to hire a professional mould cleaning company and leave the house while they clean it because you would sneeze your brains out and probably get a bit wheezy as well Small bits you can clean yourself (wear double mask, glasses and gloves) with designated mould cleanser. Make sure to room is well ventilated. But for bigger areas, pay someone to look into that.

Maybe you haven't sensitised fully yet to start producing IgEs to be able to show on tests. I had same thing and spending more time outside helped a lot. For example, I've started reacting to mould after around 7 months of living in a new place because we live in an old house and there is some inside unfortunately that we can't get to. We've started looking for a new place to rent but in the meantime, the most effective thing was to buy a highly sensitive air filter. This is what I've got https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NPCHP1D/ref=twister_B07ZCGBT3C?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 It's now got much better after 1 month of using the filter + doing a herbal cleanse + some Immuno balancing tinctures + occasionally taking quercetin powder. I can't really tell what was the thing that helped the most but the air filter was a huge help. But it is also possible your thing isn't mould in which case the air filter won't help. It could be some sort of food intolerance. You could try with eliminating all major allergens from diet for 2 weeks and see if you get better: These would b: dairy, gluten, fish, soy, eggs and tree nuts. If it doesn't help, dig deeper. I guess I would try that for a start. Basically you would do a close to plant-based diet with some lean meat without nuts and bread. How is your sleep? Do you have breathing problems at night?

@KenDo have you considered mould to be a problem. This is never tested for and during autumn a lot of it is found outside and inside. I have a big problem with mould as well

He has a lot of really good stuff. His advice is holistic, he covers a waste range of topics and has an excellent production quality. It's just all that beef, lard, butter, saturated fats nonsense that I can't stomach. He is a master cherrypicker when it comes to CVD studies.

@LSD-Rumi because you need to be in caloric excess to induce anabolic hypertrophy. It's like trying to build a house, you just need a shitload of resources all the time. One thing is putting a lot of mechanical stress on the muscle but half of that success is feeding your body enough. You should get at last 1.4-1.6 gram of protein per kilo and be at at least 300-500 kcal excess per day. Tbh starches are not bad for you. These polysaccharides do not act the same way as refined grains do, it is a completely different metabolic process compared to something like white toast which are just processed monosacharides. If you base your vegan diet around complex carbs, lots of legumes, tofu, tempeh, some protein powders (not needed) gaining muscle is totally doable. Is it easier if you eat meat? but ofcourse but that does not mean you need to. In fact you don't. Seriously watch bunch of Derek's videos. His content was the most transformational during my 4 year vegan journey in the past.

Look into Derek Simnet's content. Imo he is the most conscious and definitely the most likable vegan YouTuber out there. All 100% wholefood stuff, gym, nature, callisthenics. He and his girlfriend Crystal are amazing people, I've met them both in London. You also have Brian Turner but his style never resonated with me and Jon Venus who is a fake poser boy.

exactly!! somehow we are ignoring the fact that carbohydrates is the simplest and cleanest energy there is. Not uncommon for low carbers to suffer from absolute energy crashes without their triple espresso butter loaded bulletproof coffee in the morning which obviously shoots their LDL through the roof but hey "LDL means nothing right" you know I used to think this for a long time but actually we have no research to show that linolenic acid is harmful. Same for most seed oils, when consumed in moderation these things bring about better health, less inflammation and even reduce the risk of CVD if they are used to replace saturated fats. That being said at some point excess vegetable oils may become problematic if they incur obesity but anything that makes people fat will be problematic. They are a variety of plant chemicals that when eaten have positive effects on the body in many ways. Some of the examples you've heard about: resveratrol in grapes curcumin in turmeric, EGCG in green tea and so on. I don't know if there is a reader friendly material outside of academic studies. We still haven't identified many of them and much what we know is still coming from in-vitro & in-vivo so not sure if a book has ever been written. It would be super boring, dry and academic if it came out Maybe try this: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2018.00087/full not the most reader friendly thing, I know

completely irrelevant to what PhD on the internet say. Expert opinions are at the bottom of the hierarchy of evidence, especially the ones who pull facts out of their asses and cherry-pick evidence such as many YouTubers do. You gotta look at the highest level of evidence which is systematic trials and meta-analyses. Once you pool those together you'll see that above somewhere around 35grams per day the risk starts increasing. The risk is also accelerating dramatically by the consumption of processed meat, red meat and butter. So it ain't as simple as saturated fats good or bad, there is a grey area there. only if you are coeliac, for majority of people gluten is not a problem Based on what? I'd argue anytime that a 10-pound bag of red lentils is superior to 10 pounds of the leanest and most organic red meat. Especially considering the cost, storage and risk: benefit ratio. -facepalm- All plant foods contain amino acids and nearly all plant foods contain full amino acid profile. This argument is completely invalid, most people combine plants and so they get all they need. All animal foods that contain fatty acids have those fatty acids from plants! Where do you think salmon gets the EFAs? From algae. Majority of EFA sources are actually plant foods. What you mean is probably arachidonic adic and saturated fats. Those are found mostly in animals and in excess are both potentially harmful. Phytic Acid - not harmful, absolutely no evidence in humans. In fact it is helpful to a degree. This argument needs to die. Oxalic Acid - not harmful. Oxalates contribute to kidney stones only in people with calcium deficiency or with messed up gut who have lost oxalobacter formigenes colonies due to over exposure to antibiotics. This argument also needs to die. not harmful, no evidence for it whatsoever, all the studies on lectins are based on in-vitro. COmpletely irrelevant to human health. If lectins were harmful, humans would have died out thousands of years ago because they are found everywhere (even in meat and dairy) -sigh- no human data, no evidence of harm whatsoever, neither of them has ever been shown to be harmful. All nonsense founded by low-carb community and carnivore bs. I can't believe people still use these as anti-plant argument. Again, if these were harmful we would have died out long ago. this is a new one. they get ever more creative This one is true but nutrition goes beyond just protein. Animals foods have no fibre, no complex carbohydrates feeding the microbiome, no antioxidants, no polyphenolic compounds etc.

My friend, grab a proper unbiased nutrition book and get yourself educated from a good old academic source. These biased bs videos are never gonna give you the full scope of information. Learn the basics, understand the carbs, the fats, the proteins and get the bigger picture. Then it will be much easier for you to distinguish the bullshit from the useful stuff. This book is a good start - 1000 pages of solid & useful information on everything you need to know https://www.amazon.co.uk/Staying-Healthy-Nutrition-Nutritional-Twenty-First/dp/1587611791/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3059K0U7BHLVM&keywords=staying+healthy+with+nutrition&qid=1636022185&sprefix=staying+health+%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1

@SQAAD sounds like you're trying to cheat it by cutting corners. I would encourage you to try a little bit more experimentation. A bowl of oatmeal (despite slightly longer prep time) will actually keep you much more satiated on all levels. Yoghurt has no fibre and generally little nutrition besides some calcium and protein, it is far from the nourishment that your body needs for proper start of the day A more complexity into the first meal of your day would probably make you feel better in the long term. I assume you ae a guy somewhere between 20-25 so your body on physiological level will benefit from upping calories, upping carbs and upping fibre in breakfast

@SQAAD not worth it. Risk: Benefit analysis. But that's just me, you do you

That depends (as everything else in nutrition, I know) Do you tolerate it well? Do you have ethical concerns with consuming it? Do you have lactose intolerance or dairy allergy in the family? Do you have prostate cancer in the family? -> if yes, I would keep it to low amounts as you don't want to mess around with your genetic susceptibility Whatever you decide, dairy is one of those where the long term data on harmful vs harmless is kinda all over the place. If you'd rather not take any risk you can keep it to a minimum and serve it as a treat rather than doping cups and cups of cream into your meals. Buy some high-quality cheese or parmesan and sprinkle bits of it on food every now and then or use high CFU probiotic kefir a couple of times a week. I would probably avoid drinking milk as liquid thou as well as avoid whey supplements and any other form of dairy concentrates.

Gotcha, any other tests? I think it would be beneficial to ask for SIBO assessment, a medical test called "jejunal aspirate" is the gold standard for diagnosis. . If your doctor doesn't want to do it there is a private tests called "hydrogen-methane" tests you can do. Make sure you take the 3 hour, 90-minute is not enough,. Basically this will confirm or exclude what else is going on and make treatment easier. If it it SIBO, that's treatable and even if not, most gut ailments can be dealt with. Good luck! Let me know how you get on.

Doesn't have to be. If you ignore green powders, cashew butters, exotic fruits, coca powders, kombucha, vegan cheeses and all the fancy stuff, it can be equal in pricing to any other diet out there. In fact pound per pound when it comes to nutritional content, very few things on the planet are comparable to something like red lentils or black beans, a food that costs 0.00nothing compared to something like grass-fed beef. I think the strongest argument for veganism is that it is an ethical choice and if that's your reason to do it, nobody is in the right to even attempt to talk you out of it. If you do it for health reasons, some people benefit from keeping a little bit of animal foods in, at least in the beginning because the transition can be hard the first couple months. An 90% plant based diet with a few eggs here and there and some fish usually works better than 100% vegan for many people, at least in the beginning. Statistically, if you keep your saturated fats below 30-35grams a day you should be safe. And then should you decided that you cannot participate in the suffering of animals and want to go all in, it is important that this motive is really strong and that you don't do it for the internet, for Instagram, to be cool or to be better but with a genuine care for the suffering of animals but not at the expense of your own health because that usually doesn't;t help anyone

Sounds like if you put some work into fixing your gut, these would go aways and you could start eating everything again. Have you had any diagnostic tests? Stool tests, blood tests etc? Was the IBS medically diagnosed?

I find the topic of human microbiome ridiculously fascinating subject and it scares me how ready we are to destroy it by drugs, low carb diets, alcohol and junk. Yes medicine is yet to catch up on a lot of this and it will come down to individual students to taking the extra effort and looking into it. I recall a client of mine once told me that her doctor said there is not such thing as microbes in small intestines and I'm like ....

Because a large portion of microbiota is what we have inherited from our mothers during birth. As the baby passes birth canal it is exposed to variety of bacteria and then there is a reason why the baby's head is tilted towards the anus (i know this sounds will sound a bit gross but nature makes no mistakes) because as the baby passes through, it presses on mom's distal colon (and squeezes it like toothpaste) and traces of poo may come out. This is very common for women to experience this during the birth. As the baby comes out it gets exposed to that as well and the combination of vaginal microbiome as well as mom's colonic microbiome makes the basics of baby's microbial colonies for the rest of the life. We also know that mother's microbiome dramatically changes weeks before she goes into labour to be able to provide this probiotic bomb to the baby. Secondly as the baby is breast-fed it is exposed to colostrum as well as human milk oligosaccharides (HMO) through the breast milk. Neither we have been able to replicate hence a huge disadvantage of bottle-fed babies These two (birth and breast feeding exposure) provide such an exotic cocktail of bacteria that nothing we have ever designed comes even close to that. If a prolonged period of antibiotics destroys these colonies that one has been carrying since birth, they are irreplaceable. And now imagine putting a capsule of 10 billion probiotics into where 10 trillion have just been decimated. It's like trying to restore the water in a river that has dried out by pissing into it. It is impossible to get those back. Most of these bacteria we don't even know, we have no probiotics to get them back, most of them cannot be isolated in a product because they are anaerobic and so we can pump in lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium where we know they are easy to manufacture but that's like trying to repopulate a destroyed jungle with pine trees, it gives something back but the diversity is lost forever. We simply have no effective therapies (potentially besides fecal transplantation) to get that diversity back. Maybe over decades that could be done, I don't know...maybe. Another issue is that once those colonies are destroyed those places are now free for other bacteria to populate and there is a risk of pathogenic species coming in and setting colonies (this is for example how something like candida can take roots), good bacteria are dead and bad guys come in and silently start spreading. Suddenly the immune system goes in haywire and bam...autoimmune disease has just started. Potentially this could be mitigated by taking huge ass doses of diverse probiotics alongside antibiotics....potentially., we would be taking about hundreds of billions, So yeah, another long answer but this is just my opinion take it or leave it. It is possible that somebody more versed into this would disagree but this is coming from work of people who study human microbiota for living, not from me.

Yeah it's safe for most people. I wrote a blog post about it some time ago if you're interested to see what the research as of today says (link) I think it can be a decent supplement but it is not as miraculous as it is thought of. I feel (sometimes) a little kick from it, not as much as from caffeine but maybe the active dose needs to be bigger. But hey, just buy it and try it

it's a difficult topic to answer in a forum post but I'll try to give you my perspective. Before synthetic antibiotics were invented, humans have been commonly dying out of infections such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, cholera and all sorts of bacterial infections that we have now (thanks to antibiotics and other powerful pharmaceuticals) eradicated fairly effectively at least in developed countries. Antibiotics are good at preventing acute mortality from things like appendicitis, pyelonephritis, encephalitis, meningitis and all sorts of other -itis. But there is a very strong scientific evidence to point out that antibiotics may be behind the rise of allergies, asthma, inflammatory bowel diseases, autoimmunity and potentially, obesity, diabetes and potentially even depression. Whether antibiotics cause these directly , we don't know but they seem to contribute (alongside other factors) . This is because the majority of prescribed synthetic antibiotics are broad-spectrum, they target a wide area of gut bacteria and among that havoc is a lot of "friendly fire" and our beneficial colonies are getting damaged. Usually, after a single round, this is not an issue and the microbiota can restore itself but it is not uncommon for doctors to put patients on several rounds for things like common colds and flu (I have spoken to people who have been on 10-15 rounds over a few years) and this is a sort of damage that may take 20 years to reverse, if ever. On top of that the more antibiotics are used the more resistant the pathogenic bacteria become and this is very very dangerous condition because should the person get something potentially lethal such as pneumonia and have a high degree of antibiotic resistance they could go into acute emergency even coma. And so this is when herbal therapies come in play. Herbal antimicrobials are not as powerful but they often spare our microbiome and help to work more gently on the gut. I've used herbal antimicrobials with clients with SIBO and they worked really well alongside other parts of the protocol. Personally, I consider human microbiota as another organ in the human body. Any therapy that could harm the delicate balance be it diet, medical therapy or even natural therapy needs to be very carefully managed and the benefits of short term need to be balanced against long term cost of ending up with dysbiosis. This to me is the greatest risk of any dietary routine that restricts dietary fibre such as keto diet or carnivore diet (for other than therapeutic purpose) for some sort of silly goal such as achieving great fitness, six-pack or some sort of metabolic flexibility (whatever the hell that means). Once these diets destroy your microbial balance, health declines quickly But sometimes you gotta grab antibiotics when the person has a serious infection and a risk of severe complications. But they should not be prescribed like candy. It is a weapon of mass destruction and with some weapon comes a great responsibility (no jedi pun intended) Does that help>?

It could be that your gut sensitivity has nothing to do with the mechanical pathophysiology of the gastrointestinal system and is linked to psychosomatic factors especially since the tests haven't found anything. It is fairly common for gut sensitivities and issues to be driven by psychosomatic factors, self-perceived physiological stress being the most common. It doesn't have the be a huge stress like when your survival is being threatened. It can be less obvious low-grade chronic stress (often unconscious) caused by mental tension, long-term uncertainty, suppressed emotions, unresolved shadow etc. There is a theory called limbic kindling theory which basically suggests that chronic exposure to the very low-grade stressor may cause depletion and exhaustion of particular coping mechanisms, this is one of the mechanisms proposed for chronic fatigue syndrome but also variety of gut symptoms. When this happens, the organism becomes extra sensitive to any stimulus. This could result in an extremely sensitive gut, more pain, more cramps and eventually lead to the development of real symptoms such as diarrhoea, constipation, stomach cramps even turn into chronic food sensitivities and intolerances as the mechanical barrier of the intestines becomes disrupted. Mind you this is more of a speculative theory that something really validated but it makes a lot of sense. Not sure if that sounds like a valid hypothesis of what is probably going on? So it may come down to identifying the source of that tension/stress and dealing with it. Some gut support could help as well but it seems to me like the real issue needs to be resolved through some deeper spiritual work. I'd defer to members who are more versed and experienced in this and who also offer guided support @flume @Nahm maybe you could work with one of them to help you.

@Fearless_Bum kudos for profile pic!

If you don't mind me asking, What do you do at the moment? I mean what have you been doing for the past 2 years since finishing the school with all your time? Fair enough that you don't want to suck up to a corporate tit but what are you gonna do instead with all this time? Are you working on your LP at the moment? Are you putting some serious time into work you are passionate about? If not, why not? If your financial situation allows living with parents that's fine but make sure to do your best and use this time to the fullest. Seems like you need some spark of motivation to get you back on track, maybe some sort of productivity coach or a routine to get you on your feet ion the morning and get cracking with your LP work and meditation. Find your passion and start a small business (whatever that means for you), be active on social media, attend lectures, read, educate yourself. Part of the depression could be simply having lack of challenge in life. Both mental and physical. And if finances start running low, take some easy part time job that requires little effort, little contact with people just to cover the basic bills. Some sort of minor office job while you figure out your stuff.