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Start by working on strengthening your immune system,. Read some books, maybe attend a few seminars, find experts who can help you. Don't rely on drugs to fix your problem, that's not what they are designed for, they just suppress symptoms. Getting a regular herpes outbreak is a sign that your immune system needs some support for sure or maybe the gut needs som work as well, hard to tell from a forum chat

https://www.tiktok.com/@gaznight/video/6937735516527922437?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 I couldn't care less about the dynamics of royal family but this made my day

Seems like you have slightly over-fried your dopaminergic circuits. Substance abuse can totally do that. But this can totally be reversed and healed. Most of all it is important to commit to ever using again. It will take some time for the sensitivity to build up again to natural stimulants, maybe your brains need your help to reshape and adapt to the new normal. Take great care of your diet and your mental health. I would stay away from all sources of recreational drugs, not even occasional weed or vaping. Probably also go very easy on the coffee. What could help you is daily consumption of green tea for some neuroplasticity bonus. Exercise will be your friend. The brain thrives greatly when you exercise especially on the strength-based type of exercises like bodyweight, callisthenics or weights but also agility-based exercises like parkour, primal movement, crawling, money runs, headstands, martial arts etc. The diet should be predominantly plant-based very heavy in fruits and berries for that added polyphenol benefits. Daily meditation, absolutely will stimulate neuronal reshaping like nothing else. Putting some work into your life purpose will give you a great spark of motivation. Find what you are passionate about and study the shit out of it for the rest of your life, aim to become the best in the world in that thing. Get your vitamin D checked, we have receptors for vitamin D in every area of our brain and it plays great part in dopamine production, serotonergic circuits, neuroplasticity and overall motivation in life. When you are at it, ask to have your iron checked as well Don't forget to go out in nature, explore, take cold showers every day or bath in a lake or sea if you have the option. Get in touch with the beauty and perfection of nature, hug a tree, pick berries (may need to wait few more months), watch birds, stargaze or just admire the perfection out there.

ofcourse they did.......... Get him to work on his immune system, find a specialist if you have to. Don't rely on acyclovir forever, it is highly nephrotoxic and neurotoxic.

Once HSV is in your body, you have it for life, there is now way to eliminate it. However that does not mean it has to become infectious. Our bodies are literally filled with millions of viruses, bacteria and fungi but most of them are under control. Most people who get frequent HSV flareups (oral or genital) are immunocompromised Few tips for you that can help: * if he is a smoker or drinks alcohol regularly, those need to go * has he been on any recent antibiotics or been on too many as a kid? That could be relevant here * have him check his vitamin D levels - if they are below 50ng/ml have him supplement 2000 IUs for 2 months. * consider adding 50mg of zinc citrate to his diet for 2-3 months * this may be more difficult to administer but there is research that shows that consuming too many foods rich in arginine over lycine may contribute to this. So check out the most common sources of arginine and consider going easy on those for a bit. Also check out sources of lysine and add those more in. I think if you google this whole concept (lysine, arginine, herpes) you will find entire charts topical treatments * zinc-rich cream * lemon-balm containing cream * sage containing cream other * is he active? does he exercise? * few rounds of high strength probiotics may help * add more berries and fruits generally in his diet. Make it fiber rich. if he is heavy consumer of animal food, cut it down for some time. * add more mushrooms to his diet as well as green herbal spices and olive oil one more thing: genital to oral transmission (ehm, you know what I mean) is a risk factor as well so be careful Hope that helps

Check out Derek Simnet and his girlfriend Crystal Kennings. To me this couple is the number one vegan youtube couple out there. Maybe I am a biased by being a die-hard fan of their work but what they do is wonderful and there is very little in there for you to criticise Check them out. They are the only vegan channel I have been watching so there may be many more out there, I'm sure just not as famous. Btw I'm not vegan myself so this is not coming from a place of personal agenda just trying to draw a different perspective

this is a stage green advice, there is nothing toxic about teaching children compassion for the animals and the environment as well as pushing kids towards eating a lot of plant produce and wholefoods. Now the other side of the coin is that they are potentially creating fear of many different types of foods which can indeed create neurosis in the future so the advice definitely needs to be balanced and not dogmatic (e.g. vegan gains type of stuff, but most vegan YouTubers aren't like that)

@StarStruck not all vegans who are killing it have YouTube channels. Probably less than 1% do. There are tens of thousands of thriving vegans out there you just don't know them.

daaaaaamn !!!! What the actual fuck! You get it for free on prescription in UK if you are employed or for small fee. Lol all hail private medical! That money would buy A LOT of goldenseal

I'm curious how did this work for you? The evidence for it is really good and it seems to be very gentle to microbiome as well

@actualizing25 gluten is problematic if you are coeliac. That would be an extreme form of allergy and in such case gluten has to go for life. The modern thing called Gluten intolerance or gluten sensitivity, on the other hand, usually marks gastrointestinal disturbance rather than any sort of genetic thing or an immune conflict. For example, you can test non-coeliacs who react to bread for gluten sensitivity and you will find that their anti-gliadin antibodies up. When you remove gluten and put something else like oats in and retest in a month, you will find anti-avidin antibodies going up. What this suggests is not that the gluten is an issue but that this stuff is making its way to the bloodstream, triggering an immune reaction and that's what you see on blood results usually due to increased gut permeability, the microparticles called antigens are small enough to fall through these "openings". For people who are non-coeliac and who have no digestive disturbances, gluten is usually fine but it should come from natural whole food sources such as wholegrain breads, wholegrain pasta or gluten-containing wholegrain such as rye or teff rather than from highly processed foods like tortillas, white toasts or flour. Alternatively, you can always mix it up with non-gluten wholegrains like buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth etc.

As someone who once used to buy to this idea that all symptoms of self-starvation are detox symptoms, I can kinda understand where these people are coming from. Most of these fruitarians are bought into the agenda that your body is filthy, toxic and that you have this black toxic layer all across your intestinal walls (I actually see this argument appearing on the forum fairly frequently, remember the dude who used to post his shit pics all over the journal section?). And so they end up cleansing forever an never rebuilding, the body is chronically switched into katabolism, adrenals running on overdrive, BDNF shut down completely, slow and gradual starvation, malnutrition, loss of muscle, loss of fat, loss of collagen tissue, hair loss, iron levels borderline low and yet all of it is perceived in these communities as detox --> like they will say stuff such as "until you are shitting black toxic moldy stuff you are not detoxed" or that "you need to see parasites and worms crawling in the poo otherwise you are not detoxing"

@Dunnel are you taking any medication? There is no harm in asking to be put on antidepressants for a while while you can work on the root cause just so that you can feel normal. Don't give up on yourself mate. You have so much to live and fight for. Never stop seeking help. We have a lot of highly conscious individuals on this forum who offer coaching, reach out to some of them. Take care !

this is actually really interesting and I'd absolutely love to get a perspective of an anthropologist on this to find out whether this is true or not. Some time ago I did look into 3-4 studies specifically looking at remains of hominins and sort of an analysis of their diet. What they all agreed on was that it was not the cooking or meat per se but the adaptation to hunting from foraging, development of hunting strategies, crafting weapons, learning how to cook food better, how to track animals etc. Hunting a wild animal would take a lot of collaborative effort and its not like you would pull out a rifle 20,000 years ago and snap a deer. It would take an entire tribe easily a full day to track down and kill a wild animal. This was an extremely energy-demanding activity and there is risk that if you fail, members of the tribe would starve to death -> the stress would adapt your brain even further. But in times of winter or scarcity, meat would naturally be more dominant simply because the ground was frozen and nothing was growing not because somehow the hominins realised "oh this is so good for me", it was all survival.

try this ibsdiets.org/fodmap-diet/fodmap-food-list/ There are also apps for phone that help you get a quick check if you're up and about. Regarding berberine, I would try something that also has some goldenseal combined with berberine in it, for more complex antimicrobial effect. Oregano oil, usually 2-3 drops with a lot of water before meals 3 times a day. If it burns your mouth too much, stay at 1 drop.

Start here and see if this helps. If SIBO is present, LF diet will reduce the bloating. Consider cutting out gluten as well,. It is important that LF diet is 100%, complete eradication for these 2 weeks. Even small amount of high F carbohydrates or polyols can trigger methane production and give you symptoms. I would test out 2 weeks and see if that makes any difference. If it does, you may consider adding a 1-2 weeks of berberine combined with oregano oil along with some extra psyllium husk (up to 6g/day) to mop up the LPS bodies. Alternatively you can try it all together -> low fodmap + berberine + oregano + psyllium for 2-4 weeks. If you see that being effective, let us know and we can help you with going forward

raw fruitarians with severe eating disorder and mental disease caused by complete protein starvation and malnutrition. Sv3rige is an expert in giving these extreme cases of sick people to try to create an image that this is what a vegan looks like. This is not what healthy vegan does to you. Don't forget this guys has built a channel on being a critic of veganism. For the same reason, I would not watch someone as toxic as vegan gains or frank Tufano. You are unlikely to get anything but cherrypicking and personal bias. Veganism or Plant Based eating can be as healthy as you want it to be but can also be toxic and unhealthy for those who don't know what they are doing

Hey @Bogdan can you share a bit more about your lifestyle, diet, activity, sleep etc? have you formally been diagnosed with SIBO? Have you had a methane/hydrogen breath test or lactulose test or stool test to confirm medically that this is happening?

@Twega With any autoimmunity, there is nearly always a gut health problem. Increased gut permeability is a common issue. Once antigens of different foods start falling through, they trigger an immune reaction and because we have now manipulated food to sometimes appears similar to our own tissue (by accident) a haywire immune reaction to a protein from food may resemble a tissue of our own (e..g thyroid tissue) and so the immune system goes a bit bonkers. At least this is one of the theories behind autoimmunity. Anyways, so gut health probably plays a role here. Intolerances and sensitivities would give you an indication of leaky gut as well. Poor balance of fatty acids may cause deficiency of Resolvins (they are dependant on eicosanoids derived from alpha-linolenic acid and DHA) . Is she omega 6 dominant? Prolonged chronic stress is another one Vitamin D deficiency especially a one that has been going on for long time is common especially if she was not exposed to maternal vitamin D in abundance, for example in MS being born to a mother deficient in vitamin D is a great risk factor. Other things are proinflammatory diets (heavy in animal foods, deficient in plants) Get her diet as close to plant-based, reduce her saturated fats, consider shot-term reduction of dairy and see if that helps and definitely get her see a specialist in gut healing (if that's the cause). A functional medicine doctor or ND may help her more than an endocrinologist unless she wants to remain on meds which is also an option for some people. Bear in mind that she HAS TO take thyroid medication if her thyroid is slow until she can fix it because unmanaged hypothyroidism is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease

bear in mind we are not talking about members of the forum (mostly), this applies to your regular Joe who doesn't exercise, who doesn't eat fibre and who eats excessive amounts of SFA and processed carbohydrates. Now imagine this dude hears "saturated fats is not a problem" for him this translates into: eat all the bacon and beef you'd like. You can say "saturated fats are fine" to people who eat 50 grams of fibre per day but not to people who get the majority of their calories from shitfood. We can discuss amongst us where the cutoff point for SFA is and why different meta analyses produce different risk ratios and what they did and didn't control for and whether linoleic acid or arachidonic acid plays a role in heart disease but in the end the important thing is, what is average person with close to zero nutritional knowledge going to do. The advice these people are getting these days is extremely conflicting and for 80% of these people eating fewer animal products and eating more vegetables, nuts and legumes are beneficial. That is unless they have an eating disorder but here you once again enter the region of oversaturation with information rather than lack therof.

no evidence of harm whatsoever. Fear of antinutrients is based on some silly invitro science, nothing to do with real life. Consuming foods containing lectins and phytates is associated with reduced all-cause mortality from all sources. Btw did you know that even meat can contain antinutrients? Oh and so can dairy and eggs. you need to consume Omega 6s as well as Omega 3s. Let's not vilify all fats. Would you rather we consume lard and tallow? I know your opinion on nutritional science is that it is load of rubbish but otherwise we are pulling stuff out of our assess If you take 100 people, put them in lab, feed them high saturated fat, low-fibre diet for 3 months you will see a rapid acceleration of cardiovascular disease marker and markers of systemic inflammation. Naturally, we don't have such studies because who would survive locked in lab... Have you ever seen a walnut tree? It is fucking huge. How are you gonna spray that through the year? Walnut takes 10-15 years to grow before it gives you first nuts. You can spray blueberry bushes ofcourse but most trees are not sprayed that heavily simply because of their sheer size. Same for cherries, the cherry tree can grow to be 15 meters big ass gigantic tree. Once the tree achieves a certain age, the berries just grow every year (unless something happens). My grandparents have an orchard, I've seen those trees blossom my whole life giving a shit load of cherries, walnuts, hazelnuts, plums, pears, apples. You can grow IMMENSE amount of fruits & nuts without needing to use fertilisers. I mean really really immense. Enough to feed a small village (from single orchard).

I did talked with Rap so I knew. I also knew he has that agressivness and seriousness. I love it. Masculine frame. Love it. Not Matt Kahn not Matt Kahn. Will start chanting this. Dream come True baby, Dream come true. Ok but be careful what you wish for in certain cases. @zeroISinfinity what the actual f**k you talking bout bruh?

I dunno man this sounds like one of these things where mechanistic data are not a representation of real situation. Consumption of nuts is associated with a reduction of all causes of mortality, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer and improve brain function, fertility etc. The argument against PUFAs due to thyroid hormone conversion is probably based on some invitro studies, I'd love to see some systemic analysis of hypothyroid patients linking their thyroid condition to excessive PUFA consumption

I've always imagined you as something between Gandalf and Dumbledore. A wise master. Less beard and without the cloaks maybe ? Such a pleasure to meet the man behind the name ?

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