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Yep, I figured it out completely. Everything I've been doing has been tiptoeing the line between Scylla and Charybdis - ruined gut lining and low bile / digestive enzyme flow. In order to fix the problem, I have to attack both at once.
The removed gall bladder community is brilliant for digestive troubles. They have stuff like Now Foods, Pancreatin 2000 mg and Nutricology/ Allergy Research Group Ox Bile that make digestion a breeze. (Note this is lower tract stuff, if you have issues like stomach aches or acid reflux, that's upper tract, different set of supplements.)
And of course Dr. Snow I've already described, the guru of gut lining repair.
UDCA has already fixed my chronic fatigue, now it looks like I'll kiss the cramps goodbye as well. Finally I can eat! Mmm pizza. (Well in 120ish days anyway.)
Well, I guess I shouldn't take credit, another Dr. Joe has been helping me with the liver side of things. (E.g. UDCA study above.)
^ Pizza? That is terrible for the body. Starches, sugar, salts, preservatives, dyes, oils. Pizza and the likes cause people to die young from disease and obesity. My suggestion for you: stop focusing on supplements, research what foods are healthy, eat them (and only them), and feel the results.
Found another gem. It's frustrating having external success without much internal. Woke up the other day and my knees hurt like hell for no reason.
Nonetheless I recommend a product by the name of Gengigel... it is a hyaluronan based mouthwash. I didn't notice any help from it the first few times but then after the 4th application there was a noticeable difference. I am convinced if I would have found this product just a little bit sooner I could have avoided my gum grafting surgery.
It's about 20 dollars on amazon shipped from London.
I've tried Gengigel and it didn't help my gums! lol.
It's hyaluronic acid based.
I'm thinking most of what we can do is free, or near enough.
- Sleep well (problem for me)
- Eat from Nature
- Do nothing (meditation)
- Walk and get sunshine
Etc.
Our western lives are too hectic.
I've been under way too much stress lately.
Need to take a big cat nap from it all
By the way... SAM-e hasn't helped me yet (though I do have a lot of things to be depressed about atm) but one guy i'm friends with in America tried it when I said I was going to... The guy who kept telling me to have expresso shots... Anyway, he says he feels great.
Might want to give it a shot if you're depressed.
On 8/24/2012 at 4:10 AM, Maynerd said:It's frustrating having external success without much internal.
http://en.wikipedia....iki/Raw_foodism
This is healthy food. Fuck yeah.
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On 8/24/2012 at 4:52 AM, IndigoRush said:By the way... SAM-e hasn't helped me yet (though I do have a lot of things to be depressed about atm) but one guy i'm friends with in America tried it when I said I was going to... The guy who kept telling me to have expresso shots... Anyway, he says he feels great.
I highly suggest not drinking that. It is just a punch of caffeine. Caffeine makes the body erratic, nervous, jumpy. And crashes until you get your next fix of caffeine. Bad stuff.
Edit - rephrased
You will never be restricted to eating a certain type of food (unless you were forced to for whatever reason). Simply, you choose to eat healthy or not eat healthy.
Ya, there is food everywhere. A lot of it is unhealthy.
The choice is yours.
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So I was looking at before and after photos of people who started a completely raw diet. It inspired me to take some of my own. My body is still dry, but much much better than it was 3 years ago. Yeah!!
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For those that try sam-e.
SAM-e has some important cofactors that are destroyed under accutane treatment. Several articles in pubmed prove accutane lowers folate and b12 while raising homocysteine. One of the studies was on a group of people over only 28 days, and all of them got significanlty lowered levels. One of the articles even state that this could be the missing link in accutane sideeffects. Next problem is that the only usefull b12 form(methyl) is on prescription and the docs are dumb. Cyano may raise your serum level but will not cross blood/brain barrier and into spinal fluid. Low b12 could cause every sideeffect that accutane is known to cause, even altered brainbloodflow and shitting blood because of a malfunctioning digestivesystem.
ive posted this before, but ill do it again: and there is several of them.. Has anyone tried methylcobalamin with a folate rich diet?
http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/22098008
the only thing i ever tested out of range was mchc. It was too high. Suggesting macrocytosis, probably caused by b12 deficancy. This test was done by a coincidence by my first doc because i demanded he tested everything on the test sheet. But he newer told me it was out of range. S-b12 was low, but in range. But s-b12 is a bullshit method of testing it, and i probably was very low. Holotranscobalamin is a better way of meassuring it, along with mma.
Things like this kid improving cancer diagnosis impreoves my faith and make me believe we can find a cure when the docs cant. People truly interested in a matter can make a greater difference than even the best paid researchers:
During the summer of last year, I went to extremes to sweat. I put on 3 pears of sweat pants, 3 hoodies, 2 pairs of gloves, a winter hat, leg socks, etc. I would plug in my head phones with some fast electronic music, hop on my bike and go to a bike trail that was very long. I peddled as fast as I could. People gave me some looks for dressing the way I did in the middle of summer, but it did not matter. I regularly rode about 20 miles before returning home. I would then take off all the clothes and eat some watermelon. Eating that watermelon after sweating and working so hard gave me some of the most intense feelings I have ever experienced from eating food. Completely awesome. Anyway, it was very hard for me to sweat in this climate. I did not have problems sweating before Accutane in this climate. I am proud of what I did to fight against this problem.
In the winter of last year, I moved to Ohio, to live with my dad. Ohio is a place with cold winters and warm summers as well, but with one big difference. The humidity! It rains quite often here. It is a complete joy living in a place with water in the air. I worked outside this summer and the heat and humidity together with the sun shining helped everything in my body. It is much easier for me to sweat here. My joints move easier, I can flex stronger, I can breathe better, I sleep better, my eyes are wetter, my hair is stronger, etc, etc. The body works very well with heat and humidity. It makes sense. Rainforests are where the most abundance of life is found, and deserts are the opposite. The wet compared to the not wet.
Some words for thought!
Have you started taking liquid iodine yet? I feel better overall, eyes are normal, depression pretty much gone and I have mucus and moisture in my eyes for the first time in years. I use a kelp-based liquid organic.
^ I have not. I don't use supplements anymore. I find the best chemicals, akaloids, and vitamins come from living plants, or recently living plants. A concentrated form of a something does more harm than good in my honest experience.
"Iodine - Found in small amounts in green leafy vegetables and in larger amounts in seaweeds such as kelp. Daily amount: 150 micrograms." - http://www.vegansoci...tyle/nutrition/
My iodine intake is likely low. The foods I am eating don't have much in them. I will look for fresh seawood next time I go to the store and try that in my diet. I live next to a massive lake (Lake Erie), so there should be some.
Thank you for the suggestion.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/345680-what-is-liquid-kelp-used-for/
Says it lowers sex hormones on here...?
I searched it and the hormone it is talking about is estrogen.
I am about 4months in and family mentioned they noticed change in my hair. I have since stopped accutane. I don't want thin hair or balding. I would shave it off then. Is there something you guys may suggest I do? Someone told me to finish taking accutane but, my suspicions is that, they never experienced the hairloss or thinning side effects. ANy tips? If its going and acne comes back I can go back to it but, I prefer not to lose my hair unless its a cystic acne return.
I am about 4months in and family mentioned they noticed change in my hair. I have since stopped accutane. I don't want thin hair or balding. I would shave it off then. Is there something you guys may suggest I do? Someone told me to finish taking accutane but, my suspicions is that, they never experienced the hairloss or thinning side effects. ANy tips? If its going and acne comes back I can go back to it but, I prefer not to lose my hair unless its a cystic acne return.
Didn't we warn you not to take it?
Nobody here has reversed hair loss, to my knowledge.
Your body is being damaged. Your hair falling out is a sign that something is seriously wrong. Stop taking accutane immediately.
Accutane clears the skin in an extremely unhealthy and unappealing way. It dries out the body, leaving the skin dry and wrinkly and inflexible. Sure there is no acne, but it does not look good, and is not healthy.
You can have strong hair again by eating right and exercising. It takes time though. The longer you take Accutane, the more of a challenge it is going to be to recover.
Do the healthy thing! Always!!!
I have an idea. We each create a thread about how Accutane is poison, like my thread here. And create enough so the entire first page of this forum is filled with those posts. And then keep bumping them to the top. This could save a lot of people from the pain of taking this drug. Out with hype, in with truth.
I am probably got more muscle mass and lower body fat scrict diet and visited a natural path even. I did raw eating. I did the David wolf routines. It helped but didn't stop acne or cystic or nodular. My rectum and buttocks hurts. I stopped once I noticed negative signs.
The fucked up things is the first poster that quoted me almost seemed to enjoy my pain and upset instead of suggestions to what I can do or try.
The reality I am fucked. I take accutane I get hair loss or risk going bald or I stop and risk being crater face. I workout and eat so well I never touched steroids. I don't want to imagine if I had.
For anyone that took accutane, how did you detox? What did you do for hair? Tips?
Watch that video I posted 4 posts back. Look at that dude. He is 50 years old. That is what you get when eating raw and fresh.
That is the detox.
Don't eat anything else that isn't raw. Stick to it.
It took me a while to figure it out. I was eating mostly raw, but not completely, eating unhealthy things sometimes. I switched 1 day ago to 100% raw.
I am already feeling the detox. 1 single day! My body is becoming warmer. My abs are becoming firmer. My stomach organs are more relaxed. I slept very good last night. Music is sounding better. I am pretty damn aware of my body, there are good physical changes going on in me right now without a doubt.
At first I had to fight some food urges. But they are out of the way now.
I am very confident. This is awesome. Try it out man!
I am probably got more muscle mass and lower body fat scrict diet and visited a natural path even. I did raw eating. I did the David wolf routines. It helped but didn't stop acne or cystic or nodular. My rectum and buttocks hurts. I stopped once I noticed negative signs.
The fucked up things is the first poster that quoted me almost seemed to enjoy my pain and upset instead of suggestions to what I can do or try.
The reality I am fucked. I take accutane I get hair loss or risk going bald or I stop and risk being crater face. I workout and eat so well I never touched steroids. I don't want to imagine if I had.
For anyone that took accutane, how did you detox? What did you do for hair? Tips?
Sorry to hear you've got some of the side effects. What you have may not be permanent and could reverse itself if you've only just taken Accutane - unfortunately time will decide this rather then taking anything. If there was such thing as an Accutane detox (or one that worked) then we all wouldn't be here. I think Accutane stays in the system for a couple of months so you need to make sure you don't drink any alcohol at all as alcohol increases the risk of side effects/permanent damage, and eat as healthily as possible (as Connor said above, 100% raw foods is the best diet), and hopefully you'll get better. If you are familiar with David Wolfe (and his books) and have already tried raw foods, then hopefully it won't be too hard for you to go back to that routine. I'd say that's your best chance.
I dont mean to sully anyone's opinion on whats best for healing accutane side effects, but i've been through the whole "vegan raw food" thing. I watched liferegenerater's channel all the way from when he was starting out, i know Dr Robert Cessar well....i was raw vegan for around a year. Eating nothing but organic foods (not supermarket bought, only farmers market) juicing lemon ginger blasts everyday and eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds (soaked for 24 hours). I even bought shower filters and only drank clean spring water. Had a twin gear juicer which i replaced with the same breville that Dan the Man used. Never cheated with meals, and did coffee enemas and all sorts of cleansing things, like Dr robert morse lymph herbs, kidney, liver, blood herbs. Rebounding regularly and used infrared saunas all the time.
I can honestly say it didn't help my skin condition or my accutane side effects. If it did it was no more than 2-3% improvement and thats mostly just mental. Raw foods are great for the human body but people have to realise what works for them may not work for others at all. I know the dogma attached to it, if it works for you great, but what works for you is not the panacea for everybody.
I think it's great that people are advertising raw foods, it can be seriously powerful medicine, the vegan thing i'm kind of against though but thats my own thing. God speed to all of you.
Man. You ate raw vegan for a year and only saw 2-3% improvement? Honestly, something sounds wrong here.
If you had raw seeds and nuts, why would you have to soak them for 24 hours? Most should be ready to eat immediately if they are fresh. And clean spring water. What does that mean? Bottled? If so, honestly bottled wattled is worse than tap because they filter out the nutrients.
Challenging exercise, time in the sun, and a positive state of mind are all very important. Sure, you may have eaten right, but that alone will not make you healthy. You didn't even mention exercise in your post.
Man. You ate raw vegan for a year and only saw 2-3% improvement? Honestly, something sounds wrong here.
If you had raw seeds and nuts, why would you have to soak them for 24 hours? Most should be ready to eat immediately if they are fresh. And clean spring water. What does that mean? Bottled? If so, honestly bottled wattled is worse than tap because they filter out the nutrients.
Challenging exercise, time in the sun, and a positive state of mind are all very important. Sure, you may have eaten right, but that alone will not make you healthy. You didn't even mention exercise in your post.
Soaking nuts and seeds releases the enzyme inhibiters, you put a seed into the ground it stands to sprout. Soaking nuts / seeds in water causes the seed to think it's underground and it starts to sprout (over 24-48 hours), activating it's natural enzymes and deactivating it's enzyme inhibitors. The water was bottled yes but your thinking about reverse osmosis, this is natural spring water, but it was bottled in plastic. I did exercise, not really running more weight training. Maybe i'm exaggerating slightly saying it was a year, it was around 9 months....but i still eat a decent proportion of raw food everyday.
If your on the raw vegan path stay away from 80/10/10, it's insanely dumb and counter productive to any form of healing. Dr robert Cessar the 50 year old in the video drinks raw milk and the rawbrahs eat meat, fish and raw dairy regularly. I guess with healing you've got to use every avenue available to you.
For people trying to cure acne the raw food diet is 1,000,000% healthier, safer than taking accutane. But for those with hypervitaminosis A style symptoms just spending their life trying to cure what accutane has done to their bodies, then no in my case it's not the best route to take. But it's all subjective, what works for you may be the opposite for someone else and vice versa.
It just seems foolish to remove meat, fish and dairy from your diet because some studies have linked it to cancer. The china study used isolated casein powder and found it to increase the likelyhood of cancer. The powder is pasteurized, it's isolated from all it's cofacters / vitamins and minerals. That's no more credible than me using ascorbic acid powder and saying it doesn't work so oranges are bad for you.
If your pro raw food you obviously believe Louis Pasteur's germ theory was wrong. He was the one that started the notion of pasteurization, it was in a small town in france and the sanitation was awful, they didn't have any hygiene regulations and people were dying from this bacteria filled raw milk that was being sold. Louis heated the milk up and found he could cut the deaths from milk consumption in half overnight. That started the idea of heating everything to remove germs. It was a classic case of 2 + 2= 5. We now know that if the conditions for the raw milk manufacture in this small town were hygienic there wouldn't be any problems drinking the raw milk and nobody would of died. Nowadays the use of stainless steel and washing hands, raising livestock on their natural diet, allowing them to free roam negates this risk.
In the spirit of that philosophy it would be better to assume that the cleansers, toners, moisturizers, toothpastes, prescription drugs, processed foods, partially hydrogenated fats, chemicals in our air supply, cigarette smoke, hormones and antibiotics in our meat, pesticides in our fruits and vegetables, pasteurisation of our milk, cheese, butter, lack of physical activity, Wi Fi and other electro magnetic frequencies, deodrants, microwave meals and all the other chemicals we put on, in or around our bodies on a daily basis are the reason for disease and not just blame it all on meat, fish and dairy. Which were still consumed regularly at the turn of the 19th century when disease rates were alot lower than they are today. This is not a stab at you, just the concept of veganism sees like a 2 + 2 = 5 scenerio.