Last random suggestion for you (not that you were requesting these): prepare ahead and do one very long fast (ideally like more than 3 days). Heard lots of success stories for totally weird conditions with this.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about fasting, but unfortunately I am pretty underweight (104 pounds, 5 feet 6.5 inches) and unable to gain any weight (despite trying quite hard). And when I am awake if I don’t eat for 1-2 hours I start to feel extremely weak. So those two things have kept me from thinking seriously about trying fasting. Do you have any resources or thoughts on fasting for underweight/wasting people?
Jesus have you always been underweight? If it’s new then I would bet you have like a tapeworm. If you’ve always been underweight then I would bet fasting is not worth the risk.
I’ve always been underweight. The heaviest I got was about 115 pounds during freshman year of college. A bunch of the men in my family were quite skinny (though not as much as me) when they were younger, so I suspect it’s at least partly genetic.
I have not. I’ve been supplementing vitamin D my whole adult life, and the initial blood test showed a level of 86.6ng/mL which one of my doctors said was higher than optimal, so I lowered the frequency of supplementation and my follow-up blood test showed a level of 54.5ng/mL. Any reason I should try megadosing it even if I have adequate levels in my blood?
I’ve heard of zinc carnosine but haven’t tried it yet. I tried supplementing with zinc gluconate at one point but it seemed to be aggravating my hunger attack symptom so I stopped.
Well if you’ve always been supplementing it then try not supplementing it!
But I had some weird food issues for years (eg seizures after eating garlic) that are mostly gone with 250mcg daily vit D. I started taking K with it about a year ago because people say D alone can have long term side effects. I don’t know why a giant dose is different from a regular dose… I also had normal levels IIRC. Maybe a giant dose gets stuff deeper into certain tissues or something ¿
Zinc carnosine is supposed to increase mucus production. My understanding is that mucus is the source of all good things health-wise (unless it’s in your lungs lol). My mom and I both took it for food vs brain stuff and it seemed to help us both a bit (we were in decent starting condition so a big effect would be hard to see).
Oh i read the reddit post you linked in another comment suggesting it may be auto immune. If you’re not worried about the pathogen itself then you can just get hookworm to permanently suppress your immune system. You have to take iron the rest of your life to keep your red blood cell count high i think. It is supposed to be extremely effective.
Did you try megadosing vitamin D and zinc (maybe zinc carnosine) for multiple weeks?
Last random suggestion for you (not that you were requesting these): prepare ahead and do one very long fast (ideally like more than 3 days). Heard lots of success stories for totally weird conditions with this.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about fasting, but unfortunately I am pretty underweight (104 pounds, 5 feet 6.5 inches) and unable to gain any weight (despite trying quite hard). And when I am awake if I don’t eat for 1-2 hours I start to feel extremely weak. So those two things have kept me from thinking seriously about trying fasting. Do you have any resources or thoughts on fasting for underweight/wasting people?
Jesus have you always been underweight? If it’s new then I would bet you have like a tapeworm. If you’ve always been underweight then I would bet fasting is not worth the risk.
I’ve always been underweight. The heaviest I got was about 115 pounds during freshman year of college. A bunch of the men in my family were quite skinny (though not as much as me) when they were younger, so I suspect it’s at least partly genetic.
Seconded.
I have not. I’ve been supplementing vitamin D my whole adult life, and the initial blood test showed a level of 86.6ng/mL which one of my doctors said was higher than optimal, so I lowered the frequency of supplementation and my follow-up blood test showed a level of 54.5ng/mL. Any reason I should try megadosing it even if I have adequate levels in my blood?
I’ve heard of zinc carnosine but haven’t tried it yet. I tried supplementing with zinc gluconate at one point but it seemed to be aggravating my hunger attack symptom so I stopped.
Well if you’ve always been supplementing it then try not supplementing it!
But I had some weird food issues for years (eg seizures after eating garlic) that are mostly gone with 250mcg daily vit D. I started taking K with it about a year ago because people say D alone can have long term side effects. I don’t know why a giant dose is different from a regular dose… I also had normal levels IIRC. Maybe a giant dose gets stuff deeper into certain tissues or something ¿
Zinc carnosine is supposed to increase mucus production. My understanding is that mucus is the source of all good things health-wise (unless it’s in your lungs lol). My mom and I both took it for food vs brain stuff and it seemed to help us both a bit (we were in decent starting condition so a big effect would be hard to see).
Oh i read the reddit post you linked in another comment suggesting it may be auto immune. If you’re not worried about the pathogen itself then you can just get hookworm to permanently suppress your immune system. You have to take iron the rest of your life to keep your red blood cell count high i think. It is supposed to be extremely effective.
I’ve heard of this, and may want to try it eventually. I’m starting out with things like LDN first though.