Well feel free to share if you’d like when you have more time. As someone who never gave half a shit about nutrition I now find this stuff very interesting. And yes B vitamins can be very powerful. Everything you read about anxiety says ‘just take B vitamins, theyre totes calming lol’ so I just kept taking them.
When I stopped I would say my anxiety reduced by like half…who knew that taking thousands of times the rdi of something could be potentially harmful 
Thank you I’m definitely going to do that. I’m sorry you’re having these issues, I’ve had what I now know is minor anxiety my whole life and used to secretly scoff at people who couldn’t just plow through it like I always did. Now I know better, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Have you found things that work for you? Its always good to learn more about what can help.
For people with MTHFR issues, the formulation of B vitamins can be critically important.
Fortunately, there are now formulations made with such people in mind, like these: Amazon.com: Pure Encapsulations PureGenomics B-Complex - Broad Spectrum B Vitamin Support for Genetic Expression, Cellular Function, Hormone Production & Energy Metabolism* - with Vitamin B12 & B6-120 Capsules : Health & Household
Dr. Ben Lynch has some good reading about the subject. He seems a little bit kooky on some subjects, but has put together some pretty good resources online at mthfr.net, which led me to discover why a B-complex I had been taking made me feel great at first, then feel absolutely terrible after a week or two. (Preventing Methylfolate Side Effects - MTHFR.Net : MTHFR.Net)
Lmao…you have to shave when you compete
The medication in the hardest moments was of great help to me. I would not recommend them in the long term as many of them cause dependency and other serious side effects.
Going to therapy has also been a great help to me.
I was a person who used to think that I could handle everything, with high levels of stress on a professional and personal level. I wasn’t getting enough sleep and I didn’t pay attention to the warnings my body sent me. I had serious digestive problems that triggered a serious colon problem. I was hospitalized in the emergency room and had a colostomy as I suffered from acute diverticulitis. My colon ruptured and I had three very serious operations.
My life underwent a great change and it taught me a great lesson. No one is essential anywhere.
Take care.
Well, that’s what you get when you go to a naturopath… Lol. I’m never sure what to do with information from those people, and there are a lot of quacks in it. But that’s not to say that they are completely without merit… just that they lack the scientific rigor to really understand it.
On the other hand, I think there’s a growing awareness among doctors that we are just on the tip of the iceberg with regards to our understanding of the gut. My MD is among the first to admit that there’s probably a whole world of medicine not yet understood, because the symbiotic nature of bacteria in the gut is so poorly understood.
Having been probed, prodded by specialists, only to have them tell me my guess is as good as theirs, I’ve since just started experimenting with supplements. I don’t think you can just take probiotics and fix gut problems. They don’t necessarily colonize in the gut, no matter how much you take. The protocol that works for me goes something like:
Step 1 - alternate through a mix of antifungal supplements like garlic, oregano oil (really powerful stuff, don’t take for too long), caprylic acid, pao d’ arco or some generic “candida” supplement mixes
Step 2 - take L-glutamin to help reduce intestinal sensitivity
Step 3 - take soluble fiber (prebiotic, Heather’s tummy fiber), unmodified potato starch (prebiotic) and probiotic
This is really like hitting the big red reset button, and I really don’t need to keep it up much longer than a month or two and I’m good until I get really sick (like food poisoning or have to take antibiotics) or have a lot of stress or something and my digestion craters again. The soluble fiber is a miracle though, and I tend to keep that going as long as I can remember to take it.
Also I have stayed on a pretty low-sugar diet and that helps keeps me more stable as well.
MTHFR truly is a motherfucker haha. Mine’s homozygous I believe (whatever the less bad one is), so hopefully not as much of an issue. I’ll check those Bs out and that info, I’d like to take some as I’m sure years of booze leeched em out of me but would like to do it from an educated perspective instead of just shoving them in blindly.
Have you tried any methyfolate stuff? Some people are basically ‘cured’ using deplin which is just an enormous daily dosage. I didn’t have the balls to go over 400mcg after all my other issues. I just try to eat tons of greens now.
@anon81143130 gotta skin it to win it! Or something like that lol 🤷
Life has punched me in the face with alot of those lessons lately too. I now understand all those old expressions like ‘health is the most important thing’ and even ‘you are what you eat’. I hope you’re doing better now!
It’s crazy. Until all this happened I really thought we had the body and nutrition all figured out. Turns out we’re not even close, and in some ways seemingly getting further away from the truth. Even things like the fact that tons of serotonin is made in the gut, and the fact that the gut has actual neurons are just mind boggling.
Hippocrates said ‘all disease begins in the gut’ over 2000 years ago and here we are still figuring that out. Do you take insoluble fiber too? I started putting psyllium in my smoothies and damn, it sure does work lol.
Also ever try fasting? There’s alot of confusing and conflicting stuff out there about it…
yeah you’re about where I’m at, thyroid wise
Anxiety is a form of depression
I don’t supplement insoluble fiber, because I think I generally get enough in my diet. Soluble fiber IME has been vastly superior in improving my gut health. Insoluble fiber is a little rough by comparison and can tend to block things up. Seriously, try Heather’s tummy fiber and see how it goes. It straightens me out like no other.
I don’t really fast, but I have a rule about not eating for 50% of the day. If I eat breakfast at 7:30am, I don’t eat after 7:30pm (not a hard rule, but I use it as a guideline). Digestion is pretty physically demanding, and I think the gut needs regular rest just like any other part of the body. Or at least it helps improve my sleep – and sleep is hand in hand with digestion as well.
Fasting is amazing, and there’s some form of “intermittent fasting” out there for just about anyone who wants to try it. I personally find that having a “reduced eating window” of eight hours per day is almost too easy. I eat my regular diet, which is fairly low carb and consists mostly of whole foods and very little of anything heavily processed, during that eight hour window. That gives me a sixteen hour fasting period per day, enough time to see the majority of the health benefits without it being difficult (twelve hours in a fasted state gives you some great benefits). A few times per year I’ll go 24 hours without eating anything at all. A few times per week I’ll exercise before breaking my fast. That’s it. My health has improved noticeably (and so has my bloodwork) and I’ve lost almost forty pounds this year. Time-restricted eating is just too simple to ignore, imo.
https://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-intermittent-fasting-bad-for-people-with-thyroid-issues/
https://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-intermittent-fasting/
Thank you very much Today was much better. I take life much more calmly. I enjoy the little things that I used to take for granted. When you look really sick, everything around you loses meaning, family, friends, etc.
Ask for a second opinion that can clarify things for you.
I just wish that you can recover as soon as possible and all my best wishes to you.
but you can have, good or bad diagnosis, just like good or bad physicians no matter which side of the border, you may reside on. that is unfortunately the way things are… I wonder if the oath that is taken is not to… BMW or Mercedes… and not to Hippocrates - Wikipedia. or to the Hippocratic Oath. I was mangeled by a butcher on my upper spine. While in there, this bastard, sliced thru my thyroid, never letting me know. While suffering with worst back problems the butcher caused on me, I thought I was losing my mind, electric jolts from out of no where, walking in a daze of confusion off panic or fear for no reason for days or weeks some times, during which, the electric jolts happened, weight gain, weight loss. Where EVER YOU Are. Have a THYROID CHECK TEST done, if YOU or your dr. think YOU need it! thank you,
regards,
oh yeah…
how old are you, little girl?
(couldn’t help myself!)
regards,
Too old for you lol. Just to clarify I need to shave I just often don’t… I’m usually rocking the few days of stubble lazy stoner look. 
@lefthandseeds I’ll check it out, always good to have something new in the health arsenal. Apparently raw potatoes are pretty good too, they contain something called ‘resistant starch’ which can be good for digestion and to feed good bacteria
@Howard.Crane ya I love fasting I always feel way better when I don’t eat lol. Unfortunately this year my biggest problem has been not eating enough, I pretty much have to force myself a few times a day or I’ll get skeleton mode pretty quick. I guess it’s not the worst problem to have haha. When feeling normal I often didn’t eat until like 3pm and just coasted on that light empty feelingz it can be quite pleasant
Glad to hear. Those good days can be priceless when you’re having issues. It’s like a free mini vacation haha
@mike28086 that’s all very familiar man, that really sums up what I’ve been going through. Can you sue that idiot for malpractice or something? It’s crazy what doctors can get away with in some ways they seek to have less liability than a mechanic or electrician. Look up the stats for malpractice deaths in the US it’s unbelievable. Something is clearly wrong with the education and licensing systems out there. Hope you’re feeling better, did you get it sorted out?
You can buy potato starch for an easy resistant starch, and it can also be found in cooked and cooled potatoes and rice, among other things (the cooling creates the resistant starch).
no, like an idiot, I foolishly… went along with the physical therapy and other routes, until it was determined it was the dr that had been run out of town and out of business. State laws only gave like 18-24 months (I did not know that, by the way, this was in 1998) to prosecute. He blew through that time, with this and that bullshit. this dude actually hurt a few people, before all was said and done. if I ever see him on the side of the road, and I’m driving, I might just… pull over for a minute and meditate…
regards,
Fuck. Could you imagine someone passing a law that limits the time a doctor can be held liable for potentially ruining someone’s life? What’s the logic in that?
I’m not a big conspiracy guy necessarily but after all this stuff I’ve learned I really believe the modern medical field is largely designed to keep people unwell. The fact that any suggestion of nutritional therapy is still laughed at seems to prove that.
Modern people are eating trash and largely malnourished in various ways, there are literally endless studies showing that yet the medical field pretends that really basic shit like ‘getting enough vitamins’ is made up hippie nonsense. They’re so blatantly in bed with the pharmaceutical corporations it’s shameful.
/rant