Hi everyone,
I am new to this thread. I'm relocating here from Turnbuckle's Alzheimer's protocol thread after he advised me that my continuously deteriorating cognitive impairment is not likely the result of AD, but could be (along with my continuously deteriorating severe treatment-resistant major depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric symptoms) the result of prolonged use antidepressants. This post from the AD thread and the few below it sum up my situation.
So I'm about to start getting together all the ingredients needed from the protocol. As discussed in the posts referenced above, I am interested in increasing the stem cell pool in the hippocampus, so my antidepressant medication can regain its effect of producing new neurons. As this is all brand new to me, I have a list of questions to Turnbuckle and anyone else who is able to help out:
1. Which protocol should I follow? Is it this one (from his profile page) or this (which is the latest in time and is the one identified in his response to me in the AD thread)? Do I need just the stem cell renewal, or satellite cell renewal and senescent cell clearance as well? Given that my hippocampal volume has been estimated to be within top 1% of population for my age, as discussed in this post, yet I am very ill mentally and cognitively, could this mean that a significant proportion of my hippocampal cells are indeed senescent?
2. I am very bad at cooking. I had to google to find out what a brownie is. When people say that stearic acid should be consumed with brownies, does it mean you need to cook the brownies yourself mixing in the stearic acid, or can you just purchase the brownies and stuff the stearic acid inside? And when it comes consuming it with hot chocolate, does it mean just buying your standard cocoa powder and mixing it in (with added lecithin for solubility)?
3. Turnbuckle appears to say here that I may try stearic acid on its own. So do I understand correctly that it is the "master ingredient" when it comes to enlarging your pool of stem cells? (I would assume that, judging by the name of this thread, C60 is also a must-have.) I am anxious to understand which ingredients are key and which ingredients are very much secondary (i.e. I might want to avoid, for the moment, go down the path of including every single substance that has been linked to stem cell renewal, because I've been down that road with depression and anxiety and trying substance after substance with no luck takes a great emotional toll on me).
4. I have access to some HGH, which I was planning to use for depression and cognition. There are a number of papers linking HGH and hippocampal neurogenesis (see, e.g., here), but they are too technical in that I can't place their conclusions neatly within the symmetrical/asymmetrical division paradigm. If I am looking to increase my pool of hippocampal stem cells by way of symmetrical division, and let the antidepressant medication, which helped me so much in the past, do the job of producing somatic cells by way of asymmetrical division, is taking HGH advisable?
Thanks in advance to everybody who can help me out with my protocol.