Without stress, depression, or anxiety, etc? Those are rather common problems.
No depression or anxiety. Of course, with inner work I did go through phases of intense sadness and fears too, but that's intentional to learn how to become intimate with such emotions, let them resolve and move on. Stress at my working place 2 years before my diagnosis (PAD) I long considered a strong contributing factor to it, and did the most obvious to overcome: quit that job. In retrospect and after having learned a lot more about human health and with all the infections at that time (myopericarditis, schistosomiasis, treated root canal) it could well be the other way round: the infections might have badly affected the autonomic nervous system, put my in sympathetic overdrive and vulnerable to any stress to begin with.
Episodes of grieving, overwhelm and fear is what it means to be alive. And before the advent of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics, depressions or even a part of shizophrenias (about half experienced remission naturally without medications) weren't known in their today usually 100% chronified forms.
If you think anything I'm taking is dangerous as is I'd certainly like to know about it.
I only really researched my own prescriptions: statin and aspirin very well. Both have very well been tested long-term (which usually means just 5 years) and both considered by most physician as completely safe to take till your death-bed. However, on my closer look of their risk-benefit ratio, I got an opposite impression, out of question and refused both of them.
Since then having intelligently trialed most supplements and never having experienced any side-effects, compared to petrochemicals (a baby-aspirin for example gives me immediate bloody stools), I came to the conclusion: even commonly considered harmless ones are in a completely different league in their potential harm. And on the metabolic side, totally logical as written already up in my first post to this thread: Supplements are made of natural compounds the body is used to metabolize already since millions of years (if one doesn't confuse nutritional supplements with known natural poisons), while with petrochemicals this could only be said in an other millions of years.
PS: through joining PhoenixRising forum because of getting ME/CFS symptoms myself, I learnt that this group does have such strong sensitivities, that any medication, food, light, sound, movement, or also supplements can backfire badly. But that's for obvious different reasons most of us don't have.
PSS: 'intelligently trialed' means don't go by internet reports of side-effects, interactions, effects, etc. But always start with the lowest possible dose of any new supplements (even if that means taking only a part of a capsule or tablets for the first few days) then increase gradually and slowly over weeks, months and years. Adjust doses again with labs going in the wrong direction or indeed feeling adverse effects or bad interaction at particular doses.
In my case I didn't feel anything at first from most supplements, after months and years I observed blood-work moving in the right direction, and after many years experienced a remission from a walking-disability from a disease considered non-reversible by physicians (the prescriptions intended for me were only for secondary prevention, not cure). Now after 10 years I do feel so much gladness having overcome this monster. But still not from anyone individual nutrient. All nutrients work in concert. The 'take a pill to solve your problem' in most cases equals magic thinking. Of which the placebo-effect of course indeed makes it somewhat effective.
Edited by pamojja, 12 July 2019 - 10:58 AM.
) lacks/deficits, areas such as strength, coordination, sports endurance, digestion, brain/nerves (esp vagus nerve), heart, weight, energy production and regulation, and eye and skin health to name things that come to mind.
