Things I tried for health

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See the list of things I have tried further down! :)

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An introduction:

Autumn 2012...

Felt fatigue. Went to a normal doctor's clinic. Gluten intolerance was an idea. I went home and googled it right away. >glutenfreewarrior -> did a gluten gene test -> positive for intolerance. This was the start of a journey. 

Tried to get help from doctors but nothing happened there. From 2012 read marksdailyapple - during a longer period. Learnt about healthy fats, play, stress, chronic cardio, sun, water, genes, chocolate, lower carb, slow but frequent movement. I ate quinoa, meat, walnut oil, spinach, yoghurt sometimes, potatoes, tomatoes. Then the issues were not resolved (fatigue, distended stomach, not tolerating things, hair loss) so I went further on his info - avoiding all grains at the 2012/2013 intersection. Then after that I started to avoid dairy and after that (some time in the spring, I think), I started avoiding nightshades. All these things led to improvements in symptoms and I tried them again after removal (except for grains) without feeling well - for instance tomates I think. I was training at IKSU and got quiet a lot of muscles. I got a comment that I looked like a swimmer even though I was a runner. I probably had some "autoimmune" thyroid issues still. I started eating sweet potatoes and slowly other tubers. I had trouble reading and some ataxia but was still training. I had alcohol many weekends during this first college year. 

 

Then during the summer, I was lonely and thinking a lot about other people. I moved and felt worse. There was probably mold or something else there. I got so tired. Almost suicidal at times. My previous roommate who decided to not live in our previous apartment was lonely too. 
Then I got into resting. I rested so much during this time. I mean I rested in the previous apartment a lot. A lot more than I had done previously in my life. I had always been running/dancing around at home - always running/jumping up or down the stairs at home for instance. The previous year I was mostly lying in a one-seat couch. This year I was lying alone in a bed - reading for myself. I got into the big bang theory and how I met your mother - switching in between watching those in the sofa in the common kitchen - sometimes with someone else but mostly alone - and reading maths in the bed in my room. I was so tired. The TV, my family and the fun mathematics - also being in the beginning of college made me keep on going and I had no depression. I was just low. I had lost a bit of my self-confidence, but otherwise I was sane.

 

I tried hard to get help from conventional medicine - and to get help from doctors, but that failed. This was not nice. I was into a mindset that conventional medicine was awful and that alternative health with most (not to say all) Sisson things were better. I kept on strength training at IKSU and had a good beach-looking body. I did not do much cardio. Mostly when I tried on my own I ended up walking - thinking about health and my situation.

 

I was a bit lazy looking for other solutions. I just needed to rest. Sometimes I read about stuff - like selenium or vitamin D or something, or thyroid with the dream that I was simply missing something small. What if I was simply deficient in one little thing and taking that would tip me over into vibrant health again?

 

Months went by without much improvements. I bought a little bit of supplements. I had taken multivitamins and calcium+D3 before but took some more advanced stuff now. I started reading about autoimmune thyroid I think and maybe even Chris Kresser at this time - or maybe this was next year. I did not try much more actually. I tried normal doctors, dreamt about being well, ate a nutrient dense, paleo, personal diet and did strength training. A lot of rest, sleeping until 12 most days and trying to survive school. I was hoping to get well to live a "big bang theory" or "how I met your mother" - life. So I was a little bit low that I could not. I was lonely. I had one friend but otherwise, not much friends. I was a bit lonely in class - at least in the breaks. I used to sit alone and just wait until it was over. Perhaps reading some at marksdailyapple in the break. Then go home for lunch and watch TV and then read (try to - I was so tired). I would read one sentence and then rest. I was still at the point were I wanted to understand everything so I did not fly over a sentence before understanding it. I was feeling quiet OK at that time. I was cool. Everyone thought so. Like a cool, muscular teenager who is a bit troubled. 

 

Not much happened that summer. I was doing mapping, being tired. Then I came back to my smelly lonely room. I was hoping that some new nice people would move in. Some did. Not much changed. I had some other tries at getting help from doctors. TSH was very high according to me but they ignored it. I continued with "the big bang theory" and "how I met you mother" and think I started reading more from Chris Kresser, Amy Myers, Hashimotos girl and others. This was good. It gave me more hope. I experimented a lot with what I could eat. Now there were a lot of things I "could not eat". Of course I could eat anything but felt worse from some things. Coconut and chocolate was bad. Bananas were quiet bad. I got joint pains from many things. I had a lot of olive oil, bacon, chicken, liver, leafy greens, raisins, salmon. This made me calm but left me inflamed. I was tired every morning and usually felt the strongest at around 10 pm. I was thinking of HPA dysfunction, autoimmunity, GI health and other stuff. 

 

I found Peter Martin's clinic in 2015. I guess it was via Chris Kresser - searching for functional medicine practitioners in Sweden - and there was one! I got excited but somewhere in my hard I was also doubting that it was going to work. I mean, I thought I knew much about it already. I booked a time and went down there by train alone in the summer. I went to see Tenacious D and to go and have a visit at his clinic. I missed the consert but did not miss my visit to him. He did a special check on me, I later took GI and ONE and we had another meeting. I was excited then that we had found many things - even though if they were non-specific. It was clear that the nutrient and GI status was messed up - but not clearly how.

Eventually in 2015 perhaps I found selfhacked which I was a bit scared about initially. There was so much information - too much to make sense of everything. I started reading but did not know how much to read, when to stop and what conclusions to draw. There were so many theories and yes everything matters but how would I make sense of it all. I was also so tired that I hardly could focus on reading at all. How could I then read it all, analyse myself according to it and heal?

 

I used Selfhacked to try to analyse tests done via Peter Martin and got some bit. I got into methylation, CBS pathways, a little bit of Yasko and Ben Lynch. Peter Martin put me on a methylation program and a general GI improvement protocol. I did not feel much of a change. Perhaps because there was so much wrong? He thought it was crazy that I did not feel anything from the methylation pills. It was a nice backup and a nice proof to myself that I was not simply imagining my health problems. I had some real issues - on paper. 

 

I had also gotten into mold, Shoemaker, SIBO, candida, environmental toxins, heavy metals and similar during this period. It was a lot of connections and I was excited to read about it. I would read until I got anxiety about how to implement it or get well using the information. For instance, reading or watching or listening to something about candida, thinking I had it and wanted to get well from it immediately. There were many small, careful heureka moments were I thought I had it, followed by, aha but what do I do and am I not doing most things right anyway.

 

I was getting a lot of pills from Peter Martin and also buying a lot of things on my own. It was hard to eat all of them. I had maybe 30-40 jars of things. This was not sitting well in my heart and my parents did not like it very much I think - but they did not care too much either. 

I lived in the same college room as before. I was not happy with the environment there. It was smelly and so. I thought that I would not be there much longer - either move abroad or somewhere else.

 

I started writing on a health document - in April 2016 being 75 pages long. I might have started in 2015 some time. I starts with some selfhacked theories so yeah, probably. It was a good thing to document things. 

 

Peter Martin and I worked on. I tested hair minerals, SIBO, UNILABS, ImuPro and some minor things. I was losing hope that he would find something. Right from the start I had felt that he did not know much more than I did and that given my special knowledge of myself and our time-limited meetings, I would have to straighten this out myself. But it was very nice to use him for ordering tests.

 

I got into lectins and Gundry via Selfhacked. I tried low lectin and low histamine. This was helping. I was experimenting a lot with food and most weeks trying something new, failing and feeling bad. 

 

I applied to go abroad to study. I got Singapore and was so excited about that. Then I could get a new start!

 

I read/watched/listened more about mold. I had gotten a bit tired of "big bang theory". I did an elemental diet with the help of Peter Martin for SIBO anyway and got adrenaline but not much better. Now I was not as muscular as before. I was doubting low carb a bit. I had gotten a bit sad in my heart feeling that I had nothing in my life and how on earth would I get out of this hole. Singapore would be a great chance then! I was nervous about if I was going to survive on the food there. I tried rice a bit before I went and to my relief I felt OK on it. 

 

I did another methylation protocol with Peter Martin in June/July 2016. Maybe that is why I felt good at O-Ringen.

I went with mold to Peter Martin and to Domsjö Health clinic and Peter tried but could not order tests easily. In Domsjö I met a great doctor (!!!!!) who prescribed cholestyramine to me. I kept that in the garage at home (I had also suspicions about our house having mold - at least it could have - now when all of us except for dad were feeling bad). Then I should have brought it with me to Singapore but did not eventually since they had a death penalty on drug traffickers. I bought charcoal there and took that. Before going away, I went to O-Ringen, playing soccer with friends. We stayed with a family and I felt a strong connection to them. O-Ringen was very nice. I had high creatinine and felt worried like never before during the spring but now I was OK. It would be an adventure. I had some slight travelers fever before I went away but took the jump and I'm so happy I did. I don't know what I would have done or where I would have been otherwise.

 

Then I went to Singapore, back to Sweden and was saved!

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List 

 

Starting from around 2012:

• Cranio sacral therapy.

• Gluten-free diet.

• Grain-free diet.

• Diet low in carbs.

• Marksdailyapple – primal living, sun, play, rest, strength, nature, non-chronic cardio, movement --Almost feeling I have it all figured out. :)

• Diet high in fat.

• Diet high in protein.

• Diet low in nightshades.

• Diet high in nutrients.

• Natural foods.

• High vegetable content diet.

• Miderterranean diet.

• Chris Kresser -> GI, ancestral, functional medicine

• Food intolerances.

• Histamine, grains and cross-reactors, eggs, cocoa.

• Pro- and prebiotics.

• Hashimotos, hormones.

• Low HCL and digestive enzymes.

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From 2015:

• Peter Martin – functional medicine doctor.

• Functional medicine tests.

• Advanced nutrient assessment testing.

  • Gastrointestinal tests (GI function, SIBO, microbiome, minerals, vitamins, Crebs cycle, methylation…)

  • Hair mineral analysis.

  • Hormone panels.

  • Gene tests.

• Using supplements (many kinds).

• Methylation protocol. Yasko, Ben Lynch - CBS in particular.

• Mold, Shoemaker.

• ICES device.

• Mastica gum

• Low level laser therapy.

• Lyme disease.

• Selfhacked, TH1/TH2, gene details.

• Mewing, face issues, posture, sub-optimals. Got braces and took them off just before leaving for SG.

• Belt facepulling.

 

From 2016:

• A special diet for resetting the gut for two weeks.

• Advanced biostructural correction.

• Neurocranial restructuring.

• Osteopathy.

• Homeopathy.

• Brene Brown – “non-pretentiousness”.

• Lissa Rankkin – “feelings, love for health”.

• Breathing techniques.

• Reading up on chinese medicine.

• Wim Hof – cold immersion and breathing techniques.

• Meditation.

• Chi gong.

• Yoga gymnastics.

• Yoga book: Autobiography of a yogi.

• Australian yogi.

• Eben Alexander – proof of heaven (occult)

• Anita Moorjani – near-death-experience (occult)

• Ian McGormack – near-death-experience (a godly one: he met Jesus)

• Polyvagal theory.

 

2017:

• Pressure cooking food.

• Craniosacral therapy.

• Grain brain and similar books.

• Heavy metal chelation - mostly using foods and R-ALA.

• Low fat diet. I did cut it low but maybe ate too much high sulfur vegetables instead?

• Studying what fats are healthly - if any?

• CBD, inulin, icariin. Taking Omega 3-6 balancing more seriously.

• Tried antibiotics for prostate problems. 

• Herbs for kidneys. 

• Did a MARCoNS test (for biofilms related to mold).

• Reading up on ayurveda medicine.

• VCS testing.

• Tried oregano oil, clove oil, pau d'arco and black cumin against SIBO or candida or something.

• Tried cleaning sinuses with oregano oil, clove or, black cumin but mostly apple cider vinaeger.

• Eating lots of fibers.

• Low protein diet.

• Mindfulness.

• Checking for mold visually many times everywhere in the house.

• Mold settle plate tests - two of them. One being very positive (the one I did) and one being very negative (the one mum did). For the negative, it was done in my room which had been closed for days. The other test was moved around the house. They were done at different times.

• Trying to do mold HLA type testing in Sweden and USA.

• SIBO and other GI tests again. This time flat-line.

• Low FODMAP diet.

• Low sulfur diet.

• More on sulfur and sulfates. Lacking or too much?

• Reading on microbiomes of CFS people.

• Help from a psychologist.

• More cold exposure - bathing for long in Nydalasjön. Temporarily extremely nice! Also cold showers.

• More supplements.

• Ubiome. Testing microbiome again.

• Trying epsom salt orally.

• Trying a liver cleanse, but stopping due to not tolerating epsom salt orally. Getting excitotoxic from it.

 

2018:

• Trying epsom salt baths.

• Other NDEs.

• More vagus nerve things and more Yogis.

• Sadhguru.

• Transcendental meditation.

• Osho

• H. Pylori

• Litium.

• Flat-line SIBO test and checking.

• Tried to eat fat again - ghee (not olive oil - at least not bought myself), a little bit coconut oil sometimes.

• Tried lemongrass oil against Flat-line SIBO. Also berberine and bismuth.

• Mold - doing CIRS.

• Deepak Chopra

• Psychologist via work.

• Meditation + "pause" session at church

• Ferment vegetables at home (carrots, cabbage, a little onion and some mustard seeds)

 

2019:

• Medical medium.

• Dolores Cannon.

• Doing tests from nordic labs to check for GI: GI map, Intestinal permeability & hair test.

• Turning to the sun in tears and praying to God.

 

Then a guy met on the streets prayed for me and shared the Gospel.

Then I removed myself from the occult step by step over a 2-4 week period and was radically saved by Jesus!!!