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New Theories / Re: Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome (POIS)
« on: 29/05/2013 01:25:23 »
I appreciate from my last post a lot of people might have read it and thought, well a lot of this seems obvious. Take me back 5-6 years ago and it would not have sounded obvious to me as I was certainly on the wrong path. As i said before, we are all unique and we all have different chemical algorithms that need solving. That said there are some common grounds we all have and some misconceptions. All of whats written below is just the things i found out along the way that required some big lifestyle changes. Everything that has worked for me was quite the opposite of a magic bullet that showed dramatic results over night or over even a week. Everything that worked forced me to keep faith and keep patience. If you know all of this or thinks its irrelevant then dismiss it. I was asked what had helped me to make the recovery I've made and this was it along side what I learnt and the advice I was given:
Our common ground :
What we are putting into our systems.
Diet - how many of use consume grains, seeds, nuts. Well I grew up thinking was part of a very healthy diet. Little did I know, that many varieties of these types of foods contain something called phytic acid which is an anti nutrient. Its natures way of the grain, seed or nut holding onto its nutrients and not giving them up to the whatever is consuming it. Cutting these out of my diet (not completely - its impossible and impractical) made a huge different to my digestion and absorption. Helped explain why on a so called balanced diet, i was deficient in so my vitamins and minerals (according to tests I had done on a few occasions - hair analysis, sweat mineral to name a few, which did correlate with each other)
Outside of my own issues, if you have allergies to dairy, gluten, have chrons disease etc these can all dramatically effect the levels of minerals and vitamins you have in your system which will have a knock on effect throughout your whole system. Its like a domino effect, deficiencies in certain vitamins of minerals and the body cannot synthesis them in chemicals it needs for hormones, neurotransmitters on the other end of the equation. Going back to our issue, when you ejaculate, did you know you body needs these chemicals and minerals to name a few:
Dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, phenylethylamine, adrenaline, endorphins (including enkephalins), serotonin, norepinephrine, prolactin, testosterone, progesterone, nitric oxide (NO), pheremones, neutrophins, luteinizing hormone, Tyrosine (precursor to dopamine and norepinephrine), follicle stimulating hormone, cortisol, prostaglandins, thyrotropin-releasing hormones, melatonin, relaxin, cytokines
ascorbic acid, blood-group antigens, calcium, chlorine, cholesterol, choline, citric acid, creatine, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), fructose, glutathione, hyaluronidase, inositol, lactic acid, magnesium,
nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, purine, pyrimidine, pyruvic acid, sodium, sorbitol, spermidine, spermine, urea, uric acid, vitamin B12, and not mention zinc
So if this is all to ejaculate, what if were all ready deficient. Does this take our systems down to empty - and if thats so, what does it use when it needs to perform other functions that use the same thing. Well for me, this is where the problem lyes.
If you do have tests done to see what your deficient or low in, don't make the mistake I did and run out and buy everything I thought I needed. This can cause more imbalance and it will leave you feeling worse, frustrated and significantly worse off financially. There are many pit falls with supplements and you really need help in this area. I found out I had a problem with my liver as it was not converting vitamins like B6 into its active form…meaning the B6 I was taken was having no effect at all apart from burdening my liver. Also little did I also know that certain forms of minerals were not being absorbed either because they were not bioavailable to by body due to a binder that was incompatible with me. An example was that even though I was taking Zinc citrate, my tests showed me up as deficient (in addition to the white spots on my names amongst other things). I took Zinc Sulphate, and i was seeing much more positive response. Taking sulphate was not my shooting in the dark - because of other evidence it was found beneficial for me to be using supplements that contain sulphur. You need to find out what works best for you as this is very much tailored to my needs without going to an enormous amount of details why.
What we are not putting in our systems
Many of us do not do many of the basic things for good health, were not drinking at least 2 litres of water everyday. Were not looking after our digestive systems. In a sense from our diets we are eating dead food or food that is so denatured with preservatives/sweetners that our bodies do not recognise it as food any more. Im not going to preach, but I found some books called the The Makers Diet to be very helpful in taking us back to our roots in terms of diet before mass food production was around along side its brain washing marketing companies. Fermented foods, like Sauerkraut as amazing for our digestive systems and can help heal our stomachs. Our stomachs and digestive system are our petrol tanks and at the beginning of the process. Problems here will cause knock on effects elsewhere which create symptoms so confusing it will leave you chasing your tail to solve. The root starts with the digestive system.
On the subject of healing the digestive system, be very careful of pre and probiotics, these can be more damaging to you than good as certain strains of bacteria they add to these can encourage the wrong type of spores to reproduce which will give off toxins into your blood stream. Some are good but many in my experience are not.
So once we have understood more about the right and wrong things to be putting into our systems, this should buy us time if we get this first part of the equation correct. We can't possibly think straight if our brains are not getting the clean fuel we need. The next step for me was to find out what was in my system that shouldn't be. These things below, will decrease your absorption rate, make your system more toxic, stress your organs and make it near impossible for you balance your system and make any progress.
Parasites - Mine was tested positive for candida, blastocystis hominis, h pylori all from a stool test I had done by a company called Metametrix
All but blastocystis hominis have now been eradicated by following protocols through my nutritionist.
Heavy Metals: I was high in cadmium according to tests I had done by Great Smokies Diagnostics and Acumen. I tired to detox myself and made myself ill, so my advice is to be careful, its a very delicate process and have patience. Look towards a 2-3 year plan. If you try to speed this process up by taking supplements I believe to be unsafe (I'm being controversial here) such as DMSA, cilantro, Zeolite you could end up feeling a lot worse where minerals you do need are stripped from your body or by putting liver and kidneys under unnecessary stress
Viruses: I had Epstein barr virus when i was younger diagnosed through symptoms and a blood test. Although it is not conclusive, many practitioners in Acupuncture, Muscle testing, kinesiology all told me the same thing, that i had a virus inside me what was slippery. My own intuition told me this was Epstein barr virus given, that when I'm feeling stressed or run down, my body aches in the same places it did when i had Epstein barr virus. Around my neck, glands in my face, under my arms. It is also know that Epstein barr virus doesn't always complexity leave your body after you receive first treatment. and lye dormant in your system. On this occasion, I took the shot gun approach and took Olive leaf Extract and Oregano oil capsules (be careful with this as its very hot). For me I am making slow progress with this as I notice symptoms are dying down. If you decide for yourself to do this, you might notice you feel a lot worse for the first 2 weeks - low energy, lethargic etc. I stuck with it as I thought this was a die off symptoms. Lucky for me it was and I felt better after - by 'better' I'm talking about significant progress after 6 months, 1 year…
Throughout my tests and research i discovered other factors which are specific to my system.
Histamine and Homocysteine
I found out about my natural histamine and homocysteine levels. Turns out I was low histamine and high homocysteine. This itself is crucial information to find out as it will give you a better idea of why certain supplements will make you feel better while others should be avoided. It is my opinion that this is like learning what type of car you have, diesel or petrol. I had these tests at Biolab Medical Unit.
Amongst this, my testosterone, cortisol and neurotransmitter levels were measured at The Doctors Laboratory (is the name of place…not my doctors actual laboratory)
Neurotransmitters was a very interesting area for me, in particular Dopamine levels. However this area is inconclusive to me at this stage before I feel comfortable about commenting. I do feel this plays a huge role in the issues I have faced. But as I've said from the beginning, this at the end of the chain and any unusual levels found here are a knock effect of something failing further towards the beginning of the chain. If all we were interested in relieving symptoms then we would all be running to the pharmacies and taking medication which temporarily alter these levels… which will knock something else even further out causing new symptoms.
I agree with your points that these tests are expensive, but if like me you were spending £250 per moth on supplements out of desperation and impatience, then instead of spending experimentally on this, I use my money to put towards tests. Going out getting all the tests in one go is not a good idea either. I wasted thousands on unnecessary tests which could have been avoided if I had been patient, the results from one carefully selected test would have led me onto to something more meaningful where its results would have been more insightful.
For anyone interested in my approach then my biggest bit of advice would be to find someone that can help. They do not need to be a professor who has written books. Trust me, I've have been to these kind of people too. They are successful for a reason, because they are also good business men. In my experience the best people do not have fancy clinics in the most prestigious locations and do not have a website that looks like they spend more time and energy on google optimising it than they do looking after the patients they have.
I have also found myself a great nutritionist who normally deals with Autistic/Aspergers children and is recognised by a number recognised health councils. The reason for this was because from reading many books, it was apparent to me that people that suffer from this are not hugely dissimilar to us. They are an extreme case of what happens when your system is completely out of balance, but in their case its almost irreversible given they have been like this since the ages of 3-4 upwards. Also the nutritionist who treats them understands the metabolic functions better than anyone in my opinion. So my analogy is if you want a strategy to go into battle, who better person to ask to advise on your strategy than someone who is experienced in extreme war on a day to day basis. Someone who works with extremes. These kind of people choose to work with extremes for a couple of reason. Firstly because they can, they have the knowledge and intelligence to understand their field and the broader picture. They have the passion, compassion and patience to utilise there expertise effectively.
I can't advise you anymore on this, this might actually be the hardest part as you need to follow your own instincts and knowledge to find who you think can guide you . My nutritionist advises me on tests, can interpret tests, can recommend me to a good GP should I need a referral letter, advises me on supplements and most importantly is conscious of saving me money by keeping costs down.
As I said I am not 100% there yet and it is often the last piece of the puzzle that is the hardest and takes the longest to find. But the important thing is that I am on the right track. That was all i wanted to to do with my post to was to show people a better track in case they were feeling lost. To some of you a lot of this is obvious, so forgive me as my intention was not to patronise. To others, maybe a lot of this doesn't sound like answers to you, its because I can't give you the answers, this is merely my story without any shortcuts which is all I can offer.
Our common ground :
What we are putting into our systems.
Diet - how many of use consume grains, seeds, nuts. Well I grew up thinking was part of a very healthy diet. Little did I know, that many varieties of these types of foods contain something called phytic acid which is an anti nutrient. Its natures way of the grain, seed or nut holding onto its nutrients and not giving them up to the whatever is consuming it. Cutting these out of my diet (not completely - its impossible and impractical) made a huge different to my digestion and absorption. Helped explain why on a so called balanced diet, i was deficient in so my vitamins and minerals (according to tests I had done on a few occasions - hair analysis, sweat mineral to name a few, which did correlate with each other)
Outside of my own issues, if you have allergies to dairy, gluten, have chrons disease etc these can all dramatically effect the levels of minerals and vitamins you have in your system which will have a knock on effect throughout your whole system. Its like a domino effect, deficiencies in certain vitamins of minerals and the body cannot synthesis them in chemicals it needs for hormones, neurotransmitters on the other end of the equation. Going back to our issue, when you ejaculate, did you know you body needs these chemicals and minerals to name a few:
Dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, phenylethylamine, adrenaline, endorphins (including enkephalins), serotonin, norepinephrine, prolactin, testosterone, progesterone, nitric oxide (NO), pheremones, neutrophins, luteinizing hormone, Tyrosine (precursor to dopamine and norepinephrine), follicle stimulating hormone, cortisol, prostaglandins, thyrotropin-releasing hormones, melatonin, relaxin, cytokines
ascorbic acid, blood-group antigens, calcium, chlorine, cholesterol, choline, citric acid, creatine, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), fructose, glutathione, hyaluronidase, inositol, lactic acid, magnesium,
nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, purine, pyrimidine, pyruvic acid, sodium, sorbitol, spermidine, spermine, urea, uric acid, vitamin B12, and not mention zinc
So if this is all to ejaculate, what if were all ready deficient. Does this take our systems down to empty - and if thats so, what does it use when it needs to perform other functions that use the same thing. Well for me, this is where the problem lyes.
If you do have tests done to see what your deficient or low in, don't make the mistake I did and run out and buy everything I thought I needed. This can cause more imbalance and it will leave you feeling worse, frustrated and significantly worse off financially. There are many pit falls with supplements and you really need help in this area. I found out I had a problem with my liver as it was not converting vitamins like B6 into its active form…meaning the B6 I was taken was having no effect at all apart from burdening my liver. Also little did I also know that certain forms of minerals were not being absorbed either because they were not bioavailable to by body due to a binder that was incompatible with me. An example was that even though I was taking Zinc citrate, my tests showed me up as deficient (in addition to the white spots on my names amongst other things). I took Zinc Sulphate, and i was seeing much more positive response. Taking sulphate was not my shooting in the dark - because of other evidence it was found beneficial for me to be using supplements that contain sulphur. You need to find out what works best for you as this is very much tailored to my needs without going to an enormous amount of details why.
What we are not putting in our systems
Many of us do not do many of the basic things for good health, were not drinking at least 2 litres of water everyday. Were not looking after our digestive systems. In a sense from our diets we are eating dead food or food that is so denatured with preservatives/sweetners that our bodies do not recognise it as food any more. Im not going to preach, but I found some books called the The Makers Diet to be very helpful in taking us back to our roots in terms of diet before mass food production was around along side its brain washing marketing companies. Fermented foods, like Sauerkraut as amazing for our digestive systems and can help heal our stomachs. Our stomachs and digestive system are our petrol tanks and at the beginning of the process. Problems here will cause knock on effects elsewhere which create symptoms so confusing it will leave you chasing your tail to solve. The root starts with the digestive system.
On the subject of healing the digestive system, be very careful of pre and probiotics, these can be more damaging to you than good as certain strains of bacteria they add to these can encourage the wrong type of spores to reproduce which will give off toxins into your blood stream. Some are good but many in my experience are not.
So once we have understood more about the right and wrong things to be putting into our systems, this should buy us time if we get this first part of the equation correct. We can't possibly think straight if our brains are not getting the clean fuel we need. The next step for me was to find out what was in my system that shouldn't be. These things below, will decrease your absorption rate, make your system more toxic, stress your organs and make it near impossible for you balance your system and make any progress.
Parasites - Mine was tested positive for candida, blastocystis hominis, h pylori all from a stool test I had done by a company called Metametrix
All but blastocystis hominis have now been eradicated by following protocols through my nutritionist.
Heavy Metals: I was high in cadmium according to tests I had done by Great Smokies Diagnostics and Acumen. I tired to detox myself and made myself ill, so my advice is to be careful, its a very delicate process and have patience. Look towards a 2-3 year plan. If you try to speed this process up by taking supplements I believe to be unsafe (I'm being controversial here) such as DMSA, cilantro, Zeolite you could end up feeling a lot worse where minerals you do need are stripped from your body or by putting liver and kidneys under unnecessary stress
Viruses: I had Epstein barr virus when i was younger diagnosed through symptoms and a blood test. Although it is not conclusive, many practitioners in Acupuncture, Muscle testing, kinesiology all told me the same thing, that i had a virus inside me what was slippery. My own intuition told me this was Epstein barr virus given, that when I'm feeling stressed or run down, my body aches in the same places it did when i had Epstein barr virus. Around my neck, glands in my face, under my arms. It is also know that Epstein barr virus doesn't always complexity leave your body after you receive first treatment. and lye dormant in your system. On this occasion, I took the shot gun approach and took Olive leaf Extract and Oregano oil capsules (be careful with this as its very hot). For me I am making slow progress with this as I notice symptoms are dying down. If you decide for yourself to do this, you might notice you feel a lot worse for the first 2 weeks - low energy, lethargic etc. I stuck with it as I thought this was a die off symptoms. Lucky for me it was and I felt better after - by 'better' I'm talking about significant progress after 6 months, 1 year…
Throughout my tests and research i discovered other factors which are specific to my system.
Histamine and Homocysteine
I found out about my natural histamine and homocysteine levels. Turns out I was low histamine and high homocysteine. This itself is crucial information to find out as it will give you a better idea of why certain supplements will make you feel better while others should be avoided. It is my opinion that this is like learning what type of car you have, diesel or petrol. I had these tests at Biolab Medical Unit.
Amongst this, my testosterone, cortisol and neurotransmitter levels were measured at The Doctors Laboratory (is the name of place…not my doctors actual laboratory)
Neurotransmitters was a very interesting area for me, in particular Dopamine levels. However this area is inconclusive to me at this stage before I feel comfortable about commenting. I do feel this plays a huge role in the issues I have faced. But as I've said from the beginning, this at the end of the chain and any unusual levels found here are a knock effect of something failing further towards the beginning of the chain. If all we were interested in relieving symptoms then we would all be running to the pharmacies and taking medication which temporarily alter these levels… which will knock something else even further out causing new symptoms.
I agree with your points that these tests are expensive, but if like me you were spending £250 per moth on supplements out of desperation and impatience, then instead of spending experimentally on this, I use my money to put towards tests. Going out getting all the tests in one go is not a good idea either. I wasted thousands on unnecessary tests which could have been avoided if I had been patient, the results from one carefully selected test would have led me onto to something more meaningful where its results would have been more insightful.
For anyone interested in my approach then my biggest bit of advice would be to find someone that can help. They do not need to be a professor who has written books. Trust me, I've have been to these kind of people too. They are successful for a reason, because they are also good business men. In my experience the best people do not have fancy clinics in the most prestigious locations and do not have a website that looks like they spend more time and energy on google optimising it than they do looking after the patients they have.
I have also found myself a great nutritionist who normally deals with Autistic/Aspergers children and is recognised by a number recognised health councils. The reason for this was because from reading many books, it was apparent to me that people that suffer from this are not hugely dissimilar to us. They are an extreme case of what happens when your system is completely out of balance, but in their case its almost irreversible given they have been like this since the ages of 3-4 upwards. Also the nutritionist who treats them understands the metabolic functions better than anyone in my opinion. So my analogy is if you want a strategy to go into battle, who better person to ask to advise on your strategy than someone who is experienced in extreme war on a day to day basis. Someone who works with extremes. These kind of people choose to work with extremes for a couple of reason. Firstly because they can, they have the knowledge and intelligence to understand their field and the broader picture. They have the passion, compassion and patience to utilise there expertise effectively.
I can't advise you anymore on this, this might actually be the hardest part as you need to follow your own instincts and knowledge to find who you think can guide you . My nutritionist advises me on tests, can interpret tests, can recommend me to a good GP should I need a referral letter, advises me on supplements and most importantly is conscious of saving me money by keeping costs down.
As I said I am not 100% there yet and it is often the last piece of the puzzle that is the hardest and takes the longest to find. But the important thing is that I am on the right track. That was all i wanted to to do with my post to was to show people a better track in case they were feeling lost. To some of you a lot of this is obvious, so forgive me as my intention was not to patronise. To others, maybe a lot of this doesn't sound like answers to you, its because I can't give you the answers, this is merely my story without any shortcuts which is all I can offer.