Tips on self-experimenting with nutritional therapy
1. Don’t worry about proving anything to anyone.
Year: 2013
Can’t tolerate a supplement? Try an alternate formulation
If a trashed liver, freaked-out nervous system, or fried digestion makes you super-sensitive to various supplements, you might try another delivery method or formulation.
Discussion forum misinformation
(Last updated in July 2022.) Some of us still remember when “regular” people were dressed, coached, prompted and edited before they were allowed to appear on any wide-reaching media — on TV or in newspapers or magazines.
Annoying crap people will say re: your mystery health issue
After you’ve spent a few months/years wandering through the medical system with a complaint no one can help you with — hair loss, psoriasis, fatigue, dizzy spells, insomnia, whatever — you start to hear the same refrains from supposedly well-meaning doctors and civilians.
And then there was the time vitamin B-complex drove me insane…
One of the first things you discover when you start investigating nutritional therapy is that vitamin B-complex formulations are badly designed.
Menorrhagia, meet methionine
After a disastrous niacin self experiment made me suspect that my liver is a shadow of its former self, I experimented with a selection of OTC supplements frequently mentioned in discussion forums on liver damage.
Perfume therapy
After reading Alyssa Harad’s Coming to My Senses, about her discovery of perfume, I was inspired to set forth my own approach toward arming oneself against the world with scent. I rank perfume up there with recorded music and books when it comes to tools for mental health.
Epic fail with the niacinamide experiment
Niacinamide was the culprit behind my third self-induced toxicity incident, the first two being vitamin A and vitamin B2.
What you might not know about liver damage
Last year I concluded I was on the wrong track re: my remaining stubborn health issues and I started revisiting theories I had abandoned earlier, either out of insufficient information or insufficient confirmation or because it was just too much of a hassle to think about. One of those theories was liver damage. I had ...
Chronic illness and “nice” people
I recently started thinking again about a phenomenon I first experienced at the nadir of my health woes 14 years ago, and several times since. I wondered briefly about it each time it happened, but was too beleaguered and distracted to dwell on it. To wit: on several occasions I developed noticeable symptoms over a ...
