Tips on self-experimenting with nutritional therapy
1. Don’t worry about proving anything to anyone.
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Can’t tolerate a supplement? Try an alternate formulation
(Updated April 2023.) 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
(Updated 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
(Updated April 2023.) 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
(Updated April 2023.) 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
(Updated April 2024.) In 2014, out of frustration at the lack of progress about some stubborn health issues, I started revisiting previously abandoned theories about their causes, including liver damage. Usually I would abandon a theory due to insufficient information on the topic, insufficient confirmation because of lack of access to decent testing facilities, or ...
Chronic illness and “nice” people
(Updated April 2024.) In 2013 I began thinking again about a phenomenon I first experienced at the nadir of my health woes in my early thirties, and several times since. I wondered briefly about it each time it happened, but was too beleaguered and distracted to dwell on it. On several occasions I developed noticeable, ...
