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by Gilgamesh
Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:11 pm
Forum: Prevention and Treatment
Topic: Disturbed sleep & AD
Replies: 81
Views: 30536

Re: Disturbed sleep & AD

Disturbed sleep is the area where I am struggling most. Me too. It's just a genetic thing in my case, I'm pretty sure. My mom and my siblings and I all have sleep maintenance insomnia. Nothing but eating heavily right before bedtime, and maintaining a BMI close to 23 (and I'm an ectomorph, so that'...
by Gilgamesh
Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:57 am
Forum: Our Stories
Topic: Experiences with FMD/multi-day fasts
Replies: 83
Views: 35056

Re: Experiences with FMD/multi-day fasts

Hey gang, Well, I got to day seven, and, just as before, decided to stop by late afternoon, and had around 800 calories of nuts for dinner. Was really losing my mental focus, and it somehow didn't feel healthy. ("Why was it that I walked into the living room?") On the whole the fast was a ...
by Gilgamesh
Sat Jul 01, 2017 6:57 pm
Forum: Our Stories
Topic: Experiences with FMD/multi-day fasts
Replies: 83
Views: 35056

Re: Experiences with FMD/multi-day fasts

Betty, thanks for the tip about lithium! Like many here, I normally take 1 mg/day (though not when I'm in a part of the world where there's plenty in the drinking water), but I'll try 5 mg tonight.

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by Gilgamesh
Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:20 am
Forum: Science and Research
Topic: Designing an E4 Fasting trial...
Replies: 72
Views: 28897

Re: Designing an E4 Fasting trial...

Notes on my, and others', if they want to add them, fasting experiences now here:

Experiences with FMD/multi-day fasts
by Gilgamesh
Fri Jun 30, 2017 6:57 am
Forum: Our Stories
Topic: Experiences with FMD/multi-day fasts
Replies: 83
Views: 35056

Experiences with FMD/multi-day fasts

(Continued from Designing an E4 fasting trial thread .) But, meanwhile, I had a curiously cool and positive experience and am ready to push it out to at least six days (that doesn't include my low-cal descent days), starting now! Though, at least as randomly as you, I'll TRY to wait a full ten days....
by Gilgamesh
Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:27 pm
Forum: Our Stories
Topic: Support Team
Replies: 88
Views: 43173

Re: Support Team

A huge thanks and welcome to the new volunteers! This is a big step forward for us. And thanks to Julie, for so tirelessly working to advance our cause.
by Gilgamesh
Fri Jun 23, 2017 11:14 am
Forum: Science and Research
Topic: High-fat diet leads to same intestinal inflammation as a virus
Replies: 10
Views: 3906

Re: High-fat diet leads to same intestinal inflammation as a virus

apod, thanks for being far less lazy than I was this morning when I posted the link to the report on the study! The dietary constituents make it pretty clear that I can keep eating my mounds of nuts! :mrgreen: (Or rather: that this study provides no evidence to make me stop.) The tomato compound is ...
by Gilgamesh
Fri Jun 23, 2017 5:55 am
Forum: Science and Research
Topic: High-fat diet leads to same intestinal inflammation as a virus
Replies: 10
Views: 3906

High-fat diet leads to same intestinal inflammation as a virus

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-06-high-fat-diet-intestinal-inflammation-virus.html

Will have to read the study to see what kind of fat it was, of course (and whether there was any bodyweight change).
by Gilgamesh
Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:47 am
Forum: Announcements and Events
Topic: Head count for our 2017 meet-up
Replies: 6
Views: 7630

Re: Head count for our 2017 meet-up

I am, and feel like, such such a zero in this headcount! Really wish I could be there. Will be there in epsilon-4 spirit! xo
by Gilgamesh
Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:10 am
Forum: Science and Research
Topic: Designing an E4 Fasting trial...
Replies: 72
Views: 28897

Re: Designing an E4 Fasting trial...

Humans may need to go significantly longer than rodents for the same "signal". I think that could be right, but it may depend on the signal in question . The interesting CR Society discussion (previous link) makes me wonder whether more frequent two-day fasts might be optimal for many (ag...