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@PurpleTree Its a complex case and we propably wont find the "golden diagnosis" through some rough guessing on the internet. I have read through your responses and I will give you my input - but i need those 2 questions answered first: You mentioned low blood pressure: How low is low? What is your average? What about your heart rate? Did you already check your thyroid function?

Steroid nasal sprays are usually safe, even in long term use. Less than 1% will be absorbed into further bioavailablity. There is no 100% in anything - but if the rare side effect occurs in you, a simple withdrawal from the product will be enough to fix it and there wont be any lasting damage if this happens soon enough. I would be much more afraid of breathing through the mouth (which we know has many negative side effects) than from a short period of regularly using steroid nasal sprays!

I really apprechiate your attitude! Smartest thing I have read in this thread so far. Good job!

The quality source is my own understanding of the pandemic after critically reviewing most of the relevant data with years of experience doing statistical analysis on medical literature (not by watching some videos or tweets about it), being in heated arguments with vaccine supporters and critics for the last 12 months, while having the first hand experience of being a front line physician working in a hospital that deals with Covid-19 patients every day. So lets go through that nonsense... I turned off the bitchute video(Ryan Cole) after he mentioned the Carvallo study as an exemplary trial for the effectiveness of Ivermectine in Covid-patients. The trial was of terrible study-design, fraudulent and recently retracted as part of any meta-analysis that wants to be taken seriously (even the hardcore pro ivermectine guys like Pierre Cory or Tess Lawrie admit that). Another big Ivermectine trial (the egyptian one) got retracted as a whole. Anyone with the slightest knowledge on how to read trials would recognize that - so Ryan Cole is either.. a) not able to recognize simple errors in study design that renders basically any endpoint meaningless b) willfully misleading his patients and the public to push his anti-vaccine agenda I brought myself to finish the video - if you want we can talk about all the claims he makes, most of them are totally nonsensical and just dont hold against an ounce of critcal thinking. Now the study you posted - Mate, thats an in vitro study. This is, at best, evidence that there "could" be an effect eventually. At the very best, its a study you could base an hypothesis on. Not more, not less. Do you realize how often this happens in the medical field? Do you want to know how many new in vitro study are getting published every day, that show this or that effect on cancer cells, pathogens or alzheimer? Dozens. Every fucking day. This literally means nothing for us as the human species without proper clinical trials and hard endpoints like mortaility or hospitalization. Those are by the way the tricks BIG pharma uses on doctors to sell US their new products. You are using their weapons without even realizing it. Time and time again, we start impleneting new medical procedures or drugs that turn out to actually cause more harm than good, only realizing those effects years later when the damage is already done. What instantly comes to my mind are vetebroplasty, PSA screening, mammography in women in their 40's, fibrates against cholesterol, aspirin as primary prevention, knee surgeries... What I want to say is that history has shown us, that we NEED good data - that means big randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, multicentric trials with hard endpoints to find out if an intervention is actually usefull. Good thing is that in the case of chloroquine, they actually exist - and the best trials we have show no good effect. Period. In the case of Ivermectine, we need to wait until all the big trials that are currently on their feed are finished - I will remain agnostic until that point. All the previous data is highly questionable - and yes, I have looked at all the major trials plus the epidemiologcal data (mexican, indian..) I have personally vaccinted hundreds of people. None of them got a serious side effect from the vaccine. I have propably seen at least 1000 patients since the start of the vaccination program. I always ask them how they tolerated the vaccine - very few complaints so far. I only know 2 cases of "weird" side effects - both went away with any lasting damage. I told one friend to not get the 2nd shot after complaining about severe chest pain days after his 1st pfizer-vacc. We couldnt find any damage to his heart or organs though. _______________________ Now to your vaccine points: I personally was pretty hesitant to get vaccinated at the beginning because it all felt a bit rushed. Yet without a doubt, they work. Even if you go full conspiracy on me, even if all the data is fake - I have my own, front line experience. The simple fact is that in the hospital I work at and in every other clinic in my country: 80% of covid cases upgraded to our critical care unit are unvaccinated patients. Almost every new covid case with severe symptoms is from a person who didnt get the vaccine. We havent seen any rise in strokes/heart attacks/cancers/autoimmune diseases since mass vaccination started. This is MY personal experience and the experience of every doctor I personally know. Every decent trials shows this. Every good epimiolgocial analysis shows this. That these vaccines kill people and dont protect is simply not true. Its just not a valid point. To clarify/complete my vacc-opinion: - Iam NOT an advocate for mandatory vaccination or the social exclusion of the unvaxxed - I dont think that vaccinating children/young adults(in every case) is a particulary smart idea - Lockdowns/school closures should be a last resort due to the complex nature of consequences - Boosters (3rd/4th vacc) should be based on good evidence - at the moment its not! (terrible endpoints in the admission trials) - Everyone with comorbidities or above the age of 40/50 should get the vaccine (+ boosters) nontheless. Neutralizing antibodies just disappear really rapidly in that age group - Implementing an evidence based, holistic approach on covid is crucial - Ivermectine could be a potential third line treatment at the moment (due to its harmless nature as a drug) but should be stopped immediatly if trials come back negative - Molnupiravir should be tested exstensively due to weird mechanism of action before getting implemented at large scale

I think we can both agree that multinational pharmaceutical giants have a steep interest in their financial incentives being a main indicator of every public move they are willing to represent. Now the "project veritas" video you just posted suffers from the exactly same kind of bias, just on the other side of the interest-spectrum. You wont get truth there. Its complete bullshit. Anyone who posts a video like that and thinks its a reputable source immediatly loses any intellectual credibility in my eyes - its literally the equivalent to using a pfizer-ad as justification for a vaccination. This doesnt mean that every spoken word in this video is bullshit. It just means that its usually twisted, taken out of context and by far not the whole picture. You can do better than that.

Ahh, the inflated ego of the medical student - classic one.

Here is a good starting point for this rabbit hole

EMF Radiation is a difficult topic. There are those who say that they are sensible to the negative impact of such technologies, but then, if you go and test their claims in a double-blind setting, the effect suddenly disappears. That said, there is a huge amount of known and also unknown unknowns in this area. So anything that goes beyond a healthy agnosticism is in my opinion to be taken with a grain of salt. I disagree with the notion that big players in the telecommunication industry delibrately hold back studies and datasets to keep the masses uninformed. There is plenty of independent reserach is this field and nobody stops you from analyzing that data. Also. thats not how things work. You cant put a information-lid on something so wide spread like EMF-rad. You could literally perform experiments in your own basement. Its also really, really difficult to objectively look at those "subjective" outcomes. Placebo will almost inevitabely upset your plans if not carefully being taken care of. You just cant trust yourself in that case. As Michael already mentioned, there are far more obvious things we should keep in my mind before getting crazy about 5G and your living room's router. Adding to his examples, the one that baffles me the most are endocrine disruptors/volatile organic compounds and other enviromental toxins that you can find EVERYWHERE. The science is so clear and health effects propably even worse than we thought.

Cortisol as a single parameter is very limiting when it comes to explanatory power. Sometimes useful as a rough screening tool for very rare diseases of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. If you want to really check your adrenal function, this is what you should do: Saliva samples: - Cortisol (early in the morning: 0-1,5h) - Cortisol (after 1,5-3h) - Cortisol (after 3-6h) - Cortisol (after 6-9) - Cortisol (after 9-15h) - DHEA (early in the morning) - DHEA (after 12 hours) - Cortisol/DHEA-quotient (mornign/12h) If I find time this weekend, I can go into more detail on why you should do this but I am very busy at the moment. The other stuff was already correctly adressed by the other members. Take care

What the hell. You didnt even try to understand my point, did you? So lets go through that .... So here is my background regarding D3: I am a licensed physician, working as a internal medicine doctor (spec. gastroenterologist) in a university hospital. Besides being in med school for 6 years, I also have several diplomas in alternative health approaches like ayurveda and accupuncture. Besides that I am attending integrative medicine workshops every other weekend. I have watched weekend long seminars about vitamin-therapy, including D3. I have personally read all the relevant literature in D3, basically all the meta studies, most of the RCT's and some of the preliminary data due to its potential relevancy in Covid patients. I was an early adopter of giving Vitamin D3 to our Covid patients. Back in January 2021 I held a presentation in front of my collegues about the potential impacts and potential dangers of Vitamin D. I have propably given D3 to hundreds of people. I have seen D3 overdoses. I have treated them. I also know exactly what you need to look at before you want to give someone a high dose of a fat-soluable vitamin. You clearly dont. As you can see, I havent just read a book. You are right that most doctors dont really know about the whole literature about D3, but chances are high you dont know it either. Also, what is YOUR personal experience in treating a wide variety of people? Not some book - but YOUR experience. Now look, as I already mentioned in my previous post - the author might be onto something. But to overgeneralize his statements without nuance and the required experience, is again, batshit crazy. Stop that black and white thinking. Even telling people they "could" without proper context is of negligent nature. You are treating a human, not some bot over the internet. What if he decides to take it and suffers from one of the conditions i mentioned in the previous post? What if he does it without proper monitoring? What if he dies? You dont think shit like this happens? Of course its very reare, but it happens all the time.. @ShardMare Its very uncommon to feel chest pain after Taking D3: - Could be some adverse GI reaction to the supplement (chest pain in young patients sometimes comes from the gastric region) - Try taking the supplement with a high-fat meal (or at least a bigger meal) - Try supplementing magnesium as well

Yeah - no - I am sorry, I have to intervene here... You clearly have no idea how the Vitamin D3 metabolism works if you genuinely think its a good idea to prescribe up to 100k I.U's to someone you know through the internet. I mean, thats batshit crazy. That could kill someone in the right circumstance. I dont care what book you read or what you think is right or wrong - I have personally treated people with hypervitaminosis D who took much smaller doses than what you said is okay. Its not even that the author is wrong - it could well be that in his case and it some others, this helps a lot. But to give crazy high dosages of a fat-soluable vitamin to someone you dont know, without any significant data at all - is ludicrous. Just some examples: - What if OP is already high in blood-calcium and also a fast receptor responder to exogenous vitamin D3 - his heart could just stop in his sleep - What if he has a mutation in his CYP24A1-gene? - What if his true cause of his fatigue is a problem with his kidneys? You could push him directly into kidney failure... I mean come on dude, the first comment on the amazon-page from that book is literally a guy who almost died from Vitamin D ovderose. Please, @ShardMare - dont do anything this guy tells you without proper monitoring. Start with your baseline Vitamin D3 - optimal range is between 50 - 80 ng/mL - it should be in the high normal range. Its true that most doctors are very careful with vitamin D, maybe even too careful. Thats usually because they dont really know how high they can go and they just recommend dosages by mainstream insitutations or the instruction leaflet. Meta-analyses have shown that people with serum levels between 40-60 ng/ml have the lowest all-cause mortality, meaning they die less of all non-accidental diseases. - 1000 I.U a day is usually enough to raise your Vitamin D levels about 5ng/ml - everything between 1000-4000 I.U/day is fine at the beginning and good for maintenance - If you want to go high, start with at max. 4000 I.U a day if your baseline is low and recheck your levels at some point, as well as your Calcium. - If you want to go higher, you can do that with proper guidance (integrative physician) - I would be very careful with everything over 20.000 I.U a day Take care

Here is what you should do from a medical perspective: - Thyroid: Did you just test for t3/t4 and not TSH? If yes, repeat the test including TSH asap. There is something called "subclinical hypothyroidism" and it could be responsible for your tiredness. - Bloodwork: -> Complete blood panel, Creatine, GFR, ALT, AST, LDH, Bilirubin, amylase, lipase, Glucose, CRP, CK, (eryth. sedimentation rate) -> Vitamin D (25-OH) level -> Full Vitamin panel, especially B-Vitamins, especially 6,9, & 12 -> Iron panel (Serum Iron, Transferin, Transferin-saturation, Ferritin) -> (zinc, copper) - Hormones: Check Testosterone/Cortisol + Cortisol/DHEA-quotient - progesterone is usefull as well (Maybe your GABA is too high) - Sleep: Maybe your sleep quality is shit. Get one of the many sleep trackers out there and do some self-experimentation. Sleeo apnea is often overlooked, sometimes almost subclinical and barely noticeable - the effects on your body could still be huge though. ENT/lung-doctors have certain tools that can help you with the diagnosis. - Depression: Please get evaluated by a psychiatrist. Lack of energy is such a classic symptom of a depression - especially the way you describe it. If we cant find any somatic cause, then getting help that way is propably your best move. It doesnt necessarily mean that there is somethign "wrong with you" psychologically - sometimes this stuff just comes and robs you any life energy. To be honset, we dont really understand what depression is and does very well - but we still manage to help some people. It doesnt mean you should start taking SSRI's asap - just get evaluated and talk with an integrative thinkign psychiatrist. There are some great ones that can really, really help you in that case.

Thats perfectly fine. I have been there and I get you - just be open to the possibility that this is a highly partial perspective. Once you really understand the dynamics of your mind, you will recognize that the concept of willpower is highly restraining. You dont get rid of it, you transcend it. Almost everyone I know struggles with resistance and only very few can pull themselves out of it through sheer power of will. There is a reason why you ask for this advice and its propably not because your life feels effortless... Speaking from a ayurvedic perspective, if you have a vata-mind in a pitta-society - life will be rough without proper guidance.

Ahh this is one of my favorite topics because I really struggled with resistance in my life. No easy solutions, but this is what helped me: 1. Accept resistance as part of life The earlier you can fully accept that resistance will be a lifelong companion, the easier it will be to surrender and finally overcome it. You will encounter this quality for the rest of your life - the fake notion of achieving your dreams in this effortless/day-dreamy way is paradoxically increasing your resistance to actually doing the work. Let go of any negative connotation towards resistance, just be with it from time to time. Experience the rawness of it. Fully embrace it - and then do the work. This is a skill and you will get better at it. After a time you will recognize changes in your perception.... 2. Learn how resistance works Remember that day where you woke up and there was almost no resistance at all? You could just do your chores and it didnt feel difficult at all. Why is it that way? Get drunk and look what happens to your resistance level the next day. Try the sattvic diet (google it) for some weeks and notice any qualitative difference. What makes it worse, what makes it better? What can you do psychologically (i.e reframes etc.) to lessen or increase the realtive strength of resistance? How does sleep affect it? How do your anxieties play into it? Are you moving goalposts too fast? Are you not managing your expecations? What I want to say with all that is: There is an underlying mechanism you can start to understand - and if you align your life with that mechanism, great things will happen. 3. Learn how your mind works Each and every one of us has a highly individual cognitive fingerprint that will make certain pathways easier or more difficult to assess than others. The Yogis and most of the eastern traditions have been talking about this for thousands of years. My favorite concept to illustrate this is the dosha system in ayurveda. The incredible thing is that we can now scientifically confirm this through studying different genotypes and correlating them to those archetypes. It kinda adds up which is amazing. I wont go into detail here, but you should definitely look into this if you want to understand yourself on a higher level. Become curious about yourself. Go into yourself and try to find the truth. 4. Willpower is bullshit Never think about willpower again. There is this narrative in the self help industry that you have a certain amount of willpower a day that will drain over time and after each decision. This concept can be highly limiting as it was to me. The studies they are based on are also bullshit science and remain non-reproducible. When it comes to mind stuff, follow your own expereince first and foremost. Learning how your mind and resistance works will completely shatter your perspective on willpower. 5. Reframe/Flow/Try not to try You have to cultivate the finesse of getting into the right relationship with yourself (attitudinal & sensibility), so there is a real possibility that a state like "flow" can emerge from it. Its a bit like psychological aikido - you can actually use the "energy" of your resistance, that felt quality of not wanting to do stuff, to actually bring yourself to act. You cant force it though. You must not try. If you try, resistance will usually win. Thats the paradox. Its really difficult to explain because its something you experience on a very abstract level. Its amazin though. This is in my opinion the jedi-level of beating resistance.

Its an university medical center in the south of Austria.

Well, not quite. The actual influence of the intestinal flora is very difficult to assess. In studies, however, an increased microbial diversity in the intestinal flora (mouse model) and in the environment (farm children) shows a strong correlation with lower risks of allergic diseases/food intolerances and even more exotic syndromes. The university/hospital complex I am working at deals with fundational reserach in this area and is one of the leading institutions in the german-speaking part of Europe. We are specializing in the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases like Crohns disease or ulcerative colitis but our latest pilot studies also looks into the connection between the microbioma and obesity or IBS. As already mentioned, you usually cant get a faecal transplant just like that. I dont know how the FDA handles it butwe are very picky with our patients and its usually a kind of last resort measure when the burden of suffering from the disease is just too high. Further reserach is needed because mechanisms of long term outcomes and side effects are still not at the level we want it. Its propably very safe and some people like the gamble, but I would be catious nevertheless. Rifaximin is safe and fine but usually wont get rid of the problem. It shows very high relapse rates. Definitely worth a try though.

- It describes a change in the basal ganglia because...thats where most of the change occured.....and thats the potential mechanism of action. - "As some brain regions get repressed by the drugs, others might become overdeveloped temporarily." - Brain region changes happen all the time. It doesnt necessarily mean that its "good" or "bad". Medidation demonstrably does this and we love the benefits. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47470-4 - The time span was 3 months with a FOLLOW up at 12 months. The medication related white mater decline in the cerebellum is worrisome. -> True, but again - this could be a correlation. Dont get me wrong, psychopharmacology is in my opinion the least successful drug intervention field of modern medicine. Those drugs are sometimes a live safer but they may come with disasterous consequences in other cases. Even though I think that is the truth, I have to admit that I dont know what the fuck I am talking about when it comes to psychiatry/neurology. I am a trained physician but the brain is far beyond my current understanding. You should admit that too. Drawing rigid conclusions out of some hand picked studies is just not right. There are people who spent a lifetime trying to undertand a small part of this organ or how drugs interact with it. We have to show some humility right there... thats all! It doesnt mean you are wrong though by the way. You could be right all the way - But you dont know and neither do I! Nor do I have the time to find out!

Here is a triple-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised trial published in one of the most prestigious journals dealing with neuromedical papers: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-021-00980-0 This recruitment protocol is insanely well-considered, the study design is beyond gold standard and the statisticial evaluiaton/follow-up is decent as well. This far outweighs any longitudinal data, which is highly prone to bias. "We found evidence of regionally heterogeneous effects associated with both illness and medication, with the most robust effect being an illness-related decline of pallidal GMV in the placebo group coupled with an antipsychotic-related increase in the medicated group. Consistent with a therapeutic benefit of the antipsychotic-induced increase in pallidal GMV, a greater volumetric change in this area was associated with a greater reduction in symptomology within the first 3 months of illness. Evidence for medication-related white matter decline was identified in the cerebellum. These results suggest that both psychotic illness and medication exposure exert distinct and spatially distributed effects on GMV, and converge with prior work in suggesting that the therapeutic efficacy of antipsychotic medications is primarily mediated through their effects on the basal ganglia"

well put.

Whitakers book "Anatomy of an epidemic" is one of my favorites when it comes to critique of psychopharmacology. Please recognize that reality is far more complex than this. There are hundreds of studies and meta studies which all show different magnitudes of effects and a 40 minute summary of his viewpoint is not in the least enough information to understand this issue.

This sounds like a well-intended approch but keep in mind that you dont know Leo at all. You dont know his ailment, you dont know if its an infection, you dont know all the symptoms, you dont know his medical history, you dont know his real level of conciousness, you dont know his "chakras", you dont know what he has/has not tried and so on... You are assuming a lot. I also think that Leo is at a level of psycholgoical sovereignty where he tries everything to get better. Is his own sense of pride or arrogance in his way? Maybe, but look - we dont even know that one as well. Also, this notion of absolute god realization healing all your bodily issues is on unsteady ground. There are way to many stories of enlightened masters suffering from disease. But I will remain open to that, at least in some sense....

We sometimes get patients like you in our clinic and what usually happens is that the established methods of diagnosis & therapy fail to adress the real underlying cause of the condition. Dont get me wrong, modern medicine is great and I prescribe PPI's basically every other day - but the system definitely lacks resources and background to deal with the complexitiy of some cases. What goes on in you is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. The way you described your symtoms and carried out diagnostics definitely show both psychological and physiological processess that could either amplify or cause each other. I am sure you are aware that inflammatory processes in your GI-system can be solely responsible for anxiety disorders plus a whole variety of different psychological/psychiatric issues and no amount of medidation will ever solve this for you. On the other side, psychological distress could cause a gastritis and other disbalances in your gastrointestinal homeostasis. There is a certain archetype of human who is usually at the core of such conditions and I think you revealed that pretty well ("Psychosomatic", "Very self aware", "anxious"). The good news is that if you manage to loosen the underlying knot, the effects will ripple up to the surface and a whole lot of issues will instantly become solved, propably including a significant portion of your psychological baggage. I remember a teenage girl who was a regular on our ward because of her ridicolous defacation quantity (over 30 times a day) and noone knew was going on. She was a psychological wreckage and couldnt do anything at all. No antidepressant really helped her, nor did any other therapy, anxiety over the roof. Well, one day we figured out what was wrong with her (our medical director is a House MDesque genius sometimes) and it litreally fixed 95% of issues in her life. She is now a blooming young woman. The bad news is that those cases usally need a very good doctor and helping someone like that through the internet is almost impossible. So the smartest move you could personally take is to take some money in your hand and find a great diagnostician who knows how to deal with complex disease. If you have already done that, then keep looking. So - I wont leave you like that of course. I will give you my input as well. Now I dont know exactly what you have already done, so I will just list what came to my mind. My treatment philosophy is that before we can go out into the psychological/spiritual domain we need to rigorously check for any pathophysilogic condition. A good diagnosis precedes good therapy. Here is what you can do in my opinion: Great! Thats what I would have told you as well. You need to get another gastroscopy. 10 years is too long ago for a rule out. -> Gastroscopy including helicopacter evauation: - ideally that means biopsy + rapid urease test -> Type A Gastritis (autoimmune) testing: Especially important if your Vitamin B12 level were low - Autoantibodies against parietal cells (90% of cases) and intrinsic factor (70% of cases), Possibly vitamin B12 level ↓, macrocytic anemia -> In the case of unclear complaints in the upper abdominal area, optically inconspicuous endoscopy and a protracted course: Exclusion diagnosis by biopsies from the deep duodenum (2 ×), antrum (2 ×), body (2 ×) and fundus (2x) -> Rare but possible is a special forms of gastritis or oligosymptomatic forms of celiac disease. Ahhh Kresser - the guy who praises himself for "evidence-based health answers you can trust". Kresser is in my opinion an idiot you shouldnt trust or search advice from. He is scientific illiterate, has a huge ego and is biased towards his system. Yes, the PPI part is the "quick fix" - those drugs are great because they are usually safe and help a lot. Although I wouldnt prescribe a young person like you a permanent PPI-therapy, thats a bit unethical in my opinion. Thats why I told you that you need a good diagnostician that actually does a long and accurate anamnesis with you. Check for all the common allergies/intolerances: -> Gluten, fructose, lactose, allergene testing.. -> elimination diet approaches can sometimes be very enlightening -> Subclinical allergies could keep your GI-inflammation at a very high baseline -> A experienced nutritionist can help you really out there Here is one I read good things from: @Michael569 Be very, very, very careful with those supplements. Some lack proper quality control and they can basically put anything in there. There are dozens of papers who looked at the ingredients of supplement stacks and found everything from heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, divergent/toxic ingredient quantities and other healthy stuff in them. Also, without a proper understanding of the underlying physiology, you could make your condition even worse. I dont say that there arent good supplements out there - but most of them are cash grabs. Most lack any scientific background. GI MAP: Is decent for rough screening but PCR-testing(which is the method they use) lacks any real diagnostic value. Problematic to this assay is the poor level of specificity displayed by this assay reporting the presence of several pathogens, which could cause clinicians to treat with antibacterial and/or antiparasitic agents in the absence of any true pathogens. SIBO: You definitely got something going on there - SIBO can be really difficult to treat but this is a route I would follow. You can try a therapy with Rifaximin for 7-10 days and watch how it affects your issues. I have seen real successes in cases where noone knew what was going on and its pretty safe. I have already mentioned in a previous post that there are specialists who only treat SIBO patients and they usually use their own wealth of experience as a fundation of their treatmeant regime. Those are the way to go in my opinion. Dutch Adrenal Hormones: low cortisone crashes midday roughly -> Interesting find, could be through a variety of things - When cortisol levels are too high, you can have a crash with accompanying symptoms like severe fatigue, irritability and difficulty concentrating - DHEA to cortisol ratio is positively related to stressful life events and perceived stress and a better marker for distress than cortisol, therefore DHEA/Cortisol quotient would be interesting - This could also come from allergies/intolerances against your food - This will usually make your symtpoms worse - I doubt there is any adrenal problem, so this propably relates to your GI-issues Bloodwork: low vitamin D, could use more vitamin B, IGa elevated although my pantry is gluten free -> If you havent already, start supplemenation routine asap IGa is a very unspecific marker and pretty usless. It just tells me that there is something going on. Lol. Keep that stuff sorted. Leo suffers from GI-issues despite his high conscious state - those usually dont correlate. Here are complementary tests I would take: - Faecal calprotectin from your stool (inflammation marker) as screening for chronic inflammatory bowel disease. - General lab including liver/kidney/thyroid/pancreas function + inflammation markers - Ultrasound check - especially liver/spleen/kidneys/pancreas/Aorta Everything else would be over the top at the moment! This advice is a bit crude because I dont really know the specifics of your case. As I already mentioned, finding a good diagnostician who will take the time is the best way to go forward. First we wait for gastroscopy results though. I think this is the first real important step. Take care

Its undoubtedly the case that Frank has deep insights in the nature of reality. Yet there is just something about him and the way he acts that intuitively makes me dismiss his approach. Like he has "lost himself" - not in the "good" way the usual spiritual teachers have, but in a more psychotic sense. There is a certain lack of maturity and psychological developement that's in my opinion really important to have. Now, I have never met this guy and it could well be that his videos give me a wrong impression. Maybe I am even projecting stuff onto him. ..But thats what came up when I watched his content.

I need more information to help you. - What kind of gastritis were you diagnosed with? (H. pylori?, autoimmune ...)? - What did the diagnosis process involve? - Did you get any treatment? - Did you get any check ups lately? - What does your diet look like? - what kind of supplements are you taking? I highly doubt the breathing or medidation process is causally linked to your problems. Michael already mentioned that "real" medidation involves letting go of a desired outcome. This is difficult step, especially for beginners - but its also a fundamental one. You could also consider different kind of medidation practices - there are some, in my opinion very weird but maybe helpful, techniques which aim to "heal" the upset body. Contrary to western medidation advice, simple minduflness practices are not good for everyone. Sometimes I cringe so hard when I see people giving medidatin advice and they clearly dont know whta the fuck they are talking about. For example, you would never tell a person with PTSD to start a mindfulness practice. Anyway, before we start getting into that, I first need the questions above ansewered. Best regards