For lack of a better place to put it, I'll throw this statement in this thread since it impacts my effort to create a "Steem variant". Note not a clone, because I have written extensively about that I think Steem is not succeeding and that we need radical changes in the design, focus, and of course in the transparency of the initial distribution.
I will update about my health status.
For background, I had made some posts and comments recently about my health (and you can following the "a brief synopsis" link the quote to read more historical background going back past several years and see photos if you want):
I get this immune cascade everytime I eat anything. I wrote a brief synopsis.
After I eat, I get inflammation all over that causes me have peripheral neuropathy effects, back of my head aches and feels like a wet towel was drapped there, and I get white blood like phlegm dripping into my throat, as well the lymph nodes at my throat become engorged. The symptoms often reduce after an hour or so, but not always. Any thoughts to share on my condition?
P.S. I take curcumin as a natural anti-inflammatory. Well thats quite a bit more than general malaise and I would be tempted to think that perhaps curcumin is making you more sensitive and not less because in addition to luekatrains it's also suppressing a ton of other stuff as well. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12676044
Just in the past weeks, I started to add calcium supplementation and it seems to have made a significant impact, but I don't want to make that assumption, because the condition seems to relapse, so I am just in a wait-and-see mode.
I added the calcium because my teeth started to hurt, and I had always strong teeth through my entire life (no cavities at age 51).
I had avoided calcium, because in the past I had some limited temporary improvement from taking very high doses of Vitamin D3, but I read it would be dangerous if my serum calcium level was high then I would be at risk of kidney stones.
But it seem perhaps calcium was the missing ingredient. Now supplementing 1200 to 1800 mg of Calcium along with about 20,000 IU of Vitamin D3 daily, I am seeing some subtle but very interesting changes in my condition. But it seemed it was also necessary to combine this with eating very large portions of steemed (pun intended!) vegetables (while I have also continued to eat pork, beef, and fish) which displaces some of the oatmeal. It seems I really need to stay away from other carbos, other than veggies and oatmeal. Also any dairy products seem to have a negative impact.
So with that recent regimen, I am getting the following subtle improvements (but I am in a wait-and-see mode to be sure I am not fooled):
1. I am sleeping even better and more consistently. Insomnia was one of the symptoms of my illness.
2. My brain clarity is quite strong for several hours a day at least. As I start to get sleepy, the bad symptoms start to come back, but if I go sleep directly, then wake up refreshed unlike when I had often woke up exhausted and CFS.
3. My exercise is becoming stronger. I found myself actually feeling my power and pushing hard through the end of a run, whereas I had usually faded at the end during this illness. Instead of feeling exhausted the day after a workout, I felt power and wanting to push hard on my soreness and feeling my muscles gaining power (damn I miss this! hope I am not fooled).
4. I still have pain in my abdomen and especially near the last part of a run, or during intense power activity, but I feel something different as if I want the pain and I want to push through it. Sort of analogous to how I feel the soreness in my muscles from some sprinting (my dog wants to sprint every day and I have him on leash) and like the feeling of grinding through another run with sore legs. In the worst of my illness, I would just wilt (well I'd fight, but the lack of power made me succumb).
I don't think I can participate in any trial. Also I am busy programming and can't add other responsibilities to monitor or maintain a precise regimen. Also I want to retain flexibility.This week I became quite desperate and adamant because this illness has been fucking up my coding productivity for the past years. It is just fucking ridiculous the daily ritual I been through and the massive man-years of my talent that have been flushed down the chronic fatigue syndrome toilet. And I decided to take some risks on my health, because I felt it is now or never in terms of myself completing a project.
As explained in the above quote, I had been afraid all these years of taking Calcium supplements along with Vitamin D3, because I was spooked by the possibility of kidney stones and the excrutiating pain they entail.
But I've come to find out that I am probably Calcium deficient and that might have been the missing link in terms of getting well all these years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_metabolism#Effector_organshttps://www.google.com/search?q=importance+of+calcium+immunityThere is a complete lack of these sort of esoteric blood tests here in Davao, so it is always guesswork.
In any case, I got extremely pissed off starting this week and I've been upping my calcium dosage to as high as 3g per day, including citrate (vegetable) and carbonate (milk) forms.
Also I did something crazy. I started going to the gym to do 2 hours of intense nonstop aggressive barbell, boxing, and basketball TWICE DAILY! Imagine that! 51 years old, supposedly sick and training like I am a 20 year old preparing for college sports.
And I have what I think is a breakthough. I won't be able to conclude this is actually a breakthrough until it has sustained for a few weeks, but I can say I have not had energy like this to go do two-a-day all-out intense workouts.
On Tuesday, I think I did about 20 rounds of boxing in addition to barbell and full court game of basketball with young athletes in their 20s.
This hasn't really taken time away from developing, because it was otherwise time I would be having difficulties concentrating, sleeping, or otherwise coping with illness. Instead I was active and so the time I have had on the computer (for example all day today Thursday) has been quality time where I could concentrate and work with 100% vigor. And I got a lot done today.
I have massive soreness in my abdomen, but this is soreness as one tends to feel when they injured or overworked their body and are healing. Not pain causing my head to go into brain fog and CFS. Soreness pain is different from wallowing in pain. Soreness and testosterone is "let's go do it some more and make it more sore!".
I am fighting like a hell now. I don't want to fail. I am giving it 150% effort and not reserving anything and putting it all out every day, every hour, non-stop except for sleeping, eating, and other necessities.
I hope the next time I speak about this will be some weeks from now and I hope I can confirm it had been consistent and I hope it will also coincide with my showing a near alpha version of my project.
Apologies for the personal melodrama.
If this fails, I will exit crypto-currency and move on to something else. I have decided it is now or never for me and blockchain work.
