Babou
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I have a close friend who ever since we met in middle school has always been quite skinny and frequently fatigued. As a kid he had a bout of raynaud's syndrome, and as a teenager he suffered a collapsed lung. He's now 24, and since early 2022 he has started having some pretty serious health episodes that seem to be happening on an almost biweekly or monthly basis. This month he even had raynaud's symptoms return. This is the list of symptoms that have appeared at some point, usually recurrent but not super frequent:
- slight pressure headaches
- Terrible sleep quality, extreme difficulty falling asleep
- Skin rashes and blemishes
- heart palpitations/arrhythmia
- Intermittent trouble breathing
- An allergy to chicken (this has existed for a long time but I believe it's relevant, possibly because of pufa or tryptophan)
- Poor balance, "feels like I'm in a rocking boat"
- "I get these sudden attacks where some random part of my body goes numb and my pupils become uneven"
- brain fog, difficulty speaking,
- skin turns red easily when any pressure is applied
- sever chest pains at random intervals, usually in right lung (not the one that collapsed
-blood pressure typically above 150
-Very recently, jaw twitches and eye fluttering
- Warped perception, objects often look wobbly or like they are growing closer or farther away. )
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These issues have been hampering his life severely this past year and I'd really like to get him on his feet. Conventional doctors have been universally supremely unhelpful for him to the point he has also been doing independent research. He suspects is has to do with long covid; he caught covid at some point either early 2022 or late 2021, and he didn't have severe symptoms out of those traditionally associated with covid, but I'm sure it put a lot of stress on a metabolism that was already not doing very well. He has also identified histamine as a possible issue and recently started trying a low histamine diet, but it's too early to tell if that helps. I don't have a precise map of what his diet was before, but for as long as I've known him he's eaten quite normally and always had a fairly big appetite.
I've been doing research of my own in the field of metabolic health for the last year or so out of an interest in increasing my energy and productivity as well as helping my mother with her back pain and fatigue issues, so at this point I can fairly confidently say something has been going very wrong at a quite basic level with my friend's metabolism. I'm compiling a list of the widely recommended treatments like preg, co2, vit k, etc, with explanations for them, but I want to know if any of you have had similar issues and, most importantly, what intervention was highest-leverage, since with diets and supps it's really easy to pack on a ton of things that help a bit but still miss the crucial puzzle piece that is required to truly solve the issue. After reading through some other peoples' cases I'm wondering if Co2 and copper might be the silver bullets here, but really want a range of opinions on this especially if there's a really powerful intervention I haven't heard about yet
Thank you in advance for the help everyone
- slight pressure headaches
- Terrible sleep quality, extreme difficulty falling asleep
- Skin rashes and blemishes
- heart palpitations/arrhythmia
- Intermittent trouble breathing
- An allergy to chicken (this has existed for a long time but I believe it's relevant, possibly because of pufa or tryptophan)
- Poor balance, "feels like I'm in a rocking boat"
- "I get these sudden attacks where some random part of my body goes numb and my pupils become uneven"
- brain fog, difficulty speaking,
- skin turns red easily when any pressure is applied
- sever chest pains at random intervals, usually in right lung (not the one that collapsed
-blood pressure typically above 150
-Very recently, jaw twitches and eye fluttering
- Warped perception, objects often look wobbly or like they are growing closer or farther away. )
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These issues have been hampering his life severely this past year and I'd really like to get him on his feet. Conventional doctors have been universally supremely unhelpful for him to the point he has also been doing independent research. He suspects is has to do with long covid; he caught covid at some point either early 2022 or late 2021, and he didn't have severe symptoms out of those traditionally associated with covid, but I'm sure it put a lot of stress on a metabolism that was already not doing very well. He has also identified histamine as a possible issue and recently started trying a low histamine diet, but it's too early to tell if that helps. I don't have a precise map of what his diet was before, but for as long as I've known him he's eaten quite normally and always had a fairly big appetite.
I've been doing research of my own in the field of metabolic health for the last year or so out of an interest in increasing my energy and productivity as well as helping my mother with her back pain and fatigue issues, so at this point I can fairly confidently say something has been going very wrong at a quite basic level with my friend's metabolism. I'm compiling a list of the widely recommended treatments like preg, co2, vit k, etc, with explanations for them, but I want to know if any of you have had similar issues and, most importantly, what intervention was highest-leverage, since with diets and supps it's really easy to pack on a ton of things that help a bit but still miss the crucial puzzle piece that is required to truly solve the issue. After reading through some other peoples' cases I'm wondering if Co2 and copper might be the silver bullets here, but really want a range of opinions on this especially if there's a really powerful intervention I haven't heard about yet
Thank you in advance for the help everyone