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  1. Scroll down to next paragraph if you just want to know my advice. I have had it for 6 years, got it from ayhuasca presumably. However, symptoms came to me one day when I was completely sober and I had a massive panic attack while eating at a restaruant, and I started feeling myself go into an ayhuasca trip. long story short, I survived and got about 80% better. Last year I felt good enough to try smoking weed again. I did it for 6 months until I smoked one day had a complete panic attack lasted the whole night. I had symptoms come up even stronger than last time. This time way different though. Even though I had strong HPPD, I had a complete detachment between my mind and body, for a second I thought i went into a full blown psychosis. But I was practicing meditation and pranayama yoga techniques prior to this. Long story short I had an awakening experience that night smoking weed. I became directly conscious that the mind is not who "i" am, so the question I was left with was, who am I? This question gave me relentless panic attacks for about 3 weeks. I went to a guy named Jamie Munday, found him from youtube. He helps people who have had spiritual awakenings. My HPPD is around 50% better after a month and a half and I wanted to share some advice/thoughts. Anyone got questions on anything specific here, lmk. Advice: 1. My most important recommendation would be fasting. If you have in-tolerable HPPD symptoms IMO, you try fasting for as long as possible, as often as possible. Two things that this does is fasting can mimic the affects of anti-consultant medication and GABA pathways. (1,2) By reducing the brain's overall activity, which is what we want. Put simply, eating will give the brain more energy and it will cause an increase in HPPD symptoms. Other thing is fasting induces something called "autophagy" (3)(4). This is when the body gets rid of bad brain cells, and recycles them. Put simply, it is cleaning the brain out. Caveat to this is be careful if your on medication or if you are obese, could be some issues when fasting. Also, if you can't stand fasting, then look up "fasting-mimicking diet". 2. The mind is the problem. if you are have intense symptoms, your mind comes in and starts "thinking" or catastrophizing, and it multiplys the problem. You need to find a simple way to get out of your mind, every minute of the day if need be. The way I recommend is what I was taught by Jamie Munday. I recommend actually everyone take his yoga course. It is a spirtual course, not for physical fitness. It does cost $1k however. The first lesson your taught is getting into "stillness" by putting your awareness into your body. We do body scans after each yoga practice for example. Throughout the day I am getting into stillness as often as possible, for example by feeling what my hands or feet are touching or becoming aware of my breathing. This sense can develop overtime with practice. In other words you need to be grounded and take all your energy out of your mind/head and put it into the awareness/stillness of the rest of your body. 3. Whole-food plant-based diet. These things get debated all the time, I'll just post some research and let you come to your own conclusion. https://plantspace.org/health-studies/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9860369/ 4. Check your Vitamin D and your sex hormone's levels, these are the main things that can impact mental well being. Also would consider checking magnesium. (1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32906015/ (2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153500/ (3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/ (4) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25139375
  2. Omega 3's are mentioned a lot for there importance for brain health. Vitamin D can also pass the blood-brain barrier, so it should be investigated for mental health also. I drove over some papers on vitamin D and depression since yesterday, so I will share some of those here. Depression impacts quality of life and it is usually implicated to be self-caused. According to science, depression can be biological, therefore depression is not always a lack of spiritual perspective or a case of "bad" vibes. My conclusion from these papers is that most cases of depression are very situational. Vitamin D deficiencies are not rare, and can potentially have a healing affect with some cases, similar to anti-depressants. The optimal ways to get vitamin D in my opinion, is sunshine and mushrooms. I would stay away from raw mushrooms due to carcinogens reported in the literature. heat destroys them though. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2132000 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3751336/ Efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in depression in adults: a systematic review protocol "The efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in depression has raised lots of concern. Vitamin D is considered as a neurosteroid [56], and now it is attested that vitamin D metabolites can cross the blood–brain barrier [34]. Because of the widespread presence of vitamin D receptor in areas of the brain including the hippocampus which is associated with the development of depression [23], it could be speculated that there is a clinical effect of vitamin D on depression." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26680471 Vitamin D in anxiety and affective disorders. "Reduced levels of vitamin or its metabolites have been reported in various psychiatric disorders. Insufficient levels of vitamin D in depressive patients have been confirmed by many authors. Significantly lower levels of calcidiol (vitamin D) were found in men and women with depression as well as in age matched patients with anxiety disorders. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25713056 Vitamin D and the omega-3 fatty acids control serotonin synthesis and action, part 2: relevance for ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and impulsive behavior. "Serotonin regulates a wide variety of brain functions and behaviors. Here, we synthesize previous findings that serotonin regulates executive function, sensory gating, and social behavior and that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and impulsive behavior all share in common defects in these functions. It has remained unclear why supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D improve cognitive function and behavior in these brain disorder"
  3. Lol. you probably are a strong person. HPPD is a bitch
  4. Bump this. BigPapa seems pretty knowledgeable, but then through me off when he mentioned acupuncture. Please would you provide peer-review evidence for your claims? This is something that I have been trying to research here lately.
  5. So which scan should you do if you have HPPD, and why?
  6. In short, what is your opinion on general nutrition and specifically what should people with HPPD eat? I am checking out your posts right now. Thanks
  7. I never implied that it was a cure, it is not a cure for the record. Most people would have figured it out by now if it was. But it could potentially have a healing affect if used overtime. Authophagy, like a detailed, could possibly accelerate the rate at which the brain is healing. Eating healthy is a good one too. Everyone mentions this all the time, but most people are not familiar with the peer review research of nutrition or what food groups we should be eating. So I may be posting some of my own research on that also. Cheers.
  8. Hope you get off drugs brotha. We are here for you if you need us.
  9. I have only done about 10 hours of research on this, which is not much. Ideally I would like a couple more weeks to wrap my head around something before I recommend it and I need time to see the long-term effects for me also. But I have a strong inclination to quickly get this information to the group, so perhaps this will help someone else suffering. Maybe this works, maybe it doesn't. I cannot recommend this as a cure, but I can only say this has helped me. However, I am not sure if it placebo. Anyways, I did an 18 hour fast and it helped with my HPPD. I will keep the anecdote short, because anecdotes never matter. What really matters is science and peer-review. I did this short-fast because I saw someone on here mention in a success story of curing HPPD on a 3 day fast. Someone commenting suggesting that it has to do with "neurogenesis". I did research on neurogenesis and it happens throughout our lives, such as during exercise or sex, so it doesn’t seem very significant. But, I stumbled upon a term called "autophagy" ah-ta-fa-gee. Researching this process gave me motivation to try a 18 hour fast. My HPPD since then has gotten better. On a scale of 1-10 my symptoms have been at a 5 since Saturday, when they usually average about 7 or 8. I am theorizing my symptoms decreased because fasting induces autophagy. Here is Autophagy from an article . "Short-term fasting induces profound neuronal autophagy" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/ Autophagy is a key homeostatic mechanism whose physiological importance is reflected by its preservation throughout the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, from yeast to mammals. In recent years, autophagy has been recognized as a crucial defense mechanism against malignancy, infection and neurodegenerative diseases Here is another definition. "Autophagy: cellular and molecular mechanisms" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990190/ Autophagy is a self-degradative process that is important for balancing sources of energy at critical times in development and in response to nutrient stress. Autophagy also plays a housekeeping role in removing misfolded or aggregated proteins, clearing damaged organelles, such as mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum and peroxisomes, as well as eliminating intracellular pathogens. Thus, autophagy is generally thought of as a survival mechanism. Autophagy is strongly induced by starvation and is a key component of the adaptive response of cells and organisms to nutrient deprivation that promotes survival until nutrients become available again. Stay with me here. But it pretty much takes out damaged cells from our brains and recycles them in the liver. This process is activated via fasting. "Neuronal autophagy: going the distance to the axon." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18000396/ Furthermore, our study implicates dysfunction of axonal autophagy as a potential mechanism underlying axonopathy, which is linked to neurodegeneration associated with numerous human neurological disorders Let me know what you think, I am always prepared to be entirely wrong. There is no research on a link between autophagy and HPPD obviously. So I am assuming a causal relationship that bad neurons are the cause of HPPD. Here are more articles. I am hoping someone can partner and help me with this. "Disruption of Neuronal Autophagy by Infected Microglia Results in Neurodegeneration" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0002906 "Constitutive autophagy: vital role in clearance of unfavorable proteins in neurons." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17332773/ I found 2 posts of anecdotal claims. 2013 bluelight.com post about fasting curing hppd. http://www.bluelight.org/vb/archive/index.php/t-688613.html 2017 Reddit.com hppd forum success story about fasting curing hppd https://www.reddit.com/r/HPPD/comments/6ybbcs/success_story/ You can do an easy 18-hour fast by not eating after dinner at 5pm, and then not eating until noon the next day. Make sure you are healthy and talk to your doctor. I would like a couple people to try this to see if this actually works. I am going to start another fast today and I will report back in a week or so. Hopefully it works. Potential adverse effects for women. there are claims that fasting can cause missed periods. Also, unfortunately it seems autophagy is less profound with females. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19036730/ In other words, the damaged neurons have a harder time dying off. For men, fasting will temporary lower testosterone. Do your own research and talk to your doctor.
  10. So what exactly is the relationship between brain plasticity and HPPD? Thanks
  11. I have only done about 10 hours of research on this, which is not much. Ideally I would like a couple more weeks to wrap my head around something before I recommend it and I need time to see the long-term effects for me also. But I have a strong inclination to quickly get this information to the group, so perhaps this will help someone else suffering. Maybe this works, maybe it doesn't. I cannot recommend this as a cure, but I can only say this has helped me. However, I am not sure if it placebo. Anyways, I did an 18 hour fast and it helped with my HPPD. I will keep the anecdote short, because anecdotes never matter. What really matters is science and peer-review. I did this short-fast because I saw someone on here mention in a success story of curing HPPD on a 3 day fast. Someone commenting suggesting that it has to do with "neurogenesis". I did research on neurogenesis and it happens throughout our lives, such as during exercise or sex, so it doesn’t seem very significant. But, I stumbled upon a term called "autophagy" ah-ta-fa-gee. Researching this process gave me motivation to try a 18 hour fast. My HPPD since then has gotten better. On a scale of 1-10 my symptoms have been at a 5 since Saturday, when they usually average about 7 or 8. I am theorizing my symptoms decreased because fasting induces autophagy. Here is Autophagy from an article . "Short-term fasting induces profound neuronal autophagy" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/ Autophagy is a key homeostatic mechanism whose physiological importance is reflected by its preservation throughout the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, from yeast to mammals. In recent years, autophagy has been recognized as a crucial defense mechanism against malignancy, infection and neurodegenerative diseases Here is another definition. "Autophagy: cellular and molecular mechanisms" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990190/ Autophagy is a self-degradative process that is important for balancing sources of energy at critical times in development and in response to nutrient stress. Autophagy also plays a housekeeping role in removing misfolded or aggregated proteins, clearing damaged organelles, such as mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum and peroxisomes, as well as eliminating intracellular pathogens. Thus, autophagy is generally thought of as a survival mechanism. Autophagy is strongly induced by starvation and is a key component of the adaptive response of cells and organisms to nutrient deprivation that promotes survival until nutrients become available again. Stay with me here. But it pretty much takes out damaged cells from our brains and recycles them in the liver. This process is activated via fasting. "Neuronal autophagy: going the distance to the axon." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18000396/ Furthermore, our study implicates dysfunction of axonal autophagy as a potential mechanism underlying axonopathy, which is linked to neurodegeneration associated with numerous human neurological disorders Let me know what you think, I am always prepared to be entirely wrong. There is no research on a link between autophagy and HPPD obviously. So I am assuming a causal relationship that bad neurons are the cause of HPPD. Here are more articles. I am hoping someone can partner and help me with this. "Disruption of Neuronal Autophagy by Infected Microglia Results in Neurodegeneration" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0002906 "Constitutive autophagy: vital role in clearance of unfavorable proteins in neurons." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17332773/ I found 2 posts of anecdotal claims. 2013 bluelight.com post about fasting curing hppd. http://www.bluelight.org/vb/archive/index.php/t-688613.html 2017 Reddit.com hppd forum success story about fasting curing hppd https://www.reddit.com/r/HPPD/comments/6ybbcs/success_story/ You can do an easy 18-hour fast by not eating after dinner at 5pm, and then not eating until noon the next day. Make sure you are healthy and talk to your doctor. I would like a couple people to try this to see if this actually works. I am going to start another fast today and I will report back in a week or so. Hopefully it works. Potential adverse effects for women. there are claims that fasting can cause missed periods. Also, unfortunately it seems autophagy is less profound with females. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19036730/ In other words, the damaged neurons have a harder time dying off. For men, fasting will temporary lower testosterone. Do your own research and talk to your doctor.
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