Instagram Q & A 8/12/2024

Q: what should i do after consuming mold for over a week & having diarrhea nonstp

A: High-dosing bovine serum immunoglobulins (like 4-5 servings spread through out the day) can chelate endotoxins and mycotoxins. Not medical advice.

Just something to think about. BSl is one of my favorite chelators because it doesn't interfere with other supplements or minerals.

Entersogel can also be helpful for food poisoning-like symptoms. I always have a bottle of BSI on hand. HU58 in particular is also really good for the same reason.

It's in the JT probiotic but it can be good to use a higher dose of the single strain for acute issues.

Q: Best supplement for anxiety and why

A: Just Calm. It's a single strain, psychoactive (psychobiotic) probiotic made by the same company that formulated the Just Thrive spore based probiotic (which I also think is a good idea for a lot of people to take to restore overall Gl health since that's also a massive component of stress tolerance and mental resilience). That's been a game changer for everyone l've recommended it to. If you go to the just thrive tab in the bio, I believe you can purchase it still on the JT website. You can also use that code for 10a% off I think. There are some papers on B longum (that's the bacteria used in the JT) showing it affects resting brain activity, potentially improving vitality and regulating stress responses, which could help in managing negative emotions. There's evidence that it plays a role in reducing stress also by influence neural oscillations in specific brain regions. Some papers specifically have noted that this strain tends to shift people out of beta brain wave patterns (high anxiety) into a more concentrated but relax theta and alpha brain wave state (Think meditation and flow states). Also tends to be really amazing for improving sleep quality.

Q: Autonomic myopathy from neck injury?

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Could be. I had some cardiovascular-like symptoms (palpitations etc) after a neck injury.

Blood pressure and heart rate can be affected by c1-c2 nerve compression of the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves. PEMF (on the neck) and ELDO I'd look into. I have a few POTS:dysautonomia clients with cervical instability who had similar issues and responded well to those

Q: Best overall peptide for brain injuries

A: Cortexin or cerebrolysin. I wouldn't really call cerebrolysin a single 'peptide'. More a peptide complex really. So comparable to a biologic.

Cortexin is the 'Russian' version of cerebrolysin used for TBI, stroke and encephalopathies. Both of these have good evidence and they're approved drugs in their respective countries (Austria and Russia). BPC, rhymosin-beta-4 are also probably useful but less human data.

Q: If larger dose shilajit (2-3g makes me feel, indicates been lacking minerals?

A: Idk, could be from Fulvic acid. I never recommend taking that much. There's really no point. 1g (5 tablets) is usually enough. Mitolife (the brand I recommend for it which you can find in the bio) makes getting that dose at an affordable price pretty easy.

But 3g is insane. Kinda just wasting money there. Still not super cheap stuff either.

Q: Can spore based probiotics work for all infections in the gut? Bacteria, fungus etc

A: I would be hesitant to jump the gun and say 'all infections' without actual evidence. But they do tend to go after a lot of pathogens in the gut. There are some really interesting papers looking at spores (specifically HU58) for clostridium. Clostridium is difficult to get rid of because ironically it can also form a 'spore' to protect itself from antibiotics.

A lot of the spore based probiotics work by producing targeted anti microbial peptides that go after pathogens. The study with clostridium showed that the bacillus substilus spores actually adapted to the clostridium by releasing chelating agents to starve it of iron after they 'realized' they couldn't kill it with anti-microbials. Pretty wild to think about how intelligent bacteria are. So I'd guess they'd have the ability to do that for other pathogens as well. And that seems to be apparent

Q: Can you overdo red light therapy? Or could I blast injured spot 10x a day for example

A: You can absolutely overdue it and increase tons of reactive oxygen species (ROS or free radicals). Red light is 100% dose dependent. If you overdue it, you'll reach an inhibitory point where it no longer works at all. This is why I recommend doing 20min twice a day in the acute stage of an injury. Then backing down to 1x a day. And then using it (for systemic health benefits) once for 15-20min maybe every other day. Also depends on the intensity of the device

Q: Train "twitchiness"? PJF posted about this. Benefits for athletes? Weekend warriors?

A: Movement at that speed is involuntary. Intentionally trying to train it (like what a lot of people do with speed ladder and footwork type drills etc) is a waste of time. You need to do low GCT plyo's. Particularly the the ones l've spoken about where you're doing 'controlled falling' in order to get a really fast SCN. You'll never create a voluntary contraction faster than that. So that's the only meaniful way to train it. A lot of that stuff you see that Power3plus guy doing is similarly worthless for the same reason. It's also just a byproduct of health nervousness system. Go read the patreon article I wrote yesterday about using dopamine facilitating supplements increase reaction time and speed.

Q: Do you follow a weekly split in your training? If so, what does it look like?

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Currently train twice a week —- one upper body day and one lower body day.

Two really hard sessions. Then I have another third day where I do accessories I didn't have time for and some plyometrics/jumping. I also have a one zone 2 cardio day. So technically 4. But only two hard sessions. Then walking everyday. I was training 4x a week (2 lower, 2 upper) plus cardio. But I found I could make virtually the same progress by cutting the volume in half and then cramming basically everything into those two days. I'm also only doing like one really hard set to failure for most movements now. Sometimes two for upper body movement. A lot of the way i train now is very counterintuitive. On paper it doesn't look like anything that would work. But it has honestly. Probably better than anything I've done yet. It also just frees up a lot of time for me

Q: Would you focus on weight training og fascia/functional training if u played soccer?

A: I'm not sure how anyone could follow anything I share or post and even believe that fascial or 'functional' training is even a thing that exists separately from 'conventional' training like 'lifting weights' plyo's or all the other things people do in training. There is no difference bro. They're the same thing. Where people go wrong with what could be loosely reffered to as 'conventional' training is simply neglecting a lot of movements in training. Rotation is a big one. Functional training is just an over correction for things that always should of been present in the training environment.

But it does not operate on some entirely foreign biological principle — what's an

RDL? If you want to slap the 'fascial perspective' on there, it's literally an exercise for the superficial back line. What's a GHD sit up? Literally an exercise for the 'superficial front line'. Groin plank or side plank bridge? Lateral line, deep Longitudinal sling, and anterior sling.

Q: What about ozone benefits? Any for that?

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Not that hard to do a PubMed search brother.

Again — 'evidence' for what? Is there 'evidence' that ozone has beneficial effects in biological organisms? Yes, there absolutely is. Anyone telling you otherwise is a moron. Are there tons of large, well conducted RCT's showing that ozone is a amazing for say, cancer, not. Not really. The question is not wether there's evidence. The question is wether there's sufficient evidence for [insert condition] under [insert a slew of other potential variables and contraindications]. I know plenty of people with ME/CFS who swear ozone changed their life. There is enough evidence (both experimental and clinical) to suggest it tends to be relatively safe and possibly beneficial when used in specific concentrations.

Legitimately the only documented risk is a gas embolism, but this can happen with any IV and isn't unique to ozone. And I believe there's only one documented case of it ever happening. And this says a lot especially considering ozone is often used in very sick, conpromised populations.

So the idea that ozone is 'dangerously' is definitely a lie. But the extent to which it's beneficial is hard to say and contextual. It's a clinical and patient decision.

Q: Any plausible scientific basis for microcurrent therapy

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Yes. You need to read some of beckers work on regeneration. He found that you could dedifferentiate frog red blood cells with extremely low levels I (we're talking literally billionths of amperes). In fact, the lower the levels the better it worked.

So this fly's in the face of the idea that magnetic fields and electricity can only produce biological effects when they're strong enough to burn or create heat. Go back to Faradays Law of Induction - When a magnetic field is applied to the body especially if it is time-varying (pulsed electromagnetic fields), itwill induce small electric currents (aka microcurrents) within the tissues. This is the idea behind both PEMF and FSM.

FSM isn't using a magnetic field. But many of the benefits associated with PEMF appear to be related to microcurrents.