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Brilliant conference but keeping on top of things has been tough.

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It was such a privilege to have spoken at the recent Metabolic Therapeutics Conference in Tampa, Florida with people I greatly admire. It provided me with a chance to share what I have learned from my experiences over time attempting to manage my cancer and epilepsy with metabolic protocols I have adapted and personalised. These protocols have been based on the work of Dr. Dominic D'agostino, Dr. Thomas Seyfried and Dr. Angela Poff, who I have tremendous respect for. I must stress however that, while my epilepsy has been controlled very effectively with these therapies, it is very difficult to quantify how much influence ketosis in itself has impacted on my results regarding the cancer despite encouraging results. This approach is a multifaceted one, all I can say definitively is that my quality of life is much better than it would have been otherwise. I believe that fasting mimicking diets can potentially play a very important role in disease management and longevity but a ketogen...

Branched chain amino acids, the ketogenic diet pill, and ketosis

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Recently I have been combining exogenous ketones with BCAAs on my restricted protein ketogenic diet protocol to see how I react over time. Nutritional ketosis produces an increased ratio of plasma branched chain amino acids to aromatic amino acids which is one of its main proposed mechanisms of action for seizure control.  It has been suggested that the high ratio of plasma BCAAs/ARAAs could be useful for epileptics as it results in decreasing ARAAs- (ARAAs supposedly increase the excitability potential of the brain entering the central nervous system  ( Jirapinyo et al., 2004 )) . This shift resulting in a rise of BCAAs to ARAAs means that a state of ketosis will decrease the excitability potential of the brain and increase seizure threshold. The brain becomes more resilient to stress you could say and brain chemistry in general is more balanced as a result. I feel pretty good today but its just one day, one experiment, and the type I am taking also includes resveratrol and L...

Future endeavours, talks, societies, ketosis and mood stabilising drugs.

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Ok, so I haven't updated for a while which isn't ideal as I like to try and share what I've been up to lately. My shyness gets the better of me sometimes as well as that voice in my head that constantly says I'm never good enough and I don't deserve anything good to happen so why am I still doing well when others have tried their very best and they are no longer around. I know that I like to push things and think outside the box with every little thing that I try to be happy and to continue to keep the cancer beast away while controlling the epilepsy, but despite feeling very content I feel there is still something missing. Other days I feel deliriously happy for no reason, its just cool being alive and you realise what a gift that is, just feels like a selfish thought at times but keeps me sane. I've lost a lot of friends to brain cancer recently and it makes me feel numb because the sad fact is that I am getting used to hearing sad news. Personally I have coun...