From the weird (nasal cleaning) to the welcome (supplements).
Now that I know from the blood tests exactly what vitamins and minerals I’m deficient in, I start supplementing regularly with vitamin D, zinc, selenium, as well as milk thistle to cleanse the liver and support the digestive system. “Diet plays a big part in this. Our gut has trillions of bacteria and when the balance in the “good” and “bad” bacteria shifts from being beneficial to problematic, it leads to inflammation. This can carry on in the background, unfelt and unseen.
According to Levine, this potentially has a big effect on the brain. “The cells that protect the brain from toxic molecules have a very strong structural similarity to the cells in the gut lining. So when things that are damaging go from the gut into the bloodstream, they can end up in the brain and that’s when we get brain fog or even psychiatric diseases.”
She also gives me some important, but hopefully enjoyable, homework. “There lies a chance here in this condition,” says Levine. “The chance being that you create awareness of where you want to go in life. My question is always to patients, ‘What do you like to do the most in life?’ Because if you don’t know, you need to find out. And if you do know, how often do you do it? I always give this example, of an elderly lady in Austria.
The team of doctors opt for a three-pronged approach, beginning with an energy boost to tackle the fatigue I’ve been experiencing. I’m prescribed photobiomodulation sessions to boost the activity of the neuronal mitochondria. Wearing a metal helmet, I feel gentle energising impulses running through my skull for 45 minutes.
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