I’ve been keto on and off since the late 90s
How long did your remission last and how do you know it was the keto diet?
People with chronic illness adapt after a long while to the new normal, and think their subjective improvement was something they happened to be doing at the time, but it was in fact just adaptation. I've taken Citicoline for a while and though it hasn't "cured" me, I get worse when I don't take it because I think I will (I call that Minucebo
).
The only things that dramatically improve me in a tangible way are big greasy meals followed by lots of alcohol, followed by a few cigarettes. At that point I approach near normalcy and can even socialize rather than enter a dissociative panic state when merely my girlfriend or 3 year old son show up at the door.
I feel like all the approaches that get discussed as near cures would be in the papers if they in fact were cures across the board. This condition has been in medical literature since the 1800s and diets (remember the candida diet?) and tinctures have come and gone but the condition hasn't budged. In the early 1900s they gave you a downer and an upper. The condition was called neurasthenia. I think they were on the right track. Many mornings I feel I should be trying Gabapentin and a dopamin agonist.
I'm a very skinny 48 year old male. I wonder how I'd manage a keto diet. Could a skinny person do it? I've lost a lot of weight over the past year even though my diet hasn't changed and my alcohol consumption has approached nearly 3/4 of a bottle of red wine a night after dinner, which is the only thing that helps me feel normal (which is one reason I know I actually don't have CFS but one of those conditions that mimic it). That and chain smoking.
I think I have organically induced HPA axis dysregulation (observed in CFS, PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder). I conceived a child 3 years ago (4 in fact, 3 miscarried) and now my testosterone is below that of a 90 year old. It makes no sense.