What has improved your quality of life?

ChookityPop

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I'm curious to know what has improved your quality of life. Big or small, from supplements, gadgets, treatments, diet, fasting, meditation, mindfullness, IV drips, massages, peptides, cold showers and so on.


-Compression (full body)
-Summer/laying in the sun
-Prism glasses
-TRT
-Increased salt intake
-Diet (lamb, beef, wild game, organs, and some fruits, berries and honey comb)
-Bpc157
-Sex
-Magnesium
-Hoodies with a thick hood helps stave off neck stiffness and pain.
-Ergonomic pillow
-Foam roller, acupuncture mat, massage pistol, hyperice hypersphere mini, Pso spine

These are the first things I came to think about and I might have forgotten something obvious. The list starts off with the most impactful stuff.

I would love to know what your tips and tricks are!?
 
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Noise Cancelling headphones, an expensive purchase, but I couldn’t live without them (they are on my head now! Not listening to anything). My tolerance for noise and light is poor, so I have many eye pillows and masks, but the headphones are so critical. They’ve changed how I live my life.

I am grateful to the hipsters who have brought back the beanie. I wear them all the time, they do double duty - keeping my head warm, and pulling down the brim over my eyes as an eye shade.

also would not live without my heated mattress pad. I live in my bed, so I love the cozy heat, got my headphones and beanie on, and can be protected from the world, when I need to be.
 
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Copper glycinate turned my life for the better. It didn't completely cure but made me more functional. It's strongly antimicrobial. I can still get viral infections but not oral infections. Joints are better, back is better.

Calcium chelate is close behind.

Lactoferrin is helping with viral infections. Only started in earnest a month ago, will see.

They have made it more easy to move and think.
 
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Cumin, T2, LDN. I don't need them anymore, but they absolutely made a big difference. Carnitine allowed me to eat meat again, but after a few months, I didn't need that supplement anymore. There were a few other things that reduced symptoms, but only temporarily, so they don't qualify as improving quality of life.
 
ChookityPop

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Crux said:
Copper glycinate turned my life for the better. It didn't completely cure but made me more functional. It's strongly antimicrobial. I can still get viral infections but not oral infections. Joints are better, back is better.

Calcium chelate is close behind.

Lactoferrin is helping with viral infections. Only started in earnest a month ago, will see.

They have made it more easy to move and think.
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Interesting! So even though your ceruloplasmin and serum copper was normal you found great benefits? Do you have connective tissue issues? I have to try this!
 
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I love my lucite dish holder (purchased at Bed, Bath & Beyond). Rather than use it to hold dishes for display, I put it on my bed tray to hold books up and open so my grumpy arms don't have to when I read in bed.

I love my radio alarm, too, because it wakes me gently and it keeps me company when I do my morning in-bed stretches. Not a huge fan of music, I enjoy listening to NPR.

And, of course, I love PR and the PR community! :) Lots of :hug:s to you all!
 
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ChookityPop said:
Interesting! So even though your ceruloplasmin and serum copper was normal you found great benefits? Do you have connective tissue issues? I have to try this!
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I didn't get the copper and ceruloplasmin tested until I had been taking copper for over a month. They were in the low normal range then. Next test they both came up, but the ceruloplasmin was still low normal.
Sometime later, I started the clo. may have been some years.

My joints were stiff, sore and popping. My jaw would pop out. I couldn't bend to my knees without leaning on something. Could barely descend stairs. Lower back would swell with knots in places.

I wasn't hypermobile, was opposite, but I think I had a bunch of calcium/phosphate in the joints.

I take 2.5 mg. copper glycinate daily, but other people may not need that much.
 
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-Continued use of LDN
-Low-dose SSRI for POTS (aggravates my chronic hypoglycemia and fatigue at normal dose, but somehow helps autonomous nervous system issues at minimal dosage)
-Experimenting with different sleeping rhythms, mainly feeling better when constantly delaying sleep a bit
-Trying to raise temperature indoors. The summer heat brought a couple of weeks with much less symptoms, but unfortunately difficult to replicate in winter.
-Various dietary interventions, mainly low carb and avoiding complex carbs
-Some more supplement trials to correct deficiencies noted in lab tests (curiously also measured for copper deficiency)
-Experimenting with antimicrobials to reduce gut dysbiosis
 
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