Faith
On multiple occasions during my attempts to regain lost health, I have found certain things to promise recovery by long-term adherence to the protocol. This adherence will often require an element of faith in the healing process, since negative symptoms can present themselves which might dishearten the person undertaking the protocol, causing them to quit. The negative symptoms are usually a result of the abuse your body and mind have been subjected to in the past. The good symptoms are usually the ones that arise from re-balancing of the body. I have definitely seen some negative and positive changes in regards to some protocols but I can see that some things (raw veganism for example) have the potential to seriously mess up some lives under the idea of faith. People will ignore their own instincts by hanging their hopes on some diet, protocol, or supplement even though it doesn't appear to be working as claimed.
PUFA depletion is an example of operating on faith for the promise of better health, though the good thing about the PUFA idea is you can try certain things and gauge the effects, such as coconut oil's saturation offsetting the damaging effects of unsaturation (Instant relief). Vitamin e has quite profound benefits as well. However there ARE things where the negative feelings are actually part of the healing and the only thing to do in this case is to weather it out. A perfect example of this is the practice of semen retention/nofap.
The positive effects of this practice are slow to ramp up (timescale of months) with periods of negative feelings in between, the severity of which are determined by how bad your previous use of porn and masturbation were. The cessation of the supernormal stimuli of porn and masturbation causes a lack of neurotransmitters prompting the body to upregulate the receptors involved. If I had quit this practice at the first hurdle and convinced myself that it's a load of crap, I never would have discovered the differences in reality between the two habits. In fact, the differences are so big I conflate it together with the effects of an improving metabolism. I experience improved sleep, food tastes better, less groggy in the mornings, less anhedonia, a sense of sturdiness, better skin, second puberty event, better cognition, increased resilience to stress and the list goes on. Nobody can convince me that this practice isn't essential for men. Especially if they are hypothyroid.
Perceive, Think, Act
There have been times in the past where I would suffer through unpleasant symptoms just because I refused to use pharmaceutical drugs. Thinking back, I would have been much better off taking some aspirin or something instead of relying on the body to do something it was struggling to do. So there are definitely times where an intervention would improve quality of life in the short-term and long-term. Also the Think, Perceive, Act model is a great teacher. It can help you understand the workings of certain hormones and neurotransmitters by enabling them or inhibiting them.
This philosophy has been quite valuable to me, however there could be circumstances where you keep interrupting a process of healing because you feel bad in the moment. Sometimes this can manifest as a symptom management cascade that has you taking a variety of different supplements to try and curtail the problem, only to cause another problem because it's impossible to completely account for the body's complexities.
How do you guys determine whether you should intervene with a problem instead of just leaving it alone?
On multiple occasions during my attempts to regain lost health, I have found certain things to promise recovery by long-term adherence to the protocol. This adherence will often require an element of faith in the healing process, since negative symptoms can present themselves which might dishearten the person undertaking the protocol, causing them to quit. The negative symptoms are usually a result of the abuse your body and mind have been subjected to in the past. The good symptoms are usually the ones that arise from re-balancing of the body. I have definitely seen some negative and positive changes in regards to some protocols but I can see that some things (raw veganism for example) have the potential to seriously mess up some lives under the idea of faith. People will ignore their own instincts by hanging their hopes on some diet, protocol, or supplement even though it doesn't appear to be working as claimed.
PUFA depletion is an example of operating on faith for the promise of better health, though the good thing about the PUFA idea is you can try certain things and gauge the effects, such as coconut oil's saturation offsetting the damaging effects of unsaturation (Instant relief). Vitamin e has quite profound benefits as well. However there ARE things where the negative feelings are actually part of the healing and the only thing to do in this case is to weather it out. A perfect example of this is the practice of semen retention/nofap.
The positive effects of this practice are slow to ramp up (timescale of months) with periods of negative feelings in between, the severity of which are determined by how bad your previous use of porn and masturbation were. The cessation of the supernormal stimuli of porn and masturbation causes a lack of neurotransmitters prompting the body to upregulate the receptors involved. If I had quit this practice at the first hurdle and convinced myself that it's a load of crap, I never would have discovered the differences in reality between the two habits. In fact, the differences are so big I conflate it together with the effects of an improving metabolism. I experience improved sleep, food tastes better, less groggy in the mornings, less anhedonia, a sense of sturdiness, better skin, second puberty event, better cognition, increased resilience to stress and the list goes on. Nobody can convince me that this practice isn't essential for men. Especially if they are hypothyroid.
Perceive, Think, Act
There have been times in the past where I would suffer through unpleasant symptoms just because I refused to use pharmaceutical drugs. Thinking back, I would have been much better off taking some aspirin or something instead of relying on the body to do something it was struggling to do. So there are definitely times where an intervention would improve quality of life in the short-term and long-term. Also the Think, Perceive, Act model is a great teacher. It can help you understand the workings of certain hormones and neurotransmitters by enabling them or inhibiting them.
This philosophy has been quite valuable to me, however there could be circumstances where you keep interrupting a process of healing because you feel bad in the moment. Sometimes this can manifest as a symptom management cascade that has you taking a variety of different supplements to try and curtail the problem, only to cause another problem because it's impossible to completely account for the body's complexities.
How do you guys determine whether you should intervene with a problem instead of just leaving it alone?
