u/Daske

Great news, finally have motility somewhat back onboard. My appetite had been extremely low, food sat in my stomach like a rock for hours (delayed gastric emptying), and I would reliably get nauseous 1-2 hours after eating. All this would be accompanied by the most soul destroying brain fog, often rendering me couch bound, dissociating, engaging in dopamine seeking repetitive behaviours, and powerless to stop. I wouldn't eat because I was hungry, but when my energy levels would dip, or just when I felt I should.

I really tried everything I could think of to get motility up and running again: artichoke extract and ginger, meal spacing, fibre, betaine HCL to increase stomach acid, Iberogast, going for a walk after food, fermented foods. None of that moved the needle.

Now I can happily report I'm getting genuinely hungry again, food intolerances and my leaky gut are better, nausea has largely vanished, gut wall just feels more sealed and less inflamed. Thankfully, I'm also experiencing less brain fog and cognitive symptoms. So what's been helping is taking higher doses of a multivitamin. The one I'm taking is 'Life Extension 2 per day', but I'm not necessarily recommending this one, it's just the one that's been working for me. I'm currently taking 6 capsules/day split into 2 doses. I wish I knew which of the compounds was doing the heavy lifting - there's over 30. I've tried most of them on their own without as much success, so it's either the synergistic effect or one of the less popular ingredients that's helping me. Perhaps later down the road I will trial each ingredient independently to identify what's helping.

I'm aware of the risks of taking higher doses of vitamins. However, I have good reason to suspect functional deficiencies (organic acids test results), and this experiment seems to confirm my suspicions. This is also not a long term strategy, I will be reassessing in a couple weeks.

I'm not making this post to necessarily recommend this to people, as there are probably relatively few of you who should try this, but this is for the people who've exhausted all other options and are getting desperate, as I was.

This is only likely to help you if you have experienced chronic long term stomach problems, which have lead to an inability to absorb nutrients from food and lead to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Also to note, your levels may look normal on bloodwork (mine did) but you can be functionally deficient, i.e. vitamins and minerals may not be getting into cells where they need to be to be utilised.

Great news, finally have motility somewhat back onboard. My appetite had been extremely low, food sat in my stomach like a rock for hours (delayed gastric emptying), and I would reliably get nauseous 1-2 hours after eating. All this would be accompanied by the most soul destroying brain fog, often rendering me couch bound, dissociating, engaging in dopamine seeking repetitive behaviours, and powerless to stop. I wouldn't eat because I was hungry, but when my energy levels would dip, or just when I felt I should.

I really tried everything I could think of to get motility up and running again: artichoke extract and ginger, meal spacing, fibre, betaine HCL to increase stomach acid, Iberogast, going for a walk after food, fermented foods,

Now I can happily report I'm getting genuinely hungry again, food intolerances and my leaky gut are better, nausea has largely vanished, gut wall just feels more sealed and less inflamed. Thankfully, I'm also experiencing less brain fog and cognitive symptoms.

So what's been helping is taking higher doses of a multivitamin. The one I'm taking is 'Life Extension 2 per day', but I'm not necessarily recommending this one, it's just the one that's been working for me. I'm currently taking 6 capsules/day split into 2 doses. I wish I knew which of the compounds was doing the heavy lifting - there's over 30. I've tried most of them on their own without as much success, so it's either the synergistic effect or one of the less popular ingredients that's helping me. Perhaps later down the road I will trial each ingredient independently to identify what's helping.

I'm aware of the risks of taking higher doses of vitamins. However, I have good reason to suspect functional deficiencies (organic acids test results), and this experiment seems to confirm my suspicions. This is also not a long term strategy, I will be reassessing in a couple weeks.

I'm not making this post to necessarily recommend this to people, as there are probably relatively few of you who should try this, but this is for the people who've exhausted all other options and are getting desperate, as I was.

This is only likely to help you if you have experienced chronic long term stomach problems, which have lead to an inability to absorb nutrients from food and lead to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Also to note, your levels may look normal on bloodwork (mine did) but you can be functionally deficient, i.e. vitamins and minerals may not be getting into cells where they need to be to be utilised.