Warrior's Health Journal & POIS Protocol

[Warrior]

I'm noticing that I seem to tolerate canned navy beans and microwaved packets of whole rice seemingly well. Tested the canned navy beans for quite some time now. I wonder if this is because of how they've been processed, cooked, pressurised, etc.

Edit: still get some symptoms from the rice but it’s definitely minimal compared to reg white rice ??

[Warrior]

Brief update:

Seeing a new specialist here in Australia. He has quite a decent following on YT: Byron Herbalist.

Will be exploring and testing a bunch of things. Getting Organic Acids Test (OAT) test done. This will help diagnose potential candida/fungal issues and provide a lot of interesting data overall. Will be playing with a bunch of different adaptogens and herbs. High dose TTFD is also something he's suggested. We're aiming to gather more actual data about my condition. He thinks it's all very interesting. 

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On another note, today I had huge epiphanies on using the mind to heal. Thanks to Muon's quote,

21 February 2025 from channel Limbic Recovery: "How I recovered from POIS after years of struggle (Brain retraining saved me)"
https://youtu.be/qXiMCRlKiTo

I discovered this new YouTube channel. Connected a lot of dots with my experiences in meditation and consciousness. I think brain retraining is definitley being slept on by most including myself. DNRS, Joe Dispensa, Primal Trust are some different resources that teach the fundamentals of using the mind to heal physiology.

Our mind has more conscious control over our body's physiology than what western culture understands. Physiology, biochemistry, hormones, and physical states are absolutely influenced and effected by mind. All these practices simply work towards altering the physiology, biochemistry, and physical health state through mind.

There is no doubt that POIS and many other complex chronic conditions stem from physical causes (some stemming from mental causes as well). That doesn't change any of this. You can manipulate the body's biochemistry and physiological processes through mind. That's all it comes down to.

So from here onwards I am going to do a deep dive into all this stuff. Tackling my condition from physical and mental means.

Just for clarity's sake, my POIS symptoms are the most benign and under control they've ever been. I can release as desired. My food sensitivities are what negatively effect my quality of life and long-term health. My main goal is to completely cure my food sensitivities (and in doing so, POIS should also be cured as they are interconnected into the same condition).

I may as well call my current health condition: 'Interconnected Chronic Food Sensitivities & POIS'

I also wonder about applying the volume of a Vipassana retreat to brain retraining. Meditation and brain retraining in this context are very similar and share a lot of overlap. In theory, you could vastly improve the speed of results from brain retraining by simply undertaking an intensive retreat.

[Warrior]

Frequent methyl donor supplementation is still necessary long-term, regardless of how much I release or what diet I’m on. It’s the only supplement I need to consistently take.

When I stop taking my B complex for a week, I begin to get symptoms that I associate with a depletion of methyl donors.

I start getting more anxious than usual, weird facial sensations, brain fog, dusky etc. These all improve significantly when I take methyl donors again.

However the B complex I’ve been relying on for the past few years equally continues to give me side effects. So currently trying to identify the most important nutrients within the B complex. I’ve stated this numerous times but never actually gotten around to doing it lol.

Starting off with methyl B12, folic acid, and B6. Haven’t taken B complex for ~ week or so, and began feeling symptoms today. Took b12, folic acid, and b6 and immediately felt better. Will see how I feel in the coming days as well.

[picasso1122]

Frequent methyl donor supplementation is still necessary long-term, regardless of how much I release or what diet I’m on. It’s the only supplement I need to consistently take.

When I stop taking my B complex for a week, I begin to get symptoms that I associate with a depletion of methyl donors.

I start getting more anxious than usual, weird facial sensations, brain fog, dusky etc. These all improve significantly when I take methyl donors again.

However the B complex I’ve been relying on for the past few years equally continues to give me side effects. So currently trying to identify the most important nutrients within the B complex. I’ve stated this numerous times but never actually gotten around to doing it lol.

Starting off with methyl B12, folic acid, and B6. Haven’t taken B complex for ~ week or so, and began feeling symptoms today. Took b12, folic acid, and b6 and immediately felt better. Will see how I feel in the coming days as well.

hi , man.my sincerely greetings. i hope  you to be good.
i feel in debt about  your video and i  want to say  though my symptoms are not quite the same as your but they are some similarities.
i just wondered how you ever tried anticholinergic drug like Baclofen. these thing make me feel better. i tried them for considerable amount of time and that makes me feel better. if you haven't tried one maybe it is not a bad idea to play this kind of drug on trial

[Warrior]

My cluster appears to respond to nicotinamide. Today took 1g total (500mg x 2) an hour or so apart. Approx 1-3 hrs later, had a Thai lunch w/ white rice. Normally this would trigger food sensitivities but this time nothing.

My meal also contained Thai milk tea. Not sure if tea combination w/ nicotinamide may influence outcome.

Day before took methyl B12 1000mcg, B6 100mg, and 500mcg folic acid. Had a Fishbowl meal & distinctively remember immune system activation, symptoms etc. Methyl donors improve POIS & symptoms overall, but do not provide any 100% temporary alleviation like nicotinamide appears to do. My intention with taking B3 today was more to try and reduce excess methylation symptoms, but seem to have inadvertently proven nicotinamide’s mysterious medicinal benefit for POIS. I must seek to clarify nicotinamide’s role in my stack moving forward.

Only realised this in hindsight today.

Documenting for future reference.

At some point, I will clarify this further. I’ve always had interesting results with B3, but never been able to empirically validate & repeat results long-term. Gino’s thread is also interesting.

So nicotinamide appears to provide two distinct medicinal uses for POIS, but maybe their medicinal outcome is related:
— reduces excess methyl donors in circumstances when excess B vitamins or methyl donors are consumed, as part of protocols
— mysterious unknown medicinal effect for temporarily alleviating POIS & complex cluster symptoms

Warning: niacin and nicotinamide are two different forms of b3. The type will determine different toxicity dosages. Overdosages of b3 can cause liver damage.

[Warrior]

I suspect those who respond well to methyl donors for POIS do not seem to tolerate glycine well, and therefore will probably need to rely on B3 for excess methyl buffering. There appears to be something in the POIS complex condition that creates a sensitivity to glycine.

That appears to be the case for my cluster at least. Nicotinamide or niacin (B3) are very effective for reducing excess methyl donor symptoms and side effects.

Edit: seem to tolerate and receive better medicinal benefit from nicotinamide compared to niacin. Overall I just seem to feel better w/ nicotinamide whereas niacin tends to make me feel a bit more anxious. Not sure of the reasoning or if it’s a dosage thing etc but for now will stick with nicotinamide going forward.

[Warrior]

Riboflavin is very balancing. Body appears to work better with more. 400mg can be useful for “strange” conditions/side effects according to Masterjohn.

[Warrior]

Interesting video on D3 supplements vs natural sunlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ul-hYTaQ4I

From this point onwards, I rely 100% on direct sunlight exposure for increasing and maintaining optimal D3 levels for POIS.

Also cleaned up my main protocol page info: https://poiscenter.com/forums/index.php?topic=3964.msg42080#msg42080

[Warrior]

I've noticed a significant improvement in my food sensitivities, mood, and POIS since increasing vitamin D3 through direct sunlight.

Not sure how long this will last, but it seems to be more effective than what I used to experience with supplementation alone.

Of course I am not surprised that I am feeling better with D3 as I've documented that countless times in the past. It has been a pivotal part of my protocol for quite some time now.

I am surprised I seem to be getting better results through direct sunlight as opposed to supplementation (even when supplementation was supposedly working and I had super high serum levels to prove it).

Edit 18/3/25: Fixing D3 via sun also fixed droopy eyes. Before was definitely D3 deficient though, so I think it simply fixed the droopy eyes, mood etc by sheer fact of elevating D3. Low D3 gave me droopy eyes and poor mood.

[Progecitor]

I've noticed a significant improvement in my food sensitivities, mood, and POIS since increasing vitamin D3 through direct sunlight.

Not sure how long this will last, but it seems to be more effective than what I used to experience with supplementation alone.

Of course I am not surprised that I am feeling better with D3 as I've documented that countless times in the past. It has been a pivotal part of my protocol for quite some time now.

I am surprised I seem to be getting better results through direct sunlight as opposed to supplementation (even when supplementation was supposedly working and I had super high serum levels to prove it).

The reason may be that sunshine also lowers cholesterol at the same time, so it is kind of a 2 in 1 remedy.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8935479/
Additionally there may be a psychological component, which could affect your mood and by a biofeedback loop maybe your physiology as well. Being outdoors provides a lot of fresh air, which also seems to help with POIS.
I really hate the ocular photophobia, which often makes it excruciatingly painful to go outside. A few years ago I regularly had to do intense physical work under the blazing sun. Interestingly a few hours into my job I would often experience a reduction in ocular photosensitivity. This may have been a combined benefit of sunshine, fresh air and exercise. However by the time I used to finish my work exercise intolerance symptoms would dominate and the next morning would start out the usual awful way. So I have to question the practical applicability.

[Warrior]

Food sensitivity symptoms accumulate when repeatedly tested. If I eat a non AB meal w/ starches after 7 days of eating strict AB, the inflammation is minimal if at all visible/felt. If I continually eat non AB foods daily for 3 days straight for example, by the 3rd day I really start to feel the negative symptoms and depletion at intense levels.

[Warrior]

Since normalising D3, methyl donor supplementation has not been as necessary. Low D3 worsens POIS, mood, food sensitivities. Can also probably give the illusion of needing more B complex/methyl donors when really I just needed more balanced D3.

D3 and methyl donors work in tandem for normalising majority of my cluster symptoms it seems.

Side effects from b complex/methyl donors are likely just excess. Nicotinamide helps to remove/normalise excess. Can probs drop frequency of B complex to once per week with normal D3 lvls. Moving forward, I will make sure I have adequate D3 by sitting in the direct sun, before taking B complex.

D3 is priority #1.
B complex/methyl donors is priority #2 after initial replenishment.