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<blockquote data-quote="tropicaldaze1950" data-source="post: 276112" data-attributes="member: 13651"><p>[USER=15043]@Gman86[/USER] /After our exchange, yesterday, my mind went back in time to the 1980s. In orthomolecular psychiatry, as well as what we'd now call 'functional medicine', doctors were using therapeutic fasting to treat or manage both mental and physical illnesses. My father, who'd been dealing with severe rheumatoid arthritis in his knees and feet, bought a book about that was about the many benefits of fasting, written by a medical journalist, IIRC. Prevention Magazine was a big proponent of the fasting protocol.</p><p></p><p>I found the book fascinating. Regarding mental illness, therapeutic fasting, along with an elimination diet, was being used in the Soviet Union to treat schizophrenia. James Earl Jones father, the actor Robert Earl Jones detailed how fasting cured his severe arthritis, which allowed him to resume his acting career, pointing out that in 'The Sting', playing Luther, he, not a stunt double, was hot footing it down the alley. Unfortunately, fasting didn't help my father.</p><p></p><p>My point is that for the past few years the keto diet, and now the carnivore diet, are being promoted as an answer or even 'the' answer to physical and/or psychiatric conditions. I don't doubt that for some people, it works; that, for those people, it is the answer. I'm not being critical. Even in the context of TRT, for many men, it's been a total game changer but for others, so so or, not at all.</p><p></p><p>Every time I thought something was the 'it' I was seeking to improve my health and function, it wasn't. I'm not discouraged, but neither am I going to immediately do a 180. A few years ago, on Mark's Daily Apple, on a thread about gluten, one man posted a story about a friend who, like him, had been a Rhodes Scholar. His friend had researched various diets and found that eating wheat berries, wheat grass and drinking mineral water provided him with excellent health, vitality and sexual vigor. He was an older guy on a shoe string budget and lived with two young women. Gee, that's my dream! And, for many of us, the journey continues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tropicaldaze1950, post: 276112, member: 13651"] [USER=15043]@Gman86[/USER] /After our exchange, yesterday, my mind went back in time to the 1980s. In orthomolecular psychiatry, as well as what we'd now call 'functional medicine', doctors were using therapeutic fasting to treat or manage both mental and physical illnesses. My father, who'd been dealing with severe rheumatoid arthritis in his knees and feet, bought a book about that was about the many benefits of fasting, written by a medical journalist, IIRC. Prevention Magazine was a big proponent of the fasting protocol. I found the book fascinating. Regarding mental illness, therapeutic fasting, along with an elimination diet, was being used in the Soviet Union to treat schizophrenia. James Earl Jones father, the actor Robert Earl Jones detailed how fasting cured his severe arthritis, which allowed him to resume his acting career, pointing out that in 'The Sting', playing Luther, he, not a stunt double, was hot footing it down the alley. Unfortunately, fasting didn't help my father. My point is that for the past few years the keto diet, and now the carnivore diet, are being promoted as an answer or even 'the' answer to physical and/or psychiatric conditions. I don't doubt that for some people, it works; that, for those people, it is the answer. I'm not being critical. Even in the context of TRT, for many men, it's been a total game changer but for others, so so or, not at all. Every time I thought something was the 'it' I was seeking to improve my health and function, it wasn't. I'm not discouraged, but neither am I going to immediately do a 180. A few years ago, on Mark's Daily Apple, on a thread about gluten, one man posted a story about a friend who, like him, had been a Rhodes Scholar. His friend had researched various diets and found that eating wheat berries, wheat grass and drinking mineral water provided him with excellent health, vitality and sexual vigor. He was an older guy on a shoe string budget and lived with two young women. Gee, that's my dream! And, for many of us, the journey continues. [/QUOTE]
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