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[susurrate]

I feel like i have just stepped out of the gloom; I'm still on the precipice, curling my toes around unsecured pebbles and footholes- but the sun is beginning to shine in, a finger of light at a time

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[disastrid]

Funny, you always seemed the picture of health, even to me who possibly should have known better. What's the root of the problem?

[susurrate]

I was and I wasn't, my diet got a LOT worse in Japan simply because of stress and expense at the beginning, and somehow I just fell into bad patterns (also working a desk job, ugh).

I'm convinced it's candida... so far anti-candida measures seem to be working, despite a HORRIBLE toxic reaction at first. ;)

[soliloquia]

As Astrid asks, what do you think it is? It seems strange to me that your/anybody's body would need a very strict regimen unless it's limitations due to physical intolerance to something.

[susurrate]

I don't/didn't want to go into gory details, but basically when you lack stomach acid and digestive bacteria... you get an overgrowth of yeast, which is foul. I didn't think it possible until it started exiting my body anywhere it could, including my snot. (Okay, so I did go into gory details...)

[susurrate]

And, because I didn't explain that well enough; yeast overgrowth gives you a "leaky gut", making you unable to absorb vitamins and minerals. It also feeds off sugar and alcohol- and while in a healthy gut with enough bacteria and so on it would feed off sugar just fine, when you have overgrowth it just takes over. So for now, no sugar/carbs/alcohol... and it's working.

[soliloquia]

Ugh. Okay. Sorry about that, and good luck!

[cunabula]

Blimey, that's really no fun at all. Very glad to hear that you're on the mend however.

Having said that though 'unstoppable creature unleashed on Tokyo' in the form of rejuvenated Sophie is a terrifying prospect :)

Hope you're glowing in a thoroughly healthy non-radioactive way soonest!