@S-Holmes said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

@Jaffe said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

@S-Holmes said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

@Jaffe said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

Long time since visiting this thread.

So uh... did this cure anything?

Like any other therapy, it's conditional,.and will also have side effects for some, such as weight gain. We still use it, but not in the huge "therapeutic" amounts.

For many of my issues, esp acute long covid anxiety attacks, what helped the most was sugar, caffeine, and C02 (Coke). For long covid in general, high doses of vitamin D, calcium, magnesium, and some B vitamins have been really helpful. Lately I've gone back on H202, food grade for internal use, and regular H202 in a humidifier that I leave on all day.

So to answer your question (which was similar to my question in the thread title), it doesn't cure everything, but using it, along with other therapies, can be beneficial for many.

I settled on using it to stave off low blood sugar events. Couldn't get past the painful bloat at higher doses.

H2o2 in a humidifier? Tell me more. Is it for sanitary purposes or is your aim to breathe low ppm h2o2?

This book has been very helpful

Hey! The title of this thread is about glucose curing everything, not hydrogen peroxide! Haha. Thanks for sharing this tidbit. I haven't previously encountered the claims of miracle-like results from H2O2. I'm probably primed to buy into it though, I always think of it as "magic" when you can just pour it over anything and if it is "bad" it will fizz (e.g. putting it on a cut).

Have you shared any specific anecdotes/testimonies about hydrogen peroxide benefits anywhere?

@evan-hinkle said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

In addition, I use it to sweeten the homemade jello/gummies I make for my kids. Nothing ends up blood sugar induced “tantrum” like these. After 6 years as a parent of two, I can safely say all tantrums are low blood sugar. Well fed children with good glycogen stores simply do not misbehave, (seriously, never).

This is fascinating to me.

A few questions jump to my mind:

• Does it acutely resolve tantrum-like behavior? Do you just... give them a gummy when they start showing signs of a tantrum?
• Is there specific reasoning you prefer dextrose to table sugar for resolving low blood sugar issues?
• Do you have any concerns about "rewarding" tantrum-like behavior with a sugary treat? Or about making them dependent on it?

None of these questions are intended to be at all judgmental; as a parent of two littles myself, I'm genuinely curious to hear your perspective (as I think about whether I would potentially try something similar).

@Norwegian-Mugabe That's beautiful. Did you write it? Or where did you find it?

@CrumblingCookie Thank you for sharing this. It is encouraging to hear the help that dextrose has provided even if there are more improvements to be had. Thank you for taking the time to detail it for us and best of luck in your continued experimenting.

@CrumblingCookie said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

In other news:
I'm still doing the dextrose after 6 months. At >250grs daily over 4-7 servings.
It's keeping me afloat. But it's not leading me to recovery.

Do you have any more detail to share on this? I'm curious what your experience is (benefits, drawbacks). It seems you are one of the few to have found it worthwhile for sticking out for six months.

I gave this protocol a solid six months.

Approximately 5 tbsp dextrose per serving, 3x a day. So we are talking bags and bags of dextrose powder. In the ballpark of 600 calories per day from dextrose.

I didn't have major health concerns I was looking to address, but I did have some minor things I was wondering if the protocol would impact.

I have no success story to share, nor any tale of woe. I don't feel it improved nor detracted from my health.

I find myself quizzical as to the results Dr. Stephens reports having (100% success rate, curing all sorts of illnesses) versus what any of the self-experimenters have experienced (various maladies, some fledgling successes, very few finding it worth sticking out for six months).

@Ecstatic_Hamster Very interesting, thank you for sharing.

Is there any decent food source of thiamine? Basically just pork, right?

I've heard lots of people promote thiamine and its benefits (even at very high doses) but I'm generally resistant to supplements (despite supplementing 600 calories a day of dextrose ).

Still, it might be something worth trying for me. I believe I've heard it referenced as sometimes being beneficial for clearing up foamy urine, which I do deal with.

@S-Holmes I generally have a lot of protein but I will look out for any correlation between my protein intake and shakiness. Thank you for the tip!

@S-Holmes Thank you for sharing your update.

I am interested to hear how you adjust to significantly reduced glucose.

On my end, I recently traveled and took 8 or 9 days off glucose (coming from 15 tbsp/day) and felt no ill effects or feelings of withdrawal. So I was pleased with that. Nothing definitively interesting, positive or negative, to report on my experience with dextrose to date. Some potentially positive signs, some potentially negative ones. I'm back at it for now (planning on doing the protocol for 6 months).

I do have a question for anyone trying this: Have you noticed any tremors or shakiness? I occasionally have noticed some based out of my forearm area the last couple months but I'm not sure if it is a new experience or one I just never paid attention to before (my occasional slight tremor based only occurred to me after a family member asked me to be on the lookout for a shared contact's shakiness). It seems like it comes and goes and I haven't identified a definite pattern yet (e.g. does it happen X hours before/after working out and/or X hours before/after glucose dose and/or on days I eat food X). Could be fatigue due to some workout stuff or could be blood sugar related or could be something else entirely. But I'm curious if anyone else has noticed anything shakiness/tremor-related.

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@Lothric Tsp of baking soda before a lift is the best preworkout I've ever tried.

How much time before working out did you take the baking soda? And did you dissolve it in water?