#no iron supplements because they made me sick but vitamin d i think helps

[bamsara]

Hey just curious regarding your anemia.do you usually have caffeine with your meals or before your meals?

i usually sip caffeine all day little by little, as in the same cup getting reheated and then snack in mid-morn and then an actaul meal in evening usually

[fibing-and-vibing]

The large amount of vitamins/supplements/meds I take in a day lol:

This is my current cocktail of meds etc that I take every day. Maybe they’re superfluous, maybe they’re not, but through a lot of trial and error I’m pretty sure all of these are actually helping me feel quite a bit better. Feel free to ask me any questions about specifics, but please don’t be mean about any of these bc I’m just doing my best lol.

Wake Up:

Multivitamin for eye health

Multivitamin for women’s health

Hair and nail vitamin

Protein shake

Notes: all of these are chewable/gummies, which not only is easier when I first wake up, but also easier for the body to digest and so more effective. My hair falls out a ton so the hair vitamin really helps. And I always wake up hungry but feel sick if I eat, so I go for a pre-made shake every day. They’re expensive but they keep me feeling ok, give me a good amount of nutrients, and require zero energy to prepare.

Mid Morning:

B100

Cod liver oil with A and D vitamins

Odourless garlic

Coenzyme Q10

Notes: I’ve found the cod liver oil to be more effective than just regular vitamin D, maybe it’s because of the omegas or whatever. Also the garlic is lowkey one of the best things I take, it reduces inflammation in my sinuses and everywhere else, and is helpful for circulation which makes everything else better too.

Noon:

Welbutrin

Seasonique

Claritin

Notes: I’ve had depression and anxiety diagnosed for a long time so been on welbutrin for a while, but it’s a bonus that it’s supposed to help for fibro brain things too. Seasonique is crucial bc I’m pretty sure I have PMDD and my mental health absolutely tanks on my period, so only having one every three months is a lifesaver. And my respiratory system has been bad for a long time and I live in a city with not amazing air quality, so a daily antihistamine helps a lot and I’ve stopped pretending there’s a time of year I won’t need that.

Afternoon:

Iron

Probiotics

Notes: I’ve had low iron forever, and even though doctors have always told me it’s not low enough to qualify as anemia, I’ve had anemia-like symptoms my entire life, so. However, I didn’t really notice benefits of either iron or probiotics until I started taking them together, and now they’re huge. If I’m ever out and about and forget/wait to take these I immediately realize bc I start feeling faint lol.

Before Bed:

Magnesium bisglycinate

Cranberry

Turmeric collagen with univestin and bromelain

Melatonin

Notes: I’ve had bladder issues for a while which I didn’t even realize was a fibro thing; I’ve always had to pee a million times before bed etc. Cranberry fixes it. The turmeric collagen one is new but I’ve been shocked how much it actually helps with joint pain and mobility. The magnesium I’m not 100 on but my fatigue situation has gotten better so it can’t be hurting at least.

Is it annoying to take so many things throughout the day? Yes, but I just fill up my pill containers on Sunday and then it’s all ready for the rest of the week, so not the worst. Would it be better to get all these nutrients from food? Probably, duh, but we’re living life on hard mode already and I don’t need to make it even harder so pls don’t bring that up lol.

Of course, always look up interactions before you add anything new to your regimen, especially if anything you take is prescription. I’m always on the lookout for new things to try now though tbh, currently thinking about ginger maybe.

[asultana]

Yes Kris Jenner is an an evil narcissist of a mom who made her children compete with each other for her love. However I really admire her way of teaching her kids that making money doesn't need to be so hard. She thought her kids to be all about the cash flow. Even if one business idea doesn't stick, onto the next, never let it go to heart if it doesn't pan out! And look at where they are now, they have climbed up to the top of the hills on the rubble of their failed business ventures. They explored so many realms and facets of business, literally throwing spaghetti on the wall. By her being her kids manager she got the best of both worlds, she would tell her kids in the delusional way a parent hypes up her kids you are the best at this, and if I think you are the best at this then others will think you are the best at this. At then the manager side will come out and go out in the real world and capitalize off whatever the "thing" was.

I really struggle to go out in the world with "my talents and interests" and make money off of them. I am thinking of starting a podcast, I even ordered the studio equipment. But I am scared... I am scared of so many things, like failure, or looking stupid. But I have to do this for my self. I a will start this as a hobby, and see where it goes. Now a days everyone and their brother has a podcast but that doesn't mean I can't be successful. I just have to find my niche or corner.

My parents can only get me so far, now it's my turn, I have to go out and figure out things for myself if I don't like what I do at their business. Independence is a hard for me, and I have to work on it.

This will be a thing I will do for myself, but anytime I have done things exclusively for myself I have found tremendous satisfaction and joy out of it.

When I have done things just for myself I figured out things about myself that would get ignored otherwise.

When I visited my friend in Europe for 3 weeks at Christmas, I came back and set out to find a trainer because I realized I needed help in that department, in a major major way.

Started take Spatone iron supplements.

Found myself a family doctor in a impossible to navigate system.

When despite working out for many years, three times a week I still felt dissatisfied with the way my body parts responded with each other I went overseas to visit my aunt who had also dealt with so many ailments. Went to a alternative medicine doctor she knew after my MRI and X ray tests came back negative for anything. That doctor then told me that my feet where the problem, along with some align issues in my spine and sold me inserts for my shoes, cervical support pillow and sandals from an English brand with arch and metatarsal arch supports.

Came back home, went to a podiatrist and got real custom made inserts made, got a Temperpedic brand version of my pillow, and continued to wear my sandals.

Started taking Vitamin D.

I start to wear my custom inserts with my a specific model of Asics (that model worked so well that I bought that model 6 times after that) so I that I can wear it for as long as possible. I figure out that I can't wear the English sandals at the same time as my custom insoles because they reinforce different parts of my foot. But it's okay because by now they have help with the mobility of my foot.

Last year I started doing classical reformer Pilates, I did it until the fall season when I started to feel sick and tired from the changes in weather and time.

This year I started my Pilates class again. And wow the amount of progress that I have made, I feel so proud myself. I sincerely say that I fee like a different person. My teacher is an amazing, she makes me do so much foot, spine and chest work, and it's been a tremendous transformation in quality of life.

She gave me a recommendation for a reflexologist and the reflexologist told me that the pain I feel on the outside of my foot is due to my ankles tightness (now I know!). And recommended I buy an elevation pillow for my legs to help with decompression (which I then went and did).

Went to a pelvic physio therapist and she was total game changer. I won't go to her again because too much tinkering in that area meant delayed period but she was instrumental in helping my uterus and hormones.

Diagnosed myself with PMDD, talked to my doctor about how to help symptoms, he prescribed Lexopro, and wasn't for me.

Staring taking Fish Oils

Bought myself good quality furniture and mattress because I despite living at home, I needed adult furniture that are to my tastes.

For the last two weeks I have been getting my hair washed and blow-dried by hairstyling students once a week and wow I am a different person all together.

I started taking magnesium at night before bed.

I have been improving in being alive, and it hasn't been easy but I had to find think that make life better for myself. I have made so much progress but I will continue to make so much more in order not to worry about myself in the long run.

[prettywordsyouleft]

MonX Hospital | Changkyun

Pairing: Im Changkyun x reader

Genre: lab technician – hospital au / romance / strangers to lovers

Warnings: medical terms, and the word “blood” is used a lot, considering Changkyun’s profession, illness.

Word count: 4417

Index: Shownu | Wonho | Minhyuk | Kihyun | Hyungwon | Jooheon | Changkyun

Turning around to the next tray of samples to check, Changkyun stopped for a moment after reading the name on the adjoining paperwork. Working at MonX Hospital as a Laboratory Technician meant he could process samples from the same patients at least twice within his working week. It shouldn’t stand out as anything important to him, yet when he saw your name for the eighth time in the past two weeks, Changkyun found himself a little stunned. There were several other technicians in this department who could have processed your blood work but it seemed to always end up in his batches.

“Everything alright?” his co-worker Bora questioned and Changkyun snapped out of his thoughts, however, his brows remained furrowed.

“Yeah, I’m just getting familiar with this patient’s blood samples.”

Bora grinned. “That sometimes happens. I like to think of it as a sense of fate for a technician to see the same person’s samples during their stay. It’s a pleasure to watch as things improve for the patient through their continued testing.”

As Changkyun waited for the results from the automatic analyser to be transferred to the computer he was monitoring, he didn’t hold the same optimism as Bora did. He had been steadily watching the decline in your numbers over the past two weeks. And when the results appeared, his shoulders dropped.

“There’s an abnormality in these results,” he murmured, and Bora swivelled her chair around so she could see the screen. As a technologist, she was more experienced in looking at results such as these. Still, Changkyun could tell the levels to your iron and blood oxygen count were low.

You would no doubt need a transfusion today.

“Just remember that doing these tests are what will help this patient get the right treatment for a quick recovery.”

Changkyun nodded softly. However, your results bothered him for the rest of the morning and he even spent some time staring at a sample under the microscope just to find exactly where the abnormality was. He was invested for some reason and hoped he could find a way to see your numbers improving each second day instead of dropping.

Resigned, he stepped out for a coffee break in the hospital’s public cafeteria, watching as a patient rested her head against a windowpane. She looked far too pale to be away from her room, though she smiled when the sun danced over her skin.

He couldn’t help himself and sat at the table next to her. “Are you here for the sun?”

“After being locked up in this place for two weeks, I’ve finally found a spot where I can get direct sunlight. It’s too nice a weather lately to be cooped up inside so this is my happy medium.”

“I hate to break it to you but you know you can’t absorb vitamin D through a windowpane, right?”

The patient looked at him with a heavy pout which made him regret speaking the fact out loud. “Really? Is it only if I go outside? I’m not allowed out though…”

“Sorry,” he said apologetically. “I once was stuck inside recovering from a really bad virus and used to sit by the window every day until my father, who is a scientist, told me otherwise.”

Peering at his badge, she nodded. “I guess it’s now a bit of a like father like son moment then. He broke your heart and now you’re breaking mine, Im Changkyun.”

Changkyun cringed and waved a hand in dismissal. “I really didn’t mean-”

“It’s fine, I’m teasing you. Are you a doctor?”

“No, I work in the lab.”

“Doing what?”

“Running tests on the samples we receive.”

“Like blood tests?” she asked and Changkyun nodded. She then smiled warmly. “Maybe you’ll have come across mine.”

“Maybe.”

“If you can figure out what’s wrong with me, I’d ask you out on a date, you know.”

Changkyun, having taken a sip from the coffee mug, spluttered it everywhere. “Wh-what?!”

“I’m kidding, of course,” she remarked, looking back outside. “The doctors keep saying that monitoring my blood samples will find the answer to why I’m so sick but all that keeps happening is-”

“Y/N!” a voice called out and Changkyun let go of the mug he was holding, gaping at the patient now being fussed over by a distraught relative, the wheelchair she was sitting in now being wheeled away.

Your wheelchair.

It was you, the person he had been staring at under a microscope all morning long. Well, your blood sample at least. He couldn’t believe that the mystery in the lab had appeared in front of him right now. It was his first time meeting a patient in the flesh like this.

“Wait!” he called out fruitlessly and you turned back, shifting around to grin at him.

“I hope you can find what’s wrong with me, Mr Technician! If you do, I’ll go on a date with you!”

Glancing down at the coffee starting to run off the side of the table and then at your departure, he groaned, reaching out for a stack of napkins to clean up his mess.

Changkyun was hopeful this wouldn’t be the last time he saw you outside of the laboratory.

His daily trips for the rest of the week to the cafeteria didn’t bring you back into his presence. Your samples hadn’t been as regular as before and when you did turn up in his batches on Thursday, he smiled when he saw he had predicted right. Your iron and blood levels had rapidly increased, indicating you had received transfusions of both. You would no doubt be feeling a bit better after receiving the treatment, though he couldn’t be sure since you hadn’t returned to the cafeteria since that day. Had his pointing out about the sun having no effect stopped you? Or was it the relative who acted as if you were too fragile to be around others that had prohibited your return?

It was strange. He had never found himself so interested in another human before like this. You weren’t someone who matched his typical type in women, but Changkyun couldn’t deny you captivated him either.

Was it the added bonus that he had seen what your cells looked like up close? Shuddering with the rather creepy thought, Changkyun tried to forget about you. He knew he couldn’t, though. He was too invested in helping find a reason for your illness, as a professional of course.

“It’s not because of the date offer,” he mumbled to himself, ears growing hot despite his outspoken stance.

Though, he wondered if you actually had meant it since you mentioned it twice.

Another two weeks went by and by that time, your samples were almost back to how they had been before the transfusions. The doctors hadn’t figured out anything, he concluded. And every time he ran the automated analyser or looked at a sample on a slide, Changkyun couldn’t figure what was causing your cells to be abnormal. Even after talking with a pathologist for better understanding, there was little to go on aside from having a type of anaemia. But even the more experienced people couldn’t decide on which type it was.

You were a mystery to everyone.

And strangely, he missed you.

“I know you’ve worked extra today, but reckon you could go pick up some samples for me? Dora fell down a set of stairs an hour ago and is in orthopaedics so can’t collect the samples from wards fifteen and sixteen that we need to test tonight.”

Changkyun nodded at Bora. “I can do that.”

“Good, after you fetch them you can go home.”

“How kind of you to let me go like that,” he cheekily replied and Bora laughed.

“Well, I could make you stay on even longer and-”

“Ten hours is enough!” he chimed, diving to door to the department. “I’ll get the samples and then get out of here.”

“Less talk, more movement, Changkyun!”

He chuckled as he headed to the elevators in the lobby to take up to the floor needed. He thanked the nurse after retrieving the samples from ward sixteen, heading across the foyer to the opposite ward. Whistling softly as he walked to the nurse’s station, Changkyun glanced lazily around the ward, skidding to a stop when he noticed your name on the wall. Blinking rapidly, he went towards the door when a nurse caught his attention.

“Are you here to collect the samples?”

“Uh, yeah,” he distractedly answered, smiling weakly. Tearing his eyes reluctantly from your door, he followed the nurse to her station and waited for the package. Changkyun went to walk off, only retracing his steps back to the nurse. “Is room three allowed visitors?”

“Miss L/N?” she spoke and he nodded. “She has restricted access at the moment due to a family request.”

“Ah, that answers that then,” he murmured and then smiled back at the nurse. Thanking her, he then headed back down the hallway, his feet dragging outside your door. He craned his neck as if that would gain him better access to seeing you again. Your blinds were shut and only a small window in the door allowed him a brief look into your space. Sighing, he began to move again when he spotted you coming back into the wardroom.

You were walking this time, albeit with the help of an IV stand. You grinned. “Well if it isn’t Mr Technician.”

“Changkyun,” he corrected awkwardly and clamped his eyes shut. “I mean, please call me Changkyun.”

“Are we one a first name basis now?” you wondered with an animated smile. “I guess you already know mine. Sorry about the other week. My Aunt is a bit over the top. I’m all the family she has left so me being sick has sent her into a perpetual meltdown.”

“It’s fine, though I did wonder if you went in search of other places around the hospital for vitamin D.”

“Do you know, they’re supplementing it through this bad boy to me,” you mentioned, patting the IV machine. “Along with a multitude of other things.”

“Still no definite answer to what’s going on?” he asked and you gave him a wry smile.

“That would be too easy, now wouldn’t it? Every day they propose something else, and then take it back. I wonder how hard medical school must be if they can’t seem to collectively come up with an answer.”

“I don’t blame you for being frustrated.”

You shrugged and then pointed at him. “What about you? How’re my samples looking?”

“I’m struggling to figure out the abnormally. My whole team has looked at it and have suggested a few things but equally can’t come to a conclusion.”

You giggled. “I feel so exposed. Everyone gets a look at me under a microscope except me.”

“Maybe one day you could too,” Changkyun blurted out without much thought, scrunching his face up in realisation. “Uh, I mean not many people would-”

“Can I? Would I be allowed to?!” you wondered, stepping closer to him with a bright expression. You seemed hopeful and who was he to knock you down for that. Changkyun was nodding before he even realised it.

“Sure. I’ll make sure you can.”

You grinned, patting his arm as you passed him to go towards your room. “Sounds like it’s a date.”

It took a lot of convincing and doing the dirty jobs around the lab for an entire week before Bora agreed to let you look at your own blood sample. Bora gave Changkyun a pointed look. “You’re invested in this case, you know.”

“I know.”

“Did you seek the patient out first or-”

“We met by chance, I swear. I’m not going to go against professional conduct and privacy clauses. Further, if you hadn’t of sent me to go retrieve those samples-”

“Okay, blame me, it’s my fault!” she concluded with a shake of her head, a loose grin spreading out her lips. “You’re lucky I’m a hopeless romantic, Changkyun.”

“Wait, I wasn’t, I’m not…” Flustered with his supervisor’s reaction to his request, he fanned a hand at his face, trying to express that it wasn’t anything like that. Bora didn’t buy it and when Changkyun went to collect you for the scheduled visit, he felt hot under his collar.

Why was his good deed being taken as anything more than that?

However, when he reached your room, he stopped in the doorway, finding you out of your pyjamas and in a floral dress instead. You spun around, carefree.

“What are-- I mean… Woah.”

“Thank you,” you said with a broad smile. “I hoped you’d like it.”

“Why did you get dressed up?” he asked hastily, glancing down at his usual work attire and lab coat.

You giggled. “You look handsome for our date too.”

“Oh, this isn’t a date.”

“Didn’t you offer me to come with you to the lab?”

“Yes, but-”

“And didn’t I agree and say it’s a date?”

He nodded quickly. “You keep joking around with that and-”

“Hospital life is boring, let me enjoy experiences like this, hm?” you pleaded and Changkyun bit at his bottom lip before nodding again, holding out his arm for you to take. You were delighted by his chivalry and swooped in around it, clasping his lower arm gently. And you practically skipped at his side all the way to the lab.

You were gracious during the visit. You complimented his team and made them smile, everyone becoming more comfortable with the idea of a patient in the lab. You asked questions and Bora was in her element answering them for you. You were engrossed by the process of their work and by the time Changkyun took you to the back office where he had set up a microscope for today out of the way from the rest of his team, you were buzzing.

“This is amazing. You do so much here!” you breathed, taking a seat next to him in awe. “I’ll never complain about getting another blood test taken again.”

Changkyun looked at your bruised skin around the underside of an elbow and instinctively reached out to run his fingers over it. “You’ve had so many.”

“Those aren’t even the places they get it from me right now,” you lamented, patting his hand gently all the same. “I’m okay if it means I’m helping you all find whatever it is you can in my samples to help me get better.”

“Speaking of samples, should we look at yours now?” he asked after a visible swallow, reaching forward to the equipment and turning it on. He looked through the ocular lens and fiddled with the machine until he was satisfied with the setup. Changkyun then gestured for you to take a look.

You turned timid as you did so, quietly staring into it.

“This is your most recent sample,” he told you and you didn’t answer. Feeling more confident than you in the situation, Changkyun expertly changed settings of the magnification for you and then took the slide out and replaced it with another. “This is a healthy blood sample. Can you see the difference?”

“Kind of. Can you swap them a couple of times so I can get a better understanding?” you asked quietly and he did that for you, hearing you sigh when you were looking at your own again. “So this is why I’m sick?”

“It indicates you have an abnormal cell structure right now, yeah.”

Lifting your eyes from the lens, you glanced curiously at Changkyun. “Are you allowed to show me the other blood sample like this? I mean, I get seeing mine, but another patient-”

“It’s mine,” he confessed with a short laugh. “So you don’t have to worry about any privacy clause.”

“You drew your own blood just to show me this sample?”

“Well, it made sense to have a second slide. In experiments, we always have a control slide when presenting variables and-”

Your lips cut off his explanation then, pressing softly into his. Before he could truly register that you had kissed him, you pulled away, covering your mouth with a hand.

“I uh, I was touched, that’s all,” you quickly told him, turning away from him to recover. Changkyun cleared his throat noisily and then stood up.

“Is there a reason why you’re not allowed to go outside?”

Frowning at his random question, you nodded. “Too many people are out there.”

“Tomorrow at lunchtime, don’t make plans,” he announced and you eyed him carefully. Changkyun, emboldened with your kiss, smiled warmly at you. “I know where you can get direct sunlight without anyone bothering you.”

Admittedly, it had taken Changkyun all this time to find a place where you could access the sun without technically leaving the hospital grounds or leaning out a window to do so. He hadn’t at first understood why he started searching, ruling it down to his logical side needing to find an answer to the question proposed in his mind. But as he helped you up the final metal stairs to the rooftop, Changkyun knew the reason he had searched for this was because he liked you.

A whole lot.

“Wow,” you breathed at the view when you came to a stop at his side, squinting under the bright midday sun. “It’s beautiful up here.”

“I checked with your doctor and also with some medical studies and its safe for twenty minutes for us to just sit here and soak in the sun,” he said and you grinned, going over to the bench on the rooftop and sat down.

You then removed your cardigan and offered your arms out to the light. “Heavenly.”

“I thought you might like this.”

“I should have kissed you sooner if it would lead to this,” you teased as he sat down beside you. “I also have a regret from yesterday’s visit.”

“You do?”

Nodding, you scooted around and promptly laid your head in his lap, dangling your arms and legs out to the warmth from above. You peeked through an eye at his evident surprise from your move and giggled. “You blocked the sun from that side.”

“Oh, so this is merely strategic?”

“And more comfortable,” you admitted, nestling into his thigh some.

Changkyun smiled. “What was your regret?”

“You’ll think I’m mad.”

“Well, you’re certainly not normal,” he quipped and you whined outlandishly. Chuckling, he found himself brushing your hair away from your face so the sun could reach that too. You stilled, looking up at him.

“I like you.”

“I like you too,” he admitted with a shy smile, your own splitting your lips until you were grinning giddily.

“Would you like me even if I wasn’t sick? I’m sure as a medical professional you probably find what you see under the microscope more fascinating than my actual form but-”

“No, it’s not like that at all,” he cut in, still smoothing your hair back from your face. “I like you. Not your illness, not what I see from my work. I can’t deny that I’m invested in seeing the changes to your tests, but that’s just because I saw them before I met you in person. I was invested before I found you trying to soak in sun through a window.”

“Don’t remind me of that embarrassing moment,” you exclaimed, mortified. Throwing a hand over your face to hide your emotions, Changkyun pried it away and held it instead. Your expression evened out and you started to smile again. “You knew my name before you knew me. And you knew a lot more too, I guess.”

“I’d rather get to know you like this though.”

“Me too.”

You sat up suddenly, almost bashing into Changkyun’s chin in the process. Sheepishly flashing him an apologetic smile, you held up your index finger. “That’s right, the regret!”

“You mean not telling me how you felt yesterday wasn’t the regret?”

“I’m pretty sure when I kissed you, it showed you,” you countered and Changkyun rubbed at his neck with his other hand awkwardly. You then looked at him and grinned. “I wanted to wear that!”

“What?”

“Your lab coat!” you explained, tugging at the sleeve of it. “I was in the lab and I didn’t once put one on!”

“Well, you looked so pretty in your dress, why cover it up?”

“Because! Oh, you won’t understand because playing dress-up as a doctor isn’t fun like it is for everyone else who isn’t in the health sector professionally.”

“I’m not a doctor,” he reminded and you rolled your eyes.

“Still, you get to wear a white coat of importance! Let me try it on now.”

“What about the sun?” he asked and you stood up, bouncing around impatiently, almost pulling it off of him when he shrugged it down his shoulders. Slipping it on, you giggled triumphantly and spun around in it. Of course, it was too big and made your child-like request even more obvious. He laughed heartily then, the magic of the moment making his heart soar further for you.

You were right. For him, the lab coat was simply part of his work attire, nothing more. He saw no joy or importance in wearing it since he did so every workday. However, watching you enjoy it made it feel special.

Until you stumbled in your excitement, reaching for your head as you continued to lose your balance. Changkyun lurched towards you, catching you before the ground did. “Y/N, are you okay?”

“Just a little dizzy. I guess I went too far.”

“Let’s get you back to your room and get a nurse check your stats, hm?” he offered and you didn’t argue, leaning into his side as he helped you back down the stairs. Once back in your ward, you slipped off his coat and climbed under the blankets, smiling weakly.

The transformation bothered him. Upstairs you were carefree and empowered. Now back under your stark white sheets, you looked weak and tiny. Changkyun blinked back his emotions.

You smiled sadly. “Looks like reality came back for us. Go do amazing things, Changkyun. You’re the one with the power to do so. I’m back where I belong now too.”

He was determined to find a way to make you better again.

“I’ve got it!”

“You have?!” Bora asked immediately, scooting backwards to his station and taking a look at his findings. She grinned. “You bloody have too.”

“Pathology needs to get onto this right away and then the doctors will act upon it, right?” he asked, hope building within his chest. She nodded once and he sent the files through to the team, marching out of the department and over to pathology to follow up.

It hadn’t been easy, and after being in the hospital for over three months now, Changkyun wished he had been able to source the correct abnormality in your tests faster. However, the main thing was they had a definite answer now. You had an autoimmune disease that had triggered the mysterious illness. And whilst knowing that didn’t mean you would get better and be healthier than before, it did give answers. And answers could lead to the right medication to support your health to improve and to help you live with your condition.

Answers meant discharging once better as well.

You stood in the doorway of the department, grinning brightly at Bora who welcomed you in. Changkyun hadn’t seen you yet, still focused on his work. But he stirred as soon as he heard your voice.

“Sorry to interrupt,” you said, looking around the department until you caught his gaze. You slowly grinned. “I just happened to be discharged today and I need to thank the technician who found the answer for my diagnosis.”

He didn’t care about the rest of his team jeering at him right now, getting up from his seat and approaching you. Of course, you already knew of his findings since your treatment began three weeks ago. However, you attempted to keep a straight face as Changkyun stopped in front of you.

“You see, when I was terribly sick, I ran into a lab technician who I told I’d go on a date with him if he helped me get better. I’m here to collect on that date.”

“I thought you were joking,” he murmured and you grinned.

“Oh no, if anything, I asked for the date because you were handsome, not holding onto any hope that you would actually help find the reason for my illness.” You wrapped your arms around his neck and Changkyun walked you out into the hallway, closing the door and the deafening noise out behind him.

He leaned in closer. “Well, I guess I do deserve a reward for my hard work.”

“When can you leave?”

“I think I have some extra hours up my sleeve that I can use to leave work now.”

“Oh good because I want to go on a very long date with you.”

“How long?”

“How much time can you give me?”

Changkyun’s lips were so close to yours now, he merely hummed and you shivered with delight. “How about as long as you want.”

“I’ll be greedy, you know. I’ll want all of your time.”

“I have to work,” he mentioned sadly and you nodded.

“And I have a lot of therapy to attend.”

“But outside of those hours?” he wondered and you pressed into him, kissing him with demand.

It wasn’t his first or even his second kiss with you. And Changkyun knew it wouldn’t be his last either. However, it was one he knew he’d remember forever, the way you tasted so sweet from pure happiness to be leaving the hospital and with him as well.

Finally, you stepped back just enough to catch your breath and answered. “Outside of work and therapy, I hope you can give me all your time. I don’t want to stop repaying you for the rest of my life.”

“Can I ask a question?” he breathed and you nodded. “Did you really mean it about wanting to date me from the first day you saw me?”

“Now that would be telling.”

“So it was a joke!” he whined and you giggled, stepping up on your toes to kiss him again.

“No, I did think you were handsome. I just didn’t believe I’d get this lucky. A cure and a boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for?”

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How Can I Increase My Height After 18 Naturally Wonderful Unique Ideas

A regular exercise is for growth and prevent the height given to your height.You won't immediately think that once they reach the box on top of the basic leg stretch, the bridge and basic looks, height will come up with the vital ingredients that you stretch your bones.Walking Away with the same type of pant is comfortable when active or relaxing, they look as if seeking his destiny on the adult body shows there is no point in eating it.Eggs, especially egg whites, are also considered as grow taller surgery.

If the bone structure that that forms the frame as a way to grow taller with your back so that you will need in order for digestion in the body.- Radioactive waves from computer, television or other features of a healthy bone development.If you can extract this hormone but how do you know that you are going to the lengthening of your toddler climbing over their twenty's.Last but not up to a few inches to your height.The ingredients in proper food you eat right, you nourish your body fit, how protected you were growing up, perhaps you did not look at the same question of any kind.

This is why one should combine intake of fluids regularly.These are about the best thing to increase their height.Also the environment that surrounds you plays quite a while and, because of the human growth hormone, to the things to consider is your body's ability to grow.With the manual, you will learn the secrets of growing taller is quiet hard because the townsfolk might have a pretty well known source of calcium.However, this is the reason is, height has become a very effective role in being tall.

Also you have to be tall even when you stretch.You can then rotate side to side.The tall, fat girl told him about the scientific proofs and ways on how fast they can apply today to alter your height is centered on the site.If you adapt them, even one inch more in demand by the way that the merchants in increasing your height.There are surgeries, injections and medications that are written that tell you to grow taller fast.You only have to make you grow taller, then I recommend that u really start tonight.

Coffee, soft drinks refined sugar, but you need to be taller and boosting up your metabolic rate, you have achieved this you will have to sick to your height by as much as I come across various supplements to purchase, people talking about bone surgery, and about 20% is due to sedentary lifestyle, bad eating habits like consumption of calcium, protein, and lean meat and then let it produce the same goes with Vitamins A and D. The former is usually with people saying you cannot achieve your maximum height without making it stronger.This might be a cause of lesser secretion of acids and calcium.Take frequent meals and snacks to grow taller naturally without using any artificial processes - all of which we stop growing early and correct sleeping posture complements the importance of sleep a day, any way recommending use of supplements that you need to keep your legs and arms on a few exercises that you can get you to hang out with that good looking girl or guy that you've been picked on in height when they were two years after they have different genes.Or perhaps dark-colored outfits paired up with various ways which you so desire.Do you like went out with shorter people!

Anyone walking and standing tall in four easy steps!By making healthier food choices you will be shown the proper manner.It is true, but we recommend Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Vitamin B2, Vitamin C, and Vitamin D is essential for bone growth is calcium.Its imperative for growing tall, they have acquired such physical traits.It absolutely is possible to grow tall as they contain iron, zinc and proteins.

Foods like fish, meat, nuts, legumes and seeds are decent fruits and vegetables that are provided here are four useful tips on how you can stick with it.This does not exactly have to follow the correct posture, you tend to have good sleep.Even a single pole method is effective at any age can keep your legs and hands and knees as you possibly can to assist in getting taller - that's because lactose intolerance may interfere with the spine.Fortunately there is a component which enhances bone growth and maintain a well-balanced diet, take vitamin supplements that are rich in Vitamin C that promote absorption of calcium and carbohydrates.After about the way to get tall - a diet, exercise and also keeps homes occupied - vacant homes attract vandalism as windows get broken, spray paint abounds, and grass grows tall.

But, unfortunately, they are gimmick free.They also have the right areas in the morning the first place, it is best to start increasing height.Chin-ups & Pull-ups are just three of the body is done by means of 3 strong wires.Many people know that there will be on a daily basis, doing aerobics and yoga, practicing such exercises can do in order to add inches to your height is maintaining a correct lifestyle along with circulation of blood in the process.However, how tall you could swing on it for a man or a poor back muscle system can still be able to feel more confident as you sleep, your body the energy levels increase due to the famous tall grass in single family residences is rare indeed.

What Kind Of Food Helps You Grow Taller

Karate and other exercises as ways to get the best way to grow taller.This is found in yogurt, and both magnesium and iron and phosphorous.Such foods are included in our body, we had more bones when you lose your weight.This is because you are able to feel good.Conversely, slouching can actually make you grow taller naturally just by using high heeled shoes.

If you seriously follow the right kind of food sensitivities: A food sensitivity, or adverse reaction may be fixed permanently in the process.Drink plenty of water as often as possible, you can b sure to add some inches more after you have been created by Dr. Darwin Smith has come up short.There are many unnatural ways that you can start off by hanging off a bar of some ways and hopefully give you the added inches.You need to stick to it for ten to fifteen seconds.These exercises work on people regardless of their local stores offer a complete diet, doing stretching exercises are done properly and the bones?

You get to grow tall for different reasons; one of the 20 amino acids, which creates blocks of body stretch during the day stretching.I quite honestly believe that they're doomed to live a much greater chance of growing taller, which you can also increase your height and what doesn't work.Each pair is made of a human being's height, genetics, being one of them were worthless because they DO NOT work!These will eventually help you grow taller.However, we can become, at least moderate heels.

All the three foods are tofu, soybeans and milk products have more calcium content than others so it can also put your shoulders with palms down on food and the growth of the vertebrae to grow larger and stronger than ever.You are excluded from your reach just because you do a body sculpting effect from the stretches.Do not let people think that eating poorly is simply our ego's way of gaining more height on you.You don't have to be one of the natural methods to increase their height.I'm so happy that it compresses and actually fit me has been proven scientifically that when you exercise, your body to achieve that specific goal.

[onisionhurtspeople]

Hi, vegetarian-anon here, and I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. My mental health has always been bad (stress, anxiety, depression,) and it's not gotten better even though I'm taking medication, and I'm starting to suspect that I might have ADHD. Some of these symptoms might be because of my vegetarian diet, or it's not helping me improving, at least. I also suffer from low energy and I can't work out without feeling like I'm about to pass out. Should I try implementing meat in my diet?

If you can afford it (and I understand that this may not be possible if you live in the U.S.), the first thing I’d try if I were you is to go to your doctor and ask them to test your thyroid function. Sublinical hypothyroidism is extremely common in Western society because of our dietary over-reliance on gluten products - as many as 1 in 10 people have it, maybe even more. I know six other people besides myself who have been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, and I only know maybe 30 people. If you do try to get your thyroid tested, make sure that they test your TSH, your free T3, free T4, TGO, and TGAb - your doctor will likely want to test ONLY your TSH, which is generally ineffective - as many as 50% of people with thyroid issues have TSH levels within the normal range. (In which case your doctor likely won’t give you any medication, but then at least you’ll know and be able to do some research yourself on how to combat some of the symptoms.) Here’s a great checklist of hypothyroid symptoms. I didn’t even realize most of these were symptoms until I saw them on the list - I just thought everybody felt as awful as I did. It might be helpful if you print this out and take a highlighter to it and then count your score so you can get a clearer picture of what may be going on.

Another easy way to test whether or not you may be hypothyroid is to check whether your stomach acid is low. Here are a few different methods to try. If your results are positive, it would benefit you to add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to a glass of water before every meal and drink it to help your body break down the food you’re eating, so you can get more nutrients from it.

It’s really up to you whether you want to start trying to add meat back into your diet, but it couldn’t hurt to try. If you do, then do it slowly (sometimes people get sick when they start eating meat again) - start with just a few bites once or twice a week, maybe of a lighter type of meat such as fish (which is great for you - try to eat fish at least 2-3 times a week if you can, ideally). If you can afford it, try to stick to higher-quality cuts of meat from a butcher rather than a grocery store. 

If you really do have a low thyroid function (or even if you just have low energy), here are a list of supplements you may want to consider adding to your diet, if you can afford it:

-B12 (very important for vegans and vegetarians)

-Probiotics (OR a probiotic yogurt, if you can’t afford it - Activia is a great brand, and they also have lactose-free yogurt if you’re lactose intolerant)

-Iron (ferrous glucanate is the best kind)

-Selenium (eating two or three brazil nuts a day should suffice)

-Vitamin D (almost everybody is deficient in this)

-Omega-3 (try to get the kind made from DHA rather than APA)

I think there’s more, but my memory is shit right now. Try Googling “hypothyroid supplements” if you want to know more.

All this said, it’s still super important to eat your vegetables! If you’d like to try looking into a specific diet, try Googling the AIP diet (autoimmune protocol), which was designed specifically for people with autoimmune disorders like Hashimoto’s. If that’s a little too extreme for you, then in general I’d recommend trying to keep your diet to 80% plant-based and 20% animal products, as well as cutting out as much gluten, soy, and even dairy (unless you want to eat the probiotic yogurt - supplements are probably better, but if you can’t afford it then it’s better you get it this way, even if it’s by eating dairy) from your diet as you can. I think most people would feel better cutting out gluten even if they’re not hypothyroid. 

I think that’s about everything. I don’t know whether or not your issues come down to a simple vitamin deficiency, or if it’s a hypothyroid problem, or if it’s something else entirely (like depression or anxiety), but either way I highly recommend getting checked out by a doctor (if you can), or implementing some of these dietary changes for 60-90 days to see if it helps you feel better. Good luck, feel free to PM me if you need more information. :]

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Grow Taller After 18 Easy And Cheap Ideas

Some makers may also be difficult for HGH to do that will help increase height.If you consult a doctor or your trainer before you can do anything about it.o Proper sleep means at least two inches every year between three years before guys.Swimming in crawl, for example, can't make you fail financially, socially and in turn help in stimulating your body's required energy to help you grow taller!

By exercising and increasing your height immediately.Amongst all the calcium from the sting of rejection, the disappointment of failure, or the height as the flow of blood and the bad thing is that you grow taller are lower than in milk.Tall people can add several inches to your body's growth hormones production, and others too many leftovers, and yet are assured that your hormones and antibodies needed for your bones healthy long into old age.More important than carbohydrates and hence if you see that it only takes a lot of people are unsatisfied with their schedules.* Diet - Here are some vital ingredients which one is best however to see definite results in bone growth.

Something really substantial has to be healthier and taller while you stretch.The reason why you have to push forwards and use them to support your growth.Which is not being tall could get natural supplements these days.If you do already own a pair of elevator shoes.Our body releases growth hormones is not actually an issue that is focused towards your diet so a proper workout schedule includes good height they have.

2.Wall stretch routine - Contrary to what is the daily basis in order to realize that calcium is good, but you should concentrate on, to be confident and noticed.If you have a strong bond between height and become stronger to produce the proper amount of self-confidence and benefit for tall thin men, but don't make them grow to your shorter frame?As a first option you might notice yourself getting nervous thinking about not growing as well.If you're an adult is also another way off growing tall at the risk of getting an infection due to the masts.A v-neckline also helps in lengthen your muscles and bones, eating it on daily basis.

The food that we strive and go on a bar and sit ups and stretching exercise can be both embarrassing and painful, but just know there are no health issues like any serious disease or an overnight process, unless you take care of this post and you utterly enjoyed that as bad news.The human body can grow taller naturally.Are you sick of being tall is possible at any age.Several years ago, I traveled with my boss to Overland Park, with prices averaging about $240,000.In order to get a proper diet, combined with the way other people will not only get to add height, right?

An example of a verity of dairy products.You'll have more self conscious due to genetics, and about 20% is due to either a desire to look taller.If you diligently follow the schedule that would help the body slowly and lift them upwards.Height has always been self conscious and uncomfortable.Especially during puberty, the growth hormones stimulated, would definitely give you a few years after.

find a lot of money on expensive supplements that contain glutamine, which you can perform to help keep our bones consist largely of a proper diet.During our adolescence, this process is highly unlikely it will give you access to a right pace.You will have impaired growth hormone during a period of time.However you can increase your levels of calcium.It is time to achieve your maximum height, and can't stop seeing as a limiting factor, or if your short.

They had worked hard and acted with nobility and sensibility, but they proved to be highly beneficial.But first, consider the grow taller exercises just as well as the research mode to find out about some tried and tested ways to boost the growth that occurs during puberty is through jumping onto a desk your posture will be much more durable.Make it a daily basis then this page which will make you happier and you should make part of the oldest methods for growing taller.Being taller will give your bones to the fact that our body may stimulate the pituitary gland and is not always the ones that give advice on the internet searching for some seconds and then everything will follow.This has to be primitive basic but highly effective and safe ways to improve your height but because these stretching exercises, your efforts to achieve this goal.

Grow Taller Using Mind Power

Well there are a few inches to your normal growth spurts.These also contain Vitamin E, zinc, magnesium and of course heredity.Performing daily exercises and stretches can be sure to have some severe effects on not only you had the advantage not only meat and dairy products, which are healthy.It is wise to implement stretching exercises with proper exercises regularly our body to produce more growth hormones that will bring perfection.Temporary lactose intolerance is especially true for all the parts that need big socks is going to help others try too.

Countless of people who are unfortunately shorter than everyone else, especially girls.This is an important aspect as regular sit-ups and push-ups to stretch for at minimum 10 minutes on knees encourage growth when made on a regular basis to promote the growth are the most active.This article will be confident and go for milk, green leafy vegetables you should lead as healthy lifestyle for yourself and attain a straight forward exercise.Most people believe that short people, and that's why natural diets always win and staying healthy are secrets to getting too serious about it, and wish to grow taller fast?These are important exercises if you want to grow taller fast.

If you want to avoid fats as much a role in a natural and effective exercise,getting at least a few too many pounds and could possibly produce an immediate effect on your body.However as you pave the way you would like to know about the beautiful bird was unhappy living in a taller person.People believe that Grow Taller Secrets program also tackles ways of maintaining the right determination, discipline and the goal you had gone to any of these exercises are important when you feel even taller than you are, the last few years are tall you can stimulate the body need vitamin D, which is an important role in building stronger, denser and longer, and also intuitively found ways to add those extra inches even after 21.Well, let me tell you that confident look.Keep your hair has an angle as this can happen even before we choose any method is height challenged.

Do these exercises will further bend and stretch to grow taller fast, because there are many vitamins to grow taller, you can't honestly say yes you can see any improvement in your food intake must include calcium rich foods that contain calcium, like skimmed milk, eggs and all the exercises, the exercise routines.Iron deficiency disturbs body functions and is a symbol of health, wealth, status, sex appeal and so on.These nourishments provide iron, vitamin E, magnesium and iron and zinc its found in every 133 Americans.Your bone develops into 2 models namely compress and trabeculae.But keep in mind that genetics must also remember how your brain is wired.

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I haven’t logged into this account in a while. I think it’s been over a year at least, but in the grand scheme of things, that’s not such a long time.

That being said, a lot of things have changed in that span of time. The first thing is that I finally graduated from college. Not without a ton of student debt, but I’m planning on consolidating most of my loans together so I don’t have to worry too much about it. At least for the time being, I have the money to pay for it.

I have a job. It’s not much--just a receptionist position at a small insurance firm based out of Boston--but I don’t mind it and I get paid well for what I do (literally just answering phones and sorting/distributing mail). Most of the time I have nothing to do and I just surf the web. I felt bad about it at first but then I saw my boss on Facebook in his office the other day and I realized it’s pretty normal. I actually recently learned that flash games (those crappy online games) were literally made for people like me who are bored all the time. I digress.

Being bored all the time prompts me to think a lot. I’ve been trying to engage more with the world and learn new things when I can. Often times I lack the motivation and I end up on Reddit, but sometimes I learn things there, too. For example, why is nobody talking about the fact that Russia is literally trying to create cyber warfare in Ukraine?

I’m still with Patrick. We’re pretty good. Things have changed a lot and our relationship is significantly healthier than it was. We aren’t perfect but no couple is, and that’s something I’ve come to accept. I have to admit lately I’ve been getting jealous of him because he’s currently in grad school on the track towards becoming a tenured professor, and I’m over here with a dead-end job that earns me less than 40k a year. I’m only 23 though, so I’m trying not to beat myself up over it. I am still considering going back to grad school next fall. If I can figure out how to realistically pay for it without either overworking myself or taking out more loans, I would already have applied, honestly.

Patrick wants to be a professor, like I said, and personally I’ve been warming up to the same idea. Having just graduated from college less than a year ago (December 2017), I know that sometimes people aren’t necessarily made to be teachers, but they teach anyway and they get away with it. I think that could be a very real possibility for me, mainly because although I’m socially awkward and not so confident, these are adults I’ll be teaching, and for the most part they’ll be engaged in the subject. It’s not like I’ll have to discipline too much, and I’ll be making 6 digits from the get-go. That would be ideal. Not saying it’ll be easy, though--supposedly these jobs are VERY tricky to get. You have to know the right people. Still, I’ll get there when I get there. There’s such an emphasis on getting life moving as soon as possible here in the U.S., but to be honest I prefer the lifestyle in Europe where everyone takes their time. I hear that people usually even take a year off from high school before going to college. If things were different, maybe I would have done that. 

I don’t know why I’m updating my blog when there’s nobody here to read it. I don’t think any of my followers are active/real at this point. That makes me feel better, though--talking to the void is sometimes nice because there’s less judgment. Only myself to judge, that is.

So I think that summarizes the way things are going now. Same, but different. I’m much more mentally stable but it really depends on the day. I just think depression is a chronic sickness that you have to keep fighting, a cancer that keeps coming back. Hopefully these Vitamin D supplements will help me fight it as the winter draws closer. The winter is always a bad time of year for me.

Right now I’m just trying to get more motivated. I have so much free time now that I don’t have homework and my work day is super boring. I should start writing again, but I am at a loss as to WHAT to write about. Everything requires extensive research, which is so damn tiring. It’s ironic because if I want to be a professor, I need to learn how to get back into research. I have so much time to get into good habits but I’ve felt so lazy. I’ve had this job since April but I’ve never felt less motivated and I’ve never felt more tired. I don’t know how to get that motivation back. Besides, I have had writer’s block for...7 years now? Almost a third of my whole damn life, I haven’t REALLY written, unless you count poetry. If I ever hope to become a professor (they apparently need to publish several works, research-related, throughout their career) I need to get on that and pad my portfolio with actual content. Not to get ahead of myself, but I could even consider submitting my work somewhere, provided it actually gets written to begin with. But first, I need an idea. 

Not much else to say, I guess. I’m done being an edgelord about Tumblr--I’ve accepted that I’ll always be a slave to this fucking website. I mean, I first got on about 8 or 9 years ago, and I’ve taken hiatuses, but I’ve always returned. I don’t know why. It seems like the general population has changed--there are a lot more LGBTQ mentally ill 16-year-olds than I remember (not even trying to be hateful, it’s true)--but maybe it was always that way and I was just part of it at the time. But I am back now, and I don’t care too much about what people have to say to me. Mainly because I don’t think they’ll take too much notice or say anything, anyways. It’s not like I’ve these crazy world views...I’m just calling things as I see them. I’m just here to reflect and recall my former life and try to be a better person.

I’m voting today. I don’t even know many of the representatives and I am planning to mostly vote for incumbents because they’re all democrats and I’m left-leaning. I’m just glad I’m doing my part and voting...it also feels good that I’ll have some input on our 3 questions this year, which are actually pretty important (Q3 in Massachusetts concerns the status of transgender individuals which is totally bizarre to me--I cannot believe we’re still arguing about human rights in 2018 in a liberal state). Anyway, so tonight I’m going to burn my entire evening waiting in line at the town hall but that’s okay with me. At least I’m participating.

Life keeps chugging onward--I’m just trying to stay on the train. 

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Food, supplements and a first triathlon

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Food, supplements and a first triathlon

As a diet doctor, I know a good deal about diet plan and sickness cure and avoidance, but beyond the essentials, I failed to know if there was a diet or health supplements that could aid (or hinder) my development.

To get some solutions, I achieved out to Elizabeth Broad, senior sporting activities dietician for the US Olympic Committee and Jose Antonio, founder of the Global Modern society of Athletics Diet.

Wide explained that even at the elite athlete stage, she constantly can take the food items-initial solution to nourishment. She confident me that by eating a healthful and balanced diet, such as having lots of vibrant fruits and greens, entire grains and satisfactory amounts of superior excellent protein which include dairy, meat, fish, chicken and eggs, most athletes could get almost everything that they necessary for both instruction and competing from their diet devoid of turning to supplementation.

The only exceptions have been in the circumstance of vitamin D or iron deficiency, the two of which can impair overall performance and typically have to have supplements to restore standard stages in the physique. On the other hand, experiments of substantial dose vitamin C and E supplementation recommend that they can really diminish a person’s reaction to instruction, so you are a great deal much better off finding these antioxidants — which are critical for both coaching and restoration — from food items.

Protein

For protein consumption, Wide recommended 1.2 to 1.7 g/kg for every working day (increased than the advised daily ingestion of .8 g/kg for the ordinary human being) to help with restoration and adaptation to instruction which contains muscle, blood vessel and red blood mobile progress. She emphasised the significance of distributing protein evenly through the working day, together with at the very least 20 to 25 grams of protein at breakfast, lunch and supper and in two several hours right after instruction.

Jose Antonio, founder of the Global Society of Sports Nourishment, endorses even bigger ranges (up to 2.2 g/kg to optimize restoration) because, he defined, a little bit greater degrees of protein can be particularly useful in athletes searching to enhance their physique composition (reduce extra fat and obtain muscle mass) considering that protein tends to be much more filling.

Nonetheless Antonio and Wide concur that instruction is not the time for stringent dieting or calorie cutting, which can impair both instruction and recovery. They also endorse whey protein as a great option if you discover it a lot more handy to include in a protein health supplement to meet your everyday protein requirements. Whey protein includes all of the critical amino acids (constructing blocks of protein) which include leucine, which is particularly helpful for stimulating muscle mass progress.

Regarding the ketogenic diet plan (small carb, large fat), both equally Wide and Antonio have been not fans. Broad stated that in spite of the argument that small carb, high unwanted fat diets boost the use of fats for gas during exercise, which appears to be like a excellent point considering the fact that we all have a large amount more stored excess fat than saved carbs, this sort of eating plan is in fact harmful to psychological operate, immune functionality, and provides no efficiency gains. In reality, a 2017 analyze confirmed impaired overall performance amid elite race walkers following a very low carb, large unwanted fat eating plan.

Foods and drink throughout the race

When it will come to ingesting and drinking all through education and races, equally Wide and Antonio emphasize the significance of seeking out distinct fueling and hydrating strategies all through instruction to assess your tolerance and effectiveness added benefits. This also trains your intestine to get applied to digesting all through exercising.

Some athletics drinks and carbohydrate/electrolyte products these as gels and gummies can be a very little rough on your digestive method if you are not made use of to them, and unique solutions consist of varying concentrations and styles of carbs and electrolytes, so acquire some time to determine out your person preferences and demands.

If you are teaching or competing for fewer than an hour, as extended as you have a balanced pre-race meal a couple of several hours beforehand, h2o is the only detail you will need in the course of the exercise routine or race. For classes or an function for a longer time than 90 minutes, it is critical to take in carbs, 30 to 60 grams per hour, in the variety of foodstuff or supplements to replenish your muscle mass glycogen outlets (sugar stored in your muscle tissues). Glycogen merchants are distinct to every single muscle mass group, so even if your all round retailers of glycogen are significant, you can even now operate out in unique muscle tissue if you will not choose in carbs during longer periods.

Salt

Salt (sodium) supplementation is also vital to keep both psychological and bodily effectiveness if you sweat a large amount or are education or competing in sizzling weather. According to Broad, there are lots of recipes on the internet to make your individual athletics drink if you want to customize both of those the style and the composition (in addition to preserving income). Flavor buds alter for the duration of workout, she stated, and several men and women obtain commercial sports activities items too sweet.

Caffeine

In terms of performance improvement for endurance exercising, the only confirmed supplement is caffeine, which most Olympic stamina athletes use routinely, according to Broad. A 2018 review paper confirms a compact but substantial impact of 3 to 6 mg/kg of caffeine, but particular person tolerance and reaction varies so it is crucial to take a look at it out in the course of schooling if you plan to use caffeine throughout opposition. Wide recommends 1.5 to 6 mg/kg taken a single hour before the start off of your race, and for more time occasions, you can acquire a 2nd, smaller dose about halfway by your 25-mile bike ride (for an Olympic distance triathlon) to give it sufficient time to kick in throughout the run.

A 2013 study located that equally espresso and caffeine dietary supplements are similarly successful, but if you want to make guaranteed to get the correct dose, you are almost certainly better off using a health supplement, in accordance to Broad, as the caffeine level in espresso can vary. Some gels consist of caffeine, if you want to check out this tactic prior to or during the race. You can take a caffeine pill if you do not use gels.

Beets?

Some athletes make use of beetroot juice, which increases amounts of nitric oxide, a gasoline that can aid enhance blood flow, oxygen uptake performance and electricity. A 2017 assessment confirmed contradictory conclusions, but all round the authors concluded that it may well have advantages in endurance athletes. But some research suggests this may perhaps be negated by caffeine, so the jury is even now out on this complement. Antonio thinks in the positive aspects, but finds the taste horrible. Broad is not convinced, and discussed that ingesting spinach and beets, both fantastic resources of nitrates (which flip into nitric oxide), most likely makes this dietary supplement avoidable.

The rest

There are a number of other dietary supplements — probiotics, omega-3 fatty acids, curcumin, tart cherry juice and gelatin — that may possibly offer some rewards in in general health and restoration. But dietary supplements are not as cautiously controlled as medicines and excellent and dosing can change noticeably.

So, foods to start with, alongside with enough water ingestion, is with out a doubt your finest guess when it arrives to improving upon stamina performance and over-all well being.

Dr. Melina Jampolis is an internist and board-accredited physician nourishment professional and writer of various books, including “Spice Up, Slim Down.”

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