As I said before, I highly encourage everyone to look into Dr. JACK KRUSE´s work (google it). As I see it right now, he is the best doctor in the world I am aware of. He recommends many things cdnuts does, but he also goes into huge detail. I think details are very important in some cases. I have to say that I really like most of the things in the cdnuts protocol, but I have my doubts about some of them. For example, I have read information that fasting, though very useful in some cases, could be a bad idea to someone who is very sick (if you stress to much an already stressed/ sick system it could break. Some stress could be good, to much not).
Another one is SUN exposure, but there are specific ways to obtain maximum benefits and minimum drawbacks from it. You should expose the most amount of the body as possible AND do not cover your eyes with sunglasses, glasses or, especially contact lenses. You should do that especially first time in the morning and later in the evening when there is less UV content in order to allow the body to build a "sollar callus", that is, to be able to absorb the more UV content during midday. I would also expose the body during midday, but initially not much time, increasing time exposure GRADUALLY and depending upon things like skin tone and solar power of the season / location.
This may all sound weird at first, but think about it, we humans evolved during hundreds of thousands of years with certain environmental commonalities, which would make our bodies more responsive to certain conditions:
1-Diet: That is why I think a Paleo Diet is great. But there are also details here, which I won´t go to much into. I´ll just say that we evolved to eat SEASONALLY and DEPENDING UPON LOCATION. That is in low light and cold environments you are probably adapted to eat ketogenic (high quality fats) and not high carb, and the opposite would be true during strong solar cycles.
2-Light: This is the biggest healing factor IMO, for what I´ve read and experienced. It is directly tied to CIRCADIAN RYTHMS. We evolved under the Sun, not under artificial LED/ fluorescent / incandescente bulbs (even though the last ones are a bit better, with less blue content and a more balanced spectrum, more similar to the Sun). So... I´ll spend lots of time outdoors during the day and at nighttime I would use BLUEBLOCKER GLASSES (search in google, any biohacker now knows why this is important, blue light at night from artificial screens and even light bulbs stops your melatonin secretion = you don´t have restorative sleep = you don´t heal, or you do it much slower).
3- Temperature: Cold exposure is also benefitial, but especially in low light cycles... It is all tied together, like an orchestra.
Sun exposure + mindfulness meditation saved my life. It got me out of the hole of depression and emotional roller coaster.
There will be hundreds of suggestions in the internet and it is super easy to get overwhelmed, I still do sometimes. It is important to get priorities. I would prioritize: 1- Sunlight during the day and avoiding and blocking artificial light during the night (CIRCADIAN RYTHM OPTIMIZATION, google this) 2-Meditation or some sort of relaxation technique, as well as walking and spending LOTS OF TIME IN NATURE. 3- Avoiding nnEMF´s (excessive mobile phone usage, wifi, or leaving near cell phone towers or high voltage power lines... Yeah this sucks, but I also think it´s huge). 4-Eating a Paleo Diet, but also tied to circadian cycles (e.g. try to eat mostly during daytime and nothing or little during nighttime. This is also what we are designed to do. 5-Try "earthing": Google it, there are many reports and several studies about this, I realize this also seems a bit far out there but there is science behind. Did you know Lance Amstrong did this?
Could walking barefoot on grass improve your health? Some research suggests it can. - The Washington Post 6-Last but not least, be kind with your Sun and try to be empathetic and understand his situation. It is hard, very hard. But there is a lot of hope too. Life can be good again
All the best,
Pablo.
PD: Another thing that I don´t totally agree with is exercising in a gym. Yeah... I loved the gym. But lately I´ve been exercising outdoors and it feels much better. There is an explanation for this which comes back to light effects, we can discuss it in the future. Right now I´m doing calisthenics, sprints and a bit of cardio with lots of nature walking. But to someone like this young man who is quite sick I wouldn´t recommend netiher fasting nor extrenous exercises, I think it could be too much stress to the body. When he gets a bit better... maybe yes. RECONNECT WITH NATURE!!!
I say all this and I´m 90% recovered, not 100%, but in the last few months I switched a little bit the protocol to this and I´m seen good results. I hope to report in 1-2 months and say I´m 100%, I see it very plausible. We are all in this together... come on!!