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This is written from the perspective of having experienced life long B12 deficiency and injecting 5+- times a day consistently for the last 5 weeks. 1 mg methylcobalamin and .25 mg hydroxocobalamin with 6 mg adenosylcobalamin SL. Which led to consistent improvement weekly.

Evaluating the effects of what supplements I try has always been difficult for me. For the first 2 years I used pain from peripheral nephropathy as my main evaluation tool. I was following EOD methodology which in hindsight is not applicable to life long B12 deficiency.

I was working on a system to evaluate and then I started my current protocol.

It seems the two "keys" are sleep and hunger.

Sleep-I have learned to know when I have had a "good" sleep and even when I have a most wonderful sleep which is rare. I now understand what I was attempting to do is manipulate the results of being B12 deficient without knowing the cause. I did very well at that until the B12 deficiency got so severe it was not possible three years ago. Good news is that manipulation understanding is applicable to healing now I have an effective treatment.

Using sleep as an evaluation is complicated it is not applicable to use amount of sleep as a tool because as I exercise my neurological system I need more sleep to heal. I may be incorrect but I think exercising my neurological system is important. It is all trial and error to try and figure out how robustly to exercise my neurological system. The amount I can exercise my neurological system is changing/improving so it is a moving target.

I use hunger as an evaluation to stay away from "healthy eating" as a solution. When I am doing better I am hungry and when I am pushing to hard or changing my regiment than I am not hungry. Called lack of appetite by those that observe. I go through times when I cannot eat due to B12 deficiency. It is nothing new to me and only recently accepted it as a fact sometimes I cannot eat. Before I did not accept this and simply said "Eating is not happening." No one could hear I could not eat and I could not listen to myself.

I personally am not about not living as much of life as I am able. I will know when I can no longer improve my B12 deficiency. Based on my experience of a life time of B12 and what is scientifically assumed to be true for me I expect that at sometime I will again be able to create art. This work is taxing my creative energy but not as much as it was 5 weeks ago.

I am well aware I may be a mad man and will crash in the future. I will write that what happened. I for some reason seem to have a high degree of integrity including intellectual integrity which requires I live with I understand I may be wrong.

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Hi Wiz

I think appetite is a key performance indicator for me too. I am fortunate in that I have never been over weight and never had to diet to maintain my weight. I was deemed lucky by colleagues and friends who battled to maintain a desired weight.

Reflecting on your post I wonder if my activity around Christmas times was such that my appetite always waned possibly as a result of needing to rest after the flurry of preparation. I never over ate and never needed New Year resolutions to modify my weight.

Similarly, I could never eat when not hungry, I still can’t. It does not matter what is on offer, my favourite food or favourite pudding, if I am not hungry it’s a “no thank you”.

I think our gut is the real driver of our mood, actions and health. I don’t think you are mad and I don’t think you will crash. I think you are raising the bar of understanding, self-analysis and self treatment. No path of discovery and pioneering can ever be linear, breaking new ground is hard. It is far easier for those of us who benefit from your openness and candour.

Thank you.

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Sadly I have never experienced not wanting to eat. It seems that everyone's symptoms of B12 are slightly different.

Looking back I think I have always had a mild deficiency. My body has always seemed off kilter. Dizzy spells and really clumsy. And always tired. So much so that I had long periods of taking speed just to make me able to function normally ( I ran my own catering company). I knew something was wrong because I could still fall asleep.

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