I found a direct causal source for my recurring PTSD symptoms. Maybe this info will help you too.

Thats great for you OP, I don't think it will work for me.NAM in 1968, and yes, I still see the body's

One thing you should know is those thoughts of remembrance of previous events aren't coming from you.

There is a spirit based life form feeding on you, that can feed you thoughts.

Your memories are stored in the collective spirit fields of Earth, they are not stored within you. It's much more like the cloud of a smartphone, they are stored elsewhere.

The archons or spirit beings that have attached themselves to you know that they can feed you those memories to cause your bodies response system to make energetic food for them.

All you really need to master is your mind, and understanding where you thoughts come from. Over half your thoughts do not come from you, but from a spirit that is watching over you. If you learn how to tell a thought no, I'm not acknowledging the thoughts you are sending through my mind, you can learn to conquer PTSD.

It wouldn't surprise me if PTSD is actually quite a few more nuanced dynamics, currently rolled under one diagnosis umbrella. If the average man's brain isn't fully formed until about age 25, that means each person's brain is going to be at a slightly different stage of development at the time when most men are sent off to war. PTSD symptom reduction, gradual healing, or eventual cures might be closely tied to the specific formative state your brain was in when you experienced your traumas. Successful treatment techniques might end up being totally different from person to person as a result. Longer lasting or recurring traumas will likely be harder to heal as well.

There's also the dynamic where certain events in life just change you as a person permanently. If your wife cheats on you for instance, you might never be able to trust anyone deeply again no matter how hard you try or how much you want to. Some things just aren't fixable in this life. Sometimes the best you can do, is end up with the emotional equivalent of a thick physical scar. You will never have the smooth patch of emotional skin back that you used to have. The best you can now hope for is a functional result that protects you from future infection and allows you to keep slowly moving forward on the path you want to be on with your life.

I was very lucky in a way, because my major trauma was a one time event and it happened after the age of 25. As a result, my post here on GLP might not apply to many people, but hopefully the info I learned can at least help one other person out there.

I wish you the best as you continue to deal with the struggles you face from your experiences in Vietnam.

I've actually thought about the point you make quite a bit. I agree with you in many ways, but I'm not sure everything can be explained that way. One thing I have noticed throughout my life is that almost all the nightmares I have had while sleeping, occurred when I was physically sick with a virus, occurred after eating a meal that caused mild food poisoning, or when I was on some sort of man-made medication. There is definitely more going on than just the spiritual, and there is definitely more going on than just the physical. Everything seems to be tied together but there's also a balancing act going on between spiritual, physical, and each person's own sense of self. Problems with one can affect the others in pretty big ways.

There is free-will to a point, there is self-determination to a point, there is external influence acting upon you to a point, and there is spiritual influence acting over you to a point. I think that's part of what makes life so challenging but interesting at the same time. There is no end point of understanding that can be reached in this life, only deeper and deeper levels of complexity that can be better understood.

This is the kind of well-written, thoughtful, intelligent and useful post that exemplifies the spirit of this forum as it used to be. Sir, you are tops in my book. This kind of information may well save someone’s life in the future, or at the very least improve it, as you have done with yours.

There are now so many food flavors and fragrances that can be added to food under the catch-all guise of ”spices” that I do not doubt that tens of thousands of people, if not much larger numbers, may well be suffering from eating food containing these molecules that the human body is wholly unfamiliar with. Would that we had an FDA that actually protected us from such food adulteration!

Thank you for posting this, and may your days be long and blessed!

this thread is GLP gold, reminds me of the 2010 days

great work OP, it’s the little things like this that inform us about our nature

Would be interesting to run a double blind on you to confirm.

Have someone else make your meals.

Excellent points. I feel very much the same regarding the influences we all have to deal with in this life. There is not one single determining event that shapes much of what we become, but we are shaped by a multiplicity of forces acting on us, both physical, mental and spiritual, all acting synergistically to mold us into what we eventually become. While we have some degree of control over these influences, in many cases one force will predominate and lead to a person becoming unbalanced, as it were, and in need of corrective force being applied to them if positive change is desired; said force being applied either externally, internally or both.

By the way, you write very well indeed; you should consider doing so professionally, if you don’t already.

This post is first I've ever read stating food brings on PTSD. Worst nightmare was during high fever when a child. Still think about that one and it was 40 years ago. We live in a sea of hormones that act like spirits. We get more free will when understanding these. Will does nothing for a type 1 diebetic without insulin or a young person who overdosed on Tylenol and didn't know that they have few hours to treat or their dead in month.

Developed a severe dry eye. Ended up being dairy allergy but didn't' appear that way. After paying for test insurance wouldn't and stopping all dairy, eyes were fine after three days. There was a 3 day lag from either eating dairy and dry eyes or stopping dairy, cause and effect were difficult to understand.

Any other effects of red sauce? Things like blood pressure, general anxiety, etc? I looked at ingredients and nothing added thats out of order.

This post is first I've ever read stating food brings on PTSD. Worst nightmare was during high fever when a child. Still think about that one and it was 40 years ago. We live in a sea of hormones that act like spirits. We get more free will when understanding these. Will does nothing for a type 1 diebetic without insulin or a young person who overdosed on Tylenol and didn't know that they have few hours to treat or their dead in month.

Developed a severe dry eye. Ended up being dairy allergy but didn't' appear that way. After paying for test insurance wouldn't and stopping all dairy, eyes were fine after three days. There was a 3 day lag from either eating dairy and dry eyes or stopping dairy, cause and effect were difficult to understand.

Any other effects of red sauce? Things like blood pressure, general anxiety, etc? I looked at ingredients and nothing added thats out of order.
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While the problem might be as simple as pesticide residues or the use of GMO tomatoes or other ingredients, it’s likely any causative factor is within the ingredient labeled “spices”. These are often proprietary blends of various ingredients, some of it may be untested but what are termed GRAS, or “generally recognized as safe”. Food flavoring is a huge industry, and new additives are coming out all the time. It wouldn’t be surprising if a relatively small number of individuals, due to their genetic makeup, are predisposed to react to at least some of these; even testing would probably not reveal this.

While the problem might be as simple as pesticide residues or the use of GMO tomatoes or other ingredients, it’s likely any causative factor is within the ingredient labeled “spices”. These are often proprietary blends of various ingredients, some of it may be untested but what are termed GRAS, or “generally recognized as safe”. Food flavoring is a huge industry, and new additives are coming out all the time. It wouldn’t be surprising if a relatively small number of individuals, due to their genetic makeup, are predisposed to react to at least some of these; even testing would probably not reveal this.

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Foods can absolutely affect your mood.

Great info. It’s not easy to deduce what can be causing symptoms. Very interesting. First thing I think of is some sugar substitute added to those products? I have violent reaction to sucralose or the other sugar substitutes. Hits me within 8 hours. I know the symptoms immediately, and they slip that poison in everything now. Sugar lite. Sugar free. All poison.

Hope someone may benefit from this wisdom..,. Thx

That's what made the link so hard to figure out. I always assumed those foods were fine because I had been eating them for so many years and because the ingredient list is actually quite basic by modern standards. It contains common known ingredients that exist in many other foods that I have never had issues eating. Who knows, it might even be a unique weed killer or fertilizer that's sprayed on one of the ingredients in LaVictoria products before harvest, or something unique in the soil where their particular ingredients are sourced from. It might not be an obscure spice not identified on the ingredient list.

In terms of other effects, there aren't any that I can think of. In general my body falls easily into calcium deficiency. I have to make sure I get enough calcium and K2 each day for everything to keep working well. My magnesium levels seem to stay fine on their own. If I get lazy and stop taking 400-600mg of supplemental calcium and additional K2 for a couple days I will notice continual but painless micro muscle twitches starting to return in my lower legs. If I still don't take my calcium/K2, it will progress to calf and hamstring muscles that feel somewhat stiff and will cramp very easily within another day or two. I will also notice my finger joints starting to get a bit stiff feeling. A couple days back on the calcium/K2 and I am back to normal and feeling great again.

It probably doesn't relate directly to PTSD, but I thought I would mention it since nutrition is a topic of this thread. Most people don't realize that you can get vitamin D from food, it isn't just from the sun. Word games are used to make it seem like the sun is the only natural source. That's because the sun makes vitamin D3 on the surface of the skin. That D3 is then absorbed and sent to the liver and converted to calcidiol. Calcidiol is what a blood test for vitamin D level actually tests for. The kidneys then take that calcidiol and convert it to calcitriol. Calcitriol is actually the final product vitamin/hormone that does all the good work of vitamin D3. Nightshade foods like tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplant all contain calcitriol, so eating them puts calcitriol directly into your body without any processing through the liver or kidneys first. Too much calcitriol in the body is known to cause soft tissue calcification and joint calcification because the body is flooded with a hormone telling it to absorb all the calcium it can get from the food you eat but it isn't getting enough of the K2 needed to tell the body to put that calcium only into your bones. As a result, that extra calcium ends up being deposited anywhere it can find room, like your vein/artery walls, in your joints, etc. People who are very sensitive to this dynamic are considered nightshade sensitive. In reality they might just be very K2 deficient.

I think the dynamic of nightshade foods containing plenty of the active hormone that's associated with the benefits of vitamin D supplementation might also be why some people experience negative effects from taking supplemental vitamin D even if they test low in vitamin D on a blood test at the doctor. Their bodies aren't actually vitamin D deficient even if a blood test says they are, becaue that test doesn't test for the actual final product amount of calcitriol in the body which is in nightshade foods and is the hormone/vitamin that actually matters and is doing the work of "vitamin D".

Research adverse reactions to red food coloring. I have a daughter with the condition / allergy, she goes bonkers / raving mad, when she eats it and it is hidden in many foods.

Interesting you have a calcium metabolism issue, as I do. You appear to have hypocalcemia, while I have opposite. You shouldn't have to take calcium sups but appears your parathyroid hormone is low or your VDR is wonky and doesn't respond to it. I don't have deep tendon reflexes you? When parathyroid is high asthma and high blood pressure, am sensitive to MSG cause it increases inter cellular calcium. How does alcohol affect you? Its important cause it mobilizes calcium and makes havoc on vitamin D metabolites.

I get frequent full labs on calcium related stuff including ionized calcium, phosphorous, 25 hydroxy, 1,25 vitamin D and pth. One winter stopped doing tanners, and coffee. Vitamin D 25hydroxy) rised to 60 whatever units. The body also destroys vitamin D. Coffee moves calcium around body decreased vit d. Another lab after taking a small handful of 100,000 IU vit D, another handful of A, another of k2, mk4 and was 100,000.

Have you done calcium labs? BTW 3 beers at 5pm greatly affected labs 24 hours later. Calcium was lowered but calcitriol, active vit d was 3x upper limit of normal.

Red 40 makes me hot and hyper, I wonder if they added as a poster under you mentioned it.

Oral vitamin D is a poison I think, causes body to absorb too much calcium AND heavy metals, taking it with calcium is big no, unless your chemistry is needing it.

OP cannot take k2 mk7 form, causes major anxiety after few days.

I've never had any doctors test my blood mineral or vitamin levels, but hypocalcemia was what I diagnosed myself as likely having. I have been learning and fine tuning strictly by how I feel after taking individual vitamins and minerals. I started doing it that way because I seemed to always feel worse in general if I just took a one-a-day or all-in-one type vitamin, and doctors always seemed to point me in directions that never really helped, so I basically walked away from them completely.

I'm not completely sure how alcohol affects me because I almost never drink and I've never drank enough at once to even feel buzzed let alone drunk or hungover the next day. I occasionally have a beer when visiting a friend or relative just to be polite because everyone else is drinking or that's all they have available to drink. That's about the extent of my experience with alcohol. What I have noticed is that alcohol doesn't taste bad to me, but no alcoholic beverage tastes good to me either. I also have zero emotional or physical desire for alcohol. If I have one beer my hands will usually just feel a little bit clammy and I find I will get hot/sweaty more easily if I'm actively doing something at the time. That's about it.

I haven't noticed any issues with red dye 40 so far. but I'm not sure how many foods I eat have it though. I assume it's probably in lots of red colored candies (which I rarely eat) but beyond that I don't know much about it.

It's amazing how different even perfectly healthy bodies can be in terms of their reactions to food. A previous poster mentioned having a strong sensitivity to sucralose. I have no issue drinking sucralose sweetened drinks. However, anything with aspartame in it tastes a little bit chemically and chalky to my tongue. It is slightly off-putting. I also notice any time I drink a diet soda containing aspartame I find myself having a hard time quickly recalling information mentally while thinking about a detailed topic or while trying to convey a complicated nuanced point in a conversation. Within 24 hours or so I will feel back to normal, but that dynamic does make me wonder about a possible link between aspartame and dementia or alzheimers if a person consumes it on a regular basis over a long period of time.



I agree with you 100% on this. I tried supplementing mk7 first, because that was the most hyped and talked about form of K2 at the time. I experienced added anxiety from taking it so I stopped a week or two later. I also didn't notice any health benefits from taking it, but I didn't take it for very long.

I take mk4 only and my body loves it. I also feel more comfortable taking the mk4 version, because I'm more confident human bodies actually want and like that form. I read a bunch of studies about K2 several years ago and found that supplemental or natural food sourced mk4 will readily transfer from the body of a mother to her baby through her breast milk. Last I checked, mk7 has never been found in breast milk even if the mother has it in her body. That indicated to me that mk7 is likely not as useful to human health as mk4. That assumption is what my own body seems to indicate as well. I was also able to find a personal "proof of concept" for mk4's role in proper calcium metabolism. I used to always have a bit of calcium build-up along the inside of my front bottom teeth. It was that way my entire life. I could scrape off easily if I used a dental pick, but it would always come back again within a couple days. After trying mk7, nothing changed in that regard. After taking the mk4 version of K2 it all disappeared overnight all on its' own. That combined with more flexible joints sold me on mk4. I now use that dynamic as my indication for when I need to take more K2, because calcium deposits on my bottom teeth indicate to me that calcium is being deposited where it shouldn't be so that means I need more K2 to make sure it goes into my bones where it belongs. As one would expect, the more calcium I eat in a week the more mk4 my body wants to prevent calcium build-up on the inside of my lower teeth.

Like with many things, there is a lot more too it than just taking RDA dosage levels of vitamins and minerals when trying to achieve health. Even vitamin C needs vary widely with me. The human body can only absorb about 250mg of vitamin C at one time. A higher dosage than that mostly ends up in your urine. 250mg is what I take each day for general health. If I try to take 250mg at 4 different times in one day for a total of 1,000mg of vitamin C I will end up with loose bowel movements, which is a known indication you are taking too much. However, if I am feeling a little bit of nasal congestion coming on, if I feel a little sick, or if I get a bit of a coarse feeling throat I can often take 250mg tablets 10-20 times in one day (a 2,500-5,000mg total daily dose) and it will only feel like it's helping and I will feel back to normal within 24 hours or less. After I am feeling well again my body goes back to preferring only 250mg per day.

Its the modified food starch which is msg.

vitamin D is a hormone and its Vitamin K that's the danger with calcium it can cause blood clots.

What I've read about vitamin K2 is that it isn't the danger many imply, but there are caveats. From what I understand, K2 works to normalize clotting. If your blood clots too quickly it works to make it clot more normally, and if your blood clots too slowly it also works to help it clot more normally. As a result you really only have to be careful taking K2 if you are on something like a prescription blood thinner. Blood thinners are often taken as an attempt at altering the body in a way that helps mitigate the effects of another imbalance or disease effect somewhere else in the body. In a sense you are trying to purposefully hold the body in a non-normal state in order to help a person live longer or put off the consequences that result from a different (and usually unfixable) problem in the body. Maybe having purposefully thinned blood is helping to prevent a future stroke for instance. Supplementing K2 and having it work to normalize blood clotting will work against the stroke prevention effect the blood thinner is trying to achieve. As a result K2 supplementation for that person would need to be carefully monitored or avoided.

If you are healthy and not on other medications to artificially alter your body chemistry, K2 only works to help maintain proper blood clotting in the body, so the danger of supplementation or oversupplementation for most people is almost zero.

Thank you op ...excellent thread

If any of you could contribute any healing advice for spleen injury on this other thread it would be much appreciated. Thread: How do you heal the spleen and what does it really even do

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