I have been a low-energy guy as long as I can remember , I am always tired ,fatigue compare to others. This article is a glimpse of my life , my struggle as a person to individualize mentally , as a patient fighting this underly aliments that lurking around us without our notice.
You might have the same thing as I do , just not severe enough, however the name is the same——Dysbiosis
I want you to know every words I say is coming from the bottom of my soul , I am currently typing the sentences carry with severe brain fog ,fatigue and pain in the gut.
With desperate mood , I wrote all these for the hope to either be successful at this funding or to leave my treatment plan as a gift in this long article. So there will be one person to pass on the will and influence other.
I don’t dare to give my hope up ,but I wish in the future I can still be able to turn this tragedy around , make it into a success story so people can see that there’s still hope.
In the first part of the article I am going to spend sometime sharing knowledge of gut health so you can understand fully of the importance of gut biome.
On the second part : How many symptoms one might suffer from one dysfunction of gut biome. I am going to share my own experience suffering from dysbiosis .
On the third part: How you can treat it and finally my whole financial plan of how I am going to spend the donation in detail for my entire treatment .
Hope you can find something you can relate to in the article or feel what I feel , how desperate and serious I am. Funding is the last way to solve all these mess.
Struggle through pain in search of my salvation which become my own purpose in life.
It takes me five years to find the solid solution , despite having extreme level of fatigue, brain fog ,depression, compromised digestive function.
We all bear our own unique suffering, I believe it is until we experience the most extreme incident in life can we see the true nature of a person.
As what Nietzsche said “what does not kill me makes me stronger.”
I really want my suffering to be meaningful which can be a force to change others life not end up committing suicide, that’s the reason why I started this funding in the first place.
I am a 27 years old male without the ability to function normally physically ,the chronic fatigue is so severe that I sometimes lay on my bed for 23 hours in the bed, 1 hour for eating throughout a day.
I can only eat meat currently because of compromised gut biome.
I got no more ways to support myself financially, my family isn’t rich enough to support my plan for the entire treatment plan which I am in a state of I can’t do anything to make the situation better.
Because of it , I came up with the idea to kill myself to get compensation from my life insurance, which I check the insurance law at Taiwan that after two years of purchasing life insurance they would compensate no matter how you decease.
Which happens to be the same amount of money that I borrowed from my father.
Severe dysbiosis lead me to extreme level of depressed feeling , unmotivated , compromised brain function to process anything on my mind and countless digestive issues . I feel extremely depressed , but I know it’s caused by dysbiosis.
Dysbiosis can make you mentally sick with depression and anxiety .
It’s not the only cause ,but it’s really hard to get the information.
My best friend who’s willing to work his ass off literally for 16~18 hours a day ,talk me out of suicide , asking me to wait for him to save up for my treatment ,despite he has his own financial difficulties in his own family as well.
My symptoms worsen as years go on , however I am just unwilling to die without a fight. I’ve been fighting for five years ever since I finally noticed something wrong with my health instead of my mental , in reality I suffer from it ever since I was born.
Honestly , despite the support of my friend mentally , I still need to experience the pain from my mind and body all the time.
About a month ago , when I share my symptoms to my conventional doctor of FMT(Faecal microbiota transplant) , I got laughed off. Who still believed that IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome ) can’t be cured entirely. Truth is my aliment is not well-recognized in Taiwan, it made me feel that why do I have to fight so hard to prove the existence of my aliments to a doctor who lacks of the understanding of microbiome in a full picture ?
It fuels a fire in me to prove him wrong. That doctor just say it causally, told me I should go abroad for treatment despite the fact that he’s the one who mocked at the idea of it without listening my symptoms.
Worst part is that despite the countless symptoms which I written below , the only thing he can recognized clinically is IBS. I can never forget that. I hope one day I can punch him in the face metaphorically , tell him it’s wrong to treat patient in his way. To change the way of how conventional medicine treating patients.
The second thing drives me to live is that I still have promise I made with my best friend yet to fulfill. To make movies and change the whole health perspective in Taiwan through education and solid steps. We discussed many things of how our dream can be realized.
However, I don’t know how many years I have to wait to have the money to cure myself , and my family just assume my symptoms are “tolerable” so they are not that supportive.
My friend is a talented individual , I believe he can be successful in the future for whatever he sets his mind to , I hate the fact that I seem to drag him down and I am powerless to do anything at all.
So here is the only thing I can offer to those who choose to believe in me: My Life .
If this fundraising campaign is successful , I promise that every donation you make will be the symbol of my responsibility to fulfill my potential.
And to do whatever it takes to change life for Taiwanese or people around me.
I will spend the rest of my life working to fulfillment of my dream ,to create solid solution for everyone , so no one has to suffer so much like me because there’s no one around who have the relation between gut biome and overall health .
To spread the information, making everything related to health be accessible to everyone.
If one person’s life is changing because of the knowledge and the story I am about to share. My effort would be worthwhile.
I’d be grateful to anyone who finish reading this long article.
Please share the post to those who are in the most need from dealing any symptoms relate to gut, digestive issues or depression.
So , they would know there’s another way, knowing that you’re not alone that there’s still hope.
Support me so once I cure myself I can help others. To fight off dsybiosis and depression . To show others with the same struggle or general public the right path to a healthy life. In order to do that I have to raise funds enough to support me for treatment for at least one year.The worst case as mention in the book is two years. My estimation is based on the assumption that I would heal in a year with maximum effort of fixing your gut.
Which is 11,063 USD (337,001 TWD) a year.
I’ve posted every detailed about gut health and financial plan below.
Outline
- Part I.Gut Health is everything to our well-being:The mechanism
- PartII.The evolving symptoms and things I been through.
- Part III. The treatment plan in detailed ,Introduction of <Healthy Gut, Healthy You by Dr. Michael Ruscio> The Great-In-8 protocol : Everything you need to know of how to fix your gut base on my own experience.
- Part IV. My Dysbiosis treatment expense spreadsheet
- Part V. The unfulfilled promises
- Bring the right product with reasonable price to Taiwan
- Bring knowledge of gut biome ,diet , functional medicine to Taiwan.
- Help my friend go to UFC, without slowing him down
- Make movies
- My overall financial plan
- Part VII. The future updates.
- Part VIII.How to contact me and leave questions you might have.
- Part IX Support health data for the health information I share in the article.
Part I.
Gut Health is everything to our well-being
Gut biome is in charge of everything of our life :
- Brain function
- Bone Health
- Heart Health
- Lungs Health
- Eye Health
- Kidney Health
- Liver Health
- Skin Health/Quality of hair
- Cardiovascular Health
- Muscle
- Integrity of Gi track (prevention for leaky gut)
- Hormones balace: Thyroid ,Ovary ,Adrenal Gland (HPA Axis in general)
- Maintain normal digestive function
If you lost a liver or kidney , you’d feel scared. Those who suffer from severe dysbiosis “lost an organ” as well.
Regardless of life span ,skin health , immunity ,hormones , even personality can be affected by guts. More and more research show that almost every aliment is related to gut.
How the Gut Microbiome affects the Brain and Mind (video link)
How the Gut Microbiome Influences Everything about Your Health (article)
Lots of hormone is produced in gut which is vital for normal brain and physical function. 90% of the serotonin ,50% of dopamine is produced by gut biome. So as the hormones that help us improve the sleeping quality like melatonin and GABA.
Gut biome also help to digest food, also play a big role in immunity. Hormones and absorption of nutrient, vitamins in foods are sent via gut-brain axis. That’s the reason why if we eat junk food will cause inflammation in our entire body and brain which makes diet important.
Eating something bad , making you diarrhea for a week. That’s a minor case of dysbiosis. It would get back to normal in no time.
However , if you have severe dysbiosis, which means you have an extreme compromised function of digesting food ,making hormone. It would be rare to heal by itself. Without the understanding of the mechanism of gut ,let alone fix it , Suffer would continues for years, worsen as years go on.
What is dysbiosis exactly ? subclinical
Now you know gut biome is in charged for so many things.People might overlook the influence on hormone. Without balanced hormones you might feel uneasy anxious all the time or too depressed to move. That’s a common indication of imbalanced hormones. The main underlying reason for hormonal aliment would be in the gut most of the time . That’s why a well-experienced functional medicine doctor would always fix your gut first instead of treating symptoms itself.
One might suffer from depression(symptom) causing by dysbiosis.
Small intestine bacteria overgrowth , parasite , fungal, Candida, C. difficile infection etc, would cause dysbiosis or people like me who have no infection ,but suffer from imbalance between good and bad gut biome unable to recover by itself.
So in short if you have dysbiosis you would suffer from every symptoms related to hormones, digestion , brain functioning, mental illness as such.
Aliments related to dysbiosis
Dysbiosis is a term used to describe an imbalance between good gut bacteria and bad gut bacteria,a . Dysbiosis can occur due to a variety of factors, including changes in diet, antibiotic use, stress, and infections.
Gut inflammatory diseases : irritable bowl syndrome (IBS) ,inflammatory bowel disease (IBD),Parasite infection, small intestine bacteria overgrowth(SIBO) etc. All the gut inflammatory diseases referred to as dysbiosis in general.
Immune system disorders: allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis.
Mental health disorders: depression , anxiety , autism.
Metabolic disorders: obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes.
Skin conditions: acne, eczema, and psoriasis.
Major Symptoms of Dysbiosis
While many of the major symptoms of gut dysbiosis are gut or digestive issues, you may be surprised to learn that many symptoms are not digestive problems. Here are the major symptoms of gut dysbiosis:
- Leaky Gut (Video by Dr.berg translated by me please share and subscribe)
- Acid reflex (Video by Dr.berg translated by me please share and subscribe)
- Low stomach Acid (An important indication for overall health)
- Depression (article link)
- Bloating (article link)
- Inflammation throughout body in general
- Upset stomach
- Nausea
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Gas
- Bad breath
- Vaginal or rectal itching
- Difficulty urinating
- Fatigue
- Trouble sleeping or insomnia
- Difficulties thinking or concentrating
- Brain fog
- Poor memory
- Anxiety
- Skin rashes or redness
- Chest pain
- Weight gain
- Changes in appetite
- Insulin resistance
- Headaches and migraines
- Muscle and joint pain
- Chronic pain
- Poor immune system
- Painful joints
- Allergies
- Redness or pain in the eyes
- Mental health issues
- Night sweats
- Menstrual changes
- Kidney stones
PartII.
Evolving symptoms and things I been through.
The condition behind my birth
- Our microbiota is inherited largely from our moms.
- My mom had irritable bowl syndrome (IBS) since she was young.
- My mom had a miscarriage 6 months prior to having me.
- At the last 49 days to my birth , my mom had to inject lots of drugs preventing her from miscarriage again she was instructed by doctor to stay on the bed as much as possible.
- I was born prematurely within 8 months with cleft mouth.
There are cases like the boxing champion Tyson Furry was born prematurely. So we can’t say for sure , who have dysbiosis.
A lot of cases that they might be a weak child in the beginning , grow to be stronger as they turn into adulthood. So in the case of gut microbiome, it’s all random. We have to view each case individually.
The story has nothing to do with my facial disadvantage , but above condition certainly provide a perfect environment for cultivating my dysbiosis.
My experience and s ymptoms which I had since I was a kid (age 0~14)
- Tinnitus : A high-pitched voice in my ears that would worsen at night or when I felt dizzy.
- Acid reflex : Some bitter liquid would came out from my stomach to my mouth after I consume soup, candies , milk etc. Acid reflex is caused by low stomach acid and intolerance to food.
- Easier fatigue/unmotivated
- Anxiety most of the time
- Anxious at night ,trouble sleeping from time to time
- Sense of withdraw / brain fog: It happens out of blue all the time , it feels like dreaming. Especially if there’s a strong artificial light to my eyes.
- Sudden blurring while reading/hard to focus
- Tickling sensation on the feet whenever I had a bowel movement
- Experience pain in the gut when bowel movement occur sometimes
- Irritable bowel syndrome from time to time
- Suicidal thoughts or thoughts about life and dead at the age of 8 :
My inference for it is that 90% of the serotonin ,50% of dopamine is produced by gut biome. Without the happy hormones , I constantly experience anxious feeling all the time.
A normal kid should feel happy most of the time running around playing instead of thinking about life and death.
I got bullied when I was 12 : It made me become a more sensitive person that understand people better in a sense of what motivates and what made a person the way they are in general. With my anxiety , the insecurity of being bullied, it shapes my interpretation to the world.
In order to feel secure , I have to understand all of it .
And my inclination of it shows clearly when you read the article.
Every symptoms I mentioned above either it would worsen or still exist as I grow up.
My level of well-being and health start to deteriorate slowly, high school year (age 15~18)
- Reaction time and focus drop: I experienced a huge drop of my focus and reaction when I do my best playing couter-strike , no matter how hard I tried , my reaction never went back how it used to be.
- IBS diarrhea more frequently
- Personality changes :Until my second years of high school (16) , I used to be a humorous person to make my classmate laugh.I didn’t do it to pretend I was happy. I enjoy making jokes , one day my mood dropped to sadness or depressed all the time. At that time , I read a lot of self-help books and positive psychology to encourage myself or force myself to be energetic to maintain my social life.
I used to love rock and rap music that my taste slowly change to classical music , I became very sentimental from time to time.
Chronic Fatigue starts to show , until I become a dropout with clinically diagnosed Major depression(age 18~21)
-Chronic Fatigue/hard to get up in the morning
-Feel tired and wire
-Focus level drop I have to sleep for 10 mins for a 15 mins of read.
-Increased level of anxiety and brain fog
-Sudden wake at night because of unknown reason of cramping gut with pain.
-Clinically diagnosed with Major depression : I tried anti-depressant and work with clinical psychologist without any improvement.
What I want to point out is that , I am extremely bad at feeling my own symptoms or to describe how I feel in general physically or mentally.
I felt like I was a 6 years old at that time in terms of the level of describing how I feel. My parents did not teach me how to deal problems in life and they didn’t spend time educating lessons of life outside academical norm.
So even when I was little with all these symptoms. My mom would assume me as a normal kid as she has IBS and tinnitus as well. So she didn’t take it seriously, so as myself as I believed whatever my mom said would be right as a kid .
I end up assuming everyone is just like me , if I work hard enough ,exercise enough I will be better.
It was because of my dysbiosis and trip to Australia , with a lot of things I’ve been through I finally shape my own personality , so as be better at articulating with brain fog . I really give it all to train my speech and how to feel .
Because of it , I finally realize all these symptoms are not normal and not everyone would experience it.
Traditional Asia education and my low self-esteem contribute a lot to my incompetence to feel and describe. It took me years with lots of pain to be able to say what I want and how I feel.
Down to the rabbit hole of solving my aliments , mistakes and suffering (22~25 years old)
Biohacking is using science, technology, and self-experimentation to maximize health and quality of life. It involves activities like nutrition, supplementation ,exercise, and tracking health metrics.
My best friend introduced me the concept of biohacking and bulletproof diet at the very begging at that time.
Upon finishing reading <Bulletproof Diet> by Dave Asprey ,I tried it directly without knowing how little I know. I made a lot of foolish mistakes, which mentioned in the book, worsening my condition.
It’s recommend to take 6~15 grams of salt depends on how you feel, I ended up eating 2 grams a day. Exercising everyday ,without re-feeding carbohydrate with lots of calories coming from fat, I ended up doing ketogenic diet .
The two main mistakes I made above put huge stress to my gut biome.
<Bulletproof Diet> is paleo diet(not ketogenic diet)+bulletproof coffee+fasting+supplementation+ideas of biohacking to optimize your health. That for general people it’s a good guide book for an overall understanding of everything you need to know about health.
After that my fatigue level , depress feeling , brain fog increased drastically , I would have IBS-diarrhea upon finishing meal.
My memory can only lasted for three seconds because I can’t recall google maps I viewed three seconds ago.
Had I not made the mistakes above would I free from suffering now?
The answer is no , despite it might accelerate the development of dysbiosis , but with all these symptoms I mentioned above in childhood , it’s clear that I would have suffered the same result around 30 to 35 as well ,in which it would become harder to heal as I age.
I have no way to escape my fate to suffer .
As you know now that dysbiosis is a very complex aliments to figure out let alone how to actually cure it . So my friend suggested me at that time to go on a working holiday Visa with him to Australia. One of our main goals is to treat my dysbiosis.
The idea of making movies and introduce health knowledge to Taiwan were formed gradually at the time.
As we were not rich , we worked at farms ,doing Uber to support our research fund and travel fund , we discuss it everyday . Because of my compromised brain function I learn pretty slowly. So he would be the one who is looking into detailed to explain every mechanism and how to treat it most of the time.
There was a time I read the article written by functional medicine doctors, listening to podcasts doing my best to figure it out each day while working at the same time.
I couldn’t exactly share how severe my brain fog is to you with words ,but the foggy feelings and sense of withdrawal that really made me feel I wasn’t present at that moment most of the time.
The extreme Anxious feeling made me hard to feel what’s in front of me mentally and physically.
I happen to be the guy lack of ability to describe how I feel as I mentioned earlier . It was until a year ago until we found out that I am the most extreme case of dysbiosis so I have to treat it with most complete way.
Normal people even with chronic fatigue might heal directly from probiotic and prebiotic ,but I can’t. I have to take the most careful steps toward healing my gut.
It is this lack of understanding , we wasted a lot of time and money to treat myself , I even borrowed $400000 TWD($ 13,117 USD) from my father to support my live and for supplementation for my entire trip .
The money my father lent me was loan from the bank which I learned it recently.
Present
We went to Australia 3 years ago , about a year ago I tried , <Healthy Gut, Healthy You by Dr. Michael Ruscio> The Great-In-8 protocol . But we were running out of fund , so I only feel better for some times. As herbal antibiotics are needed throughout the whole process. And it caused quite a lot of money.
It would be absurd a mount of money to go to U.S to be treated directly .
So my friend is currently working at 7-11 night shift doing food delivery in the morning to support his family needs as well as save up for me at the same time . Meanwhile with years of development of dysbiosis , my symptoms worsen for sure .
Right now as I speak for example , I actually feeling cramping, bloated pain sensation in the gut , with my anxiety level being high all the time. It’s really easy to lose the sense to live in all the thing I suffer. Because it feels so surreal that I don’t exist , feeling like half asleep and awake at the same time.
I can only eat meat as a meal once a meal a day, other food would cause huge stress for my gut. If I eat any types of vegetables now I would feel severely bloated with anxiety level off the roof.
With extreme low-level of stomach acid causing indigestion , bloating all the time. It’s frequent to have diarrhea from low stomach acid and pain in the gut.
Losing the ability to sleep at normal time with 4 hours of sleep each days for two years .
Depression, sentiment : crying for no reason , afraid of loud noises.
Extreme fatigue : lying on the bed for 23 hours a day with a hour eating food at the worst day .
The reason why I can write all these down was with the mind of this is the last chance solve my financial issue with my minimum supplementation to have basic nutrition and many essential vitamins given the fact that I only eat meat.
Because I’ve already lost the ability to work , I finally be able to ask my mom for buying supplementation for support my very basic function for life.
My mom finally agree to let me buy it because I agreed to go to hospital to do an overall examination by doctors which takes months until they have no clue of what exactly happen to me .
The doctor teased the idea of using herbal antibiotic to kill off pathogen or bad gut biome without the side effect of antibiotic which kill all biome regardless good or bad. Saying is useless.
He didn’t even let me finish sharing my symptoms I had now that he cut in my conversation every mins as I tried to speak during that time. Worst is for conventional medicine doctor clinically speaking I am only diagnose with IBS. In the podcasts or article of many well-known functional medicine doctors. It is common that my aliment is subclinical for conventional medicine, which means unrecognized.
Not only didn’t he care to listen ,but also ask me to go back sharing the experience if I were cured. He didn’t provide any help at all after examining colonoscopy and tests about faeces . Which The entire reason me seeing doctor in Taiwan was to persuade my mom about my dysbiosis is like a terminally ill in Taiwan , as IBS is not even curable.
Part III.
Great-In-8 protocol from.<Healthy Gut, Healthy You> by Dr. Michael Ruscio
Basically there are two types of plan if you are the one who isn’t that severe you might recover by simply Paleo diet+Probiotic+Reintroduced sometimes feeding prebiotic is not necessary for this case. Probiotic alone would be a huge boosts for you in which you can tolerate high FODMAP food Which means by doing Step 1+2 for a while , have no problem tolerate High-FODMAP food on step 5 you can get back to normal health.
The second type of recovery plan is for people like me who can’t skip any steps , needs to be cautious on each step.
All the brands and products which is well-tolerate probiotic for extreme case of dysbiosis I would share it on my financial plan below.
All the steps should be determined individually.
Step 1 Reset
This Step is for you to learn how to do Paleo+Low FODMAP diet and preparation phase for the coming steps . There is Elemental diet design for people who can’t tolerate solid food. People have ulcers in stomach or esophagus , normally developed in those who took years of antiacid drugs for many years.
Step 2 Support
Many brand of probiotics are design for general public , not dysbiosis-friendly , if you ever experienced bad reaction on taking probiotic , chances are that you have dysbiosis and can’t take the prebiotic inside.
That’s the main reason why a lot of people trying to get better from their digestive or gut-related symptoms end up making worst.
Keep in mind that if you are as severe as me , only Saccharomyces Boulardii Probiotic from Dr,Ruscio and Bulletproof EXPRESS 3-IN-1 PROBIOTIC is ok to use at the beginning for the people like me . Because there is inulin in other probiotic of Dr.Ruscio.
The underlying reason for your dysbiosis,IBD,Crohn’s disease might be SIBO , Parasite , Fungal, Candida, C. difficile infection , etc.
You don’t have to know exactly what’s the cause of your dysbiosis just make sure you don’t have cancer or any acute illness that need to be addressed immediately , always consult your local medical professionals.
Anti Biota-Clear is the plan to kill off all kinds of pathogen in your gut. Since it’s not as strong as description antibiotic so it keep the good biome in check without killing everything. Anti Biota-Clear 1a+1b>2a+2b>1a+2a rotate each three months.Take it 30~90 mins before meal and follow the Suggested Use on the website.
The level of use for Anti Biota-Clear is determined individually if you are not certain just use until step 6 prebiotic.
Without using Anti Biota-Clear , you might face increased level of bloated ,anxiety, pain in the gut as days go on. That’s the experience I had.
It’s common to have low stomach acid and digestive enzyme . It’s very crucial to supplement HCL daily to get your stomach acid back to normal.Take it before meal , 2 caps a day. There are so doctors might suggest slowly build up the amount until you feel warm sensation in your stomach then slowly drop to 1 cap each day.
It’s important to note that for people who have ulcer in the stomach should not take HCL , you should heal your ulcer completely beforehand. People who have ulcer in your stomach would feel pain in stomach after taking HCL.
Supplement digestive enzyme if you feel indigestion ,especially incapable of digesting fats , take it before meal it’s a helpful tool for digestion.
Step 4 Rebalance
Motility support (products of Dr.Ruscio)
for some is needed before step 5.
Step 5 Reintroduce
Reintroduce high-fodmap to your diet slowly , at start try a little of it. For example you can try onion for three days , to make sure no fall back and add another high fodmap with onion . You shouldn’t be so restrict on the food , you can eat some variety at once to see how you feel. Don’t freak out if you eat too much , as long you have Anti Biota-Clear on hand you sound’t be so worried about it.
Step 6 Feed
Prebiotic is the food for gut biome , sometimes it’s more important to take prebiotic to maintain gut health. People who have dysbiosis might not be well-tolerate to prebiotic given that there isn’t enough healthy gut biome in the gut to digest prebiotic as well as Xylitol xylitol erythritol stevia let alone normal refined sugar, end up feeding bad gut biome . So this step should be the hardest. You have to build up slowly in right order of prebiotic.
Acacia=inulin=Beta-glucan=Guar gum>Arabino=Potatoes Starch
Prebiotic in right order:
Take it slowly with cautions, prepare Anti Biota-Clear on hand.
1.Biota-Fiber
2.Biota-Boost
3.Inner Fuel Prebiotic
Step 7 Take away everything slowly
If you have no fall back and issues , successfully completing prebiotic run then you have already healed . Just to eat variety of food , fermented food especially to maintain gut health.
Step 8 Fully Heal
Keep in mind that it takes a lot of trial and error to identified what’s best for you .Are you having a big fall back needs to stop or are you having a good fall back (just a little bolted after meal ), which would be improving after days. So it’s really important to keep Biota-Clear on hand just in case.
I would really recommend people who wants to treat it just go to Dr.Ruscio clinic directly, or any functional medicine doctor who’s competent enough to know everything about gut biome .Too many details can’t cover in the articles. As long as you are not me who has no other way ,but to know everything by yourself because it’s way too expensive to work with functional medicine doctors abroad. It’s extremely hard to solve the problems without guidance.
Part IV.
My Dysbiosis treatment expense spreadsheet
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11,063 USD
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Please, keep in mind that these are only estimated amount. Could be either more or less , however, there will be chances that I can either work in the middle of treatment process or I can be the one who’s mentioning in books , needed to do this for two years to heal. So I really don’t know how it would end , plus I might be lessening or adding the brand of the probiotic & prebiotic depends on my personal needs. I would keep you updated of the list as well as the actual cost.
If I can get back in heal in a year ,I would definitely go to work , keep pursuing my dreams.
Part V.
The unfulfilled promises
What I want to tell people about in this paragraph is that no matter how much fund I raised in the end . These are the things I would keep doing until the day I die. For me that find things worth dying for is the same as living for. That’s what really pain me is with the powerless and the limitation from my aliment , I wasn’t a free mind to do whatever I want to do. Worst, I might even make our whole plan compromised that’s what pain me the most.
Issues at Taiwan
Taiwan’s policy is protective toward local business , not so open to foreign corporation. Things like Uber Taxi, Iherb, foreign goods are not welcome. Every import goods , you have to pay 35% custom duty tax .
There are few choices of our supplement and organic products despite using low-quality industrial additives. Low amount of vitamins and nutrient with high price is pretty common. Sugar and industrial additives would cause inflammation harm our body . Every food company doing their best to lower the cost to bring maximum profit , sacrificing health of general public.
Iherb is limited to 65.6 USD per order with 35% custom duty tax if exceed. Some higher-end supplement exceed with only one bottle of purchased.
There was a big corporation selling highly-refined vegetable oil selling many years, being exposed by media that was adding carcinogenic chemical in it . At first people were rage toward the company , aiming to shut it down by not purchasing the product and related products.
After a month they had a huge discount of the products and people forgetting it.
What we see is people are lacking community mind-set. However, people are not stupid , to really change things we have to use another way.
What general public know about health in Taiwan
Gut biome , diet , supplements , biohack ,these are the thing what’s lacking in the medical field . Most of the dietitian, trainers ,body-builder , athletes, still believe in the concept of “Calories in and Calories out “ which is not true at all.
Even if people who noticed , changing diet that they just go for ketogenic diet which eating high fat (80%) for a long period of time without carb-refeeding would lead to hormonal imbalance causing by increasing level of cortisol ,thus end up having dysbiosis.
It’s a common mistakes for people who do ketogenic diet, which I made the same mistakes before as I mention.
Worst part is the reason why those keto-influencer in Taiwan not having the issue is that they actually eat a lot of carbs without noticing. Because there are many hidden sugar in every process food.
And the concept of why organic whole food is better than processed food is not well-established , people only get a sense of it ,but not the whole reason behind. Dietitians always give vague suggestion about processed food just don’t over do it . Grass-fed butter is not health and oat meal is heart healthy food is what most of dietitians believe.
Doctors as I mentioned earlier , treat symptoms with drugs instead of viewing your body as a whole , lacking understanding of gut biome.
Ibs is an incurable disease , you should take drugs for life. That’s what they told me.
There are five main goals for me and my best friend to achieve:
1.Bring the right supplementation and product to market.
Supplements selling in Taiwan is low-quality with extreme high price.
By teaching people how to use Iherb and choose the right products we can start to crack down the system. Big corps and doctors would definitely against the idea. There’s no big profit doing only if people are willing to use our Iherb promo code. I don’t think we should make our own brand of supplement if there have already been a high-quality products in the foreign market. What we should do is to do our best to bring the cost down ,shipping to Taiwan.
2.Introduce functional medicine and diet to Taiwan.
Simply put is to introduce paleo, bulletproof diet and to help people with any aliments or want to be healthier.
Food is our medicine, chronic disease especially are food-related disease. Perhaps to introduce well-trained functional medicine clinic to Taiwan.
So that I can punch my doctor in the face metaphorical by showing people how to treat IBS through diet and functional medicine.
3.Import every products from B-corp company
B-corp cooperation which is aiming more to their cause and aim for doing good to people through their products than profit. Products is just a mean to bring people with the same mindset. If this turn out to be successful we can process on bringing out local farm , make products with their crop. Finally, we can open an actual organic store with many optional products for people to choose from , like in US and Australia.
Bruce Lee once said “Institution brings corruption.” in his book "Tao of Jeet Kune Do.”
That’s why if we ever going to do things , we are not going to introduce share holder at all.Our aim is to bring everything on the table with open account so people can see our cost and profit that we are truly concerning people’s health and we only sell things that we use daily as well. And if we can make people understand that we are not here for money ,but someone with purpose.
Knowledgeable information don’t entertain people, not everyone loves reading books and being a nerd knowing all the stuff.
If we just open a YouTube channel with knowledgeable, educational videos and open an organic store directly.This would be a straight failure. So it’s important to become famous , prior to do anything.
4.Go to UFC , to fight Alexander Volkanovski.
When we went to Australia , my friend is training Jeet Kune Do under one of the student of Bruce Lee near Melbourne. My friend always say that in any kinds of sports oftentimes we see gold Medalist or boxing champions are all well-trained in very early stage of their life.
Only mixed martial arts’ champion can start later in life and still get a good result. And Bruce Lee was an advanced biohacker in his time that he has done things similar to bulletproof diet eating grass-fed meat ,supplementation , fasting , carb-refeed.
We all understand how hard for people to make it into sports league like UFC or NBA, maybe only 1% of the people. However, he wants to show what he can do through discipline, hard-wrok and biohack to maximizing health and training result at the same time.
There isn’t any local Taiwanese ever make it into UFC, If there’s a figure show up with achievement and articulative speech , people can understand the differences.
As for now, my aliment clearly drag the whole process down.
That’s why I hate my powerlessness.
5.To make movies
My family is over-protected toward me because of being a cleft mouth.
In short , my mom would do everything for me that I seldom need to think. I paid a high price being a incompetence kid.My aliment worsen my incompetence with no motivation and desire.Because of dysbiosis , if I am going to do something , I have to set my mind into or do or die state. I have to put my back against the wall to feel something.
Because of my incompetence and vulnerability in order to become competence with actual ability and mindset of a grown-up , I have to throw all my feelings away and to do everything I’ve never done before with my aliment, alongside with my anxiety ,brain fog and depression etc.
I am a vulnerable and a cowardly person, but I hate that so much I am willing to let that part of me die to forge a new personality. Aliment just make my life a lot tougher.
Bruce Lee once said :"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
Our quality of gut deteriorate as we age.It’s obvious take longer time for me to heal later in life . This aliment has already drained my mental strength to endure ,sometimes I wish I can just close my eyes and die.
I understand it goes against everything I indoctrinated by movies, philosophy, times with my friend. At this stage ,my emotion was chaos with severe bloated , I feel extreme anxious and depressed especially when I am bloated. I know it’s a trick for my physical condition ,not from my mind. However, the constant pull between battle between life or die have wore me out.And here I am , doing my best to survive, perhaps a meaningless failure that no one would know.
My friend and I love watching good movies , we often talk about the development of the character and choices they face. What concept does the director want to portray in the movie and what experience or book they read to form the ideas.
I wish when my story is being adopted , I can stand alongside with my friend. I wish not be in the situation of showing texts on the screen saying “in the memory of my friend”.
I pray for the strength to endure the pain of my life.
And I really want to make it , just my body won’t allow me to.
Part VI.
My overall financial plan
Frankly, I start this funding in a heavy heart because I don’t feel people would read this far as my article is pretty lengthy.
I am going to post this post on every website I can think of in order to increase my success rate.
I don’t really care about how much money I raise ,passing on the idea is more important. I just want to stay true to myself do my best to do whatever I can to fight my aliments. Even this end in tragic I want to embrace it instead of running away.
11,063 USD would be a roughly estimation for curing myself in a year.
If I happen to be the worst case in dysbiosis patient so to speak, which takes two years to cure it. It would be doubled the amount which is 22,126 for two years.
If I were lucky enough to have a minimum physical strength to work I would work to either keep providing myself for my treatment plan or to help my friend alleviating his financial issues to help him accelerating process of fighting MMA.
Every single penny I would post on future updates. And I want everyone who donates to me know that I will put it into good use.
The point is that whatever amount I funded in the end , what I am going to do is the same: The main priority of the expenses will be using to cure myself. The rest would be using for everything else I mentioned above related to what we want to achieve.
Part VII.
Future updates
I probably going to share what I eat and symptoms I have for now.
If I have the funds to purchase Great-In-8 protocol in the future, I would share more in detail of how I feel and what to do in every steps along the way to heal your gut.
However ,as for now my stamina for doing everything in my life is limited. So if funding is successful I can share more in details.
You can ask questions about anything.
Part VIII.
How to contact me
As I mentioned, my ability to function normally daily life is limited, so you can share your thoughts or ask any questions, which I might not be able to reply with email, but I will post as a general question here. This is the thing I might be able to manage if I get back in a healthier state.
My Email: igolooneyouo@gmail.com
Thanks for reading my story.
Part IX.
References& Links & Resources
(I will keep updating when I feel better , as too many articles and videos is related.)
HOW YOUR GUT MICROBIOME INFLUENCES YOUR HORMONES
Dr.Jockers
Dysbiosis: What is It and How to Heal Your Microbiome
12 Ways to Balance Hormones to Beat Autoimmune
Gut Inflammation: Causes, Testing & Support Strategies
What is Leaky Gut Syndrome and How Does it Impact Our Health?
Chris Kresser
How the Gut Microbiome Influences Everything about Your Health
