Ah thank you very much... the 'upright qi' framework was what I needed to put things in proper context.
I tend to do things on a studied 'intuitive' basis... not guesswork as many things would just feel 'wrong' to me, aiding me in avoiding deadends. Sometimes the inspiration may come after a few hours of readings, sometimes after a few days, plus lots of subconscious work. Then when a promising path appears, fate is kind enough to often provide snippets of info confirming my intuition, or a random person would post on the same subject out of nowhere and I would end up being in touch with the person so suss out what they've done with a certain protocol over time and their experiences. Following that, there would often be testing with immediate family members first, figuring that our genetic profiles would be most similar to each other, and everyone having a slightly different protocol to see what works best. I'm pretty much the initial guinea pig, to make sure stuff is safe first.
Fate has also seen fit to keep me humble and emphathic. When I had my turbo lung cancer towards the end of last year from shedding, I was pretty nonchalent as I knew I had stuff which worked well against it. I took extended breaks from treatment as it would make me more tired than usual as I needed to be up and about for family reasons. That gave the cancer more time to grow and by the time I decided to treat it aggressively, the fallout was significant. Going really high dose vim created a huge pathogenic load that overwhelmed my lymph nodes. Pretty debilitating pain, which forced me to test a combination of strong painkillers and taking a treatment break every 4th day to keep me at a functional level, instead of being bedridden with pain. That served to remind me that even stage 4 cancer patients should not be getting the very high doses being touted by various doctors now treating cancer with VIM. My gut feel is that such patients would still get excellent results at 1/4 of the suggested high dose (2mg/kg) if it's in liquid VIM form, and they might recover faster overall. Anyways, the whole episode served to remind me that most patients would feel very alone and scared as their bodies seem to go haywire, even as they're seeing a highly credentialed doctor. That reinforces the basic principle which I try to drum into the vex-injured folks I'm advising... slow and steady wins the race. Too fast, and you're more likely to trip and injure yourself further.
Anyways... back to the 'upright qi'. Niacin aka Vit B3 (flush version) is one of the key ingredients that I'm using to top up people's energy and also immune system. Quick recap, Vit B1 and B3 are the main energy carriers/enablers in our bodies, but we also need trace amounts of the other B (6/9/12 etc), which can get depleted over time if we mainly focus on taking high doses of B1 and B3. With acupuncture, I've used that to direct 'qi' towards a more specific injury area, thus speeding up the healing of said area tremendously. Taking niacin - is like juicing up the body's energy system in general, and so far it works well for most people in terms of the body knowing which areas need the more urgent repairs done, so the niacin gets directed towards that. We can't see the healing if it's mostly internal, but it's happening.
I've spoken to people who have been on high dose niacin (3000mg) daily for at least 6 months... they were initially in really bad state, and thus all that extra energy has been beneficial for them. A point of clarification - the B vitamins are not energy per se, you still have to get your nutrients and energy from food for the most part, the B complex just enables more efficient and higher throughput usage of that energy.
So I have enough anec-data for 3000mg, and 1 particular vex injured person who has a whole host of issues has been doing that for almost 2 months now and the severity and instances of those symptoms have lessened over time. We're trusting that his body knows best where to direct that 'qi' for healing.
Another point of reference is that when one is pushing that much energy through the body using niacin, if it's not used up or deem necessary by the body, the fasting blood sugar numbers tend to rise after a few days - that's our experience. If it goes up 3 to 4 days in a row and hitting the high range of normal, dropping the niacin level back to 500-1000mg for a day or two resets it to baseline. Aka no long-term damage done as long as we monitor.
In very recent months, my 2 youngest kids who are still in school started to exhibit signs of shedding damage in their own physical ways. Another big clue was that their fasting blood sugar numbers started to drop down towards the low end of normal, numbers which we almost never see with them. So the youngest kid, who was on 1000mg daily has been boosted to 3000mg daily. His blood sugar is now back in his previous normal range after almost 1 month... and when it goes high enough, we'll dial back the dosage accordingly.
The other kid was on 2000-3000mg daily based on the level of anticipated activity for the day, high level athlete. She is now on 4000mg - the highest we have ever used. It took about a couple of weeks before her minor injuries started to heal properly again. I had to think carefully for a couple of days before deciding to go that high for her as most firm literature on high niacin doses have been buried deep. Basically despite them using a number of anti-shedding protocols, the shedding load has become so high that their immune system is now being actively engaged directly on a daily basis, so much so that it was getting drawn down significantly.
For extra reference, both kids have also been taught to do the SOP daily....
Re: This hits home.
I tend to do things on a studied 'intuitive' basis... not guesswork as many things would just feel 'wrong' to me, aiding me in avoiding deadends. Sometimes the inspiration may come after a few hours of readings, sometimes after a few days, plus lots of subconscious work. Then when a promising path appears, fate is kind enough to often provide snippets of info confirming my intuition, or a random person would post on the same subject out of nowhere and I would end up being in touch with the person so suss out what they've done with a certain protocol over time and their experiences. Following that, there would often be testing with immediate family members first, figuring that our genetic profiles would be most similar to each other, and everyone having a slightly different protocol to see what works best. I'm pretty much the initial guinea pig, to make sure stuff is safe first.
Fate has also seen fit to keep me humble and emphathic. When I had my turbo lung cancer towards the end of last year from shedding, I was pretty nonchalent as I knew I had stuff which worked well against it. I took extended breaks from treatment as it would make me more tired than usual as I needed to be up and about for family reasons. That gave the cancer more time to grow and by the time I decided to treat it aggressively, the fallout was significant. Going really high dose vim created a huge pathogenic load that overwhelmed my lymph nodes. Pretty debilitating pain, which forced me to test a combination of strong painkillers and taking a treatment break every 4th day to keep me at a functional level, instead of being bedridden with pain. That served to remind me that even stage 4 cancer patients should not be getting the very high doses being touted by various doctors now treating cancer with VIM. My gut feel is that such patients would still get excellent results at 1/4 of the suggested high dose (2mg/kg) if it's in liquid VIM form, and they might recover faster overall. Anyways, the whole episode served to remind me that most patients would feel very alone and scared as their bodies seem to go haywire, even as they're seeing a highly credentialed doctor. That reinforces the basic principle which I try to drum into the vex-injured folks I'm advising... slow and steady wins the race. Too fast, and you're more likely to trip and injure yourself further.
Anyways... back to the 'upright qi'. Niacin aka Vit B3 (flush version) is one of the key ingredients that I'm using to top up people's energy and also immune system. Quick recap, Vit B1 and B3 are the main energy carriers/enablers in our bodies, but we also need trace amounts of the other B (6/9/12 etc), which can get depleted over time if we mainly focus on taking high doses of B1 and B3. With acupuncture, I've used that to direct 'qi' towards a more specific injury area, thus speeding up the healing of said area tremendously. Taking niacin - is like juicing up the body's energy system in general, and so far it works well for most people in terms of the body knowing which areas need the more urgent repairs done, so the niacin gets directed towards that. We can't see the healing if it's mostly internal, but it's happening.
I've spoken to people who have been on high dose niacin (3000mg) daily for at least 6 months... they were initially in really bad state, and thus all that extra energy has been beneficial for them. A point of clarification - the B vitamins are not energy per se, you still have to get your nutrients and energy from food for the most part, the B complex just enables more efficient and higher throughput usage of that energy.
So I have enough anec-data for 3000mg, and 1 particular vex injured person who has a whole host of issues has been doing that for almost 2 months now and the severity and instances of those symptoms have lessened over time. We're trusting that his body knows best where to direct that 'qi' for healing.
Another point of reference is that when one is pushing that much energy through the body using niacin, if it's not used up or deem necessary by the body, the fasting blood sugar numbers tend to rise after a few days - that's our experience. If it goes up 3 to 4 days in a row and hitting the high range of normal, dropping the niacin level back to 500-1000mg for a day or two resets it to baseline. Aka no long-term damage done as long as we monitor.
In very recent months, my 2 youngest kids who are still in school started to exhibit signs of shedding damage in their own physical ways. Another big clue was that their fasting blood sugar numbers started to drop down towards the low end of normal, numbers which we almost never see with them. So the youngest kid, who was on 1000mg daily has been boosted to 3000mg daily. His blood sugar is now back in his previous normal range after almost 1 month... and when it goes high enough, we'll dial back the dosage accordingly.
The other kid was on 2000-3000mg daily based on the level of anticipated activity for the day, high level athlete. She is now on 4000mg - the highest we have ever used. It took about a couple of weeks before her minor injuries started to heal properly again. I had to think carefully for a couple of days before deciding to go that high for her as most firm literature on high niacin doses have been buried deep. Basically despite them using a number of anti-shedding protocols, the shedding load has become so high that their immune system is now being actively engaged directly on a daily basis, so much so that it was getting drawn down significantly.
For extra reference, both kids have also been taught to do the SOP daily....