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[orangish]

How is this different from fatty acids?

[scottl]

heh. discovering other things advocated for leaky gut I think.

EPA and DHA (not sure you should be taking just EPA no matter what AOR says, but that is another story, and note: I said I'm not sure, not I am sure you should be taking DHA)

ANyway EPA/DHA have well documented (to most people's standards) benefits against heart disease, inflammation, etc. Garum....is not commonly used and if I recall correctly is used in leaky gut. Garum is just some fish extract vs EPA which is just fat from fish.

http://www.springboa...h_anxiety1.html

"Abstract: The Effectiveness of Garum Armoricum (Stabilium)
in Reducing Anxiety in College Students"

Gee more things to relax you and decrease anxiety


You will not find a quick fix for your issues.

[orangish]

I know I won't. I'm looking for a temporary means of getting clarity, because I need to think about a lot of unreasonable situations, and with slow processing, and slow connections, that's rather difficult now.

[scottl]

What have you got to lose trying the meditation I suggested? It's free. It does not take much time to do. You will need to give it a chance i.e. a week of doing it daily to see benefit.

[orangish]

Well, I've already delved and am currently doing other sorts of meditation--only unfortunately weeks when focusing more than I can muster at the moment, i.e. exams, job applications, set me back in praciticing. I do appreciate your suggestions and think that meditation is helpful in its ways, because it tests and forces one to develop one's will (to subparly put it). It's just I was originally much more optimistic that I could handle my entire situation through meditation, I think there's a balance though, and meditation can only get me to ground where I still have difficulty making connections, i.e. spend hours looking for the right way to describe some inability. It's like being nearsighted, and lacking glasses, but trying to view something far away. You could squint, and try and muster some mental will to get some visual clarity, but if there's something--supplement or whatever-- that could help with the vision, so then you could use your mental capacity to be able to clearly and rationally make connections and assess what's happening, well that seems more productive, and less impossible. Meditation, although i've experienced some of the benefits in the past, can set aside some worries, does not eliminate the rational worries that come from not being able to focus, being inattentive, for whatever reason. Maybe if I devoted my whole life to meditation, I would experience that state of mind the monks reached, where I think I'm not recalling this wrong, they could exercise mental power over stubborn bodily states.

To clarify, I am in no way looking for a quick fix. This problem of focus has peristed for a majority of my life, and I have perhaps misguidedly tried to deal with it for a lengthy amount of time, but I have been patient these last couple years, and am now at quite my threshold of frustration, and bewilderment. Otherwise, if nothing else alleviates some of this processing trouble, I will eventually have to resign myself to living through really inadequate moments where I get frustrated for not focusing, because I cannot process an interaction or such, and use meditation to somewhat compartamentalize and make me feel okay with moments I can't figure out how to fix as they remain only understandable as unpredictable as to why I can only think in scattered ways, but never be able to get to the main point of an encounter, a text etc. Much more, I can't even adequately express to myself this befuddling problem that drains me of anything resembling coherence. For now, I'm going to keep to what I'm on, and resume meditation, and although look for other alternatives, more promising in that they might provide the slightest nudge so that I can confront all these uncognitively unattainable understandings of how I must always end up not being able to absorb and follow the lectures of an education that I'd once hope would prepare me for a profession, and learn how to be satisfied with living in a limited muddle I suppose.

[carnosine]

Stabilium's fun stuff. I feel very chill when I'm on it.

[orangish]

Curious. Allow me to actually clarify what I meant. I'm looking to deal with the biochemical effects of long-term stress, in conjunction with whatever mental exercises I construct. In addition to having focus problems, I've for years had to compensate, or come to terms, with not being able to connect to much (yes vague and general), and am wondering 1. what areas besides the hippocampus are affected by stress. 2. if adapton would be a viable option for restoring cognitive capacities possibly hindered by stress. the reason i was interested in exploring it further its enhancement of polypeptides I believe, and I based on what I wish weren't as cursory knowledge has some relation to long chain fatty acids? which are found helpful in many instances of ADD.
Any suggestions along biochemical lines would be great...I read in a past post that tianeptine was deemed helpful, I have some reservations about using it, are there other supplements that could have a similar restorative effect, or any possible options in the realm of nootropics (i know i'm departing from the domain of focus here).

[carnosine]

maybe you should ask your doctor.