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It might seem a stretch (pun intended), unless you've actually experienced it first hand.

A dozen years ago, I sustained a serious, permanent, physically debilitating injury, which over the years, cascaded into subsequent reinjuries and new injuries - by the degrading nature of the initial insult, and through overusing the remaining healthy parts (you know the joke "with remaining eye, do not look into the laser").

I reached a point where: I was in constant excruciating pain; I could not sleep, hence chronically sleep deprived; I could barely walk requiring a cane; and my body would seize up with cramps and muscle spams that literally ripped tendons.

It's not that I didn't take care of myself before, or after, my injury. Some physical traumas don't go away, ever, but...

Over the past year and a half, I have been experiencing an amazing recovery through a regime I accidentally evolved into (as I mentioned earlier in this thread).

My inflammation and associated pains have been substantially attentuated.

I can sleep and rest and heal, again.

By stretching and doing only range of motion exercises, I've managed to be able to walk again, without a cane.

Now, by walking 1-2 hours daily in addition to my OMAD keto diet, I dropped 50 lbs, and I've not felt better in 15 years.

As I'm en route to 70, I'm not obsessed with a six-pack, but by next summer, I know it will be there.

The salient elements of this regime, which in many ways were how I lived as healthy as I could, are:

• Stop ingesting crap (sugar, booze, nicotine, bad oils, preservatives, factory foods).
  
• Don't be afraid of healthy (yes, saturated) fat (coconut oil, olive oil, fish oil). Make sure your Omega 3 is balanced with your 6.
  
• You can still pig out on as much volume of food as you crave (I do - I never feel hungry, even with just one meal a day), but keep the protein to (healthy non-starchy) carb ratio to mostly protein.
  
• Intermittent fasting (keep as many hours between your last meal and your first - I usually have 20 hrs between meals), is important to apply a healthy stress to the body which kicks it in gear, and also perform daily cell cleanup (autophagy).
  
• Supplement, with whole food if possible, to ensure healthy level of Zinc, Vitamin D, magnesium, potassium, sodium (salt is good), iron, Vitamin C.

I've never taken pharmaceuticals (or CBD), before, during, or now.

Anyone relying on pain killers and steroids is just pushing symptoms down and creating new, more severe, illness/disease down the road.

It surprises me how by just establishing and maintaining metabolic health is all it took to experience such dramatic life-restoring health improvements.

One other tier of this was shifting my life schedule (work/rest cycles) to follow circadian rhythm, and to understand the importance of natural light - especially near infrared for good health. Going up and going down, rest-wise, requires adjusting light accordingly.

This works for me.

Anyone who may be seriously interested in this, is welcomed to contact me personally. I have nothing to sell, but I know that anyone suffering with pain/inflammation, or insulin resistance, might appreciate a path that has been proven to work for many.

I'd be happy to share my resources.