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 #PSA #Nostr

Every single one of you needs to get a test done to understand your personal #epigenetics, at least to the extent available now. I am a walking talking real life example of the benefits of the information gained from the results of my tests. The one linked is the best I have found so far. 

I have issues in my dopamine pathway which had been getting worse and worse over the recent years and I can see the cycles I have gone through my whole life. My head space getting darker, angry, frustrated, and completely introverted. Lashing out at my family, maintaining few friends, chronic sleep problems, eczema flares, and many more problems stemmed from the deficiency. 

I have now been taking modafanil in 50mg to 100mg doses for a month and it has changed my life. It is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor which gives me more of the dopamine in my head to work with instead of just flushing it through. I don't need the serotonin like I do the dopamine. My sleep was so bad I was getting 6ish hours and absolutley unable to go back to sleep in the mornings. Now I am sleeping 8 hours and able to fall alseep after waking at 5am. My interactions with my family is FAR more gentle and metered, I'm not as mean to them since I'm not feeling "sick" without knowing the reason. 

My mental health was not good. Not a "crisis" level by any means but an absolute issue that was effecting my life and those around me. I have truly raised the bar, raised the lowest level I feel by a dramatic amount. #Modafanil is used "off label" for ADHD as a maintenance level dosage and holy wow does it work for me  in exactly the way I need. 

Please, everyone dig into your genes and hormones, it can change your life.

#health #selfcare #mentalhealth #genetics #hormones 

https://strategene.me/about-strategene/ 
 I would be so interested in doing this, and all kinds of other looking at my genes, if only I trusted gene analysis companies to be private. There has been far too much sharing with governments for my taste. 
 It is a bit of playing with fire but Lynch is big on privacy and the deepest of the tests we have found so far. There may be others but we haven't looked beyond Stratagene since it was rather comprehensive.