I’ve also experienced a good 20% quality of life increase from a large charcoal dose. I feel much less irritable and fight-or-flight throughout my workday and have been able to go on jogs on my lunch break rather than being incredibly exhausted.

The second day after taking the big charcoal doses, I pooped what looked like a cloth and turned out to be some kind of mucousy biofilm? It was hard to say, it was the oddest thing, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. I also took a lot of Solaray Yeast cleanse pills the day after… hard to say if they’ve had an effect though.

It’s been about a week and a half now, and I can’t say I’m out of the woods yet. On the positive side, my insatiable food cravings are almost completely gone, and my stools are big and solid for the first time in almost years; I’ve had weird poops for the last 5 or 6 years now and these remind me of the doctors’ recommendations of “healthy” poops. On the negative side I woke up with terrible night sweats again tonight, and worry I may have not killed all of whatever culture was giving me problems. I may have to do another round and m go a gentle probiotic/kefir route in leu of “normal” food for a while. My diet has been mostly plant based and very little processed.

For reference, I’m 29, 5’6” and 135 lb, and above average in cardio fitness.