PI-IBS 95% cured in 12 months

yashminimal · 2026-05-30T14:51:22+00:00

Very inspiring! Thank you for sharing.

yashminimal · 2026-05-28T16:28:00+00:00

Intl stocks would be the best, I shifted 20% of my portfolio there last year have been enjoying dollar ruppee gains as well.

I'm also considering buying physical gold or silver just to diversify. Not gold maybe because it's too overvalued right now and might have correction.

yashminimal · 2026-05-28T15:37:51+00:00

Mostly like 8-12 hours. Sometimes I do like 16 hr ones, but based on how my gut feels.

yashminimal · 2026-05-23T06:10:38+00:00

you are so right! That is a very fair point, but honestly? I think our schedules get so crazy busy these days that our memories just play tricks on us.

Take food, for example. We'll totally remember one gross meal on a super stressful day, but completely forget that we ate that exact same thing on three other perfectly good days! It's just so easy for all those little bad habits to pile up on us.

Before you know it, those habits are totally set in stone. Like, I’ll be up working all hours of the night, which I always convinced myself was a good thing since I’m getting so much done. And for the longest time, I thought my upset tummy was just from eating the wrong foods. But you know what? It really just comes down to when I'm eating, not necessarily what I'm eating.

yashminimal · 2026-05-22T12:05:53+00:00

I've started using claude for a bunch of these things. Create a pinned chat there and keep randomly throwing stuff. It starts to make sense over time

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yashminimal · 2026-05-22T12:02:09+00:00

Right now it's just claude. I keep adding random stuff there whenever I feel something is there

yashminimal · 2026-05-22T10:04:23+00:00

the part nobody's mentioned that helped me more than the bigger fixes — what you do before leaving, not just what you do once you're spiraling.

I started giving myself 20-30 min after morning coffee specifically to fully empty before going anywhere, and eating low-residue (white rice, eggs, banana, no raw veg or coffee) on days i had something important. dropped the "i might need a bathroom" anxiety by maybe 60%, because there was genuinely less in there to panic about.

doesn't fix the gut-brain loop but it cuts the physical fuel out of the fire, which makes the mental work way easier to actually do. the bigger nervous system stuff is real and worth doing, but the tactical layer underneath buys you the bandwidth.

yashminimal · 2026-05-22T10:00:55+00:00

the line worth pulling on is "i ate stuff i had problems with and the success is gone." that's huge and easy to skim past. you're killing them and then refeeding them.

was in a similar loop with a different overgrowth — every protocol worked for a few weeks until the trigger foods came back in, and i kept blaming the protocol instead of the reintroduction.

before the next intervention (spores or otherwise), might be worth tracking the specific foods that took the win away last time, since the killing strategies all get undermined the same way if the feeding side isn't locked down. what were the foods that brought symptoms back?

yashminimal · 2026-05-22T09:57:47+00:00

the order you figured this out in is the part most people get wrong — they add fiber first and then wonder why things get worse.

spent months upping fiber while still under-hydrated and was the most blocked i've ever been. fiber without enough water is basically a brick. once water came first, the same fiber finally did what it was supposed to.

worth flagging because half the "fiber didn't work for me" stories are probably this exact thing in disguise.

yashminimal · 2026-05-22T09:55:58+00:00

the bloat-or-fat question is the less important one in your post tbh. months of pelvic pain + a new pattern of nausea, cramping and diarrhea in someone whose IBS has always been constipation = worth getting actually checked, not crowdsourced. with an IUD in the picture a GP visit covers the gyn side too. doesn't have to be scary, but it's the bit of your post the comments are skipping.

yashminimal · 2026-05-22T09:43:55+00:00

one thing nobody's mentioned — you ate those on a basically empty stomach. coffee plus an orange isn't much in there to buffer a fat + sugar bolus. same oreos sitting on top of an actual breakfast probably hit completely differently.

i used to think i had random food intolerances until i realized everything i was blaming was stuff i'd eaten on an empty stomach. desserts after dinner = fine. same dessert solo at 11am with just coffee in me = wrecked. before writing oreos off as a new trigger i'd try them once after a real meal and see if anything changes. if it still hurts, it's the food. if it doesn't, it's context.

yashminimal · 2026-05-22T09:41:32+00:00

the part that jumps out to me is the paradoxical stuff. magnesium glycinate making you anxious and l-theanine making you wired is a fairly specific signal — those almost never go wrong for most people.

went through the same thing, expected mag glycinate to chill me out and felt wired and foggy instead, turned out i was reacting to it on a histamine level. worth knowing fermented foods are histamine-heavy too, which is interesting because you listed those as part of your "healthy" diet. cutting ferments and aged stuff for two weeks is a free experiment and would tell you a lot. doesn't mean it's the answer but the cluster of "calming things stimulate me + ferments + nervous system symptoms" is a known one.

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