Visualsnowman.com

Life And Health With Visual Snow

WEBThis is a quick practical guide to life and health with Visual Snow, based on my experiences as someone living with Visual Snow. It is an update to the earlier post: “practical steps to natural visual snow treatment“. This is by no means an extensive guide but it covers simple points that I hope others will find useful.

Actived: Just Now

URL: https://visualsnowman.com/life-health-visual-snow/

Visual Snow Could Involve Genetic Predisposition

WEBJames T. Fulton, one of the leading researchers looking into Visual Snow, has shared some highlights from his ongoing survey with respondents. Particularly interesting is that these interim results (based on 106 responses) suggest a predisposition to Visual Snow may be inherited in some, from the female side of the family tree.

Category:  Health Go Health

Four Myths About Visual Snow

WEBEffectively there were four myths that Goadsby didn’t believe in and set out to disprove: 1. That Visual Snow does not exist. 2. That the patients describing it are crazy (emotions/anxiety as a cause) 3. That Visual Snow is a form of migraine. 4. That Visual Snow is always caused by illicit drug use.

Category:  Health Go Health

Ketogenic Diet For Visual Snow

WEBReduced neuroinflammation caused by the activation of microglia, microglial dysfunction being something which could presumably play a role in visual snow. Positive changes to the gut microbiome. Ketogenic diets have been used for treatment in diabetes, migraine, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Autism, depression, epilepsy, cancer, and more.

Category:  Cancer Go Health

Link Between Vision And Mental Health

WEBNow however, poor communication and connectivity between areas of the visual cortex has been found to link with an increased risk of mental illness. The study in question recently found that people who reported a greater number or intensity of psychiatric symptoms also had visual networks that didn’t function so well.

Category:  Health Go Health

Elimination Diet

WEB30-59% of visual snow sufferers may have migraines according to a 2017 review. Removing food allergens with an elimination diet eliminated migraines in 85% of patients. Minimising food allergens in diet allowed 93% of patients to recover from migraine. Removing milk protein from diet produced a marked alleviation in 33/45 patients suffering

Category:  Food Go Health

Visual Snow And Sensory Misperception

WEBVisual Snow And Sensory Misperception. Here is the video and a quick summary of Professor Owen White’s presentation at the 2018 Visual Snow Conference event. He discusses Visual Snow as a sensory processing disorder and gives an overview of research for which Joanne Fielding then goes into greater detail with.

Category:  Health Go Health

Alcohol And Visual Snow

WEBAn emerging consensus according to research is that the pathophysiology of visual snow may involve “cortical hyperexcitability”: basically meaning too much excitation or not enough inhibition exists within the brain of those with visual snow.. In the brain, g amma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter and …

Category:  Health Go Health

Removing Beta-Casomorphin 7 from your diet to improve Visual …

WEBBeta-casomorphin 7 is an opioid peptide derived from a1-beta casein that is implicated in the etiology and pathogenesis of various diseases. My personal experience and available epidemiological data suggested the possibility that bovine beta-casomorphin 7 may also be relevant in cases of visual snow. Its dietary elimination may help reduce

Category:  Health Go Health

The Origins Of Visual Snow

WEBHere is the video and a short summary of James T. Fulton’s presentation at the 2018 Visual Snow Conference event. He discusses where Visual Snow and associated symptoms may originate from within the visual system and why. He also discusses the data from surveys on …

Category:  Health Go Health

2018 Annual Review: Part 3

WEBThe everyday toll of having Visual Snow is rarely discussed and there is poor awareness about this outside of the Visual Snow community.

Category:  Health Go Health

Progress Report 12/06/2018

WEBCurrent Visual Snow Man Routine. Here is a summary of everything which I am doing now. Daily supplements: Luteolin (50g) + Rutin (50g) + Quercetin (Variable but dose generally greater than 500mg, twice daily). Luteolin and Rutin are powerful flavonoids like Quercetin, they work well together because Rutin and Quercetin allow Luteolin to be …

Category:  Supplements Go Health

James T. Fulton: Four Potential Causes Of Visual Snow

WEBReviewing that data and also the work of famous neurologist Dr Oliver Sacks, he currently believes that there are theoretically four viable causes of Visual Snow: two are prescription drugs and two are recreational drugs. The four “disruptor molecules”: Members of the penicillin family, including amoxicillin. Levadopa (L-Dopa) A derivative

Category:  Health Go Health

My Experience With Beta-Casomorphin 7

WEBBeta-Casomorphin 7. Why this correlation with a1 beta-casein consumption may be meaningful. Like morphine, beta-casomorphins are primarily mu opioid receptor agonists, and while it is BCM5 that has a structure more closely resembling morphine and is therefore theoretically the most potent; BCM7 can cross the blood brain barrier more easily …

Category:  Health Go Health

Why I Stopped My Ketogenic Diet

WEBThe problem is that apart from the routine becoming dull and socially challenging, you run the risk of nutrient deficiencies or excesses of certain things, on the Ketogenic diet for example – histamine. Thinking of a balanced or healthy diet generically just in terms of something like fat, protein, and carbohydrates (or calories) is overly

Category:  Health Go Health