30-Day Experiment: Day 1

Daily Digestive-Supplement-Activity Record

Date: 11-26-08

Vitamins & Minerals:

Multi-vitamin: check!
Probiotic: check!
Calcium: check!
Magnesium: check!
Co-Enzyme Q-10: check!
Selenium: check!
B-Complex: check!
Omega-3 (twice): check!
Vitamin C: check!
L-Carnitine: check!
GABA (twice): check!

**I couldn't find Iodide and Potassium at my pharmacy so I'll be adding it tomorrow!

Food Journal:

Morning:
1/2 cup blueberries
3/4 cup millet grain
glass of watered down OJ
cup of green tea

Lunch:
mashed potatoes
turkey
cranberry sauce
orange

Dinner:
a lot of steamed broccoli
1/2 tomato, lightly heated w/ drizzle olive oil
salmon steak w/ teriyaki dressing
mashed potatoes w/ fresh garlic
glass of watered down OJ
green tea

Exercise:
What: Yoga DVD
When: 7pm
How Long: 45 minutes

Total Hours Sleep Last Night: 9 hours

How I Felt Today:

Felt pretty average. The calcium + magnesium combo is pretty sedative so I saved it for after-dinner and now I'm ready to sleep... I haven't exercised in a while too, so that's probably adding to my exhaustion.

30-minutes Reading/Speech Comments:

Self-Rated Fluency: 3

My self-rated fluency on a scale of 1-10 is about a 3 (10 being fluent, 5 being my normal disfluency, 1 being my worst disfluency).

Today I felt my reading was lower than my average, I don't know why. Maybe it's the tiredness from all the activity. I usually read in a semi-whisper because then I can get through it faster and not get bored--but this time I slowed down and tried to enunciate each word. Maybe that's why I seemed especially bad. : )


**Notice that I added 500 mg of GABA (taken twice daily) because I had it in my house and I tried it once before but only for 2 days or something (half-assed). I'm sure you have to keep anything up for at least a few weeks to see results so I'm adding it for this experiment.

PLUS, Pagoclone (the future stuttering drug) is believed to increase GABA activity in the brain, which might help calm down excess activity. From the manufacturer's website:

"Pagoclone is a novel member of the cyclopyrrolone class of compounds and acts as a gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) selective receptor modulator. The Company believes that pagoclone increases the action of GABA in the brain. This may reduce excess neuronal activity and thereby have the potential to alleviate symptoms of anxiety disorders, and may also reduce the severity of other disorders, including persistent developmental stuttering (PDS). "

I'll be back tomorrow! Thanks for reading...