Daily Digestive-Supplement-Activity Record
Date: Tuesday, 12-4-08
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!
Potassium: check!
*I notice it kinda helps to take my vits towards the end of breakfast (except the calc/magnesium which I take at night). If I take the pills just after a couple of breakfast bites, I get a mild stomach ache for about an hour. Not 100% sure if it's the vitamins though.*
Food Journal:
Morning:
oatmeal
raspberries (frozen)
orange sliced
green tea
banana
water
Lunch:
brown rice w/ spices
vegetarian tacos
salsa
chips
Dinner:
brown rice
salmon steak w/ grilled onions
carrots & green beans
green salad
2 glasses of watered down orange juice
green tea
Exercise:
What: short jog to the park and back
When: 5:30 pm
How Long: 15-20 mins
Total Hours Sleep Last Night: 8-9 hours
How I Felt Today:
Normal.
30-minutes Reading/Speech Comments:
Self-Rated Fluency: 4
My self-rated fluency is on a scale of 1-10 (10 being fluent, 5 being my normal disfluency, 1 being my worst disfluency).
Well, it's been over a week with no real change to my speech yet. My body is happier on this new lifestyle though. I feel much stronger emotionally, not taking things as seriously. I feel more physically capable in general. But, I think that just comes with valuing what you put into (and do with) your body.
I'm still waiting for my reading to "feel" better. Tonight I felt like it actually downgraded a little. Maybe I was trying too hard to make normal transition and starter sounds, I was forcing too much I think. I also had to do a lot of "required" talking on the phone today, and stumbled through a lot of it and avoided certain words, which always confuses people and makes them think you're a little scatterbrained... when in my mind my thoughts are totally focused and clear. Frustrating. I think stuttering is like being mentally cut-off from the world in a way. You can hear and think and feel, but you can't speak your mind.
I don't know about you guys, but as soon as Indevus announces who their "outsourcing partner" is, I'm going to be sending them letters thanking and encouraging them to swiftly bring pagoclone to the market. While we sit at our desks, sharpen our pencils, and continuously deconstruct the neuroscience behind stuttering with studies and resonance imaging, looking for answers... I welcome anything that brings us temporary, immediate, albeit partial, 'freedom of speech.'
I'll be back tomorrow! Thanks for reading...
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Hello Simona !
My name is Olivier. I'm a 33 years old man, who stutters since childhood. I'm french.
I created a blog one year ago in which I translate some texts in french language to inform people about various neuroscientific
researches on stuttering. Most of these texts are avaliable only in english, so more and more scientists, therapist, people who stutter,
member of their families, are visiting my blog.
UN OLIVIER SUR UN ICEBERG
http://infosbegaiement.blogspot.com
I discovered your blog thanks to Tom Weidig's blog.
(I also translate some of his posts, with his permission !)
I really like your blog, your experiment and what your wrote, for example about the slowness of science : )
I often think nutrition can have an significative effect on stuttering.
I wish a lot of french readers who read english language to discover your blog,
so I ask you permission for translate the first post of your blog.
I'm impatiently waiting for your reply.
Excuse me for my english, I'm better at translating from english than vice-versa !
Olivier
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