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After I lost faith in western medicine's ability to help me with this problem I started tinkering and have come to the conclusion it's related to my breathing problems: mild sleep apnea and sinus inflammation.

The first thing I did was start sleeping predominantly on my sides and stomach, which turns out is how people sleep in nature[1]. This made my apnea all but disappear.

Then after I noticed my sinuses react to dietary changes I went on a carnivore diet -- basically only meat -- for an extended period of time and my sinuses fully cleared up. Right now I deviate from the diet a bit but I remain cautious and it's working out well.

When my breathing improved my clenching subsided.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119282/

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Very curious about your all-meat diet in general, if you'd care to share. It's basically an elimination/mono diet. What staples do you rely on, what supplements do you need, how has it been for you, etc.?

Yes it's a great elimination diet but there is a growing community that just stay on it as a lifestyle because you could feel so good.

Turns out animal-based food has all the nutrients you need if you include offal like liver (a serving of liver has more vitamin C than an apple). I ate mostly Ribeyes and liver. Sometimes I had yogurt but if you're eliminating to find allergens I would cut dairy at first.

I recommend this book https://www.amazon.com/dp/1734640707/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_jp...

liver tastes horrible. any preparation methods? or could you avoid this with vitC supplementation?

I'm from Jordan so we grew up eating liver raw and cooked so I'm okay with the taste. Chicken liver is a lot milder. And I know some people prefer liver pate.

I don't know if you can supplement, I've never used them.

why carnivore instead of vegetarian/veganism?

have you considered that you feel better because you’re avoiding an allergen, not because of the all-meat diet?

To construct a nutritionally adequate vegan diet would require a lot of work and a lot of ingredients, which is the opposite of elimination.

doesn’t sleeping on your stomach cause back problems?

I don't think so.

In “Treat Your Own Back” (https://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/098...), the author—a physiotherapist—accidentally leaves a back pain patient face down on an examination table with their back slightly hyperextended (i.e. head and upper back slightly above prone position). They were horrified that they’d harmed the patient, but instead the patient felt completely relieved of their pain. This is the story of how the McKenzie method (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKenzie_method) was discovered. Lying prone is the core position of the method (in addition to progressive back extensions), and it actually works surprisingly well for me.

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