Effects of beef eating

 I cooked Indian beef and eat daily at lunch and dinner for 4 days.

Positive effects:

1. Increased focus and concentration

2. Increased ability to think deeper and take action

Negative effects:

1. Feeling cold - unable to tolerate cold

2. mildy increased stuttering

Effect of Wellman multivitamins

 I have taken Wellman multivitamins for last 25 days. It contains general multivitamins in low concentration and Siberian Ginseng extract 20 mg.

Positive effects:

1. Anxiety is very much reduced. No fear / hesitation to go to office

2. Stuttering was manageable in the starting --> gradually worsened a little bit.

Negative effects:

1. Focus and concentration is very much reduced. Unable to concentrate on research and write research papers.

2. Unable to remember the counts of parts of prayer while praying

3. Unable to handle many things at the same time --> led to postponement of many works.

Effects of methyl cobalamin

For the last three months, I am not taking any multivitamins. I have developed right hand pain (due to laptop mouse usage), low back pain (probably due to poor sitting posture and sleeping on foam mattress which forms body impressions) and gluteal muscles pain (probably due to poor sitting posture). So, I tried taking methylcobalamin 500 micrograms once daily for 4 days (two days taken at night and two days taken at morning).

Positive effects:

1. Reduction of hand pain and low back pain
2. Little relaxed mind
3. Tendency to watch movies, listen to music

Negative effects:

1. Not getting sleep in the night - but if I sleep, unable to get up easily.
2. No focus or concentration to do any job - simple jobs took may hours to complete
3. No motivation and energy to do any job.
4. Not able to think deeply - postponement of few tasks

5. No attention to details - errors happened in work

6. Decreased speed of information processing while driving


30 hours after the last dose of methylcobalamin, I felt return of energy and focus.

Effect of folic acid, methyl folate, zinc and vitamin B6

During the course of several multivitamin tablets and capsules, I observed the effects of few components such as folic acid, methylfolate, zinc and vitamin B6. Actually, these effects are observed when these compounds are taken along with a multivitamin tablet/capsule. Those multivitamin tablet/capsule contain less than daily recommended value of folic acid, zinc and vitamin B6.

When taken alone, zinc 15 mg gives sleepiness and dullness. In contrast, when zinc and vitamin B6 (at least 6 mg) are combined, it gives opposite effect. With this combination, sometimes I don't feel sleepy even around 1.30 am. But If I lie down on bed, I used to get good sleep and complete sleep. Even if it is a 6 hrs sleep, after getting up, even though I still feel the same tiredness and inertia, I don't get the feeling of "not slept enough". Earlier, I used to get "not slept enough....need to sleep for long hours to make up the loss" feeling, if i sleep less than 8 or 9 hours. Because of this feeling, I used to sleep for 8-10 hours during the weekends and 7-9 hours during the weekdays. with zinc and B6 combination, I never worried about sleep debt. Some afternoons, I felt sleepy. But, no urge to lie down and sleep. Earlier, many times I used to go to house and sleep from office. Those times, simply I could not control my sleepiness.

Zinc, when taken alone or in combination gives good muscle flexibility and endurance to sustain 45 minutes of pedaling in cross trainer. However, zinc taken at night disturbs the sleep and the next day I used to feel sleepy. Zinc also heals the skin bruises and scratches fast. My skin around the hand finger nails used to peel off after getting scratched while inserting into my back pant pocket. After taking zinc, simply I don't get this. 

Compound	Effect	Remarks
Folic acid	2.5 mg of folic acid gives energy and feelings of pleasure. When listening to music, it gives a very good feeling of intense happiness (just one level below mild euphoria )
Methylfolate	3.75 mg of methylfolate gives mainly enhancement of serotonergic function leading to dullness and sleepiness. On prolonged administration more than 2 weeks, it gives stabilized mood and energy.
Zinc	15 mg of zinc + vitamin C 250 mg Positive effects ·         good energy and positive mood, ·         reduced day time sleepiness (not completely abolishing but to some extent), ·         feeling of completed sleep ·         Healing of skin scratches and bruises ·         No gasping for breath while exercising, while climbing stairs and while talking Negative effects profuse sweating, pronounced stuttering, reduced fluency, non-stutterable pause, slightly reduced motivation, significantly reduced concentration and focus, reduced libido and erections. 7.5 mg – 10 mg of zinc in the form of aminochelate All the above effects in reduced intensity (dose-dependent reduction) with improved speech fluency and reduced stuttering but still mild non-stutterable pause is there	Without the zinc, I used to feel sleepy and lethargic with any multivitamin combination. After I observed non-stutterable pause, I stopped taking zinc. The next day, great improvement in energy, mood and almost nil non-stutterable pause was observed. I googled and found that Zinc can induce Parkinson's like syndrome in animal models by causing death of striatal dopaminergic neurons. Minocycline Rescues from Zinc-Induced Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration: Biochemical and Molecular Interventions.
Vitamin B6 / Pyridoxine HCl	1-5 mg gives moderate energy, focus and concentration. 5-10 mg gives optimum energy, focus and concentration. Above 10 mg gives profuse sweating, sleepiness, reduced loudness of speech and little anxiety due to pronounced stuttering

Effect of exercise timing

I switched my exercise timing from morning to evening and also increased the duration to 40-45 minutes. Also, I have reduced my protein intake (no fish during lunch and dinner but an omlette at dinner). I did elliptical cross training (cycling movement for legs and rowing movement for hands and upper body) for 40-45 minutes (distance covered - 14 kilometers at a speed of average 19-20 km/hour) I have observed the following things.

1. Better sleep with dream recall
2. Ability to get up from sleep faster with the feeling of completed sleep
3. Increased energy especially in morning - get ready to office in 1 hour 30 minutes after getting up
4. Increased focus and sustained concentration
5. Decreased sense of daytime sleepiness especially post lunch dip or afternoon sleepiness
5. Increased motivation

Possible reasons:
1. Evening time may be the best time for exercise because of more muscle flexibility
2. Evening exercise may stabilize cortisol level.