After learning about deworming and prescribing/sharing the notes I've compiled from GAW with friends and family who have been diagnosed with cancer in the past year, a few weeks ago, I decided to have a go at it myself.

It's a wild story and TLDR is somehow taking 444mg fenbendazole (2g Panacur) 3 days on, 4 days off for the last 3 weeks has made me feel like upbeat, positive and super productive like my brain went from chugging along on 2 cylinders to firing on all 8.

I'm unvaccinated, have had the scam virus a couple times which I naturally shrugged off (with the help of DayQuil) and have no lasting side effects. I consider myself as a mostly healthy adult with some long standing quirks which I was trying to solve with this deworming program are: 1) waking up to pee too often (2-3 times average) at night - ongoing since I was a teenager, one of my parents does the same and I thought it was normal growing up, 2) tiredness and lethargy (especially around 3-4pm and past 9pm) and 3) regular low level body pain (mostly back, butt... probably from sitting at the PC too long)

I have self-diagnosed high-functioning ADHD and perhaps some form of autism, main symptoms are not being able to sit and focus on doing anything (it's a miracle I've managed to survive in the workforce for this long) and having no filter, I speak my mind freely, to the disdain of the politically correct world. I also have proven periods of hyperfocus which come and go every few years.

I got laid off a year ago and haven't been able to find a job since. Over 500 applications, many more recruiter calls, must have interviewed at over 30 companies. Been laid off several times as a combination of bad luck (toxic woke managers), ADHD and probably my autism (I suck at office politics) so this time I decided to learn how to daytrade. That hasn't been going so well and honestly I haven't been as driven as I should have been.

I've also been trying to lose weight for the past 2 years without any progress. How is that and the layoff/daytrading related? See below.

I started my first round of deworming on Feb 7-9 and by Feb 12, I had a sudden urge out of nowhere to start fasting. I've tried intermittent fasting by skipping breakfast for the past year or so, but it was often half assed - I'd fall off and get back on every few weeks. This time, it was different - really out of nowhere, I decided I wanted to fast, and not just intermittent fast 16/8, I wanted to fast for as long as possible. I started researching fasting and on that first day, I fasted 20 full hours - the longest I've ever had in my life.

In the past 7 days, I've fasted 22-23 hours on 4 of them, 17-18 on the other days (wasn't sure if I should be fasting too hardcore when taking week 2 of Panacur Feb 14-16; I had read it should be taken "with the heaviest meal of the day". In the next few weeks, I'm planning to go on a 3 day fast and then a 7 day fast by the end of next month (Dr Pradip Jamnadas https://www.youtube.com/@pradipjamnadasmd/videos and Dr Jason Fung's book The Complete Guide to Fasting, and some other folks on GAW have sold me on this plan).

On the trading front, I think it was last Tuesday or Wednesday when after months of studying at 30% and procrastinating the other 70%, suddenly I became laser focused at studying, analyzing and have had a massive desire to get good. The mental feeling I've gotten is inline with the "hyperfocus" episodes I've gotten in the past where I didn't want to do anything all day, everyday except for the one thing I was interested in doing. I hope the feeling lasts.

Now, typically my hyperfocus comes with a "trigger" that kicks my brain into full throttle but this time, I'm unable to pinpoint what that would be. I've been living the same jobless life everyday for the past year. In fact, i would hope and pray that hyperfocus would eventually kick in, and what a coincidence (or not?) that it has after I started deworming and fasting.

I also suddenly began to "get it" across many fronts in trading, and after a long string of mostly losses, I've started getting many wins and consistency is definitely up this month compared to before.

And lastly, since Friday the 14th, I've been naturally waking up between 6-7am (my previous wake up time was usually 8am) AND my brain wakes up with maximum tilt and drive to want to go out and workout. There was a point where I WAS hyperfocused on exercise but that was years ago and I've never gotten this strong of a feeling to go get fit.

Also noteworthy that previous hyperfocus episodes (which have been a thing since I was 14 or so) were solely focused on 1 thing. This time it's 2: Trading and working out. Until this past week I never knew that I could be hyperfocused on 2 different things at the same time.

Again it's either the fenbendazole based deworming, daily long fasting or both, honestly I wish I spaced their starts further apart so I could tell which one led to all of this. But i didn't expect any of this to happen and wanted to check if this is something that's normal or even known because I sure as hell didn't read about effects like this when doing my hours of research on parasite cleansing/deowrming.