Seeing the whole process helps make sense of a few things

So, in February, when my bowels briefly stopped. They resumed after I felt a tearing sensation. This was a small tear just enough to let fluid IN at the cecum. Over the next ten months, the tear existed, and was one of the primary reasons so much was off about my bodily functions. As the kidney's eventually slow, much of the fluid output is bypassing them. This bypasses causes a suction in the abdomen. Avoiding this for as long as possible is why the patients didn't drink, and avoided urination except in the morning when it was actual kidney output. Eventually, this suction causes a rupture at the cecum. This is when the bowels stop. That was Monday for me. The suction got intense. But when I woke up Tuesday, the suction felt lessened.

I think this is also when the patients started eating ice cream. There is something going on in my body that is using up my bone marrow at a rapid pace. It has to do with rapid production of white cells that are being produced in my lungs. This started Tuesday evening. My mucus turned from phlegm to hundreds of tiny bubbles.

I also wanted to take the time a describe the photos from the article in detail. I wish I had done this earlier, as it is rather a distraction at this point. But here we go:

Photo 1) - Most of these photos were indoors somewhere in a warehouse or large building. There were rows of patients supported in an inclined position.

Photo 2) - Another photo showed a large table of steaks just heaped on each other that the patients would eat.

Photo 3) - One photo showed a fit man doing chin-ups. The caption explained how exercise at this point would weaken the heart and how he died 23 days later

Photo 4) -I'll group some photos here. There were various photos showing the physical effects of the condition on the individuals. From how they had shrunken and become hunched over to the skin of some of the patients during the skin-burning phases.

Photo 5) A photo of what was once a tall man being supported so he could stand. He was unshaven, dirty, and thin. The caption discussed how he lived the longest past some certain point. I'm guessing that point was the stopping of the bowels. It spoke about how he never varied from their regimen of eating only protein, not washing, and various other things they proscribed as life-extending.

Photo 6) There were photos of the patients' fingernails. These illustrated: 1) vertical ridges in the nails caused by the shrinking of the finger volume over time, and 2) slightly discolored bands adjacent to the white portion of the nails.

Photo 7) There were photos of lots of men and women eating large meals. I believe this during one of the times in the final phase when the men had exited a stage of suffering or not being able to eat.

Photo 8) There was one very memorable photo that was hard to make out taken at night showing someone being escorted down a trail of sorts from a hot bath area. This photo had a caption describing it as a rare photo of the only time they captured the moment of a patient transitioning into the full-ketogenic phase. During this transition (back in March for me, I believe, following a very hot shower), there is a very brief period of time when the body is adjusting and body movements are mechanical. It was quite strange. Conscious movement would be smooth, but if you just didn't think about it and used muscle memory to walk, for example, it was very robotic and jerky. That is what was also said to be shown in the photo but it was a horribly dark photo.

Photo 9) There was one photo illustrating a point they made, that despite all the circulatory issues and hormonal changes, men could still achieve an erection until the very end of the disease. In fact, it went on to speak about how the men were known as lotharios during the final phases, as they had the body of a much younger man and the stamina to go with it. This one always stuck out to me as odd to include, but I do find it relevant and true.

There were also a lot of diagrams

1) One diagram showed X-rays of the colon taken at 7-day intervals for 4 weeks. I believe The four weeks were started after the initial attack on the colon when the esophagus is closed off as mine was on November 12. The first picture showed the colon beginning to tighten, in the next it was very right, looking twisted. In the next photo, it was untwisting. In the next one, it was relaxed and leaking particles from the cecum. In the final photo, the cecum had fully detached.

2) The were diagrams of the oxygenation curve. These were utilized to show how pH and pressure changes affect the curve pushing it down and to the right, I think.

3) There were diagrams of the layers of the skin, explaining how during the years, candidiasis attacks the skin and uses the continual regeneration of cells there to provide ATP. It also discussed how the layers all flattened tightly together and how sensation was actually from the bottom layer instead of the top, due to this flattening.

4) There was a diagram that showed how the patients' faces and body shapes changed during the different stages. Specifically, how in some phases the face would be narrow, the body would be lean, while in others the face would broaden, and in others, it would be round. It talked about how the condition effectively prevented fat from being lost or gained but that fluid was retained and lost in the skin and beneath it, causing these changes.

5) There were more diagrams describing the hormones affected, and how.