A Bottleneck in the System

https://formularyoflife.blogspot.com/2026/01/epilepsy-summary.html B5 is a building block important to three pathways: brain stuff and blood stuff and hormone production. It's a building block for cholesterol which is the basis for various hormones AND probably an insulator in the brain. The brain is the highest cholesterol organ in the body and it builds 95 percent of cholesterol in house starting with B5. Most likely, lack of cholesterol in the brain is similar to electrical wiring being stripped of insulating rubbery coating and causes seizures. It's probably NOT hormones per se CAUSING seizures. It's probably a kind of bottleneck in the system where you aren't getting enough B5 and enough cholesterol for competing needs. The body has an order of priority and will do stuff required to not die immediately over  nice to haves like not seizing. But unless you have a genetic disorder, THIS "bottleneck" is potentially readily resolved by eating more B5 and proba...

The first two test posts to this blog are dated April 12, 2020. That's likely the day I set it up, not long after the pandemic began. I had some fantasy I would talk about health stuff in a way that would be useful to other people. It's an old fantasy and it never leads to any good, but I keep trying because I'm terribly untalented at bottling things up and not speaking about them. A few hours ago, someone linked me to a piece about antibiotics. Is that related to me deciding to write here? I have no idea. I've been up all night and I'm just desperately trying to escape my own life in some sense without literally killing myself, which often seems like the only way out of this mess. A bottleneck in the system. That's how I think of my genetic disorder. My official diagnosis is Atypical Cystic Fibrosis . That site has a pinned Featured post giving my 2 cents worth about what that means but it is more simply thought of as a bottleneck in the system. I...