So, several members of my family have hEDs. I don't have it full-blown, but I definitely must have inherited some defective COL3A1/COL5A1 genes.
I get a lot of injuries from lifting, despite not doing heavy weight or crazy volume.
Has anything helped you be more resilient/recover?
I'm currently on BPC-157/TB-500 + GH, seems to help a little but I'm still getting injuries...
Hey, took a little Internet break.
I haven’t found anything. I actually have never injured myself lifting, but more like doing regular shit. Hurt my knee jumping down from the kitchen counter, sprained a hamstring fucking around with kids on the floor, plantar fasciitis from a small misstep, just reg everyday things are what take me out.
The main thing I do for the gym is to pre-engage and kinda tighten whatever muscle is getting worked. Otherwise I feel like I get overstretched trying to feel something, and will go past proper range of motion. That makes recovery bad for me. I also tend to stop sooner than suggested, because going to 1-2 reps in reserve ends up being too much.
Now that I’m thinking about it, isometrics helped a ton. One of my son’s has heds, too, and we’ve both been seen sports specialist PT’s. They hit isometrics hard and both of us had less overall pain, and fewer injuries after incorporating them. In rehab they were injury specific, but I googled full body isometric exercises and keep them in regular rotation.
Gonna link a couple things, and list what I take that’s not in this article. I take vit k2, coq10, boswellia, and b2. I recommend testing nutritional deficiencies if you can since hypermobility disorders tend to go alongside. Recently checked some of mine and am low in zinc, copper, borderline low a, selenium, and mg, was d and ferritin deficient.
A review in 2021 by Toan Do, et al investigated the nutritional needs of the two overlapping conditions Dysautonomia and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders/hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos (HSD/hEDS) to help reduce symptoms. There is increasing recognition that there is a high level of gastrointestinal...
www.ehlersdanlosaus.com
Since the 1960s, Horphag Research has blazed a trail to naturally improving age-related ailments with Pycnogenol, a standardised French maritime pine bark extract that’s manufactured to comply with strict US pharmacopoeial requirements
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Also this insta page posted a theory recently that I found relatable. If you scroll over to reels, it’s from 9 weeks ago and about red zone/green zone.