Meh Detective Work ...

Three days off of everything. Fish oil, vitamin D, niacin, baby aspirin, all dropped for three days. Gum and cuticle bleeding has completely resolved. Should add that the finger bleeding is greatly exacerbated by the judo, fingers take a horrible beating.

Played some basketball and very sore the following day. Granted it was 4 - 5 hours worth of basketball (forgot how much fun shooting hoops can be). The soreness is a bit on the severe side though ... The diet, and I should clarify, this is a severely restricted diet -- no dairy, no red meat, no processed meat, no processed anything, minimal gluten -- may be behind some of this lagging recovery. It's basically a rice and fruit and bean and nuts and non-fat yogurt diet with mad avocados and 6 oz. of lean fish or chicken every other day. So although I do eat lots of olive oil I think I'm running a "starvation level" deficit in the soluble fats
dept ... I need to find a good source of frozen mackerel and stock up on those oily cans of sardines. I love those ... Anyway, so the diet is fairly stringent and it's triggered a kind of induced myalgia similar to the statin side effect, but it is more acute (24 hours or so following rigorous activity -- which one could argue is normal "at my age") as opposed to the chronic persistent statin myopathy.

So I'm going to slowly reintroduce the above supplements starting with the vitamin D (which I do not suspect at all as I've been on it before without the weird bleeding) for a few days, then the baby aspirin, then the niacin, and lastly (my prime suspect) the fish oil. I'm like Sherlock Holmes.