I guess I'll make it official: I've been following the low toxic diet for about 3-4 weeks now. I'm also taking magnesium, potassium, niacin, zinc, molybdenum, thiamine, acacia fiber, activated charcoal, 50/50 salt-potassium mix, pot/mag spray, coconut water with extra potassium in it, selenium (I know some are going to cringe, but in the form of 2 Brazil nuts per day. I've been doing this for awhile now, but avoiding other nuts/seeds). On week 2, I started having green poops, and having anywhere from 3-5 bowel movements per day. They aren't well formed, and sometimes diarrhea. Here are the reasons why I started:
-Hashimoto's. I'm on a compounded T4/T3 prescription which I am slowly weaning off of after about 20+ years of being on medication. I've tried all kinds.
-chronic low body temp. no matter what medication/supplement I'm on.
-PCOS and infertility issues (about 80% resolved going gluten free). I am now in menopause. I happily have 4 beautiful girls by the Grace of God and without fertility treatments. I've had to rely on progesterone throughout all my pregnancies, and needed to take cyclic progesterone therapy to prevent breakthrough bleeding.
-Chronic mysterious on-and-off symptoms like lump in throat, breathing problems NOT from asthma (air hunger, not able to fulfill deep breaths), deep muscle pain in legs since I was a toddler, random tendon/joint issues like tendonitis, bursitis, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, other joint issues randomly, insomnia, chronic nasal stuffiness
-inability to lose weight no matter what I do. I practically have to starve just to keep from gaining weight.
-memory problems
My hunch is that I'm overmedicated on thyroid meds, and I do feel that I have something congesting my liver as I've felt liver bloat on-and-off especially within the last few years. I probably had it for awhile but I'm becoming more in tune with my body and noticing it more. I have to have had liver issues most of my life due to my chronic symptoms.
I think I'm detoxing early because I think throughout the years I've already been eating clean and trying other things to help cleanse the liver. I will say though that the typical things I was eating were things like dark greens, colored fruits and veggies, and I love liver (but would eat it only once every other month or so). And I just bought more liver and it's sitting in my freezer. Oh well. I was also drinking coffee, and I was addicted to homemade Kombucha. I was drinking 32-46oz of Kombucha per day, using organic green tea. I didn't realize that tea can deplete potassium, and when I started having breathing problems again, I made the connection, stopped drinking kombucha and added more potassium and I started breathing better within a day. I gave up kombucha for lent, and I don't think I'll be picking it up again! Plus, I've been leery about the fluoride content of tea, but now that I'm done with it there's no more worries about it.
I admit I'm still skeptical, but I like to experiment as long as it doesn't harm me. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my brain around colorful (and yummy) fruits and veggies being bad for us. Why would nature make something yummy toxic? Poison ivy isn't yummy (my neighbor dared me to eat a leaf when I was young.....I know poison ivy doesn't taste good, LOL). I grew up on a small farm and we grew all different veggies and had quite a number of fruit trees and berry bushes. I guess that's maybe why I was always sick as a kid (well that and the junky sweets we had growing up).
I used to have bad IBS and couldn't tolerate oats and beans, but jumping into the diet, I've been enjoying both on a daily basis without problems. I'm no longer restricting my eating/chronically dieting. I was 'Peating' back in late Nov-Jan and gained about 7lbs or so and felt very liver-bloated. Switching to low toxin diet helped reduce the liver-bloat feeling, but I haven't lost what I gained. Before all this I was low carb/high fat diet for years. I really couldn't tolerate carbs. At least I'm eating more appropriate calories for my height/weight/age and eating a lot more carbs than I ever did and not gaining more weight since going on the low toxin diet. My diet now is around 64% carbs, 24% fat, 18% protein. Calculated fiber around 49g. I'm so surprised I'm not gassy!
One thing that is weird this week is that I've been having very bad insomnia. It was 12:30am the other day and wasn't tired at all. Read in bed for a little bit, but finally laid down to just rest even though I was wide awake. Was like that for 3 hours, then finally fell asleep. I was Ok and functional the next day. That happened twice this week. I wonder if my body is just working overtime in the healing/detox department? Or could it be the B-vitamins?
I'll try to continue to document my progress. I haven't had any flu-like symptoms though. Just random aches and pains, insomnia, some headaches, still low body temp (ave. 97.3, although I did go up to 98.0 one day last week-that was a first!). AM heart rate is steady around 72.
I'll dig up my lab values for Vitamin A from the past few years. I was actually following Morley Robbins and the Root Cause Protocol for a few years and wanted to know my Vitamin A. I 'looked deficient' a few years ago so I started supplementing, then had a repeat lab and it showed within the normal limits. I never felt right taking Vitamin A because it was hard to find info on what the best kind of Vitamin A to take. Oh, I was also on cod liver oil too. I've also been a Weston A. Price follower for over 15 years and had taken cod liver oil on-and-off throughout those years. Obviously, those are gone now. I must have a huge stockpile of Vitamin A in my liver too. I bet that's going to take awhile to flush out.
-Hashimoto's. I'm on a compounded T4/T3 prescription which I am slowly weaning off of after about 20+ years of being on medication. I've tried all kinds.
-chronic low body temp. no matter what medication/supplement I'm on.
-PCOS and infertility issues (about 80% resolved going gluten free). I am now in menopause. I happily have 4 beautiful girls by the Grace of God and without fertility treatments. I've had to rely on progesterone throughout all my pregnancies, and needed to take cyclic progesterone therapy to prevent breakthrough bleeding.
-Chronic mysterious on-and-off symptoms like lump in throat, breathing problems NOT from asthma (air hunger, not able to fulfill deep breaths), deep muscle pain in legs since I was a toddler, random tendon/joint issues like tendonitis, bursitis, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, other joint issues randomly, insomnia, chronic nasal stuffiness
-inability to lose weight no matter what I do. I practically have to starve just to keep from gaining weight.
-memory problems
My hunch is that I'm overmedicated on thyroid meds, and I do feel that I have something congesting my liver as I've felt liver bloat on-and-off especially within the last few years. I probably had it for awhile but I'm becoming more in tune with my body and noticing it more. I have to have had liver issues most of my life due to my chronic symptoms.
I think I'm detoxing early because I think throughout the years I've already been eating clean and trying other things to help cleanse the liver. I will say though that the typical things I was eating were things like dark greens, colored fruits and veggies, and I love liver (but would eat it only once every other month or so). And I just bought more liver and it's sitting in my freezer. Oh well. I was also drinking coffee, and I was addicted to homemade Kombucha. I was drinking 32-46oz of Kombucha per day, using organic green tea. I didn't realize that tea can deplete potassium, and when I started having breathing problems again, I made the connection, stopped drinking kombucha and added more potassium and I started breathing better within a day. I gave up kombucha for lent, and I don't think I'll be picking it up again! Plus, I've been leery about the fluoride content of tea, but now that I'm done with it there's no more worries about it.
I admit I'm still skeptical, but I like to experiment as long as it doesn't harm me. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my brain around colorful (and yummy) fruits and veggies being bad for us. Why would nature make something yummy toxic? Poison ivy isn't yummy (my neighbor dared me to eat a leaf when I was young.....I know poison ivy doesn't taste good, LOL). I grew up on a small farm and we grew all different veggies and had quite a number of fruit trees and berry bushes. I guess that's maybe why I was always sick as a kid (well that and the junky sweets we had growing up).
I used to have bad IBS and couldn't tolerate oats and beans, but jumping into the diet, I've been enjoying both on a daily basis without problems. I'm no longer restricting my eating/chronically dieting. I was 'Peating' back in late Nov-Jan and gained about 7lbs or so and felt very liver-bloated. Switching to low toxin diet helped reduce the liver-bloat feeling, but I haven't lost what I gained. Before all this I was low carb/high fat diet for years. I really couldn't tolerate carbs. At least I'm eating more appropriate calories for my height/weight/age and eating a lot more carbs than I ever did and not gaining more weight since going on the low toxin diet. My diet now is around 64% carbs, 24% fat, 18% protein. Calculated fiber around 49g. I'm so surprised I'm not gassy!
One thing that is weird this week is that I've been having very bad insomnia. It was 12:30am the other day and wasn't tired at all. Read in bed for a little bit, but finally laid down to just rest even though I was wide awake. Was like that for 3 hours, then finally fell asleep. I was Ok and functional the next day. That happened twice this week. I wonder if my body is just working overtime in the healing/detox department? Or could it be the B-vitamins?
I'll try to continue to document my progress. I haven't had any flu-like symptoms though. Just random aches and pains, insomnia, some headaches, still low body temp (ave. 97.3, although I did go up to 98.0 one day last week-that was a first!). AM heart rate is steady around 72.
I'll dig up my lab values for Vitamin A from the past few years. I was actually following Morley Robbins and the Root Cause Protocol for a few years and wanted to know my Vitamin A. I 'looked deficient' a few years ago so I started supplementing, then had a repeat lab and it showed within the normal limits. I never felt right taking Vitamin A because it was hard to find info on what the best kind of Vitamin A to take. Oh, I was also on cod liver oil too. I've also been a Weston A. Price follower for over 15 years and had taken cod liver oil on-and-off throughout those years. Obviously, those are gone now. I must have a huge stockpile of Vitamin A in my liver too. I bet that's going to take awhile to flush out.
