Beebop
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Hi everyone.
Just transitioning to a Ray Peat diet. Trying to absorb as much information as possible. Enjoying that!
I thought I'd share my progress here, partly to get feedback from everyone, and partly to tell stories :)
Things I'm finding hard about the Ray Peat diet:
I love vegetables especially leaves, also herbs and spices. I live and eat with someone who loves cooking and loves vegetables. I love cake and noodles!
Things I love about Ray Peat: the wisdom, the detail, the logic and sense, the humour and all the questions answered. The courageous disregard for the status quo. Coffee
Here's a bit about my history (this is going to be a long first post, but then 'context is everything'!):
Dairy free diet from a baby until my twenties. Soya milk and proteins throughout this period
Vegetarian for 15 years. Not enough protein the entire time
Went on the pill
= Estrogen dominance.
This is what I now believe caused my Hashimotos - diagnosed at age 24 (there may be more to it of course...)
When I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's my TSH was the highest my doctor had ever seen - at 120. Since then at one point it was even higher, in the region of 300 ish (or was it 600?) Very ******* high.
I am sensitive to T4, which coincides with being a sensitive person in general - in a good way
At the point of my diagnosis I dived head first into health and healing.
Tried: Wheat free, dairy free, meat (after being vege for 15 years), fish, PUFA oils (hemp, linseed).
Low-carb (didn't last long, I binged on nuts to compensate)
Anti-candida diet - no sugar.
Herbs (chinese, western, anti-parasite)
Healing, meditation, martial arts
Starvation through veg only diet - wouldn't recommend :?
Vegan: tofu and noodles, broccoli
Iron tablets.
And here I am now.
I take synthetic T4 only. Haven't begun to explore T3 yet. It's on my to do list
In the past year here are the Thyroid events that have occurred.
1. 18 months ago I tried supplementing Iodine. This resulted in lowered thyroid output. Had to increase dose.
Increased from 137.5mcg to 150mcg. A while later I had HORRIBLE hyperthyroid symptoms. Something else I sincerely do not recommend.
Reduced back to 137.5mcg.
2. Meanwhile had my first ultrasound scan of thyroid. Was (still am) very upset when doctor said it was barely perceptible. That's what started my latest quest for health and led me to Ray Peat. Come back thyroid!
3. Was stable for a while on 137.5mcg. Over the past six months my T4 has been creeping up and my TSH down, (don't know why). For a while recently (Christmas 2012) I felt the best I have ever felt.
4. Then I started to get mild hyper symptoms, which correlated with still low TSH (0.07). So just over a month ago I reduced my dose from 137.5mcg to 125mcg.
This most recent fluctuation is interesting to me and I wonder if it has anything to do with large increase in coconut oil for the past year. Don't know.
5. However, on latest decreased dose I feel rubbish. First my stress and anxiety levels have gone up. I put this down to adrenals overcompensating for thyroid changes. Now I feel tired and I have semi-constant brain fog.
And at this very same moment in time I am incorporating a new Peatian idea into my diet every day. So I don't exactly know what is affecting what. Not very scientific!
Will talk to my endoc about T3 next time.
Current recent problems:
Brain fog, tired and de-motivated. Stress and anxiety - cortisol etc.
Ongoing symptoms
Very dry eyes, blocked ears, silent acid reflux, PMS, tongue sensitivity to some fruits.
Things I'm eating.
More milk and cheese than ever before. Coffee for the first time in a decade. Lots of sugar, more salt. Some gelatine, OJ, chocolate, carrot salad. Also meat and potato, coconut oil. Still other vegetables, starches and grains (taking things slowly). Tea.
Symptoms that have already (dramatically) improved since eating a la Peat:
Extreme thirst (needing 4 glasses of water before bed, and two or three more during the night)
Any thoughts on this semi-epic saga would be welcomed.
x
p.s. wouldn't it be nice to able to write a story that said at the end "and now I am completely better, and this is how I did it"...
Just transitioning to a Ray Peat diet. Trying to absorb as much information as possible. Enjoying that!
I thought I'd share my progress here, partly to get feedback from everyone, and partly to tell stories :)
Things I'm finding hard about the Ray Peat diet:
I love vegetables especially leaves, also herbs and spices. I live and eat with someone who loves cooking and loves vegetables. I love cake and noodles!
Things I love about Ray Peat: the wisdom, the detail, the logic and sense, the humour and all the questions answered. The courageous disregard for the status quo. Coffee
Here's a bit about my history (this is going to be a long first post, but then 'context is everything'!):
Dairy free diet from a baby until my twenties. Soya milk and proteins throughout this period
Vegetarian for 15 years. Not enough protein the entire time
Went on the pill
= Estrogen dominance.
This is what I now believe caused my Hashimotos - diagnosed at age 24 (there may be more to it of course...)
When I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's my TSH was the highest my doctor had ever seen - at 120. Since then at one point it was even higher, in the region of 300 ish (or was it 600?) Very ******* high.
I am sensitive to T4, which coincides with being a sensitive person in general - in a good way
At the point of my diagnosis I dived head first into health and healing.
Tried: Wheat free, dairy free, meat (after being vege for 15 years), fish, PUFA oils (hemp, linseed).
Low-carb (didn't last long, I binged on nuts to compensate)
Anti-candida diet - no sugar.
Herbs (chinese, western, anti-parasite)
Healing, meditation, martial arts
Starvation through veg only diet - wouldn't recommend :?
Vegan: tofu and noodles, broccoli
Iron tablets.
And here I am now.
I take synthetic T4 only. Haven't begun to explore T3 yet. It's on my to do list
In the past year here are the Thyroid events that have occurred.
1. 18 months ago I tried supplementing Iodine. This resulted in lowered thyroid output. Had to increase dose.
Increased from 137.5mcg to 150mcg. A while later I had HORRIBLE hyperthyroid symptoms. Something else I sincerely do not recommend.
Reduced back to 137.5mcg.
2. Meanwhile had my first ultrasound scan of thyroid. Was (still am) very upset when doctor said it was barely perceptible. That's what started my latest quest for health and led me to Ray Peat. Come back thyroid!
3. Was stable for a while on 137.5mcg. Over the past six months my T4 has been creeping up and my TSH down, (don't know why). For a while recently (Christmas 2012) I felt the best I have ever felt.
4. Then I started to get mild hyper symptoms, which correlated with still low TSH (0.07). So just over a month ago I reduced my dose from 137.5mcg to 125mcg.
This most recent fluctuation is interesting to me and I wonder if it has anything to do with large increase in coconut oil for the past year. Don't know.
5. However, on latest decreased dose I feel rubbish. First my stress and anxiety levels have gone up. I put this down to adrenals overcompensating for thyroid changes. Now I feel tired and I have semi-constant brain fog.
And at this very same moment in time I am incorporating a new Peatian idea into my diet every day. So I don't exactly know what is affecting what. Not very scientific!
Will talk to my endoc about T3 next time.
Current recent problems:
Brain fog, tired and de-motivated. Stress and anxiety - cortisol etc.
Ongoing symptoms
Very dry eyes, blocked ears, silent acid reflux, PMS, tongue sensitivity to some fruits.
Things I'm eating.
More milk and cheese than ever before. Coffee for the first time in a decade. Lots of sugar, more salt. Some gelatine, OJ, chocolate, carrot salad. Also meat and potato, coconut oil. Still other vegetables, starches and grains (taking things slowly). Tea.
Symptoms that have already (dramatically) improved since eating a la Peat:
Extreme thirst (needing 4 glasses of water before bed, and two or three more during the night)
Any thoughts on this semi-epic saga would be welcomed.
x
p.s. wouldn't it be nice to able to write a story that said at the end "and now I am completely better, and this is how I did it"...