Jennifer said:Oh thank you, narouz! I'm slowly getting it all sorted out so I feel confident I'll be doing much better in the very near future. I'm glad to hear you're seeing improvements. That's great! :)
I do supplement D3 sporadically, yes.
Funny, I use to eat Ezekial bread and eventually started making my own out of sprouted flours from To Your Health Sprouted Grain Co. So you feel better with grains in your diet? I'm interested for you to expand on what you changed a few months back, if you wouldn't mind?
The regular Peat diet just didn't seem to be working,
so I decided to shake things up.
Very unscientific, I know.
Unfortunately, that's just the way I roll.
My main problem was I had stopped being able to take enough thyroid meds
to get me out of hypo status.
I'd get palpitations, racing, skipping.
At this same time, I started having digestive issues:
intermittent diarrhea,
poops that felt acidic, irritating my butt.
Severe lower back/hip aches/cramping.
I came to think maybe it was all rooted in gut troubles.
Somehow the gut troubles, endotoxin, linked to palps when trying to dose up
to levels that would get my temps/pulse where they should be.
So I did the changes I mentioned earlier.
They were mainly aimed at the gut, but some where not that focused.
With the sprouted grain bread,
I was operating under the theory that I might have candida overgrowth from antibiotics,
and that I might benefit from cultivating, feeding, growing my good guy bacteria.
Also, in hypo state, digestion is sluggish.
I think all the fiber in the bread irritates the gut enough to stimulate peristalsis:
not ideal but maybe not too bad in certain situations.
The MB was kinda a wildcard because it has complex effects.
It reduces nitric oxide, which probably was part of the cascade of bad effects in my gut.
But it is also has antifungal properties.
The lysine knocks down gut serotonin and does other things--
there's an interesting thread on here about it.
I subtracted nightshades because I remembered that when my problems started
I was regularly eating coconut oil french fries.
And I also noticed that anything with tomato sauce seemed to cause problems.
In a hypo state, lots of things (Peat says) can cause problems, allergic reactions and so on.
Now on the Vitamin D...
There is a very minority view here on the forum
which sees vitamin D supplementation as maybe a bad thing.
After all, it is a hormone, and pretty complex in its actions.
Those rag tag band of rebels point to some research opening room for the interpretation
that vitamin D suppresses the immune system, which can be a bad thing.
I had been taking it for a long time in fairly high doses--5,000 to 10,000,
not everyday but pretty often.
Maybe it was suppressing my immune system and allowing for evildoers to dominate in my gut...?
So I stopped taking it and just rely upon the sun.
The MB (especially in low doses), lysine, and deleting vitamin D are all pretty safe things you might try....