Hi all,
I am coming from a carnivore/paleo ketogenic diet and try to improve my health further.
The all meat diet did improve my health a lot. However, I could not fully fix my digestion. Thus, I started to use some antimicrobials which improved things. However, most effects from the natural antibiotics were only of short duration. Annoyingly, my latest stool test does not show any pathogenic flora so I do not know what I am going after. Still, I previously tested positive for c diff but without the toxin a & b so this could be an issue with the spores.
Besides the digestion issues, other symptoms are:
My thyroid function on keto:
Hence, I started to take on some Peat principles. The cooked mushrooms really made a difference in my wellbeing as they clear out my gut. They have definitely raised my T too as I now get massive morning wood every day. However, carbs etc seem to make me slightly worse. I have not measured my temperature but I feel warm when I wake up and often get cold when eating carbs. I've read that this can be due to elevated stress hormones? How can I best test for that and fix the issue? I could also imagine that the carbs are simply triggering low grade allergies/increase endotoxin uptake which is also stress.
Currently, I eat to hunger. I do not count macros but I guess I eat around 100-150g of proteins, 100-150g of fat and 300-400g of carbs per day which is generally made up of:
Proteins
Otherwise:
I will try the following:
So now I wonder if you have some recommendations for me to improve my health? I don't think taking thyroid will improve me. My guess is that I have to get my gut in a really good condition to decrease the stress hormones since I felt absolutely amazing for a couple of days while on rifaximin or natural antimicrobials. However, as stated before the effects were not permanent. Also pointing me towards some useful tests/blood markers is highly appreciated.
I am coming from a carnivore/paleo ketogenic diet and try to improve my health further.
The all meat diet did improve my health a lot. However, I could not fully fix my digestion. Thus, I started to use some antimicrobials which improved things. However, most effects from the natural antibiotics were only of short duration. Annoyingly, my latest stool test does not show any pathogenic flora so I do not know what I am going after. Still, I previously tested positive for c diff but without the toxin a & b so this could be an issue with the spores.
Besides the digestion issues, other symptoms are:
- White tongue (very unlikely to be candida, more just a sign of impaired gut health).
- Still allergic to a lot of things but vastly improved compared to pre-carnivore and natural antibiotics.
- I often need a long time to fall asleep (20min) and cannot take naps (sign of stress or hyperthyroidism?).
- Difficulties sweating and once I sweat I get itchy
- Dry skin on face and often puffy eyes after waking up (allergy/histamine/serotonin?)
- Visual snow
- Often soft stool - diarrhea tendency
- Light brain fog
- Light arrhythmia
- Muscle twitching connected to diarrhea
My thyroid function on keto:
- TSH = 0.046mU/l (Might be caused by the iodine I was taking at that point. However, my TSH has always been quite low)
- fT4 = 23.3pmol/l (3.77pg/ml)
- fT3 = 5.79pmol/l (18.1ng/l)
- Resting pulse was around 60. Now with the sugar it is about 85.
Hence, I started to take on some Peat principles. The cooked mushrooms really made a difference in my wellbeing as they clear out my gut. They have definitely raised my T too as I now get massive morning wood every day. However, carbs etc seem to make me slightly worse. I have not measured my temperature but I feel warm when I wake up and often get cold when eating carbs. I've read that this can be due to elevated stress hormones? How can I best test for that and fix the issue? I could also imagine that the carbs are simply triggering low grade allergies/increase endotoxin uptake which is also stress.
Currently, I eat to hunger. I do not count macros but I guess I eat around 100-150g of proteins, 100-150g of fat and 300-400g of carbs per day which is generally made up of:
Proteins
- Ruminant Meat
- About half a kg of beef or veal liver a week
- Eggs
- Gelatin
- Butter
- Beef Tallow
- Refined Coconut Oil
- Raw Honey
- Fresh OJ
- Cooked Bananas
- Cooked Apples
- Cooked Mushrooms (daily)
- Raw Carrot (once in a while)
- Coffee
- Vit K2MK4
- Magnesium Glycinate
- Vit D3
- (Aspirin - Probably allergic to it so dropping it)
- (Calcium Carbonate - Not noticing benefits so dropping it)
Otherwise:
- Following the Buteyko method which gave me huge benefits
- When I exercise or my body warms up and generally stays warm for quite a long time.
- Saunas make me feel good and my skin less dry. But because of the Corona stuff I currently do not have access to a sauna.
I will try the following:
- Penicilline VK
- Cascara Sagrada
- Cypro
- (Possibly chlorine dioxide, kefir, and other antibiotics)
So now I wonder if you have some recommendations for me to improve my health? I don't think taking thyroid will improve me. My guess is that I have to get my gut in a really good condition to decrease the stress hormones since I felt absolutely amazing for a couple of days while on rifaximin or natural antimicrobials. However, as stated before the effects were not permanent. Also pointing me towards some useful tests/blood markers is highly appreciated.