methylenewhite
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Could you try potato only diet for a while to see its effect on metabolic marker please? Or perhaps skim milk and potato.
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Even cavemen used to "supplement" thyroid by eating the wild animals they caught, from head to toes. That animal was dead for very short time before they ate it so they were full of thyroid hormones when it entered the stomach. Also thyroid is our first line defence against stress, and we are so pumped up with stress and chemicals, it's just wise to "cheat" if you call it that. If you went to live to jungle and hunted your animals, that's the same as taking thyroid.It shouldn't take months to see any benefit. I agree that it may take months to get the full benefit, sure. But by ditching animal meat, I see benefits within 1-2 days, as example of something I see effects of quickly in days and not months. Yeah I didn't get "Healed" or "Cured" or anything like that but I absolutely see tangible effects soon like increased temps, more energy, etc. A week or two should be long enough to see benefits of some sort ( a little better energy, a little better sleep, some weight loss, improved temps/pulses, etc). That said, maybe I'll try T3 again sometime, I dunno tho. I'm not convinced thyroid is needed especially when at a young age. If you're still young, the thyroid is 100% capable of providing the T3 you need. If it's not, there's always a reason and just taking thyroid feels wrong to me, a cheat, and bypassing why your T3 is low in the first place (lack of nutrients, lack of calories, lack of sleep, lack of sunlight whatever, all of which taking T3 is not going to fix) plus I remain un-interested in using such an approach long-term, don't wanna get stuck relying on it as a crutch. For example--I suspect I'm low in magnesium. Hence the huge benefit of Epsom salt baths. Just taking T3 might possibly help me retain magnesium I do have better, but it doesn't fix the underlying deficiency magically. Then again it might even make me use up magnesium even quicker, making the deficiency even worse. I get why people use it, but if I can fix my thyroid without it, then I know I've truly fixed the root cause of my problems and not just masked it with thyroid. Both times I've been healthy in my life I never took thyroid. I don't think it's needed when nutrition and environmental stressors are on point.
When I traveled in India I heard about someone called Aloo Baba, Potato Guru from Pushkar. He eats potato only about 45 years, he is in his 70s. At least he claims to do so.
Aloo Baba: Pushkar’s potato guru
Even cavemen used to "supplement" thyroid by eating the wild animals they caught, from head to toes. That animal was dead for very short time before they ate it so they were full of thyroid hormones when it entered the stomach. Also thyroid is our first line defence against stress, and we are so pumped up with stress and chemicals, it's just wise to "cheat" if you call it that. If you went to live to jungle and hunted your animals, that's the same as taking thyroid.
Also the function of thyroid is to make you lean mean well oiled machine and to boost the effectiveness of your cells and organs and stress systems. That's why i think it's the center of RPs ideaology.
Is this your experience, Dobbler? If yes, would you make a thread about it?You should really try some T3 or T3/T4 for good 6 months. You said you briefly tried it, in my experience, even with pure T3 the positive effects start to take place well after 1-3 months. Expecting to heal your body and stress systems after T3 kicking in after 30 minutes is bogus. It takes months to stress hormones to come down and THEN the healing may start.
Yo @Cirion, how did you come to the conclusion that the liver is your (or one of your) main problem/s?
I'm not dead. Still plugging behind the scenes. I'm actually a little stumped now that I have way more data. I've found a few conflicting plots. That's the bad news. The good news is I have found that some plots, plotted over very long time (56 day average) start to make VERY clear trends. Here's an example one of a couple that I am trying to wrack my brain to understand:
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Clearly, body temps improve with an almost perfect correlation (R squared of 0.9529) with increase calories. However, after around the 4200-4500 calorie mark, weight gain is also almost guaranteed. These seem contradictory to me. Why is it you feel better, have better temps, but gain weight? I have to admit, this seems somewhat contrary to what I thought I would see -- that the increased temps would also result in weight loss. Similar trends show with Carbs, Protein intake:
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Whoa there, you're getting upwards of 75% of your calories from carbs? I suppose if you are truly eating 5000 calories a day that will still allow for sufficient protein consumption. Still, you must be eating/drinking nearly every waking hour.
What are your preferred protein sources? Primarily dairy or meat?
I have gone as high as 90% on carbs, although I'm doing more like 80% currently. Yeah, I eat/drink a lot.
This is still a work in progress. For a while I was going full vegan, then realized I went too low on protein. However, I don't like meat, it reliably tanks my metabolic rate, and ascribe to views like Kate Deering who says you should have meat 1x a week max, and not even that if you're hypo. I am playing around with dairy currently, but don't want much fat so just skim milk, small amount of cheese, 1-2 eggs a day. This needs further experimentation, but I think shellfish could be on the table as well. I did pretty well having shrimp last Friday. Gonna pick up more shrimp at the store. So basically I went from vegan to pescetarian (only flesh is seafood). I also have gelatin every day.