Such_Saturation
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Jennifer said:Such_Saturation said:What were your thyroid hormones like?
I had been seeing a naturopath and had 5 ER visits more than a year prior to fracturing my spine and a thyroid panel had only been done a year after I was at my worst so this is as accurate as I can get numbers wise. At that point, in 2010, I had already gained 15 pounds from my lowest of 70 pounds. Below were my stats at that time.
Weight: 85 pounds
O2 Sat: 100%
Temp: 98 degrees F oral
Pulse: 92
BP sitting: 118/82
TSH: .95
Free T4: 1.14 ng/dL Ref. range: .76-1.46
Total T4: 12.5 ug/dL Ref. range: 4.8-13.9
T3 levels were never checked.
jyb said:I had/have some of your symptoms, maybe it's indeed to chronically high adrenalin. I'd feel energized yet relaxed after sport (endorphin release?), even if it was unhealthy exercise (eg., on empty stomach). However, I would feel sluggish after insomnia. I didn't lose hair, but when it got bad I was young, early twenties, so I think I was using up my birth resources.
Yeah, I was in my early twenties when I noticed weight dropping off and I thought it was due to hiking, but my brother who was my hiking partner was not losing weight. In fact, no one I hiked with regularly, lost weight. I always ate well on our hikes and binged afterwards so it definitely wasn't a calorie issue.
Blossom said:In the book Catching Fire How Cooking Made us Human the author goes into detail about how people on a raw foods diet do not fare as well as people on a diet with a majority of cooked foods. Women particularly lose fertility when eating raw compared to women eating mostly cooked foods even when the calories are the same. It seems we might be the only animals on the planet adapted to eat predominantly cooked foods. It's an interesting read and would explain why people eating mostly raw seem to develop problems. Cooking does seem to make many foods easier to digest hence our large brains and small gut compared to other animals. I don't know if he is totally correct but he makes some interesting points.
Yeah, I've thought a lot about what was stated in Catching Firing and based on my experience, I would have to agree. Because despite eating mostly "easily digestible" fruit calories, I think all the fiber irritated my gut to the point of not being able to absorb nutrients efficiently and I wonder if those who drop weight on that diet, suffering from the same thing.
This is what Ray had to say about an all fruit diet:
"Fruits vary in their protein content and amino acid balance; if we had more knowledge about the amino acids in each fruit, a pure fruit diet might be ideal, but I think it would be risky without that information. Independent researchers have trouble buying the reagents needed for that kind of study, so I haven't done it." - Ray Peat
I believe even if we had more knowledge about the amino acids in fruit, unless we're juicing them, there's the issue of excessive amounts of fiber to get in the calories one needs to sustain on only fruit. Then there's the issue of trying to acquire an abundance of ripe fruit year round. Just that stress alone negated most benefits I received from the diet. At least that was my experience.
How did they rule out Grave's, adenoma, etc.?