Ippodrom47
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Hi everyone! I've been on a low vitamin A detox diet for several months due to severe overdose and carotenemia in the past. I've been eating eggs (ditched them recently), some seeds/nuts, some chicken/turkey/beef (not too much due to hemochromatosis), bananas and grains, including buckwheat. And I means lots of buckwheat, almost with every meal. Buckwheat with rice, buckwheat with seeds, plain buckwheat - you name it. That went on for several months in a row. I think I could easily average around 500-1000 grams of cooked buckwheat on some days.
I can't understand why I have extreme fatigue, agitation, anxiety, overheating after eating, which are not due to blood sugar fluctuations as I can recognize those. The only thing that comes to mind is copper overdose. I did a blood test 3 hours after breakfast (3 bananas, then after a while - rice/buckwheat porridge/a handful of pumpkin seeds/sunflower seeds, water), the results are below:
Iron - 21.6 (reference 12.5 - 32.2)
TIBC - 54.8 (44.7 - 76.1)
Copper - 18.4 (10.99 - 21.98)
Zinc - 17.3 (11.1 - 19.5)
I did it after breakfast deliberately in order to catch a high reading, but those are all normal, albeit close to the high end.
I can't understand why I have extreme fatigue, agitation, anxiety, overheating after eating, which are not due to blood sugar fluctuations as I can recognize those. The only thing that comes to mind is copper overdose. I did a blood test 3 hours after breakfast (3 bananas, then after a while - rice/buckwheat porridge/a handful of pumpkin seeds/sunflower seeds, water), the results are below:
Iron - 21.6 (reference 12.5 - 32.2)
TIBC - 54.8 (44.7 - 76.1)
Copper - 18.4 (10.99 - 21.98)
Zinc - 17.3 (11.1 - 19.5)
I did it after breakfast deliberately in order to catch a high reading, but those are all normal, albeit close to the high end.