Greetings!
First, this forum has been immensely helpful and I want to thank everybody here.
I am 29 year old male, 5'5" at 187lbs. I am French.
A little background about me. I think I was slightly hypo all my life as I was having "growing pains" in the legs in the evenings a lot. Then at 10 I had an inguinal hernia and did surgery to fix it with general anesthesia – I saw recently somewhere that anesthesia could lower temps – so it probably added to the hypo symptoms. I began to gain weight and have more problems (in the feet, back, legs) with gynecomastia on top of that, it was horrible. I caught colds at least once a month in winter and if I went to parties with people smoking around me, next day I would have catch a cold. The first cold would trigger caugh during all winter.
All of this made me the nerd of the school and I did not have a lot of fun during that time. My father is a pharmacist, I was raised as someone who thinks doctors are not very useful but medicine is good and if you have a problem it's your genes.
4 years ago I decided I had enough of it and started to do things for my health. I began to lift weight, drank green smoothies in the morning which quickly made me eat less calories and after a few weeks I read a book about paleo and went low carb. At first I felt awesome, lost 20kg and had more energy than ever. Then I started having cravings for bread mainly, then sugary things. I ended it 6 months later after lying in bed for a month being sick. The burnout due to stress I had at work was the cherry on top.
3 years ago, I discovered Danny Roddy, Ray Peat and Matt Stone. I slowly understood what to do to get to better health but it was very slow (bad habits can be hard to kill). After going low calorie last year (1300kcal per day between september and decembrer!) I finally realized I had to eat more (2000kcal was inconceivable at that time). I slowly went from 1300kcal to 3000kcal and more currently. I did weight lifting on and off this year but stopped last month to focus on my temps. I also have taped my mouth at night for the past couple months, it improved my wake up temp.
I have normal temps (wake up at 97.6 to 97.8, then 98.6 all day long after breakfast and shower) and I eat to appetite. I have been better since august for the temps, but with the coldness and darkness of the past couples months my temps dropped. I have been able to return to normal temps last week.
Resolved symptoms:
- Catching colds all the time (I have been cold-free for a year, I am so happy!)
- Neck/Shoulder/Arm pain, I once thought I had carpian canal syndrome (I still have a small pain from time to time when I don't eat peaty)
- Acne on legs
- Lack of energy
- Tartar on teeth (I had a lot even 1 month after the dentist, I have almost none for more than 6 months now)
- Bleeding gums
- Probably more...
Ongoing symptoms:
- Fat and/or Water retention (it won't budge, and if I deviate from peat recommandations, I gain weight)
- Runny nose (again I had this all my life, but it's getting better and better)
- Dry red eyes (I once tried contact lenses, I have had red eyes since then)
- Tinnitus (again I don't remember the time when it was fine)
- Gynecomastia
I really think it's estrogen dominance and also the liver not working normally. It might be endotoxin too.
Here's what I eat:
- 2l semi-skimmed milk
- 500ml orange juice
- 250ml red bull
- 250g brown sugar
- 100-200g eggs/beef/liver/shellfish (a few times a week each)
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- gelatin sometimes
- and other sugary things if I'm still hungry
I sometimes take aspirin and vit e/d/k supplements. Activated charcoal too (small doses at night).
I have been eating starch (rice, potatoes) until recently. I have tried cooked bananas last week and it didn't caused troubles.
I really don't know what to do here. There's a lot of different opinions on this forum and I don't know if:
- I should go fat-free
- I should eat more sugar
- I should stop milk (because of the estrogen and too much calcium with estrogen dominance might be not good)
- Or something else
Please help me!
First, this forum has been immensely helpful and I want to thank everybody here.
I am 29 year old male, 5'5" at 187lbs. I am French.
A little background about me. I think I was slightly hypo all my life as I was having "growing pains" in the legs in the evenings a lot. Then at 10 I had an inguinal hernia and did surgery to fix it with general anesthesia – I saw recently somewhere that anesthesia could lower temps – so it probably added to the hypo symptoms. I began to gain weight and have more problems (in the feet, back, legs) with gynecomastia on top of that, it was horrible. I caught colds at least once a month in winter and if I went to parties with people smoking around me, next day I would have catch a cold. The first cold would trigger caugh during all winter.
All of this made me the nerd of the school and I did not have a lot of fun during that time. My father is a pharmacist, I was raised as someone who thinks doctors are not very useful but medicine is good and if you have a problem it's your genes.
4 years ago I decided I had enough of it and started to do things for my health. I began to lift weight, drank green smoothies in the morning which quickly made me eat less calories and after a few weeks I read a book about paleo and went low carb. At first I felt awesome, lost 20kg and had more energy than ever. Then I started having cravings for bread mainly, then sugary things. I ended it 6 months later after lying in bed for a month being sick. The burnout due to stress I had at work was the cherry on top.
3 years ago, I discovered Danny Roddy, Ray Peat and Matt Stone. I slowly understood what to do to get to better health but it was very slow (bad habits can be hard to kill). After going low calorie last year (1300kcal per day between september and decembrer!) I finally realized I had to eat more (2000kcal was inconceivable at that time). I slowly went from 1300kcal to 3000kcal and more currently. I did weight lifting on and off this year but stopped last month to focus on my temps. I also have taped my mouth at night for the past couple months, it improved my wake up temp.
I have normal temps (wake up at 97.6 to 97.8, then 98.6 all day long after breakfast and shower) and I eat to appetite. I have been better since august for the temps, but with the coldness and darkness of the past couples months my temps dropped. I have been able to return to normal temps last week.
Resolved symptoms:
- Catching colds all the time (I have been cold-free for a year, I am so happy!)
- Neck/Shoulder/Arm pain, I once thought I had carpian canal syndrome (I still have a small pain from time to time when I don't eat peaty)
- Acne on legs
- Lack of energy
- Tartar on teeth (I had a lot even 1 month after the dentist, I have almost none for more than 6 months now)
- Bleeding gums
- Probably more...
Ongoing symptoms:
- Fat and/or Water retention (it won't budge, and if I deviate from peat recommandations, I gain weight)
- Runny nose (again I had this all my life, but it's getting better and better)
- Dry red eyes (I once tried contact lenses, I have had red eyes since then)
- Tinnitus (again I don't remember the time when it was fine)
- Gynecomastia
I really think it's estrogen dominance and also the liver not working normally. It might be endotoxin too.
Here's what I eat:
- 2l semi-skimmed milk
- 500ml orange juice
- 250ml red bull
- 250g brown sugar
- 100-200g eggs/beef/liver/shellfish (a few times a week each)
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- gelatin sometimes
- and other sugary things if I'm still hungry
I sometimes take aspirin and vit e/d/k supplements. Activated charcoal too (small doses at night).
I have been eating starch (rice, potatoes) until recently. I have tried cooked bananas last week and it didn't caused troubles.
I really don't know what to do here. There's a lot of different opinions on this forum and I don't know if:
- I should go fat-free
- I should eat more sugar
- I should stop milk (because of the estrogen and too much calcium with estrogen dominance might be not good)
- Or something else
Please help me!