I've been having irregular heart rate for a week already. This happened in the course of my lead detox. I'm not sure what caused it, and I've stopped the detox to give myself some rest Still, the irregular heart rate is on its seventh day already, and my headache and malaise along with it.
I've never had arrhythmia, and incidences of headache had been non-existent for me. In fact, I don't ever recall ever having had one, if my memory serves me right. I've been on lead detox already before, using PectaClear, and have had no issues. Since I've found no progress with my high blood pressure, a result of the lead toxicity, I've shifted to usig garlic. It went on for two weeks, and the headache started towards the end of the second week. When the irregular heart rate reared its ugly head, I stopped taking the detox protocol, and it has been a week since. Meanwhile, the iregular heart rate continues. I base my determination of arrhythmia on a blood pressure monitor Omron HEM-711, which would flash a symbol for arrhythmia at the end of a blood pressure check. It's also been hard taking readings on the monitor, as the irregularity of the heart rate makes it difficult to the monitor, and often it gives an error message.
I'm taking an educated guess and saying that it's my use of progesterone that caused the arrhythmia. My reasoning is in the next paragraph, and I would appreciate your being critical on my analysis: The 2-week+ daily application of progesterone raised my metabolic rate. This is confirmed by higher temperatures initially, and as days passed, the metabolic rate went higher as well. You might ask why I was taking progesterone. My detox protocol was causing my temperatures to go down, and I reasoned that taking some progesterone would be able to counteract the anti-metabolic effect of the detox protocol. It worked out well initially, but it came to a head after 2 weeks of progesterone, and the headache and arrhythmia started.
I think the progesterone increased my metabolism to a point where it requires a larger input of oxygen and sugar. But my body has set limits on me because of the lead toxic condition in my kidneys, such that my blood vessels (in the kidney) has to be constricted, so that my kidney would be in a hypoxic state, a state needed for the production of uric acid. Uric acid is an antioxidant, and with the tissue damage occurring in my kidney, as indicated by my above-range LDH levels (which I suspect arises from the tissue damage at my kidneys), uric acid is needed to keep the oxidative damage occurring from the free radicals being produced at the site of injury.
With the constriction of blood vessels, the delivery of oxygen to the body tissues would be limited. When more oxygen is needed for the increased metabolism (from progesterone usage), not all of the energy needs can be met with the available oxygen. The body had to adapt and it shifted to using a metabolic pathway that needed no oxygen as input. The pathway used, fermentative glycolysis, produced the energy but in an inefficient way, and also produced lactic acid as an end product. This has led to increased use of glucose (not only from increased requirements, but also from an inefficient pathway), probably greater usage of glycogen stores, and also to difficulty sleeping at night (due to depressed glucose and glycogen levels). Furthermore, the lactic acid would increase blood acidity (decrease of blood pH) as well as decrease CO2 in the blood.
This state of metabolic acidosis, with a shift in tissue and blood pH from normal levels, would impact the balance of minerals inside and outside the cells. The disruption of this balance impacts very well the operation of the heart, as the mineral imbalance would affect the electrical signaling and strength, in the repolarization of the the heart. So far, I am only experiencing irregualr heart rate, and the heart rate is still normal. But if I leave this unresolved, it could lead eventually to excessive heart rate, or tachycardia.
And the reason for that is that as the level of CO2 in the blood decreases, it would further decrease the release of oxygen from blood to tissue, and further make the body adapt by turning more to fermentative glycolysis for energy. With more lactic acid and less CO2 being produced, the electrolyte imbalance would be further impaired, and the arrhythmia would worsen, and the pumping mechanism of the heart would become more and more inefficient. This would lead to increased heart rate, to the point of tachycardia.
My headaches are an indication of an oxygen deficit in my system, and my brain is also affected by it.
Is this an accurate and likely scenario I am facing? What an be done now to correct the condition?
Should I increase CO2 in my system by bag breathing? Or should I take thiamine to lessen the lactic acid in my system? What is a dosage I can work with?
@haidut @Travis @Mito @tara what are your thoughts? Thanks!
I've never had arrhythmia, and incidences of headache had been non-existent for me. In fact, I don't ever recall ever having had one, if my memory serves me right. I've been on lead detox already before, using PectaClear, and have had no issues. Since I've found no progress with my high blood pressure, a result of the lead toxicity, I've shifted to usig garlic. It went on for two weeks, and the headache started towards the end of the second week. When the irregular heart rate reared its ugly head, I stopped taking the detox protocol, and it has been a week since. Meanwhile, the iregular heart rate continues. I base my determination of arrhythmia on a blood pressure monitor Omron HEM-711, which would flash a symbol for arrhythmia at the end of a blood pressure check. It's also been hard taking readings on the monitor, as the irregularity of the heart rate makes it difficult to the monitor, and often it gives an error message.
I'm taking an educated guess and saying that it's my use of progesterone that caused the arrhythmia. My reasoning is in the next paragraph, and I would appreciate your being critical on my analysis: The 2-week+ daily application of progesterone raised my metabolic rate. This is confirmed by higher temperatures initially, and as days passed, the metabolic rate went higher as well. You might ask why I was taking progesterone. My detox protocol was causing my temperatures to go down, and I reasoned that taking some progesterone would be able to counteract the anti-metabolic effect of the detox protocol. It worked out well initially, but it came to a head after 2 weeks of progesterone, and the headache and arrhythmia started.
I think the progesterone increased my metabolism to a point where it requires a larger input of oxygen and sugar. But my body has set limits on me because of the lead toxic condition in my kidneys, such that my blood vessels (in the kidney) has to be constricted, so that my kidney would be in a hypoxic state, a state needed for the production of uric acid. Uric acid is an antioxidant, and with the tissue damage occurring in my kidney, as indicated by my above-range LDH levels (which I suspect arises from the tissue damage at my kidneys), uric acid is needed to keep the oxidative damage occurring from the free radicals being produced at the site of injury.
With the constriction of blood vessels, the delivery of oxygen to the body tissues would be limited. When more oxygen is needed for the increased metabolism (from progesterone usage), not all of the energy needs can be met with the available oxygen. The body had to adapt and it shifted to using a metabolic pathway that needed no oxygen as input. The pathway used, fermentative glycolysis, produced the energy but in an inefficient way, and also produced lactic acid as an end product. This has led to increased use of glucose (not only from increased requirements, but also from an inefficient pathway), probably greater usage of glycogen stores, and also to difficulty sleeping at night (due to depressed glucose and glycogen levels). Furthermore, the lactic acid would increase blood acidity (decrease of blood pH) as well as decrease CO2 in the blood.
This state of metabolic acidosis, with a shift in tissue and blood pH from normal levels, would impact the balance of minerals inside and outside the cells. The disruption of this balance impacts very well the operation of the heart, as the mineral imbalance would affect the electrical signaling and strength, in the repolarization of the the heart. So far, I am only experiencing irregualr heart rate, and the heart rate is still normal. But if I leave this unresolved, it could lead eventually to excessive heart rate, or tachycardia.
And the reason for that is that as the level of CO2 in the blood decreases, it would further decrease the release of oxygen from blood to tissue, and further make the body adapt by turning more to fermentative glycolysis for energy. With more lactic acid and less CO2 being produced, the electrolyte imbalance would be further impaired, and the arrhythmia would worsen, and the pumping mechanism of the heart would become more and more inefficient. This would lead to increased heart rate, to the point of tachycardia.
My headaches are an indication of an oxygen deficit in my system, and my brain is also affected by it.
Is this an accurate and likely scenario I am facing? What an be done now to correct the condition?
Should I increase CO2 in my system by bag breathing? Or should I take thiamine to lessen the lactic acid in my system? What is a dosage I can work with?
@haidut @Travis @Mito @tara what are your thoughts? Thanks!