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It’s a bit of a tongue and cheek title, but true; I ate a low vitamin A diet due to my mom’s nutritionist education, which advocated for a functionally low vit A diet. This was not anti vitamin A, but the basic “magical” nonsense of plants vs animal.
I did eat raw broccoli, the occasional sweat potato dish around holidays, icecream on birthdays, eggs for breakfast, and I even ate liver once against my mom’s best wishes at a Luby’s, but otherwise, I struggled and did attain that apex dead-androgen hollow-souled state, hypogonadism! I’m here to tell ya, it works!
So, my diet looked like a few eggs for breakfast, tons of rice and beans, raw veggies, bread, coconut oil, random fruits, chicken, and a little lean beef each week. If we ate out I got a burger and doubled my red meat intake for the week.
I’m not blaming all my problems on low vitamin A, but I sure wish I had the vitamin A toxicity of all my friends who grew up eating tons of dairy fat, and all the saturated animal fat they desired, with the plentiful red meat and occasional organs.
After a few years post carnivore of high Dairy, I only improved. After hearing Ray’s explanation of metabolic function determining the vit A dose, I began adding idealabs Retinil at approx 5000mg a day, and recently upped it to 8-12000mg, in tandem with improved metabolism.
It’s completely unthoughtful to say that a nutrient that humans consumed in astronomically higher doses for thousands of years before our metabolic epidemic, is somehow a toxin — first saturated fat, then red meat, then dairy, then carbohydrate, now vitamins A and D.
Ray’s body of work on what vitamin A actually does, shows just how instrumental vitamin A deficiency was in giving me this sort of “pseudo cushings” or crohn’s high cortisol, insanely tanked androgen, high estrogen state I’ve been in for all of my twenties.
I did eat raw broccoli, the occasional sweat potato dish around holidays, icecream on birthdays, eggs for breakfast, and I even ate liver once against my mom’s best wishes at a Luby’s, but otherwise, I struggled and did attain that apex dead-androgen hollow-souled state, hypogonadism! I’m here to tell ya, it works!
So, my diet looked like a few eggs for breakfast, tons of rice and beans, raw veggies, bread, coconut oil, random fruits, chicken, and a little lean beef each week. If we ate out I got a burger and doubled my red meat intake for the week.
I’m not blaming all my problems on low vitamin A, but I sure wish I had the vitamin A toxicity of all my friends who grew up eating tons of dairy fat, and all the saturated animal fat they desired, with the plentiful red meat and occasional organs.
After a few years post carnivore of high Dairy, I only improved. After hearing Ray’s explanation of metabolic function determining the vit A dose, I began adding idealabs Retinil at approx 5000mg a day, and recently upped it to 8-12000mg, in tandem with improved metabolism.
It’s completely unthoughtful to say that a nutrient that humans consumed in astronomically higher doses for thousands of years before our metabolic epidemic, is somehow a toxin — first saturated fat, then red meat, then dairy, then carbohydrate, now vitamins A and D.
Ray’s body of work on what vitamin A actually does, shows just how instrumental vitamin A deficiency was in giving me this sort of “pseudo cushings” or crohn’s high cortisol, insanely tanked androgen, high estrogen state I’ve been in for all of my twenties.