peter_gunz
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A lurker for a couple of weeks, but came across both the forum and RP through research on metabolism, thyroid, and GERD. I currently have developed some gallbladder issues and took some tests.
Vitamin D: Low. 28.6. Previously, it was higher, but I live in Michigan. I used to live in California and down South before I moved to Michigan with more sunshine.
Vitamin C: 26. Seems to be on the low side of the doctor's healthy scale, so it probably needs to be higher. Unfortunately, I can't find any websites with healthy serum vitamin C levels outside of what conventional medicine considers healthy.
Body Temp: Started measuring yesterday. 96.8! Looking back, I had some prostate issues(infection and enlarged) 2 years ago (I'm 34 now) and even back then my body temp was in the 97s (I found my old doctor's website and checked all of the temperatures. I'm wondering if thyroid was part of the problem back then too?
In the beginning, I switched from what was my current diet to incorporating RP principles one at a time or following them to the best of my ability. I was having awful GERD, but lately was checked and got that taken care of. Instead, I'm feeling reflux symptoms and my GI doc doesn't know why. He told me to stay on the nexium, but to stop the zantac at night.
I can't remember what I started with, but basically made it a point to get as much dairy in as I could(in the beginning, just enough to get the protein for my first 2 meals of the day). I was eating both whole milk yogurt and greek yogurt, but decided to go to Icelandic whole milk yogurt. Huge mistake. I'm not sure what happened, but my body has pretty much rejected yogurt outright. The Kirkland organic nonfat greek yogurt doesn't cause anything major, but a slight burp, but anything else causes major phlegm and soreness in the area under my tongue and inside my chest. Other greek yogurts are either less severe or similar.
I even tried putting some honey in the syrup, but to no avail. The honey does ease the throat after, but it doesn't prevent any pain.
Mind you, until I started this diet, I had no issues eating yogurt other than what I thought was GERD that my doc said wasn't. He said it's a swallowing disorder that a different specialist will have to check on.
I tried cottage cheese thinking this would be better. Nope, worse than yogurt.
Then, I tried organic grass fed whole milk (not having heard the latest skim milk recommendation, but going off of the older article). I ate a bit of yogurt at the same time for protein so it's hard to say if the whole milk affected my throat, but I ate breakfast after the glass of milk, which was when my gallbladder started acting up.
I found some hard cheese that doesn't contain any strange ingredients so I'm taking that in now. I also decided to take in the same amount of protein and calcium from it as I would if I was able to drink milk. After less than 2 days, my temperature is going up. Tonight after my last meal, I got up to 98.1 degrees when I was in the lower 97 range all day.
The cheese works well for the calcium, but I believe RP also recommends dairy for the sugar as well, correct?
I know that RP recommends milk that is from grass fed cows, but he also recommends lower fat milk. However, the lowest milk I can find from grass fed cows is 2%. I can find organic milk at 1% and organic skim milk. I can't find RP's recommendation on this, but what would this board recommend?
My thought is trying that maybe I won't have any milk issues if I get a lower fat version. I've been taking digestive enzymes and that did clear up some of my GERD like symptoms and even helped with the gallbladder, but the dairy symptoms still seem to be present with cottage cheese and yogurt. I haven't tried milk again, but I'm out of the other 2 dairy sources with only hard cheeses left for dairy.
Also, my other question is does anyone have a recommended lower fat cheese? It seems that RP recommends lower fat cheese as well, but everything I find has a pretty decent amount of fat. I did find some fat free cheese, but I didn't think the ingredients were worth ingesting.
Background: Pretty awful processed sugar and meat diet growing up. Started eating clean when I discovered weights. Slowed my metabolism big time when I lived in Japan for 2 years at the age of 20 and gained 40 lbs in 6 months. Lost the weight through portion control and jogging 3 days a week for 30 min per day. Ballooned back up when I got home due to stress from family. Never super fat, but also take a lot of work to get skinny when my natural weight is about 160 lbs at 5'8.
I measure my food and calories daily. I got a horrible case of GERD last year and the doc told me I needed to lose waist size. I was 40 inches, but was also bench pressing 245 lbs for reps and pretty muscular overall, just on a bulk phase. Couldn't workout anymore due to the acid coming up, but still weighted my meals. The diet I used to drop 40 lbs in 60 days was a low carb, high protein, low fat diet, but some days the fat was higher than the carbs.
I've done low carb in the past and it was very beneficial. Used to take in coconut oil and vitamin d pretty regularly as well, but after some negative experiences with alternative medicine, I decided that conventional wisdom knew best. And here I am, feeling like I'm about to be taken in to remove bad parts and whatnot. I have ordered some extra virgin raw organic coconut oil to come in tomorrow. Any and all advice is appreciated.
Edit: I forgot to mention that other than the dairy, my overall energy levels are pretty good. I realized in 2016 that sugar had its place, but was focusing on glucose. I think RP might be right about fructose given the evidence so I'm experimenting right now.
I'm on the fence about trying orange juice. I've had digestive issues with oranges previously, but never anything awful. I might get acid reflux now, but I'm not sure. What kind of OJ is recommended? I can't find any RP quotes on the matter. I have Barrett's Esophagus so I'm wondering if the low acid brand would be the way to go? My issue is the chemicals that they have in them. Should I be worried about this?
Vitamin D: Low. 28.6. Previously, it was higher, but I live in Michigan. I used to live in California and down South before I moved to Michigan with more sunshine.
Vitamin C: 26. Seems to be on the low side of the doctor's healthy scale, so it probably needs to be higher. Unfortunately, I can't find any websites with healthy serum vitamin C levels outside of what conventional medicine considers healthy.
Body Temp: Started measuring yesterday. 96.8! Looking back, I had some prostate issues(infection and enlarged) 2 years ago (I'm 34 now) and even back then my body temp was in the 97s (I found my old doctor's website and checked all of the temperatures. I'm wondering if thyroid was part of the problem back then too?
In the beginning, I switched from what was my current diet to incorporating RP principles one at a time or following them to the best of my ability. I was having awful GERD, but lately was checked and got that taken care of. Instead, I'm feeling reflux symptoms and my GI doc doesn't know why. He told me to stay on the nexium, but to stop the zantac at night.
I can't remember what I started with, but basically made it a point to get as much dairy in as I could(in the beginning, just enough to get the protein for my first 2 meals of the day). I was eating both whole milk yogurt and greek yogurt, but decided to go to Icelandic whole milk yogurt. Huge mistake. I'm not sure what happened, but my body has pretty much rejected yogurt outright. The Kirkland organic nonfat greek yogurt doesn't cause anything major, but a slight burp, but anything else causes major phlegm and soreness in the area under my tongue and inside my chest. Other greek yogurts are either less severe or similar.
I even tried putting some honey in the syrup, but to no avail. The honey does ease the throat after, but it doesn't prevent any pain.
Mind you, until I started this diet, I had no issues eating yogurt other than what I thought was GERD that my doc said wasn't. He said it's a swallowing disorder that a different specialist will have to check on.
I tried cottage cheese thinking this would be better. Nope, worse than yogurt.
Then, I tried organic grass fed whole milk (not having heard the latest skim milk recommendation, but going off of the older article). I ate a bit of yogurt at the same time for protein so it's hard to say if the whole milk affected my throat, but I ate breakfast after the glass of milk, which was when my gallbladder started acting up.
I found some hard cheese that doesn't contain any strange ingredients so I'm taking that in now. I also decided to take in the same amount of protein and calcium from it as I would if I was able to drink milk. After less than 2 days, my temperature is going up. Tonight after my last meal, I got up to 98.1 degrees when I was in the lower 97 range all day.
The cheese works well for the calcium, but I believe RP also recommends dairy for the sugar as well, correct?
I know that RP recommends milk that is from grass fed cows, but he also recommends lower fat milk. However, the lowest milk I can find from grass fed cows is 2%. I can find organic milk at 1% and organic skim milk. I can't find RP's recommendation on this, but what would this board recommend?
My thought is trying that maybe I won't have any milk issues if I get a lower fat version. I've been taking digestive enzymes and that did clear up some of my GERD like symptoms and even helped with the gallbladder, but the dairy symptoms still seem to be present with cottage cheese and yogurt. I haven't tried milk again, but I'm out of the other 2 dairy sources with only hard cheeses left for dairy.
Also, my other question is does anyone have a recommended lower fat cheese? It seems that RP recommends lower fat cheese as well, but everything I find has a pretty decent amount of fat. I did find some fat free cheese, but I didn't think the ingredients were worth ingesting.
Background: Pretty awful processed sugar and meat diet growing up. Started eating clean when I discovered weights. Slowed my metabolism big time when I lived in Japan for 2 years at the age of 20 and gained 40 lbs in 6 months. Lost the weight through portion control and jogging 3 days a week for 30 min per day. Ballooned back up when I got home due to stress from family. Never super fat, but also take a lot of work to get skinny when my natural weight is about 160 lbs at 5'8.
I measure my food and calories daily. I got a horrible case of GERD last year and the doc told me I needed to lose waist size. I was 40 inches, but was also bench pressing 245 lbs for reps and pretty muscular overall, just on a bulk phase. Couldn't workout anymore due to the acid coming up, but still weighted my meals. The diet I used to drop 40 lbs in 60 days was a low carb, high protein, low fat diet, but some days the fat was higher than the carbs.
I've done low carb in the past and it was very beneficial. Used to take in coconut oil and vitamin d pretty regularly as well, but after some negative experiences with alternative medicine, I decided that conventional wisdom knew best. And here I am, feeling like I'm about to be taken in to remove bad parts and whatnot. I have ordered some extra virgin raw organic coconut oil to come in tomorrow. Any and all advice is appreciated.
Edit: I forgot to mention that other than the dairy, my overall energy levels are pretty good. I realized in 2016 that sugar had its place, but was focusing on glucose. I think RP might be right about fructose given the evidence so I'm experimenting right now.
I'm on the fence about trying orange juice. I've had digestive issues with oranges previously, but never anything awful. I might get acid reflux now, but I'm not sure. What kind of OJ is recommended? I can't find any RP quotes on the matter. I have Barrett's Esophagus so I'm wondering if the low acid brand would be the way to go? My issue is the chemicals that they have in them. Should I be worried about this?
