DavidGardner
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It started with the tofu. Horrible sentence to begin with, I know. Over the summer up until last week I have maintained a lower PUFA, Peatier diet than ever in the past. Only supplements have been vitamin E when eating too much PUFA, vitamin K2 with a lot of calcium, glycine occasionally at night, and activated charcoal occasionally for gut. I was eating cheese, some whey and gelatin, for protein, no muscle meat, sometimes milk. More starch than sugar, especially white rice with coconut oil. Most of my fat, about 40 - 70 g / day, was coming from cheese, coconut oil, or Kerrygold butter. Raw carrot every day. Coffee every day. Some fruit with honey at night, but usually not a lot. Average 3700 kcal a day, 5' 7", 30 y/o male, 160 lbs, yada yada. (I know some like stats before making any considerations.)
I got burnt out on dairy. I have also been having tremors a lot lately, which a neurologist told me was caused by stress and not essential tremor or Parkinson's and I wanted to see if eating less dairy would make a difference. Not eating meat limits my options, so last Wednesday for the first time in a long time I tried tofu again. There was a noticeable stress response each time a ate it (a couple times) which subsided with taking 100 IU vitamin E. Then came a wedding rehearsal dinner last Friday and the wedding on Saturday, which of course entailed PUFA-laden eats. And since then I have been off the Peat wagon.
In part, I have been challenging my own beliefs. The dominant ideas in the medical community are that PUFA should be eaten in place of saturated fat, sugar should be limited, and whole grains with soluble fiber make good staple foods. So I have consciously tried eating more this way to see what would happen, because it has been so long since I have done so. Also, weirdly you might think, I do crave whole grains sometimes....
The biggest thing I have noticed is that I feel puffy. I have to take vitamin E, I do so compulsively whenever I have eaten a few grams of PUFA or more at a time, otherwise I become distressed unless I am in a comfortable social setting. I have been drinking more coffee with less of an adrenergic effect. The coffee seems to somewhat counteract the inflammatory reaction of the PUFA, which I have intuitively known since even before I knew anything about Peat's ideas.
I have no desire now to return to eating dairy fat. I don't feel bad, in fact I feel better in some ways. I have had far fewer tremors and fewer physical symptoms of anxiety (heavy breathing, etc.). Blood flow seems improved <ahem> though this may in part be due to all the vitamin E. Workouts have also been better.
I am probably going to try shifting to more calories from fruit (it's just so frickin' expensive compared to grains). I think I'll stay off the dairy, except for one whey isolate serving per day, which I have found vastly helps me with maintaining lean mass. Fat just from coconut. The problem remains where to get the protein. Cooked meat in any form worsens my tremors. Too much gelatin makes me cold and dysphoric. I guess I could eat some egg whites so long as I track and watch the tryptophan. If I can eat enough potatoes, I know Peat likes potato protein as well.
Maybe one takeaway from this is that I could use more consistent vitamin E supplementation, like 200 IU / day, instead of an occasional 100 IU. Also, regardless of what anyone here say, I am aware that increased serotonin (from PUFA or whatever) can mask the psychophysiological symptoms of stress through activation of the 5-HT1A receptor which in turn increases beta-endorphin. Nature's buffer against stress.
Or maybe we're all wrong here, and whole grains and almonds are the way to go.
I got burnt out on dairy. I have also been having tremors a lot lately, which a neurologist told me was caused by stress and not essential tremor or Parkinson's and I wanted to see if eating less dairy would make a difference. Not eating meat limits my options, so last Wednesday for the first time in a long time I tried tofu again. There was a noticeable stress response each time a ate it (a couple times) which subsided with taking 100 IU vitamin E. Then came a wedding rehearsal dinner last Friday and the wedding on Saturday, which of course entailed PUFA-laden eats. And since then I have been off the Peat wagon.
In part, I have been challenging my own beliefs. The dominant ideas in the medical community are that PUFA should be eaten in place of saturated fat, sugar should be limited, and whole grains with soluble fiber make good staple foods. So I have consciously tried eating more this way to see what would happen, because it has been so long since I have done so. Also, weirdly you might think, I do crave whole grains sometimes....
The biggest thing I have noticed is that I feel puffy. I have to take vitamin E, I do so compulsively whenever I have eaten a few grams of PUFA or more at a time, otherwise I become distressed unless I am in a comfortable social setting. I have been drinking more coffee with less of an adrenergic effect. The coffee seems to somewhat counteract the inflammatory reaction of the PUFA, which I have intuitively known since even before I knew anything about Peat's ideas.
I have no desire now to return to eating dairy fat. I don't feel bad, in fact I feel better in some ways. I have had far fewer tremors and fewer physical symptoms of anxiety (heavy breathing, etc.). Blood flow seems improved <ahem> though this may in part be due to all the vitamin E. Workouts have also been better.
I am probably going to try shifting to more calories from fruit (it's just so frickin' expensive compared to grains). I think I'll stay off the dairy, except for one whey isolate serving per day, which I have found vastly helps me with maintaining lean mass. Fat just from coconut. The problem remains where to get the protein. Cooked meat in any form worsens my tremors. Too much gelatin makes me cold and dysphoric. I guess I could eat some egg whites so long as I track and watch the tryptophan. If I can eat enough potatoes, I know Peat likes potato protein as well.
Maybe one takeaway from this is that I could use more consistent vitamin E supplementation, like 200 IU / day, instead of an occasional 100 IU. Also, regardless of what anyone here say, I am aware that increased serotonin (from PUFA or whatever) can mask the psychophysiological symptoms of stress through activation of the 5-HT1A receptor which in turn increases beta-endorphin. Nature's buffer against stress.
Or maybe we're all wrong here, and whole grains and almonds are the way to go.
