Attakai
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- Dec 1, 2014
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Well let's see, where to start. My health has been degrading for the past decade, looking back on it now, it must have started around the time I was 14 when I started suffering from tinnitus. From then on things got progressively worse, At 16 I started experiencing diffuse hair loss, fatigue, depression, etc. Now at 24 I'm feeling a bit better after seriously cleaning up my diet(going through the standard salads + fatty fish, moving all the way through to more primal where I'm coming from), but I'm not even close to where I want to be and feel.
I've been trying to figure out why my family's health degraded, whilst people around us growing up were happy and healthy while eating what I thought of as unhealthy diets.
You see, my parents fell for the whole "healthy diet fad", since probably around age 10 my diet consisted mostly of whole grain bread + processed low fat turkey slices, + chicken/turkey/fish for dinner. We had very sugar and low fat, and what fat I was consuming was mostly in the form of polyunsaturated fats(vegetable butter, canola oil + fish).
Even though I migrated away from that diet after feeling better with more red meat and saturated fats, I always thought of it as at least moderately healthy, compared to our sugar eating friends(health propoganda) and it never crossed my mind that it was our "healthy diet" that destroying our health. It wasn't until I found ray peat and his articles that things finally started clicking and making sense.
I can relate nearly every symptom I'm reading about the thyroid, and it seems pretty clear to me that the "healthy diet" had been suppressing my thyroid. In fact it's pretty clear that my mother and sister are suffering from hypothyroid symptoms as well(diffuse hair loss as well). I'm going to be shifting my diet towards the ray peat diet as much as I can over the next week, but I thought I would post here first, any advice is very much appreciated.
I've been trying to figure out why my family's health degraded, whilst people around us growing up were happy and healthy while eating what I thought of as unhealthy diets.
You see, my parents fell for the whole "healthy diet fad", since probably around age 10 my diet consisted mostly of whole grain bread + processed low fat turkey slices, + chicken/turkey/fish for dinner. We had very sugar and low fat, and what fat I was consuming was mostly in the form of polyunsaturated fats(vegetable butter, canola oil + fish).
Even though I migrated away from that diet after feeling better with more red meat and saturated fats, I always thought of it as at least moderately healthy, compared to our sugar eating friends(health propoganda) and it never crossed my mind that it was our "healthy diet" that destroying our health. It wasn't until I found ray peat and his articles that things finally started clicking and making sense.
I can relate nearly every symptom I'm reading about the thyroid, and it seems pretty clear to me that the "healthy diet" had been suppressing my thyroid. In fact it's pretty clear that my mother and sister are suffering from hypothyroid symptoms as well(diffuse hair loss as well). I'm going to be shifting my diet towards the ray peat diet as much as I can over the next week, but I thought I would post here first, any advice is very much appreciated.