Captain_Coconut
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Hello!
I am looking for some insight on potential ways to raise my basal body temperature. But first would like to give some background.
I'm 38 years old, 5ft 7, average build, average bmi. I have been in good health up until about the age of 35 where my last job started to take a toll. I hit a wall and quit the job and have been focusing fully on rest and recovery for the past 5 months. I am recovering from years of workplace toxic mold exposure (a. niger, high humidity / water damaged building), and upper back / shoulder injury from extreme repetitive assembly line style work. My immune system was in good shape but through constant environmental agitation the mold eventually changed that, I started having chronic dry nose / watery eyes / dust and cat allergies, then constant itchy skin / chronic low quality sleep, followed by depression and low appetite. I was allergy / generally pain free for the 10 or so years before this.
I put many months of dedicated work to clear the mold issue up. Activated Charcoal, Bentonite, Spirulina, Turpentine, Distilled water fasting, liver flushing, Niacin flushing, Grapefruit seed extract, mega dosing methylene blue, just to name a few. After months of detox I felt I had done all I could to clear the toxins out, and could switch to focusing on raising my metabolism and body temp, which I believe was lowered as a last ditch effort made by my body to prevent mycotoxin damage from spreading too fast.
I was about 70% back to my historical 'doing pretty well' state, but still had a low appetite and would feel very sleepy if I forced myself to eat breakfast.. it seemed to me I had beat out the mold issue and now just needed to up my metabolism... I had been underfeeding myself, probably getting 1800 calories in on work days, running on empty for 3 years.
I started on a peat style diet and supplementation plan approx 6 weeks ago. This was intuitively something I was lead to, I craved nothing but cottage cheese and oranges (food that I had not really craved for years) after finishing a 6 day water fast (a last ditch effort to zap out mold issues)! Googling wondering why I was craving those foods so much brought me to peat, which I have been reading up on for hours and hours lately... before the cravings I knew nothing about peat (other than he was the 'tryptophan is bad' guy)!
I became obsessed with measuring my oral temperature after realizing that every time I felt physically or mentally well that it also lined up 100% with how high my body temp was reading. I was starting to feel about 75% better on my good days, but still not seeing the 98.6 I knew I needed, it seemed like nothing would get me above 98! The peat plan has helped immensely, this is basically the dietary lifestyle I used to live as a teenager, long before I knew anything about nutrition and well before the days of skipping meals and drinking black coffee on an empty stomach daily. haha.
So my immune system had to work overtime for several years - coping with heavy environmental toxins, and my nose was constantly stuffy and bloody, I was mouth breathing most nights and waking every few hours from chronic cotton mouth. So I started focusing on nasal health, neti pot, humidifier in bedroom, etc etc. About a month ago I experimentally decided to nasal nebulize some iodine and noticed a sudden increase in mood and checked my temp to see it was 99 for probably the first time in a year. The interesting thing here is taking small doses of iodine orally on occasion did not do anything for my mood or temperature... I began to wonder if something about my nasal system was suppressing my health. Looking around online lead me to Dr. Shoemaker (mold doctor) and reading his work things finally clicked: years of mold stress, lead to a nasal staph infection, which was suppressing my health because the infection was sending toxins to my brain. This I feel is what was really keeping me at 70% despite ample activated charcoal / binder sessions.
Simultaneously for the past weeks, I was peating, and doing everything I could to zap my nasal system back in to to shape. I am now hovering somewhere around 80% better, there are crashes for sure, but this is monumental considering my health was at an all time low just 6 months ago when I was in bed with no energy and extreme depression for a full 2 weeks straight.
For various reasons I am pretty certain I am not in need of taking thyroid. In fact my temp throughout the day is now reading a stable 98.6 for 7 to 8 hours, and sometimes when I am lucky I see a 99.2 for maybe an hour or so.
I am waking up without an alarm now, on my own drive, with usually about 8 hours of sleep, which is impressive for me, I would naturally sleep 12 hours a day just a few months ago. The main thing that is really bothering me now is despite having the drive to wake up and start moving, my mornings still do not feel as great as they could, I am physically heavy / achy and feel pretty blah before 3 or 4 cups of coffee, usually by 2pm I enter a pretty good state. There have been a few nights I woke up to pee and checked temp to see it at 96.0. My oral body temperature in the morning is still coming up on the low side, between 96.2 and 97.2 depending on the day. And it takes usually around 3 or 4 hours before I start to see 98+. There was maybe one day I woke up with 98 and I also happened to feel great for the rest of that morning. It is my understanding that seeing a 97.6+ upon waking is considered optimal.
So my question here is... drumroll... ;-p
What can I do to have a better morning and overnight temperature? Perhaps it will just come with time, but any tips are much appreciated! I feel like if I can master this - I will basically have rehabilitated myself enough to start working back in some mild routine exercise.
p.s. the low temp morning trend I am noticing regardless of the supps or lack of supps I have taken the night before. I also have already adopted all the healthy sleep habits I can think of (full dark, comfortable bed, 65 degree heat) etc.
p.s. the one major other factor I noticed which helped me get my temp up was to avoid pretty much any supplement that may have a role in vasodilation, it seems vasodilators drop my temp (even something known as warming and for energy like ginseng) and keep my temp locked below 98.
Thanks guys! Eager for your feedback!
-Captain Coconut
I am looking for some insight on potential ways to raise my basal body temperature. But first would like to give some background.
I'm 38 years old, 5ft 7, average build, average bmi. I have been in good health up until about the age of 35 where my last job started to take a toll. I hit a wall and quit the job and have been focusing fully on rest and recovery for the past 5 months. I am recovering from years of workplace toxic mold exposure (a. niger, high humidity / water damaged building), and upper back / shoulder injury from extreme repetitive assembly line style work. My immune system was in good shape but through constant environmental agitation the mold eventually changed that, I started having chronic dry nose / watery eyes / dust and cat allergies, then constant itchy skin / chronic low quality sleep, followed by depression and low appetite. I was allergy / generally pain free for the 10 or so years before this.
I put many months of dedicated work to clear the mold issue up. Activated Charcoal, Bentonite, Spirulina, Turpentine, Distilled water fasting, liver flushing, Niacin flushing, Grapefruit seed extract, mega dosing methylene blue, just to name a few. After months of detox I felt I had done all I could to clear the toxins out, and could switch to focusing on raising my metabolism and body temp, which I believe was lowered as a last ditch effort made by my body to prevent mycotoxin damage from spreading too fast.
I was about 70% back to my historical 'doing pretty well' state, but still had a low appetite and would feel very sleepy if I forced myself to eat breakfast.. it seemed to me I had beat out the mold issue and now just needed to up my metabolism... I had been underfeeding myself, probably getting 1800 calories in on work days, running on empty for 3 years.
I started on a peat style diet and supplementation plan approx 6 weeks ago. This was intuitively something I was lead to, I craved nothing but cottage cheese and oranges (food that I had not really craved for years) after finishing a 6 day water fast (a last ditch effort to zap out mold issues)! Googling wondering why I was craving those foods so much brought me to peat, which I have been reading up on for hours and hours lately... before the cravings I knew nothing about peat (other than he was the 'tryptophan is bad' guy)!
I became obsessed with measuring my oral temperature after realizing that every time I felt physically or mentally well that it also lined up 100% with how high my body temp was reading. I was starting to feel about 75% better on my good days, but still not seeing the 98.6 I knew I needed, it seemed like nothing would get me above 98! The peat plan has helped immensely, this is basically the dietary lifestyle I used to live as a teenager, long before I knew anything about nutrition and well before the days of skipping meals and drinking black coffee on an empty stomach daily. haha.
So my immune system had to work overtime for several years - coping with heavy environmental toxins, and my nose was constantly stuffy and bloody, I was mouth breathing most nights and waking every few hours from chronic cotton mouth. So I started focusing on nasal health, neti pot, humidifier in bedroom, etc etc. About a month ago I experimentally decided to nasal nebulize some iodine and noticed a sudden increase in mood and checked my temp to see it was 99 for probably the first time in a year. The interesting thing here is taking small doses of iodine orally on occasion did not do anything for my mood or temperature... I began to wonder if something about my nasal system was suppressing my health. Looking around online lead me to Dr. Shoemaker (mold doctor) and reading his work things finally clicked: years of mold stress, lead to a nasal staph infection, which was suppressing my health because the infection was sending toxins to my brain. This I feel is what was really keeping me at 70% despite ample activated charcoal / binder sessions.
Simultaneously for the past weeks, I was peating, and doing everything I could to zap my nasal system back in to to shape. I am now hovering somewhere around 80% better, there are crashes for sure, but this is monumental considering my health was at an all time low just 6 months ago when I was in bed with no energy and extreme depression for a full 2 weeks straight.
For various reasons I am pretty certain I am not in need of taking thyroid. In fact my temp throughout the day is now reading a stable 98.6 for 7 to 8 hours, and sometimes when I am lucky I see a 99.2 for maybe an hour or so.
I am waking up without an alarm now, on my own drive, with usually about 8 hours of sleep, which is impressive for me, I would naturally sleep 12 hours a day just a few months ago. The main thing that is really bothering me now is despite having the drive to wake up and start moving, my mornings still do not feel as great as they could, I am physically heavy / achy and feel pretty blah before 3 or 4 cups of coffee, usually by 2pm I enter a pretty good state. There have been a few nights I woke up to pee and checked temp to see it at 96.0. My oral body temperature in the morning is still coming up on the low side, between 96.2 and 97.2 depending on the day. And it takes usually around 3 or 4 hours before I start to see 98+. There was maybe one day I woke up with 98 and I also happened to feel great for the rest of that morning. It is my understanding that seeing a 97.6+ upon waking is considered optimal.
So my question here is... drumroll... ;-p
What can I do to have a better morning and overnight temperature? Perhaps it will just come with time, but any tips are much appreciated! I feel like if I can master this - I will basically have rehabilitated myself enough to start working back in some mild routine exercise.
p.s. the low temp morning trend I am noticing regardless of the supps or lack of supps I have taken the night before. I also have already adopted all the healthy sleep habits I can think of (full dark, comfortable bed, 65 degree heat) etc.
p.s. the one major other factor I noticed which helped me get my temp up was to avoid pretty much any supplement that may have a role in vasodilation, it seems vasodilators drop my temp (even something known as warming and for energy like ginseng) and keep my temp locked below 98.
Thanks guys! Eager for your feedback!
-Captain Coconut
