I think it's like this.
When I was doing IF, cold showers, high starch, I rarely felt cold consciously. If I did, it did not bother me.
You are not going to feel cold unless both your thyroid and adrenals are really messed up. Plenty of hypo people in the world and they don't complain of being cold. That's because the stress hormones "got your back".
Now, what happens with us peating, we are messing with the system. We are lowering our stress hormones too much throught the day. This carries over into the next day when we eat breakfast, we do it again.
I am wondering if we are doing the right approach:
What if it's best to do it the other way? Tackle thyroid first, then after months, years, tackle further optimizations.
- we focus on stress-lowering methods
- further down the road, we tackle the thyroid.
Maybe if I just jumped on thyroid from the start, and kept doing fasting, not eating OJ, fructose and all stress-lowering foods, I would have felt more energetic.
Can high thyroid and high stress hormones coexist?
thyroid and fasting? That sounds terrible and like a safe way to lose your hair through protein wasting