explosionlord
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Hello all; long-time lurker, first time poster. Lemme say that I've enjoyed all your advice throughout the 3-4 years since I discovered Peat.
Anyway, as is typical of first-time posters, I decided to post because I'm having some problems. Namely that I think I may have "diabetes-ed" myself. What's worrying me most at the moment is this extensive brain fog I'm feeling, to the point my temples mildly hurt and I have light tunnel vision. My best guess is since I started a Leangains regimen, I have been getting too much fat (70-80g a day, pretty much exclusively saturated, though in some recent days I was pushing 100g) and my circulating FFAs have been high. Along with all this, and prior to the ketonic-feeling brain fog, I have bad abdominal pain whenever I eat higher fat foods. It isn't in any particular "quadrant" as pancreatitis would suggest, but I'm still believing it has to be pancreas-related. Last night I felt so messed up with that ketogenic feeling until I dissolved some baking soda in water and drank it, and it subsided to great extent.
I have been taking 150-400mg pregnenolone, 500mg niacinamide, enteric aspirin (chewed), and mk-4 K2 (topically) recently. With leangains, I was aiming for 145 g protein a day and was doing well with that for a few weeks, but within the past few weeks getting to 100 has been a struggle. I admit my calcium:phosphorus ratios haven't been optimal, but I've been working on it; I supplement with dolomite on days I don't get enough milk to top over phosphorus- only problem with that is I'm not sure of dolomite's efficacy, since there don't seem to be many good studies on it (it's calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate). I also admit to having a lot of wheat just for its convenience in attaining calories; noodles, et cetera, but always get unenriched stuff. I do OJ with Natural Calm (magnesium citrate) in the mornings and would sometimes drink Vitamin Waters for the fructose.
Again, what's worrying me is the keto-feel, because since I can't seem to have fat (bad abdominal pain and bubbling ensue) and this seems to suggest I am not metabolizing sugar, that means I can't have sugar/carbs. Obviously, only eating protein is a no-go...what do I do? I have basically been in this haze the past three days non-stop.
I have no bloodwork basis for the ketone idea, just remembering the feeling from about 5 years ago when I did Lyle McDonald's ketogenic diet thing. I was thinking of getting a glucose/ketone monitor from Walgreens, what do you guys think?
Anyway, as is typical of first-time posters, I decided to post because I'm having some problems. Namely that I think I may have "diabetes-ed" myself. What's worrying me most at the moment is this extensive brain fog I'm feeling, to the point my temples mildly hurt and I have light tunnel vision. My best guess is since I started a Leangains regimen, I have been getting too much fat (70-80g a day, pretty much exclusively saturated, though in some recent days I was pushing 100g) and my circulating FFAs have been high. Along with all this, and prior to the ketonic-feeling brain fog, I have bad abdominal pain whenever I eat higher fat foods. It isn't in any particular "quadrant" as pancreatitis would suggest, but I'm still believing it has to be pancreas-related. Last night I felt so messed up with that ketogenic feeling until I dissolved some baking soda in water and drank it, and it subsided to great extent.
I have been taking 150-400mg pregnenolone, 500mg niacinamide, enteric aspirin (chewed), and mk-4 K2 (topically) recently. With leangains, I was aiming for 145 g protein a day and was doing well with that for a few weeks, but within the past few weeks getting to 100 has been a struggle. I admit my calcium:phosphorus ratios haven't been optimal, but I've been working on it; I supplement with dolomite on days I don't get enough milk to top over phosphorus- only problem with that is I'm not sure of dolomite's efficacy, since there don't seem to be many good studies on it (it's calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate). I also admit to having a lot of wheat just for its convenience in attaining calories; noodles, et cetera, but always get unenriched stuff. I do OJ with Natural Calm (magnesium citrate) in the mornings and would sometimes drink Vitamin Waters for the fructose.
Again, what's worrying me is the keto-feel, because since I can't seem to have fat (bad abdominal pain and bubbling ensue) and this seems to suggest I am not metabolizing sugar, that means I can't have sugar/carbs. Obviously, only eating protein is a no-go...what do I do? I have basically been in this haze the past three days non-stop.
I have no bloodwork basis for the ketone idea, just remembering the feeling from about 5 years ago when I did Lyle McDonald's ketogenic diet thing. I was thinking of getting a glucose/ketone monitor from Walgreens, what do you guys think?