I'm.No.One
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So hey, how's it going. This will be a long read, that's just who I am as a person LOL.
My body is basically shutting down after years of SEVERE chronic stress, like 14+ hour work days for years while living in a literal falling down mold infested house then a tent in the yard.
But hey, I did it. Bought us a real nice house on 40+ acres, gave my kids everything they could ever need. Yay!
But I'm pretty sure it's costing me my life.
Been here two years now, the new house. Moved in just before the year of 20 hit so stress remained (small business owner/it's our sole income)
Cortisol in the beginning of 20 was sky high, then I almost bled to death (pregnancy loss), then I kept working because homelessness isn't fun.
Now that I've kinda sorta conveyed my severe stress it went on, well it still kinda is. Trying my best to work on it while still living in it kinda deal.
Then I fu*king tripped over the smallest fence in the world & hit my head on a pile of steel fence posts at a downward trajectory.
This slowed me down a bit, as a severe concussion is known to do, pretty sure the universe was like "we're gana have to hit this b*tch in the head to make her stop."
I began eating pro-metabolic in May, after the blow to the head, didn't eat restrictive before, began very gentle weight lifting, breath work, vagus nerve stimulation, worked hard to hone in supplements primarily animal based.
Started feeling a bit better.
Did cortisol tests (spit/multiple 4 months apart actually my night time levels got even worse... level 3 HPA- axis dysfunction), hormones say I'm not estrogen dominant, no really I'm not.
However my testosterone is low, progestogen is low, DHEA is SKY HIGH. So much so the report noted it specifically.
So I've gained about 30 lbs, yes 30 lbs since beginning pro-metabolic. I have been tiny my entire life, like 95-100lbs max. I know my body needs to feel safe, it's okay.
However a lot of it is in my upper arms, my stomach is for sure just a balloon of cortisol fat, my love handles/thighs exploded, oh & my breast size has gone up 1-1/2 cup size!
Saying I don't feel well is an understatement.
Thyroid is supposedly fine, no autoimmune, no Lyme's (no surprise there I live off of/grew up on deer meat.)
Digestion is fine, poop 1-2 times a day.
Hair is floor length, yes floor length.
Skin is clear, I've never had acne.
Nails are strong, long, & grow quickly.
I violently ovulate like clockwork, like I have to restrain myself from mating to the point I warn my husband to scorn my advances.
Absolutely no chemical birth control.
No medications.
I don't drink.
I don't smoke, anything.
I am hungry in the morning.
Do have the mother f*cker gene, C13.
I lived off of animal fat/meat/carbs before pro-metabolic, I just had to learn how to combine them + eat more often. Although I for sure had to eat more carbs.
Did a hair test last week. It said:
Bottom level calcium (I love dairy, buy 20+lbs of raw cheese at a time)
Scary high like no more room on the chart sodium.
Not much potassium, but I drink like a gallon or more of ******* OJ, drink coconut water, potatoes are life to me...
High zinc, probably from the oyster max.
Low copper in relation to the zinc.
Low magnesium levels.
Also, my iron level are like perfect. What the hell? I mean that's not a bad thing just what's the odds with everything else being out of whack?
I know. I know. This all is from stress. Real ******* stress. I'm like a walking clinical example.
But I can't just stop working I have 5 people who rely on me to keep my sh*t together. Two of which are my kids.
So I'm thinking of trying the thyro blend I've been reading about on here, the kind you drop on your arm.
Thinking about using bio- available potassium.
Thinking about baking/grinding up eggs shells for even more calcium, I've got too many damn chickens.
Bio- available copper, under 2mg for no more than a month.
I do use a progesterone cream now, for a few months now. Felt calm using it at first, don't notice anything now.
Take 2 forms of magnesium.
On the fence about using other hormones due to the sky high DHEA levels. Something clearly isn't converting.
Stress will always be here. I've always been an awesome adapter to it, until I wasn't. So I'm just trying to find a way to help my body bounce back some, at least supplement in a way that keeps me ahead of the resource burn because food clearly isn't cutting it.
If you made it this far, thank you for that! Wana be friends?
Got any ideas? Suggestions? Questions? I am all ears!
My body is basically shutting down after years of SEVERE chronic stress, like 14+ hour work days for years while living in a literal falling down mold infested house then a tent in the yard.
But hey, I did it. Bought us a real nice house on 40+ acres, gave my kids everything they could ever need. Yay!
But I'm pretty sure it's costing me my life.
Been here two years now, the new house. Moved in just before the year of 20 hit so stress remained (small business owner/it's our sole income)
Cortisol in the beginning of 20 was sky high, then I almost bled to death (pregnancy loss), then I kept working because homelessness isn't fun.
Now that I've kinda sorta conveyed my severe stress it went on, well it still kinda is. Trying my best to work on it while still living in it kinda deal.
Then I fu*king tripped over the smallest fence in the world & hit my head on a pile of steel fence posts at a downward trajectory.
This slowed me down a bit, as a severe concussion is known to do, pretty sure the universe was like "we're gana have to hit this b*tch in the head to make her stop."
I began eating pro-metabolic in May, after the blow to the head, didn't eat restrictive before, began very gentle weight lifting, breath work, vagus nerve stimulation, worked hard to hone in supplements primarily animal based.
Started feeling a bit better.
Did cortisol tests (spit/multiple 4 months apart actually my night time levels got even worse... level 3 HPA- axis dysfunction), hormones say I'm not estrogen dominant, no really I'm not.
However my testosterone is low, progestogen is low, DHEA is SKY HIGH. So much so the report noted it specifically.
So I've gained about 30 lbs, yes 30 lbs since beginning pro-metabolic. I have been tiny my entire life, like 95-100lbs max. I know my body needs to feel safe, it's okay.
However a lot of it is in my upper arms, my stomach is for sure just a balloon of cortisol fat, my love handles/thighs exploded, oh & my breast size has gone up 1-1/2 cup size!
Saying I don't feel well is an understatement.
Thyroid is supposedly fine, no autoimmune, no Lyme's (no surprise there I live off of/grew up on deer meat.)
Digestion is fine, poop 1-2 times a day.
Hair is floor length, yes floor length.
Skin is clear, I've never had acne.
Nails are strong, long, & grow quickly.
I violently ovulate like clockwork, like I have to restrain myself from mating to the point I warn my husband to scorn my advances.
Absolutely no chemical birth control.
No medications.
I don't drink.
I don't smoke, anything.
I am hungry in the morning.
Do have the mother f*cker gene, C13.
I lived off of animal fat/meat/carbs before pro-metabolic, I just had to learn how to combine them + eat more often. Although I for sure had to eat more carbs.
Did a hair test last week. It said:
Bottom level calcium (I love dairy, buy 20+lbs of raw cheese at a time)
Scary high like no more room on the chart sodium.
Not much potassium, but I drink like a gallon or more of ******* OJ, drink coconut water, potatoes are life to me...
High zinc, probably from the oyster max.
Low copper in relation to the zinc.
Low magnesium levels.
Also, my iron level are like perfect. What the hell? I mean that's not a bad thing just what's the odds with everything else being out of whack?
I know. I know. This all is from stress. Real ******* stress. I'm like a walking clinical example.
But I can't just stop working I have 5 people who rely on me to keep my sh*t together. Two of which are my kids.
So I'm thinking of trying the thyro blend I've been reading about on here, the kind you drop on your arm.
Thinking about using bio- available potassium.
Thinking about baking/grinding up eggs shells for even more calcium, I've got too many damn chickens.
Bio- available copper, under 2mg for no more than a month.
I do use a progesterone cream now, for a few months now. Felt calm using it at first, don't notice anything now.
Take 2 forms of magnesium.
On the fence about using other hormones due to the sky high DHEA levels. Something clearly isn't converting.
Stress will always be here. I've always been an awesome adapter to it, until I wasn't. So I'm just trying to find a way to help my body bounce back some, at least supplement in a way that keeps me ahead of the resource burn because food clearly isn't cutting it.
If you made it this far, thank you for that! Wana be friends?
Got any ideas? Suggestions? Questions? I am all ears!