CellularIconoclast
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- Mar 21, 2014
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Since childhood i've always been on a roller-coaster where I need to stress myself out with cold showers, fasting, stimulants, and harsh deadlines to get work done and then crash afterwards with zero productivity and energy for weeks or months. I want to solve this, so I can do medical research in a creative and low stress way.
I'm a 29 year old male, and first had hypoglycemia and diabetes symptoms around 25, which improved with a paleo diet for several years. Trying to fix my own health problems got me so interested in health and nutrition I went back to school to get a PhD studying these things. I also got into bodybuilding and powerlifting, and got down to 10% bodyfat with a high muscle mass, but this also made me cold, tired, and irritable. Before paleo I had been morbidly obese but after I looked so good a friend is using my photos to market a fitness program he developed. However I think high pufa intake, high stress, and low thyroid helped me get very lean without losing muscle mass on a low carb diet, as my glucose needs were so low.
Many health problems on paleo improved but others did not, and I still had low sex drive, low productivity, low energy, acne, dandruff, bloating, high cholesterol, and low body temperature. In grad school I found Ray Peat's writings and they changed much of what I think about biology. To me his biology ideas are more profound than his diet advice, and I'm not convinced his diet advice is the best way to apply his ideas in all cases.
In any case, I seriously started a peat inspired high carb diet about 2 months ago. This has made me feel much more fatigued and tired so far compared to paleo and I've gained 10 lbs of fat. I've also been having mysterious 'headaches' with a feeling of pressure behind my eyes and forehead, mostly in evenings. My morning body temperature is about 97.20F and my resting pulse is 65 bpm and haven't responded yet to the diet. Just a week ago I added in a low dose of cytomel + cynoplus together to make 3 parts T4 to 1 part T3.
I'm a 29 year old male, and first had hypoglycemia and diabetes symptoms around 25, which improved with a paleo diet for several years. Trying to fix my own health problems got me so interested in health and nutrition I went back to school to get a PhD studying these things. I also got into bodybuilding and powerlifting, and got down to 10% bodyfat with a high muscle mass, but this also made me cold, tired, and irritable. Before paleo I had been morbidly obese but after I looked so good a friend is using my photos to market a fitness program he developed. However I think high pufa intake, high stress, and low thyroid helped me get very lean without losing muscle mass on a low carb diet, as my glucose needs were so low.
Many health problems on paleo improved but others did not, and I still had low sex drive, low productivity, low energy, acne, dandruff, bloating, high cholesterol, and low body temperature. In grad school I found Ray Peat's writings and they changed much of what I think about biology. To me his biology ideas are more profound than his diet advice, and I'm not convinced his diet advice is the best way to apply his ideas in all cases.
In any case, I seriously started a peat inspired high carb diet about 2 months ago. This has made me feel much more fatigued and tired so far compared to paleo and I've gained 10 lbs of fat. I've also been having mysterious 'headaches' with a feeling of pressure behind my eyes and forehead, mostly in evenings. My morning body temperature is about 97.20F and my resting pulse is 65 bpm and haven't responded yet to the diet. Just a week ago I added in a low dose of cytomel + cynoplus together to make 3 parts T4 to 1 part T3.