Hey everyone,
I've been browsing this forum for a while now, and listened/read about Danny Roddy's works and of course Ray Peat.
I'm a 24 year old male, and in the past I've tried many different diets and lifestyles, paleo, intermittent fasting, but I've been pretty much grains free for a while now (with very rare cheat days). I've experimented with many supplements and maybe this is what really messed me up (a lot of different minerals, as well as digestive aids).
I used to practice thai boxing at a near competitive level, three times a week, and I felt great. But lately I've had so much health problems that I can't seem to solve, that I've lost all my energy and I've been feeling hopeless.
It's been a few weeks now that I've followed strictly the advice found in this forum and the diet guidelines, for a "Peat diet".
Since a few months ago, my digestion and sleep have tanked.
At some point, I was never hungry, and even if I was, a few bites of a meal would instantaneously make me feel like I ate too much, like it was sitting in my stomach and I would have the urge to throw up if I added even one more bite. All the while, I've been severely constipated (maybe bowel movements two times a week, small hard dry lumps difficult to pass through), my stomach a bit bloated.
With this, I've been having poor sleep quality: I wake up multiple times during the night, and no matter how long I sleep, I always wake up feeling like I did not rest much, with a low level headache, the type you get when really tired (shaking my head makes the pain worse, it doesn't feel like a migraine).
On top of that, my body seems to take a really long time to heal from injuries. Even small cuts take very long to heal fully, and I've hurt my knee more than two years ago and it is still inflammed a bit and hurting during certain movements.
I've tried to correct nutrient deficiencies, my diet consists mainly of orange juice, milk, liver once a week (or non-defatted liver powder sometimes with meals), ground beef that I balance with gelatin, cheese, sugar, mussels once a week (it isn't possible in France to find canned oysters for some reason), well cooked spinach and broccoli, coffee and potatoes.
I cook with butter, and I eat the carrot a day on an empty stomach.
I also have hair loss, and it's really hard for me to bring my metabolism up most of the time.
Taking dessicated thyroid for example doesn't seem to have an effect.
I'll be honest with you, this sudden huge decline in health, at my age, has really made life not worth living to me as of late.
Anyway, thanks a lot to everyone who'll give some advice.
I've been browsing this forum for a while now, and listened/read about Danny Roddy's works and of course Ray Peat.
I'm a 24 year old male, and in the past I've tried many different diets and lifestyles, paleo, intermittent fasting, but I've been pretty much grains free for a while now (with very rare cheat days). I've experimented with many supplements and maybe this is what really messed me up (a lot of different minerals, as well as digestive aids).
I used to practice thai boxing at a near competitive level, three times a week, and I felt great. But lately I've had so much health problems that I can't seem to solve, that I've lost all my energy and I've been feeling hopeless.
It's been a few weeks now that I've followed strictly the advice found in this forum and the diet guidelines, for a "Peat diet".
Since a few months ago, my digestion and sleep have tanked.
At some point, I was never hungry, and even if I was, a few bites of a meal would instantaneously make me feel like I ate too much, like it was sitting in my stomach and I would have the urge to throw up if I added even one more bite. All the while, I've been severely constipated (maybe bowel movements two times a week, small hard dry lumps difficult to pass through), my stomach a bit bloated.
With this, I've been having poor sleep quality: I wake up multiple times during the night, and no matter how long I sleep, I always wake up feeling like I did not rest much, with a low level headache, the type you get when really tired (shaking my head makes the pain worse, it doesn't feel like a migraine).
On top of that, my body seems to take a really long time to heal from injuries. Even small cuts take very long to heal fully, and I've hurt my knee more than two years ago and it is still inflammed a bit and hurting during certain movements.
I've tried to correct nutrient deficiencies, my diet consists mainly of orange juice, milk, liver once a week (or non-defatted liver powder sometimes with meals), ground beef that I balance with gelatin, cheese, sugar, mussels once a week (it isn't possible in France to find canned oysters for some reason), well cooked spinach and broccoli, coffee and potatoes.
I cook with butter, and I eat the carrot a day on an empty stomach.
I also have hair loss, and it's really hard for me to bring my metabolism up most of the time.
Taking dessicated thyroid for example doesn't seem to have an effect.
I'll be honest with you, this sudden huge decline in health, at my age, has really made life not worth living to me as of late.
Anyway, thanks a lot to everyone who'll give some advice.
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