I wanted to see how much of my energy I was getting from burning fat versus burning sugar. Plus my blood sugar lowered a lot over the past few years, so I wanted to confirm that I was in fact oxidizing glucose. Unfortunately the results were a pretty bad surprise.
I ate barely any fat for the entire day, only drank lots of orange juice and ate some cheese sticks and drank a few cups of milk, and took aspirin & niacinamide to kill FFA.
A few hours later I felt absolutely horrible, couldn't form complete sentences, couldn't walk outside my door, had not even an ounce of energy and needed to bag breathe for 5 min to just get my thoughts together, go to my kitchen and eat a spoon of coconut oil (don't mean to over-dramatize). Thankfully the difference in 2 min was night and day.
So the bad news is that all of my energy seems to be coming from fat no matter how many carbs I eat and how good my blood sugar seems to be on paper. All my carbs are going to lactic acid instead of CO2.
I already take MB, try to get at least a bit of red light regularly, take thyroid, and have been depleting PUFA for 4 years, all of which are supposed to lower lactate. If my glucose oxidation is still this bad what else is left for me to try?
CO2 exposure in theory should be able to regenerate mitochondria and restore glucose oxidation but I don't know how to put it into practice aside from moving to a high altitude.
Are there any uncouplers besides aspirin and coffee that Peat hasn't talked about which will stimulate mitochondrial regeneration?
Thanks for reading.
I ate barely any fat for the entire day, only drank lots of orange juice and ate some cheese sticks and drank a few cups of milk, and took aspirin & niacinamide to kill FFA.
A few hours later I felt absolutely horrible, couldn't form complete sentences, couldn't walk outside my door, had not even an ounce of energy and needed to bag breathe for 5 min to just get my thoughts together, go to my kitchen and eat a spoon of coconut oil (don't mean to over-dramatize). Thankfully the difference in 2 min was night and day.
So the bad news is that all of my energy seems to be coming from fat no matter how many carbs I eat and how good my blood sugar seems to be on paper. All my carbs are going to lactic acid instead of CO2.
I already take MB, try to get at least a bit of red light regularly, take thyroid, and have been depleting PUFA for 4 years, all of which are supposed to lower lactate. If my glucose oxidation is still this bad what else is left for me to try?
CO2 exposure in theory should be able to regenerate mitochondria and restore glucose oxidation but I don't know how to put it into practice aside from moving to a high altitude.
Are there any uncouplers besides aspirin and coffee that Peat hasn't talked about which will stimulate mitochondrial regeneration?
Thanks for reading.
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