andrewdcjr
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Hey everyone-
I'm going to very quickly abbreviate my health struggles over the last 5 years. I was a very high level baseball player playing in college as well as being drafted to play by the Angels. However, I was also severely fatigued. I had bad muscle tension and muscle weakness, never energy for our team workouts and became suffered more and more from injuries including a torn ACL, a shoulder labrum tear, and a stress fracture in my L2 vertebra. I had no libido at all and was downright miserable. I always wanted to be lean so I barely ate and eventually had no real appetite. After experimenting with diet, I went the low-carb paleo route and my muscle tension only got worse. I started to develop many food allergies and got frequent infections. I got rashes and had a terrible itchy scalp. I then attributed all these problems to candida after reading some books and decided to eliminate more foods, more carbs, and more sugar. I started to have anxiety attacks, barely any energy and felt helpless. I also had terrible constipation. My body just felt terrible and I knew something was very off.
Finally, a little over a month ago I found Ray Peat after discovering Josh Rubin at East West Healing. I dived into it last week and for the first time in forever I felt great. I have been mostly following recipes from Josh Rubin's Metabolic Blueprint Cookbook. I have been very strict as I always am and I just want to feel better. I am still struggling a bit with constipation and with
My questions are as follows:
1) I messed myself up for quite some time. Through following this protocol, how long does the healing part usually take, where I can expect to return to normal? (Not that I plan on deviating I'm just curious)
2) Any suggestions for the constipation? I have been doing the raw carrot everyday, does blending effect the raw carrot? Is my body just adjusting to the new diet I'm throwing at it?
3) If I'm correct, the infections that I had should just resolve, as my metabolism increases? I had bad infections in my gums, however my gums are already receding and my glands have not been swollen, so I'm very happy about that. The weird sensations are also gone.
4) Should I be taking any supplements, as I haven't taken anything since starting the protocol?
It feels so good to feel right again and I can't wait to see even more improvements and learn more about this approach to health.
Thank you for reading this if you read it through, any help is greatly appreciated,
Andrew
I'm going to very quickly abbreviate my health struggles over the last 5 years. I was a very high level baseball player playing in college as well as being drafted to play by the Angels. However, I was also severely fatigued. I had bad muscle tension and muscle weakness, never energy for our team workouts and became suffered more and more from injuries including a torn ACL, a shoulder labrum tear, and a stress fracture in my L2 vertebra. I had no libido at all and was downright miserable. I always wanted to be lean so I barely ate and eventually had no real appetite. After experimenting with diet, I went the low-carb paleo route and my muscle tension only got worse. I started to develop many food allergies and got frequent infections. I got rashes and had a terrible itchy scalp. I then attributed all these problems to candida after reading some books and decided to eliminate more foods, more carbs, and more sugar. I started to have anxiety attacks, barely any energy and felt helpless. I also had terrible constipation. My body just felt terrible and I knew something was very off.
Finally, a little over a month ago I found Ray Peat after discovering Josh Rubin at East West Healing. I dived into it last week and for the first time in forever I felt great. I have been mostly following recipes from Josh Rubin's Metabolic Blueprint Cookbook. I have been very strict as I always am and I just want to feel better. I am still struggling a bit with constipation and with
My questions are as follows:
1) I messed myself up for quite some time. Through following this protocol, how long does the healing part usually take, where I can expect to return to normal? (Not that I plan on deviating I'm just curious)
2) Any suggestions for the constipation? I have been doing the raw carrot everyday, does blending effect the raw carrot? Is my body just adjusting to the new diet I'm throwing at it?
3) If I'm correct, the infections that I had should just resolve, as my metabolism increases? I had bad infections in my gums, however my gums are already receding and my glands have not been swollen, so I'm very happy about that. The weird sensations are also gone.
4) Should I be taking any supplements, as I haven't taken anything since starting the protocol?
It feels so good to feel right again and I can't wait to see even more improvements and learn more about this approach to health.
Thank you for reading this if you read it through, any help is greatly appreciated,
Andrew