Cirion
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Very interesting posts @jamies33 .I'm thinking some of what you say may be my problems lately with digestion / gut bloating etc.
Do you have lots of maple syrup to try to counter act the iron as well? I notice for me maple syrup usually makes me feel pretty good so I wonder if that's why (the manganese in it). It's also one of the main sources of calories while doing a master cleanse alongside lemons/limes. Seems like folks like us need to eat low quantities of fermented foods. Unfortunately, it seems as though carbs in general are bacteria promoting, which makes getting used to high carbs rather hard... and would explain why carbs/sugar gets a bad reputation.
Your train of thought on endotoxins dysregulating appetite and thus being obesity promoting resonates with me as well.
When I first started peat I had an excessive appetite (as do many), and I still eat more than I feel like I need to or should. Myself, and many others experience problems like bloat and whatnot starting off. I think it is all related.
It would also explain why a short stint of fasting (killing off bacteria) can help normalize appetite. Now I understand why some people here are a huge fan of juice cleanses. I tried one last weekend but failed to hunger (I need fat, can't go without it) which makes me want to make my own "modified" juice cleanse which maybe is something like a normal juice cleanse, but with bacteria-neutral fats like coconut oil.
Even though my 2 day juice fast was somewhat of a fail (I was starving for fat at the end), I did notice it dropped my need for calories from 5000 a day to 4000 a day or so...
Hmmm.... I think more pieces of the puzzle are coming together for me now!
I will try my own modified juice fast this weekend with what I've learned from here and see how it goes.
All this may explain why I had incredible success on Keto (best libido / mood of my life basically) for a while. Not because going high fat is necessarily ideal, but rather because how I was eating was anti-bacterial. Starving the bacteria of the carbs they like to eat.
Finally its nice to have some answers as to why I think I seem to do better on high fat intake than high carb (so far at least).
pboy made some interesting posts, but no matter how good your outlook on life is, you still need to fix some underlying nutritional problems. My experience has shown me I can "fake it" and force myself to do something when I'm not in a right frame of mind, and it is certainly beneficial to do so sometimes, but it doesn't have the same impact as when my body is legitimately in a healthy place. I totally agree, sometimes you find yourself in a stressful situation and have no choice but to deal with it, and just because you can, doesn't mean you are anywhere near optimal health and this stressful environment/diet etc needs to be addressed asap.
Navy seals, and others in the military often age at an incredible rate due to the chronic stress and tend to look like 10 yrs older than they are, from what I've heard. Stress in general tends to do that so its never good to just accept stress unless you absolutely have to.
There was a comment made that adrenaline is beneficial and cortisol is not. Can someone explain this to me? I always thought that adrenaline is the driver for increased cortisol as well. Adrenaline is the "feel good, energetic hormone" to help you have energy in a stressful situation. However, the problem is, when adrenaline is too high for too long, cortisol starts to drag up alongside it - and high cortisol is what causes intense fatigue, so that when the adrenaline spike ends, you want to take a nap. Or, correct me if I'm wrong?
Do you have lots of maple syrup to try to counter act the iron as well? I notice for me maple syrup usually makes me feel pretty good so I wonder if that's why (the manganese in it). It's also one of the main sources of calories while doing a master cleanse alongside lemons/limes. Seems like folks like us need to eat low quantities of fermented foods. Unfortunately, it seems as though carbs in general are bacteria promoting, which makes getting used to high carbs rather hard... and would explain why carbs/sugar gets a bad reputation.
Your train of thought on endotoxins dysregulating appetite and thus being obesity promoting resonates with me as well.
When I first started peat I had an excessive appetite (as do many), and I still eat more than I feel like I need to or should. Myself, and many others experience problems like bloat and whatnot starting off. I think it is all related.
It would also explain why a short stint of fasting (killing off bacteria) can help normalize appetite. Now I understand why some people here are a huge fan of juice cleanses. I tried one last weekend but failed to hunger (I need fat, can't go without it) which makes me want to make my own "modified" juice cleanse which maybe is something like a normal juice cleanse, but with bacteria-neutral fats like coconut oil.
Even though my 2 day juice fast was somewhat of a fail (I was starving for fat at the end), I did notice it dropped my need for calories from 5000 a day to 4000 a day or so...
Hmmm.... I think more pieces of the puzzle are coming together for me now!
I will try my own modified juice fast this weekend with what I've learned from here and see how it goes.
All this may explain why I had incredible success on Keto (best libido / mood of my life basically) for a while. Not because going high fat is necessarily ideal, but rather because how I was eating was anti-bacterial. Starving the bacteria of the carbs they like to eat.
Finally its nice to have some answers as to why I think I seem to do better on high fat intake than high carb (so far at least).
pboy made some interesting posts, but no matter how good your outlook on life is, you still need to fix some underlying nutritional problems. My experience has shown me I can "fake it" and force myself to do something when I'm not in a right frame of mind, and it is certainly beneficial to do so sometimes, but it doesn't have the same impact as when my body is legitimately in a healthy place. I totally agree, sometimes you find yourself in a stressful situation and have no choice but to deal with it, and just because you can, doesn't mean you are anywhere near optimal health and this stressful environment/diet etc needs to be addressed asap.
Navy seals, and others in the military often age at an incredible rate due to the chronic stress and tend to look like 10 yrs older than they are, from what I've heard. Stress in general tends to do that so its never good to just accept stress unless you absolutely have to.
There was a comment made that adrenaline is beneficial and cortisol is not. Can someone explain this to me? I always thought that adrenaline is the driver for increased cortisol as well. Adrenaline is the "feel good, energetic hormone" to help you have energy in a stressful situation. However, the problem is, when adrenaline is too high for too long, cortisol starts to drag up alongside it - and high cortisol is what causes intense fatigue, so that when the adrenaline spike ends, you want to take a nap. Or, correct me if I'm wrong?
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