I'm posting my long-term health issues here as objectively as possible to see if there are any things that I missed:
-- Diagnosed by one doctor (other doctors didn't confirm) with rheumatoid arthritis at 13 when knees used to swell up. A few years later I could walk/run again without pain or swelling.
-- I was always thin / somewhat built and athletic and could never gain significant weight using any foods.
-- I had depression & brain fog throughout my teen years (the only way I can get similar symptoms now is if I eat gluten, so I assume it was because I ate that everyday)
-- If I have MDMA then it comes on in about half the time of anyone around me, and it lasts considerably shorter (I've tested this 3 times and it is consistent)
-- It is hard for me to go off of sucrose (mostly via chocolate and tea) for more than a few days at a time. Possible SIBO?
-- I consistently have a bit of gas (the pressure seems to originate around the spleen/pancreas).
-- Diagnosed with 'damp' and a "spleen & stomach" deficiency by 2 TCM doctors (their herbs do improve my digestion and energy stability)
Allergic to:
-- gluten (causes nearly every symptom on the list of symptoms for celiac's disease and Hashimoto's disease - takes at least 3 days to feel normal again after any significant amount)
-- milk (get mucousy and tired - might be a side effect of a celiac destroyed/gut. Cheese causes gas)
-- eggs (seemingly developed independently at the end of teen years - hives and racing heart if eaten for a few days in a row. The only other time I got hives like that was from 4h-50h after a vaccine a few years earlier - which I later found had chicken egg yolks as one of the ingredients.)
-- coffee (seemingly sensitive to caffeine, causes digestion issues / irritation / constipation)
-- seemingly more allergic to mold than others (lived in a moldy basement during my teen years).
I eat a lot of dark chocolate (and therefore a lot of sucrose - and seemingly the more sucrose I eat the more weight I lose). I've tried to overeat at every meal and it doesn't cause me to increase my weight - depending on what it was, it can reduce my energy. I've had a low PUFA diet for years now. I've been relatively gluten free for 5+ years, but it still sneaks in often in small amounts. For example, the amount of gluten that was in a recent great Japanese ramen place (I assumed the broth didn't have gluten in it) was enough to put me on my **** for a couple days and lose about 4lbs. Due to the above information I'm always working to "heal the gut" - but that never seems complete. However, very small exposures to gluten every week or so may be slowing down the recovery process - or causing it never to be complete after all of these years...
Questions, comments, suggestions... All welcome :)
-- Diagnosed by one doctor (other doctors didn't confirm) with rheumatoid arthritis at 13 when knees used to swell up. A few years later I could walk/run again without pain or swelling.
-- I was always thin / somewhat built and athletic and could never gain significant weight using any foods.
-- I had depression & brain fog throughout my teen years (the only way I can get similar symptoms now is if I eat gluten, so I assume it was because I ate that everyday)
-- If I have MDMA then it comes on in about half the time of anyone around me, and it lasts considerably shorter (I've tested this 3 times and it is consistent)
-- It is hard for me to go off of sucrose (mostly via chocolate and tea) for more than a few days at a time. Possible SIBO?
-- I consistently have a bit of gas (the pressure seems to originate around the spleen/pancreas).
-- Diagnosed with 'damp' and a "spleen & stomach" deficiency by 2 TCM doctors (their herbs do improve my digestion and energy stability)
Allergic to:
-- gluten (causes nearly every symptom on the list of symptoms for celiac's disease and Hashimoto's disease - takes at least 3 days to feel normal again after any significant amount)
-- milk (get mucousy and tired - might be a side effect of a celiac destroyed/gut. Cheese causes gas)
-- eggs (seemingly developed independently at the end of teen years - hives and racing heart if eaten for a few days in a row. The only other time I got hives like that was from 4h-50h after a vaccine a few years earlier - which I later found had chicken egg yolks as one of the ingredients.)
-- coffee (seemingly sensitive to caffeine, causes digestion issues / irritation / constipation)
-- seemingly more allergic to mold than others (lived in a moldy basement during my teen years).
I eat a lot of dark chocolate (and therefore a lot of sucrose - and seemingly the more sucrose I eat the more weight I lose). I've tried to overeat at every meal and it doesn't cause me to increase my weight - depending on what it was, it can reduce my energy. I've had a low PUFA diet for years now. I've been relatively gluten free for 5+ years, but it still sneaks in often in small amounts. For example, the amount of gluten that was in a recent great Japanese ramen place (I assumed the broth didn't have gluten in it) was enough to put me on my **** for a couple days and lose about 4lbs. Due to the above information I'm always working to "heal the gut" - but that never seems complete. However, very small exposures to gluten every week or so may be slowing down the recovery process - or causing it never to be complete after all of these years...
Questions, comments, suggestions... All welcome :)