Sugar Saved My Life

[Cirion]

Do you think your current regimen will eventually move you out of being hypo? If it did, would you keep eating like this regardless or experiment with other things?

My eating plan is always fluid and I would not say "I've arrived" at the ideal diet for me just yet, as I don't feel well or cured yet, though I've finally begun to shift my body weight downwards, but some principles (like sugar being mandatory) I am sure of at this point though. It's the finer details I continue to work on daily.

From success stories I have read around here and elsewhere food tolerances should increase as you improve your health. I do hope to experiment with more foods later. Ultimately, I'll stick to whatever diet makes me feel good and easily maintain weight, and if I still have to eat a restrictive diet, then so be it. I suspect that my fats, especially saturated fats, will increase in my optimal diet when I am lean, but that remains to be seen and right now is pure speculation.

 

[stargazer1111]

I'm actually on the hyper side but still cannot tolerate starch in any form. I had overt hyperthyroidism a couple of summers ago when I took too much vitamin A. I ended up with hot nodules on my thyroid and zero TSH.

I'm still on the hyper side with a relatively low TSH and higher T3 and T4, but it's within range so I figure it's probably just a result of the Peat-style diet. My overt hyperthyroidism and nodules corrected themselves after long enough off the vitamin A.

 

[stargazer1111]

This post will be very long, so I apologize in advance.

Speaking of Nofap, I have come to a pretty unusual observation about myself over the last decade or so.

I believe I am bipolar and suffer from manic episodes. However, I also believe that my bipolar is entirely caused by the gut. If I eat anything starchy or fibrous, it turns on like a light switch and I become a completely different person. If I eat a very strict diet of sugared milk, meat, fiber-free fruit juice, soda, and these maple syrup candies I found online, I am normal and have no such problems. It starts with gastrointestinal distress and several hours later moves to the brain.

One of the symptoms of mania is hypersexuality. When this light switch flips for me, I become obsessively focused on sex and I begin craving sex that does not match my actual sexual identity. I begin engaging in very risky behavior and compulsively look at porn. I have no such problem when I'm eating my strictly limited diet and have no desire for porn despite having a normal libido.

I have struggled with porn addiction and sexual issues for years and it has taken a very long time for me to understand what exactly is going on. It all goes back to the gut for me and I understand now that this has been a problem since I was an infant.

When I was very young, I struggled with hallucinations and severe emotional distress. Of course, I didn't understand what was happening and couldn't articulate it so my parents didn't know anything was wrong. I discovered several years ago that I could turn these hallucinations on and off. If I eat dairy and nightshade vegetables simultaneously, I basically become a mild paranoid schizophrenic. If I eat nightshades by themselves, I go into a bipolar manic episode. If I eat dairy by itself, I have zero problems whatsoever. So, the nightshades are probably the true problem in this scenario.

The reason I believe the causality goes: gut problems --> hypersexuality --> porn addiction --> post-orgasmic illness, is that I had compulsion issues before puberty in response to these foods only it led to compulsively eating certain foods because they gave me a chemical high like drugs. Once puberty hit, orgasms gave me a much greater high so these replaced the food addiction when eating the problematic foods. So, the real problem I think, is that eating starchy/fibrous foods eventually leads to an imbalance in neurotransmitters and the brain's compulsive seeking of orgasms and porn is an attempt to restore homeostasis by flooding itself with dopamine and endorphins.

If I eat problem foods only one time, the mania and hypersexuality will usually lead to an insatiable craving for one orgasm. If I eliminate the problem foods and eat my strictly limited diet after this, the hangover is much less severe. Combining the avoidance of those problematic foods with lots of sugar speeds up the recovery from an episode even more. I believe this is because the sugar is balancing the neurotransmitters (particularly the fructose component of sugar).

I ate a zero carb, all meat diet for about 7 years. Prior to this, I was eating potatoes, cheese, meat, and fiber-rich veggies daily. I was struggling with weird hypersexuality and manic episodes. This completely disappeared on the zero carb diet for its entirety. When I reintroduced carbs back in the summer of 2016, I initially followed Paul Jaminet's Perfect Health Diet which meant I went back to eating potatoes at virtually every meal. The manic episodes and hypersexuality immediately returned after that 7 year period and it was frightening to say the least. This is why I believe the problem originates from an intolerance to starchy/fibrous foods because they are causing problems in the gut (probably endotoxin-related).

If I continually eat the problematic foods at each meal, the orgasm leads to EXTREME problems of muscle pain, fatigue (to the point at which I can't get out of bed), inability to make eye contact, extreme pain in the gut (particularly stomach ulcers) and bleeding which I have seen in stools, and I was will just stay manic indefinitely.

So, my plan from now on is to stick to my peat-inspired, very very strict diet of meat, sugared milk, fiber-free fruit juice, and soda with no exceptions.

My experience makes me believe that Peat is right about the gut bacteria. Especially the estrogen and serotonin component because these manic episodes make me crave sex that does not match my actual sexual identity. I never tell anyone about this in real life because I am afraid that the LGBTQ community will chastise me for my experience.

 

[jet9]

This post will be very long, so I apologize in advance.

Speaking of Nofap, I have come to a pretty unusual observation about myself over the last decade or so.

I believe I am bipolar and suffer from manic episodes. However, I also believe that my bipolar is entirely caused by the gut. If I eat anything starchy or fibrous, it turns on like a light switch and I become a completely different person. If I eat a very strict diet of sugared milk, meat, fiber-free fruit juice, soda, and these maple syrup candies I found online, I am normal and have no such problems. It starts with gastrointestinal distress and several hours later moves to the brain.

One of the symptoms of mania is hypersexuality. When this light switch flips for me, I become obsessively focused on sex and I begin craving sex that does not match my actual sexual identity. I begin engaging in very risky behavior and compulsively look at porn. I have no such problem when I'm eating my strictly limited diet and have no desire for porn despite having a normal libido.

I have struggled with porn addiction and sexual issues for years and it has taken a very long time for me to understand what exactly is going on. It all goes back to the gut for me and I understand now that this has been a problem since I was an infant.

When I was very young, I struggled with hallucinations and severe emotional distress. Of course, I didn't understand what was happening and couldn't articulate it so my parents didn't know anything was wrong. I discovered several years ago that I could turn these hallucinations on and off. If I eat dairy and nightshade vegetables simultaneously, I basically become a mild paranoid schizophrenic. If I eat nightshades by themselves, I go into a bipolar manic episode. If I eat dairy by itself, I have zero problems whatsoever. So, the nightshades are probably the true problem in this scenario.

The reason I believe the causality goes: gut problems --> hypersexuality --> porn addiction --> post-orgasmic illness, is that I had compulsion issues before puberty in response to these foods only it led to compulsively eating certain foods because they gave me a chemical high like drugs. Once puberty hit, orgasms gave me a much greater high so these replaced the food addiction when eating the problematic foods. So, the real problem I think, is that eating starchy/fibrous foods eventually leads to an imbalance in neurotransmitters and the brain's compulsive seeking of orgasms and porn is an attempt to restore homeostasis by flooding itself with dopamine and endorphins.

If I eat problem foods only one time, the mania and hypersexuality will usually lead to an insatiable craving for one orgasm. If I eliminate the problem foods and eat my strictly limited diet after this, the hangover is much less severe. Combining the avoidance of those problematic foods with lots of sugar speeds up the recovery from an episode even more. I believe this is because the sugar is balancing the neurotransmitters (particularly the fructose component of sugar).

I ate a zero carb, all meat diet for about 7 years. Prior to this, I was eating potatoes, cheese, meat, and fiber-rich veggies daily. I was struggling with weird hypersexuality and manic episodes. This completely disappeared on the zero carb diet for its entirety. When I reintroduced carbs back in the summer of 2016, I initially followed Paul Jaminet's Perfect Health Diet which meant I went back to eating potatoes at virtually every meal. The manic episodes and hypersexuality immediately returned after that 7 year period and it was frightening to say the least. This is why I believe the problem originates from an intolerance to starchy/fibrous foods because they are causing problems in the gut (probably endotoxin-related).

If I continually eat the problematic foods at each meal, the orgasm leads to EXTREME problems of muscle pain, fatigue (to the point at which I can't get out of bed), inability to make eye contact, extreme pain in the gut (particularly stomach ulcers) and bleeding which I have seen in stools, and I was will just stay manic indefinitely.

So, my plan from now on is to stick to my peat-inspired, very very strict diet of meat, sugared milk, fiber-free fruit juice, and soda with no exceptions.

My experience makes me believe that Peat is right about the gut bacteria. Especially the estrogen and serotonin component because these manic episodes make me crave sex that does not match my actual sexual identity. I never tell anyone about this in real life because I am afraid that the LGBTQ community will chastise me for my experience.

Do you buy fiber free fruit juice or make it yourself ?
Did you try eating low fiber fruits ? Or only juice works ?

 

[stargazer1111]

I can't tolerate any whole fruit at all. Only juice works and I buy pulp-free juice.

Bananas make me throw up and pass blood (literally), for instance. Apples and anything else with pectin cause cardiac arrhythmia (PVCs).

 

[jet9]

I can't tolerate any whole fruit at all. Only juice works and I buy pulp-free juice.

Bananas make me throw up and pass blood (literally), for instance. Apples and anything else with pectin cause cardiac arrhythmia (PVCs).

I see,

Do all starches cause issues for you ?
You mentioned potatoes. But what about rice, wheat, oats, etc. Do they produce same symptoms ? Or some a little better than the others ?

 

[jet9]

I can't tolerate any whole fruit at all. Only juice works and I buy pulp-free juice.

Bananas make me throw up and pass blood (literally), for instance. Apples and anything else with pectin cause cardiac arrhythmia (PVCs).

Also did you try honey ?

 

[Peater]

This post will be very long, so I apologize in advance.

Fascinating post stargazer, I am familiar with some of what you say. I was never sure if it was hypersexuality or just normal male libido. Depends who you ask of course.

 

[stargazer1111]

I see,

Do all starches cause issues for you ?
You mentioned potatoes. But what about rice, wheat, oats, etc. Do they produce same symptoms ? Or some a little better than the others ?

All Starches cause problems, but some are worse than others.

Gluten-containing starches are the worst, followed by corn, then potatoes, then other grains like oats and then the least problematic are white rice, and tapioca.

 

[stargazer1111]

Also did you try honey ?

Honey causes minor issues so I generally stick to refined sugar or maple syrup.

 

[jet9]

All Starches cause problems, but some are worse than others.

Gluten-containing starches are the worst, followed by corn, then potatoes, then other grains like oats and then the least problematic are white rice, and tapioca.

Thank you for sharing your experiences

 

[André Pohlann]

This post will be very long, so I apologize in advance.

Speaking of Nofap, I have come to a pretty unusual observation about myself over the last decade or so.

I believe I am bipolar and suffer from manic episodes. However, I also believe that my bipolar is entirely caused by the gut. If I eat anything starchy or fibrous, it turns on like a light switch and I become a completely different person. If I eat a very strict diet of sugared milk, meat, fiber-free fruit juice, soda, and these maple syrup candies I found online, I am normal and have no such problems. It starts with gastrointestinal distress and several hours later moves to the brain.

One of the symptoms of mania is hypersexuality. When this light switch flips for me, I become obsessively focused on sex and I begin craving sex that does not match my actual sexual identity. I begin engaging in very risky behavior and compulsively look at porn. I have no such problem when I'm eating my strictly limited diet and have no desire for porn despite having a normal libido.

I have struggled with porn addiction and sexual issues for years and it has taken a very long time for me to understand what exactly is going on. It all goes back to the gut for me and I understand now that this has been a problem since I was an infant.

When I was very young, I struggled with hallucinations and severe emotional distress. Of course, I didn't understand what was happening and couldn't articulate it so my parents didn't know anything was wrong. I discovered several years ago that I could turn these hallucinations on and off. If I eat dairy and nightshade vegetables simultaneously, I basically become a mild paranoid schizophrenic. If I eat nightshades by themselves, I go into a bipolar manic episode. If I eat dairy by itself, I have zero problems whatsoever. So, the nightshades are probably the true problem in this scenario.

The reason I believe the causality goes: gut problems --> hypersexuality --> porn addiction --> post-orgasmic illness, is that I had compulsion issues before puberty in response to these foods only it led to compulsively eating certain foods because they gave me a chemical high like drugs. Once puberty hit, orgasms gave me a much greater high so these replaced the food addiction when eating the problematic foods. So, the real problem I think, is that eating starchy/fibrous foods eventually leads to an imbalance in neurotransmitters and the brain's compulsive seeking of orgasms and porn is an attempt to restore homeostasis by flooding itself with dopamine and endorphins.

If I eat problem foods only one time, the mania and hypersexuality will usually lead to an insatiable craving for one orgasm. If I eliminate the problem foods and eat my strictly limited diet after this, the hangover is much less severe. Combining the avoidance of those problematic foods with lots of sugar speeds up the recovery from an episode even more. I believe this is because the sugar is balancing the neurotransmitters (particularly the fructose component of sugar).

I ate a zero carb, all meat diet for about 7 years. Prior to this, I was eating potatoes, cheese, meat, and fiber-rich veggies daily. I was struggling with weird hypersexuality and manic episodes. This completely disappeared on the zero carb diet for its entirety. When I reintroduced carbs back in the summer of 2016, I initially followed Paul Jaminet's Perfect Health Diet which meant I went back to eating potatoes at virtually every meal. The manic episodes and hypersexuality immediately returned after that 7 year period and it was frightening to say the least. This is why I believe the problem originates from an intolerance to starchy/fibrous foods because they are causing problems in the gut (probably endotoxin-related).

If I continually eat the problematic foods at each meal, the orgasm leads to EXTREME problems of muscle pain, fatigue (to the point at which I can't get out of bed), inability to make eye contact, extreme pain in the gut (particularly stomach ulcers) and bleeding which I have seen in stools, and I was will just stay manic indefinitely.

So, my plan from now on is to stick to my peat-inspired, very very strict diet of meat, sugared milk, fiber-free fruit juice, and soda with no exceptions.

My experience makes me believe that Peat is right about the gut bacteria. Especially the estrogen and serotonin component because these manic episodes make me crave sex that does not match my actual sexual identity. I never tell anyone about this in real life because I am afraid that the LGBTQ community will chastise me for my experience.

What was your reason to stop zero carb? It seems to work well for you.

 

[stargazer1111]

What was your reason to stop zero carb? It seems to work well for you.

No it does not at all. It nearly killed me. The hypersexual stuff went away, but so many things went wrong on zero carb that I finally had to stop.

Initially, my digestive pain actually got worse. I hiccuped uncontrollably for a time and passed blood. I developed painful welts all over my body in the initial months that eventually went away for some reason. About 6 months into it, I began having trouble sleeping. It felt like my stress hormones were constantly going. I started having trouble speaking properly and became very socially withdrawn (this I believe is because the neurotransmitters were being pushed out of balance).

Fast forward a few more years on the zero carb diet, and I started looking emaciated. I was too skinny. I began tearing muscles if I used them to any appreciable extent. At this point, my body was starting to give out. I was extremely fatigued all the time and I developed very severe muscle pain, particularly in my upper back to the point at which I could not stand for more than a few minutes at a time without feeling like I was going to pass out.

After another year or two, I developed a cardiac arrhythmia. I started having severe runs of PVCs combined with tachycardia to the point at which I was afraid my heart was going to stop. I ended up in the ER for this. This was the point at which I finally had to reintroduce carbs to my diet.

At first, I followed Paul Jaminet's starch-based diet, but it actually seemed to make some symptoms worse. It wasn't until I found Peat's ideas that my health began to recover at all.

I ate the zero carb diet for so long because I have severe reactive hypoglycemia in response to starch. Back then, I assumed I was reactive to all carbohydrates equally so I went zero carb. It turns out that this isn't true. I do not react to sugar at all. I only react to starch. It turns out that starch/fiber are what cause these hypersexual, bipolarish episodes. Sugar is the only thing that began reversing some of the damage done on the zero carb diet.

I require sugar to socialize normally. Without sugar, I cannot socialize at all.

This is why I landed on my high sugar, moderately high protein, lower fat diet. It's the healthiest I've been in about 20 years.

 

[Barry]

This is why I landed on my high sugar, moderately high protein, lower fat diet. It's the healthiest I've been in about 20 years.

Have you experimented with coconut oil at all? mushrooms? even activated charcoal? anything that might help with endotoxin. If you are experiencing PVCs, you have to look into taurine and magnesium supplementation.

 

[jet9]

No it does not at all. It nearly killed me. The hypersexual stuff went away, but so many things went wrong on zero carb that I finally had to stop.

Initially, my digestive pain actually got worse. I hiccuped uncontrollably for a time and passed blood. I developed painful welts all over my body in the initial months that eventually went away for some reason. About 6 months into it, I began having trouble sleeping. It felt like my stress hormones were constantly going. I started having trouble speaking properly and became very socially withdrawn (this I believe is because the neurotransmitters were being pushed out of balance).

Fast forward a few more years on the zero carb diet, and I started looking emaciated. I was too skinny. I began tearing muscles if I used them to any appreciable extent. At this point, my body was starting to give out. I was extremely fatigued all the time and I developed very severe muscle pain, particularly in my upper back to the point at which I could not stand for more than a few minutes at a time without feeling like I was going to pass out.

After another year or two, I developed a cardiac arrhythmia. I started having severe runs of PVCs combined with tachycardia to the point at which I was afraid my heart was going to stop. I ended up in the ER for this. This was the point at which I finally had to reintroduce carbs to my diet.

At first, I followed Paul Jaminet's starch-based diet, but it actually seemed to make some symptoms worse. It wasn't until I found Peat's ideas that my health began to recover at all.

I ate the zero carb diet for so long because I have severe reactive hypoglycemia in response to starch. Back then, I assumed I was reactive to all carbohydrates equally so I went zero carb. It turns out that this isn't true. I do not react to sugar at all. I only react to starch. It turns out that starch/fiber are what cause these hypersexual, bipolarish episodes. Sugar is the only thing that began reversing some of the damage done on the zero carb diet.

I require sugar to socialize normally. Without sugar, I cannot socialize at all.

This is why I landed on my high sugar, moderately high protein, lower fat diet. It's the healthiest I've been in about 20 years.

So now you are totally starch free ?

What did you change to feel completely good on sugar based diet (starch free) ?
Cause in your older posts you mentioned that you do need starch:
“I feel really bad without starch. No energy, cold, nauseous, and can't think properly.”

 

[stargazer1111]

The PVCs were unrelated to electrolytes. The doctors checked everything and did an ultrasound of my heart. Everything was normal.

I believe the cause was gastrointestinal damage. I mentioned the hiccuping and passing blood early on. I also had chronic gastritis for the entire duration of the zero carb diet and had constant pain in my stomach that felt like it was being sliced with a knife. This lasted for about 7 years.

The gastrointestinal damage fried the vagus nerve and this is what causes the arrhythmia. It isn't just low carb. Anything that damages the gastrointestinal system and flares up that pain causes the arrhythmia. PMO causes this too.

It has something to do with elevated stress hormones and imbalanced neurotransmitters. Some evidence in the literature suggests that dopamine abnormalities can lead to gastric lesions. Porn use causes a marked elevation in the pain and distress similarly to the zero carb diet.

 

[stargazer1111]

So now you are totally starch free ?

What did you change to feel completely good on sugar based diet (starch free) ?
Cause in your older posts you mentioned that you do need starch:
“I feel really bad without starch. No energy, cold, nauseous, and can't think properly.”

I was wrong. I kept trying to go starch free and kept getting brain fog every time. The trick was allowing the body enough time to adjust to having no starch. I kept trying it for a week or two and giving up. I've been starch free for about 7 months now and am much better (though not entirely cured).

 

[jet9]

I was wrong. I kept trying to go starch free and kept getting brain fog every time. The trick was allowing the body enough time to adjust to having no starch. I kept trying it for a week or two and giving up. I've been starch free for about 7 months now and am much better (though not entirely cured).

Good job on sticking to it !

Could you describe your meals ?
Do you have breakfast : lunch : dinner ?
Or you eat whenever you feel like ?

 

[stargazer1111]

Good job on sticking to it !

Could you describe your meals ?
Do you have breakfast : lunch : dinner ?
Or you eat whenever you feel like ?

I generally do breakfast, lunch, and dinner with sugared milk 4 times in between.

My meals are: Some form of beef or occasionally shrimp, juice (apple, grape, or orange), salt
Sugared milk: 4 tablespoons of Bob's red mill fat-free milk powder, 2 tablespoons of sugar. 1/4 tsp salt

I have the milk between meals, and I often get up in the middle of the night and have some as well.

I get maybe 1 of 2 tablespoons of coconut oil daily usually. I also eat maple drops. They're maple syrup candies you can order on Amazon.

I take 5000 IU of vitamin D, a little bit of k2 and sometimes extra vitamin C. No vitamin E because it causes symptoms similar to what I saw with the vitamin A I took a couple of years ago.

 

[gately]

Stargazer, how are you feeling?

Have your health problems continued to improve? Do you have any skin issues eating this way, like dandruff or dermatitis?

Still on the same diet?

Have you tried adding in occasional beef Liver for extra nutrition? Curious if you react okay to that.

Have your POIS symptoms continued improving?

Really very curious about your diet and health journey, and thinking about framing my diet similar to yours. But want to know if you’ve found any adjustments were needed over time.

thanks!