What Do I Do When I Am Reacting To Almost Everything

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Gately, I am sorry to hear about your woes. They sound familiar -- my partner has had Crohns for decades. She has to be extremely careful about supplements to scrutinize every inert ingredient as well as the capsule in order to avoid major problems. SHe found that completely separating her meals into "meat" and "carbohydrate" with no overlap of the two, and taking the meat meal first helps her cope. She practices OMAD at least three days per week, not having her first meal of the day until around 6pm. She is an expert muscle-tester and that guides her food intake -- some days she can have a particular food and other days her body tells her definitely not.

Other than to make a comment about OJ, the rest of my response will not deal with nutrition. It is very important to not have reconstituted juices of any kind, especially 'from concentrate'. Research 'flavor packs' and you will see how the nutritive value has been removed. Reconstituted juices are made with water that is often fluoridated, another toxic stressor for your guts. Based on our experiences here, I would not recommend nearly any foodstuffs that could not reasonably be considered of 'Organic' grade, and definitely nothing labelled Organic from China. Curiously, 'pork' products of more dubious quality have been tolerated OK; they just do not taste as good ;-)

I will bring your attention to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and mold exposure as two things that we have unfortunately had a lot of experience with, exacerbating the Crohns (flareup with major fistulae). By EMF I mean not only wifi/cell but also cordless phones, bluetooth as well as the electrical wiring in the house. Such "low" levels of EMF are biological stressors (actually, they are poisons) and among other things will cause blood-brain barriers and leaky gut phenomena, which will allow gut-derived toxins to infiltrate into places it should never be. Mold exposure (in apartment with mold, or inhaled into a lung) are believed to generate much more mycotoxins when stressed by EMFs, coupled with blood-brain-barrier porosity leads to neurological damage that mere 'detox' protocols prove insufficient to the task. Since you do not know if these are relevant to you, I would recommend trying a week of having zero such devices enabled around you as well as turning off the electrical breakers in your bedroom at night. This might actually help you fairly directly, or at least it is a free experiment with no negative consequences. You mentioned cognition challenges and that is a key indicator for EMF and/or Mold. If you can pinpoint the timeframe of the 'flare' origin, some of the sleuthing becomes easier.

Good luck with this long, long road. You would likely do better with a holistic doctor than with individual specialists. You are not alone -- way too many people have similar health collapses that look normal according to Western medicine standards. I will monitor this thread for a while if you want to engage on this topic further.
This is pretty much exactly my experience as well! Both me and my partner have a lot of gut issues and have very restricted diets. She has several auto-immune diseases and I personally have confirmed mold toxicity, which makes me over-sensitive to almost everything.
 
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Have you tried nixmitalized corn for a starch? i make tortillas out of Maseca instant corn masa flour, and those sit very well with me. I've tried nixmitalized corn chips in the past, and those didn't work well, so maybe pick a brand of masa flour and make your own tortillas. Try that as your only starch for a while and see if it could be tolerated.
Thanks, yeah sorry I forgot to mention I have tried good quality nixmitalized tortilla chips and they sat OK, about at good as wheat. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
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Do the Master Cleanse with salt water flushes , get a series of colonics and start over. You prob have endotoxin of rama. Im sure this is not going to be a popular opinion on here but it works. I have coached MANY clients with it , it works. Clean up your gut and liver.
 
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Do the Master Cleanse with salt water flushes , get a series of colonics and start over. You prob have endotoxin of rama. Im sure this is not going to be a popular opinion on here but it works. I have coached MANY clients with it , it works. Clean up your gut and liver.
I hear you. Earlier in my health journey, I wish I had done something like that. But now I just think it might kill me, a master cleanse that is.

Cut off all grains, vegetables and fruit for two weeks.
That's basically what I'm attempting now. Previously I'd done two weeks here and there on Carnivore and the effect it had on my gut was essentially a massive die off, and I was much better for many months. But now I can't tolerate even a couple days of zero carb without getting super scary symptoms like shooting pains down my left arm and major chest pains, skin instantly dry, feeling just doom and gloom. So my new idea is to try beef, goat milk, and some honey for a bit.

I'm curious why you suggest cutting out grains, veggies, and fruit for two weeks, though? Is it because you think it will have a resetting function?
 

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Thanks, yeah sorry I forgot to mention I have tried good quality nixmitalized tortilla chips and they sat OK, about at good as wheat. Thanks for the suggestion.
Just going to suggest chips are a combination of corn and oil. The tortillas (at least as I make them) have no oil/fat at all. That may make some difference.
 
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I hear you. Earlier in my health journey, I wish I had done something like that. But now I just think it might kill me, a master cleanse that is.


That's basically what I'm attempting now. Previously I'd done two weeks here and there on Carnivore and the effect it had on my gut was essentially a massive die off, and I was much better for many months. But now I can't tolerate even a couple days of zero carb without getting super scary symptoms like shooting pains down my left arm and major chest pains, skin instantly dry, feeling just doom and gloom. So my new idea is to try beef, goat milk, and some honey for a bit.

I'm curious why you suggest cutting out grains, veggies, and fruit for two weeks, though? Is it because you think it will have a resetting function?
I dont think the Master Cleanse will kill you but you do have to be ready for it. Inbox me if you want suggestions on that .
 

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Fat is incredibly healing to the gut. Eat whatever starch you react best to, potato or rice over boiled. With generous amounts of saturated fat, butter, beef dripping. With fatty cuts of meat, rib eye steaks, lamb chops. Small amounts of any vegetables you can tolerate.

You have given us the answers yourself but people are trying to convince you your body is telling you something wrong. It isn't. You said carnivore made your gut feel better for months. Just do carnivore but add in the starch that makes you feel good. Sugar clearly doesnt work for you, dont force it. It works for other people, that's great, they can have their own threads. You dont need to go to extremes of zero carb, or no starch, or doing insane flushes.

Reading your posts its almost as if people are making you feel guilty for doing well on starches. You've said yourself you feel so much better on them. Going starch free ruined my gut. I felt so much better on starch before but I ignored what my body was telling me and paid the price health wise. You also don't need to eat a ton of carbs.
 
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  • Andy Cutler Protocol
  • Possibly lectin avoidance diet
  • Possibly thiol avoidance diet
  • Dynamic Neural Retraining or other neuro feedback, vagal toning, vagus nerve retraining resources
  • Intermittent fasting but maintaining adequate calories
  • Removing all medications and supplements to troubleshoot, as reactions to any compound on each other i.e. hypersensitivity cascade
 

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I'll add that if you ever decide to try drinking OJ and don't press it yourself then go for frozen concentrate. The part below is from reddit.

"Fresh-squeezed" is marketing. You can deliver orange juice year-round in three ways:
  1. buy fresh oranges and squeeze them yourself.
  2. squeeze the oranges, remove most of the water and freeze the concentrate. This is sold as frozen concentrate.
  3. squeeze the oranges, then separate all the components of the juice mechanically and chemically. Store the various components in huge tanks - sometimes for years. Then mix it with flavors and preservatives, bottle it, and sell it before it separates again. This is sold as fresh squeezed, because it's never been frozen.
Unless you physically see method 1, method 2 is far, far fresher.
 
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Made a pretty weird discovery today, hoping someone has some ideas what it might indicate. I’ve been sick for about ten years, and during that time I’ve struggled to sweat. I am high temperature guy in his 30’s, fast metabolism, and yet even in hot climates or even saunas it was difficult to work up a good sweat. I’ve just discovered that I sweat very freely in the morning, either before I eat, or I sweat fine if I eat a low protein meal such as a large glass of goat milk with sugar, or some toast or whatever. But eventually I crave protein (I’ll crave it so tremendously I won’t sleep a wink if I don’t eat some solid animal flesh sometime before bed) and once I eat a substantial amount of protein, my ability to sweat stops for the day. I’ll also feel my energy go down a little with the protein meal, but in a good way, as I feel a little bit hyper before I eat the protein meal.

Anyone have any ideas what this is all about. I’ve been testing this all week and it’s blowing my mind. I sweat like a pig in the summer sun all morning and it feels very good for my body, as before I became ill I was a very sweaty guy. Gotta be good for getting toxins out too. But why the hell is protein messing me up like this?
 

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Made a pretty weird discovery today, hoping someone has some ideas what it might indicate. I’ve been sick for about ten years, and during that time I’ve struggled to sweat. I am high temperature guy in his 30’s, fast metabolism, and yet even in hot climates or even saunas it was difficult to work up a good sweat. I’ve just discovered that I sweat very freely in the morning, either before I eat, or I sweat fine if I eat a low protein meal such as a large glass of goat milk with sugar, or some toast or whatever. But eventually I crave protein (I’ll crave it so tremendously I won’t sleep a wink if I don’t eat some solid animal flesh sometime before bed) and once I eat a substantial amount of protein, my ability to sweat stops for the day. I’ll also feel my energy go down a little with the protein meal, but in a good way, as I feel a little bit hyper before I eat the protein meal.

Anyone have any ideas what this is all about. I’ve been testing this all week and it’s blowing my mind. I sweat like a pig in the summer sun all morning and it feels very good for my body, as before I became ill I was a very sweaty guy. Gotta be good for getting toxins out too. But why the hell is protein messing me up like this?
Dehydration. Your body flushes out excess nitrogen from the high protein intake with water. You likely have some kind of electrolyte imbalance that makes you dehydrated all the time, and the extra protein is exacerbating it to the point where you have symptoms you described. The key is fixing the electrolyte imbalance, not restricting protein intake.
 
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Dehydration. Your body flushes out excess nitrogen from the high protein intake with water. You likely have some kind of electrolyte imbalance that makes you dehydrated all the time, and the extra protein is exacerbating it to the point where you have symptoms you described. The key is fixing the electrolyte imbalance, not restricting protein intake.

What do you suggest? All blood work looks good, not that that means anything. I've done lots of magnesium in various forms, gone through periods of high salt intake but now just salt to taste, potassium supplements make me feel like garbage so I just stick to foods like potatoes and other potassium rich vegetables, and I eat a lot of dairy for calcium. I've had the sweating issue for about ten years, and I've tried a lot experimentation with electrolytes, via food or supplementation, in that time. Nothing ever changed the ability to sweat. Only protein restriction (and iodine) will get me sweating. It makes me doubt it's an electrolyte issue, but I'm definitely all ears if you have any ideas.
 
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What about sugar cane juice or coconut water for hydration, both can make me feel more hydrated than water, although sugar cane juice here in the UK is the devil to obtain.
 
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What about sugar cane juice or coconut water for hydration, both can make me feel more hydrated than water, although sugar cane juice here in the UK is the devil to obtain.
Actually coconut water makes me feel acutely dehydrated and crazy thirsty.
 

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What do you suggest? All blood work looks good, not that that means anything. I've done lots of magnesium in various forms, gone through periods of high salt intake but now just salt to taste, potassium supplements make me feel like garbage so I just stick to foods like potatoes and other potassium rich vegetables, and I eat a lot of dairy for calcium. I've had the sweating issue for about ten years, and I've tried a lot experimentation with electrolytes, via food or supplementation, in that time. Nothing ever changed the ability to sweat. Only protein restriction (and iodine) will get me sweating. It makes me doubt it's an electrolyte issue, but I'm definitely all ears if you have any ideas.
The thing is, when your hormones are deranged, you can eat all the minerals and electrolytes you want, the body won't retain them. Have you ever tried boron supplementation?
Do you have any bloodwork done regarding your hormones?
Also, the fact that protein restriction helps you might suggest that you have some kind of bacterial overgrowth - the kind of bacteria that feeds on protein. And iodine is very effective antiseptic. Are you getting enough biotin?
 

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