Why I'm Burning Inside?

pauljacob

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I've been suffering from internal body heat for more than a year. I eat healthy vegetarian diet a little heavy on bread and pasta. I also eat dairy, and drink a glass of red wine couple of times a week. I do have NAFLD and Insulin Resistance. I have hypertension and have been taking Valsartan/HCTZ 320/12.5 for two years. Any ideas why I'm burning inside?
 

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What do you mean by burning inside? Have you measured your body temps?
What are you eating?
 
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What do you mean by burning inside? Have you measured your body temps?
What are you eating?
My temperature is normal and sometimes a degree or two below normal, but my skin is hot. As I mentioned in my post, I eat simple non-meat food. I drink a cup of coffee in the morning and one in the afternoon. I think the Chinese call what I have "dry heat".
 

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As I mentioned in my post, I eat simple non-meat food.
That says what you don't eat, not what you do eat. Other than 'a little heavy on bread and pasta'. 'Healthy' and 'simple' means many things to many people - it doesn't tell us what you mean by it.

If you are using Chinese medicine concepts, have they helped you?
If your body temperature is normal or below normal, and it is your skin that feels hot, then I maybe you are not burning up inside?

Have you read some of Peat's articles, eg on sugar, on thyroid, and on food? www.raypeat.com

Have you done any tracking to see what nutrition you are getting from your diet, eg using cronometer or similar?
 
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Thank you Tara for your reply. It's going to take a few posts for me to learn how to post properly so as to get help. No, I'm not using Chinese medicine concepts, I searched online for causes of body heat and read an article about dry heat. As to reading Peat's articles, I intend to do some intensive reading, and thank you for the link. As to using a cronometer, I don't even know what that is, so I'd better stop posting until I've done some serious research on this amazing board.
 

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cronometer.com

Ignore their low calorie advice - they are a restrictive diet site. And some of their other advice doesn't align with Peat's (Eg Peat proposes low PUFA food.) But it's a way to get a rough idea of what you are getting in the food you eat.
 
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Ignore their low calorie advice - they are a restrictive diet site. And some of their other advice doesn't align with Peat's (Eg Peat proposes low PUFA food.) But it's a way to get a rough idea of what you are getting in the food you eat.
Thank you Tara, I will.
 

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It could be high nitric oxide

"RAY PEAT: The liver, to the extent that it's injured, will ruin the whole organism. It's the chemist for the whole organism. And if you’re starving and not getting enough protein especially, or not enough B-vitamins, your liver loses the ability to detoxify and you get gross hormone imbalances. And that can lead to progressive inflammation, fibrosis.And as these processes get more serious, the liver becomes a larger source of nitric oxide. And at the point that it's becoming inflamed and cirrhotic, then it starts secreting nitric oxide to the whole system. And the lungs – with an acute injury to the liver, the lungs will become acutely inflamed. When they transplant a liver, they've measured the sick person's nitric oxide very high. When they put in a new liver, suddenly the nitric oxide is low and the lungs suddenly begin working more efficiently, demonstrating that the liver is poisoning the lungs, so that the oxygen doesn't get through efficiently. With the brain, the same thing is happening. Edema is produced in the brain by the e ndotoxin/nitric oxide combination. And the ammonia produced by the liver, which is being injured, was a traditional explanation for why the brain has problems in proportion to the liver. But now it's known that ammonia is activating the nerves that are excited by the glutamic acid – MSG, excitatory amino acids – and those excitatory amino acids act largely through nitric oxide. And so depression, anxiety, and I assume aggression is part of this mixture of gradual poisoning to different degrees."
~https://l-i-g-h-t.com/transcript-466

"RAY PEAT: In situations where they were studying learned helplessness, which produces increased acetylcholine and nitric oxide, they found that either progesterone or thyroid T3 would block the formation of that behavior, would keep them from dying too prematurely. Thyroid and progesterone both interfere with the production of nitric oxide. In a situation of under-function of the thyroid gland (or system), it's now pretty well established that high blood pressure in a very high proportion of the cases is produced by hypothyroidism. And because of the belief that nitric oxide has a beneficial effect of increasing circulation, as with Viagra and Rogaine, the thought was that hypothyroidism must be lowering nitric oxide. But in fact it increases it, while still causing contraction of the blood vessels, and tightening up, increasing blood pressure. So, the effect of thyroid is to stop excess nitric oxide, or excess cholinergic function, or excess estrogen. But the medical ideas that have been built up on the idea that estrogen is a therapeutic thing across the spectrum, and that nitric oxide is beneficial because it's produced by multi billion-dollar drugs, these interlock. So that they argued that if estrogen produces nitric oxide, then nitric oxide is good, and so on. Each thing is used as an argument for the other. But when you put them into context of thyroid and progesterone, you see that the actual problem, such as high blood pressure can involve increased nitric oxide, even though that goes against the doctrine."
~https://l-i-g-h-t.com/transcript-375

It also been discussed that people that don't respond well to heat or coldness and inappriotedly hot have excess nitric oxide

"When doctors are talking about diseases of the heart and circulatory system, it's common for them to say that estrogen is protective, because it causes blood vessels to relax and dilate, improving circulation and preventing hypertension. The fact that estrogen increases the formation of nitric oxide, a vasodilator, is often mentioned as one of its beneficial effects. But in the case of hot flashes, dilation of the blood vessels is exactly the problem, and estrogen is commonly prescribed to prevent the episodic dilation of blood vessels that constitutes the hot flash. Nitric oxide increases in women in association with the menopause (Watanabe, et al., 2000), and it is increased by inflammation, and hot flushes are associated with various mediators of inflammation, but, as far as I can tell, no one has measured the production of nitric oxide during a hot flash. Inhibitors of nitric oxide formation reduce vasodilation during hot flushes (Hubing, et al., 2010)."
~Hot flashes, energy, and aging

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"RAY PEAT: Yeah, I was just previously mentioning that hypothyroid people have increased nitric oxide, but at the same time they have a tendency of too much contraction of the blood vessels and high blood pressure. So, at least, nitric oxide isn't able to maintain good blood flow if your thyroid is low. The thyroid does... I think the basic thing that relaxes the blood vessels (and produced by thyroid hormone) is carbon dioxide. Hypothyroid people tend to have chronically increased lactic acid in their blood which displaces carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide relaxes blood vessels in a very different way than the interfering with energy supply that nitric oxide does. Carbon dioxide retains a high energy level while relaxing, partly just by changing the electrical pH behavior of the cell. It acidifies the cell, which relaxes it. That relaxing effect of increasing carbon dioxide from higher thyroid function makes your capillaries and arterials relax, and let the blood flow through, providing oxygen to the tissues which then produce more carbon dioxide and keep the system active and circulating. Carbon dioxide and thyroid both tend to increase the stroke volume of the heart the same way progesterone does, where the parasympathetic nervous system and estrogen decrease the stroke volume, and weaken the heart. Thyroid has an energizing, but relaxing function. It increases the ability of cells to retain magnesium, because magnesium is bound to the ATP energy carrying molecule. By increasing the oxidation of the cell to produce ATP, the cell then binds magnesium and releases calcium, which is the excitatory thing. So, if you have magnesium in your system and you’re producing carbon dioxide, your cells will retain the relaxing magnesium. You can see that in the way your muscles work, your heart [works]. It shows up in the electrocardiogram as a quick re polarization, getting ready and relaxed, ready for a new stimulation. In your brain it shows up as quick transition from wakefulness into sleep at night, without having to go through a lot of preparation. The brain is able to quickly relax by increasing its ATP and oxygen and carbon dioxide."
 
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Thank you meatbag, a wealth of information to dig into. Much appreciated. :):
 

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