Hello cool people.
I have been reading the forum excessively for the past three weeks.
Figured it's time to make an account and say hello.
It is unusual for me to announce my presence.
In my journey to resolve my health problems I've spent tons of time reading
through various forums and websites but I've never been an active participant in any of them.
This forum however is something different.
People here communicate with more comprehension and objective understanding.
It makes me want to be a part of it.
I am 26 years old from Bulgaria.
I've studied computer science and I'm currently working as Software developer in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The relevant part of my journey starts 3 years ago.
2014.
During my last year in university I began getting interested in nutrition.
My health was problematic and I had motivation to improve the way I eat.
Naturally the first big thing that drew me in was Paleo.
I loved the idea of it and it seemed so logical.
My diet at first was not bad at all, fruits were a big part of it.
I stopped eating wheat and it made me felt great.
I would eat banana/egg pancakes cooked in butter usually twice a day.
My staple meal was fresh chicken meat cooked with carrots, potatoes and mushrooms in butter.
These two meals were what I ate everyday for 4 months, along with the odd bananas and apples.
I added raw coconuts to my diet and this made me overflow with energy.
I felt like I was making all the right moves and my health just kept getting better and better.
Lifting weights and biking was energizing and enjoyable.
Everything was good until it was not.
In my craving for more optimization I started making fatal mistakes.
I started eating tons of nuts, avocado and tuna while going lower carb and overfeeding.
300 grams of cashews, 4 avocado and 2 cans of a tuna a day became something normal for me.
My body withstood an abuse like that for 5 months before it started crumbling.
I began having migraines, fatigue, digestive problems, nonrestorative sleep and overall low energy.
It was obvious something was wrong but I didn't question my diet because I believed it to be flawless.
2015
I kept up the nuts/avocado consumption for an year during which I was continuously deteriorating.
At some point I stumbled on forums and youtube videos about ketosis and decided this was the solution for my problems.
My head was filled with concepts like keto flu and keto adapation which made me ignore the obvious signs
that my thyroid hit the emergency brakes just 2 days into keto.
This was the point where my body just entered full-on stress mode.
I didn't understand it at the time but I started functioning entirely on adrenaline.
The rush at the beginning made me frantically look for answers and I spent all my time reading on sites like curezone.
Eventually I reintroduced carbs but barely enough to keep me alive.
One month after I entered the stress mode I began having heart poundings upon any physical exertion which are my biggest problem to this day.
At some point I found the Andrew Cutler protocol for mercury chelation.
Mercury was definitely a problem for me because of my huge tuna consumption and 2 amalgam fillings recently removed.
The protocol was yet another hope for recovering my health.
When I started the ALA every 3 hours for chelating mercury I has some profound reactions which confirmed it for me that mercury is a problem for my body.
However with every round I became worse and worse and eventually so disabled that I couldn't keep on.
I went to hospitals and did a lot of tests but answers were nowhere to be found.
At some point I got a possive result in the Western Blot test for Lyme disease.
I was hopeful yet again. Maybe my problem was the bacterial infection all along.
I took high doses of multiple antibiotics for many months.
Some symptoms improved but my major dysfunction remained untoched.
Candida entered my life at this stage.
Since then I've been having major constipation and white coated tongue.
My life became an endless chain of agony and suffering but my survival instinct was not done with me.
My body somehow kept working even in a dysfunctional state.
I kept looking for answers.
Spring 2016 I decided to start pulling teeth with root canals.
I got 4 teeth out but relief never came.
During a routine procedure of replacing a composite filling my dentist found a huge chunk of amalgam hidden beneath a composite.
At that point I realized my attempts for mecury chelation were doomed to fail since you pull more mercury into the body if you have an amalgam.
3 months after removal I began chelating again with some minor improvement despite my gut being in a disastrous state.
It was summer and I had some good days every once in a while so I kept chelating.
Until winter came and I was in a terrible state again.
The way I found Ray Peat was the culmination of my research about the cause of my heart palpitations.
I knew things were better for me in the summer but I couldn't explain why.
I was telling my friends that during winter the body has to spent more energy for body temperature so there is not enough energy for the immune system.
I understood this subconsciously but I didn't know the mechanism behind it.
Until one day I stumbled on an article on NCBI about hypothyroid people having high levels of norepinephrine in they blood.
As much as 5-6 times higher than controls.
As soon as I read this I knew I hit diamonds.
I started googling thyroid and adrenaline and ended up on Ray's website.
Reading through his thyroid related articles felt like finding the missing pieces for a puzzle which I've been building for 3 years.
Suddenly everything made sense.
The first thing I did was buy some T3 and started taking 50mcg a day in multiple doses.
I had to know. It was all or nothing for me.
In just three days I felt amazing.
Warm for the first time in years and just plain happy.
It felt so good I started making plans about my future, thinking about my career, family, relationships.
Sadly it didn't last. I crashed again.
It took me a few days to realize the fact that with T3 my body was insatiable.
In those three days I rapidly burned through my glycogen and cholesterol stores.
After realizing my mistake I exponentially increased my sugar intake but this wasn't a quick fix.
My 2+ years of low carb have taken their toll.
I am an insulin-resistant-PUFA-loaded-adrenaline-powered-mercury-poisoned organism.
Witness me rise.
I'll be updating my progress in this thread.
I have been reading the forum excessively for the past three weeks.
Figured it's time to make an account and say hello.
It is unusual for me to announce my presence.
In my journey to resolve my health problems I've spent tons of time reading
through various forums and websites but I've never been an active participant in any of them.
This forum however is something different.
People here communicate with more comprehension and objective understanding.
It makes me want to be a part of it.
I am 26 years old from Bulgaria.
I've studied computer science and I'm currently working as Software developer in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The relevant part of my journey starts 3 years ago.
2014.
During my last year in university I began getting interested in nutrition.
My health was problematic and I had motivation to improve the way I eat.
Naturally the first big thing that drew me in was Paleo.
I loved the idea of it and it seemed so logical.
My diet at first was not bad at all, fruits were a big part of it.
I stopped eating wheat and it made me felt great.
I would eat banana/egg pancakes cooked in butter usually twice a day.
My staple meal was fresh chicken meat cooked with carrots, potatoes and mushrooms in butter.
These two meals were what I ate everyday for 4 months, along with the odd bananas and apples.
I added raw coconuts to my diet and this made me overflow with energy.
I felt like I was making all the right moves and my health just kept getting better and better.
Lifting weights and biking was energizing and enjoyable.
Everything was good until it was not.
In my craving for more optimization I started making fatal mistakes.
I started eating tons of nuts, avocado and tuna while going lower carb and overfeeding.
300 grams of cashews, 4 avocado and 2 cans of a tuna a day became something normal for me.
My body withstood an abuse like that for 5 months before it started crumbling.
I began having migraines, fatigue, digestive problems, nonrestorative sleep and overall low energy.
It was obvious something was wrong but I didn't question my diet because I believed it to be flawless.
2015
I kept up the nuts/avocado consumption for an year during which I was continuously deteriorating.
At some point I stumbled on forums and youtube videos about ketosis and decided this was the solution for my problems.
My head was filled with concepts like keto flu and keto adapation which made me ignore the obvious signs
that my thyroid hit the emergency brakes just 2 days into keto.
This was the point where my body just entered full-on stress mode.
I didn't understand it at the time but I started functioning entirely on adrenaline.
The rush at the beginning made me frantically look for answers and I spent all my time reading on sites like curezone.
Eventually I reintroduced carbs but barely enough to keep me alive.
One month after I entered the stress mode I began having heart poundings upon any physical exertion which are my biggest problem to this day.
At some point I found the Andrew Cutler protocol for mercury chelation.
Mercury was definitely a problem for me because of my huge tuna consumption and 2 amalgam fillings recently removed.
The protocol was yet another hope for recovering my health.
When I started the ALA every 3 hours for chelating mercury I has some profound reactions which confirmed it for me that mercury is a problem for my body.
However with every round I became worse and worse and eventually so disabled that I couldn't keep on.
I went to hospitals and did a lot of tests but answers were nowhere to be found.
At some point I got a possive result in the Western Blot test for Lyme disease.
I was hopeful yet again. Maybe my problem was the bacterial infection all along.
I took high doses of multiple antibiotics for many months.
Some symptoms improved but my major dysfunction remained untoched.
Candida entered my life at this stage.
Since then I've been having major constipation and white coated tongue.
My life became an endless chain of agony and suffering but my survival instinct was not done with me.
My body somehow kept working even in a dysfunctional state.
I kept looking for answers.
Spring 2016 I decided to start pulling teeth with root canals.
I got 4 teeth out but relief never came.
During a routine procedure of replacing a composite filling my dentist found a huge chunk of amalgam hidden beneath a composite.
At that point I realized my attempts for mecury chelation were doomed to fail since you pull more mercury into the body if you have an amalgam.
3 months after removal I began chelating again with some minor improvement despite my gut being in a disastrous state.
It was summer and I had some good days every once in a while so I kept chelating.
Until winter came and I was in a terrible state again.
The way I found Ray Peat was the culmination of my research about the cause of my heart palpitations.
I knew things were better for me in the summer but I couldn't explain why.
I was telling my friends that during winter the body has to spent more energy for body temperature so there is not enough energy for the immune system.
I understood this subconsciously but I didn't know the mechanism behind it.
Until one day I stumbled on an article on NCBI about hypothyroid people having high levels of norepinephrine in they blood.
As much as 5-6 times higher than controls.
As soon as I read this I knew I hit diamonds.
I started googling thyroid and adrenaline and ended up on Ray's website.
Reading through his thyroid related articles felt like finding the missing pieces for a puzzle which I've been building for 3 years.
Suddenly everything made sense.
The first thing I did was buy some T3 and started taking 50mcg a day in multiple doses.
I had to know. It was all or nothing for me.
In just three days I felt amazing.
Warm for the first time in years and just plain happy.
It felt so good I started making plans about my future, thinking about my career, family, relationships.
Sadly it didn't last. I crashed again.
It took me a few days to realize the fact that with T3 my body was insatiable.
In those three days I rapidly burned through my glycogen and cholesterol stores.
After realizing my mistake I exponentially increased my sugar intake but this wasn't a quick fix.
My 2+ years of low carb have taken their toll.
I am an insulin-resistant-PUFA-loaded-adrenaline-powered-mercury-poisoned organism.
Witness me rise.
I'll be updating my progress in this thread.
