refeeding syndrome like symptoms with severe mecfs. please help
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@izkrov yeah probably except I've tried thyroid and it seems to backfire. Also excessively hungry. My thyroid markers were within normal. TSH like 1.4.
It just made me feel wired. Even small doses
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@skywxlker said in refeeding syndrome like symptoms with severe mecfs. please help:
@mostlylurking thank you.
thoughts on TTFD? it does seem to work for me...
I couldn't tolerated TTFD because I had low glutathione that was caused by my high oxidative stress which was caused by my mercury toxicity. If you are not having negative effects from it, then you might should stick with it.
Dr. Chandler Marrs treats people with TTFD; some of them are taking pretty high doses (more than a gram, iirc. She has some videos on youtube you might find of interest.
My magnesium is 400mg elemental weight. So that means I'm taking like 1200mg because I would take three per day.
Which type of magnesium is it?
thoughts on upping B3 to 2-3 grams?
I wouldn't do it myself. I take niacinamide, 100mg, 4Xday. I had taken 200mg, 2Xday for maybe 6-7 years, but then I switched to the 100mg, 4Xday and lost 35 pounds during the next 3-4 months. Made quite an impression on me.
I'm going to up TTFD to possibly 1000/day. I'm like 500mg per day. I do feel slight effects.
Watch the Dr. Chandler Marrs videos I linked to above.
When I was taking thiamine HCL, I took 10 grams actually to relieve my symptoms. But after 3 days of that I found that 2,3 grams was doing the trick. You are probably right, I think I stopped prematurely.
Consistency is very important.
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@skywxlker said in refeeding syndrome like symptoms with severe mecfs. please help:
@izkrov yeah probably except I've tried thyroid and it seems to backfire. Also excessively hungry. My thyroid markers were within normal. TSH like 1.4.
It just made me feel wired. Even small doses
I'm hypothyroid. I was diagnosed with it over 40 years ago. I'm a big believer in using a good endocrinologist for help with optimizing the dose needed. I don't believe it's a smart thing to play around with. You can give yourself heart palpitations doing that. It takes many months of blood testing and titrating the dose up slowly to finally reach your optimum dose.
If you want to find a good endo, a helpful shortcut is to ask your local pharmacists which doctors are prescribing NP Thyroid by Acella. It is a high quality desiccated thyroid prescription medication. If the doctor is already prescribing it, they should have a better idea what they are doing.
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@mostlylurking
I'm taking mag glycinate. 800-1200mg across the day.
I think I will switch back to hcl version. I just took two grams. The week I took it did solve my most pertininant issues. I shouldn't have stopped it so soon.
do you foresee any issues with mineral deficiencies? Also why not b7? is that just a personal thing? and do you think that the thiamine megadose will fill in that gap?
I spoke to ER and they said they couldn't do anything except that it does appear I have metabolic syndrome. Likely deficiencies, malabsorption, glycogen storage disease, etc.
They are going to get the hospital to talk to my doctor asap.
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@mostlylurking I'll do my best to do this.
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@skywxlker said in refeeding syndrome like symptoms with severe mecfs. please help:
@mostlylurking
I'm taking mag glycinate. 800-1200mg across the day.
This is the magnesium glycinate that I am taking. Please take a look at the amount that is recommended (3100mg) and that this amount provides 400mg of magnesium. Please read the info about magnesium glycinate at the link. It might take a little time for you to be able to increase your magnesium glycinate dosage and that's OK. Take your time. Dr. Costantini advised his patients to take 75mg of magnesium per WEEK because he didn't want to risk the possibility of digestive upset.
I think I will switch back to hcl version. I just took two grams. The week I took it did solve my most pertininant issues. I shouldn't have stopped it so soon.
Consistency is very important. Dr. Costantini always advised his patients to divide the daily dosage in two and take one dose before lunch (mid-morning) and one dose mid-afternoon. Always take it with water, never juice, and take it at least 30 minutes from eating to get the best benefit.
do you foresee any issues with mineral deficiencies? Also why not b7? is that just a personal thing? and do you think that the thiamine megadose will fill in that gap?
Dr. Costantini liked to get his patients to stop all supplements for several weeks when starting high dose thiamine so that he could confirm that the improvements seen were really from the thiamine. Then, after the few weeks had passed, he would allow them to reintroduce the other supplements as they saw fit.
Elliot Overton has mentioned several things that can become deficient from taking high dose thiamine including: riboflavin (I take 100mg, 4Xday), niacinamide (I take 100mg, 4Xday), potassium (I drink around 18 oz of orange juice daily) zinc ( I added 15mg of zinc recently), and I think also selenium (I take 200mcg/day of selenium).
You might want to take a good b-complex while high dosing thiamine hcl. Here is one.
Elliot's website
Elliot's videos on thiamineI spoke to ER and they said they couldn't do anything except that it does appear I have metabolic syndrome. Likely deficiencies, malabsorption, glycogen storage disease, etc.
I think that high dose thiamine hcl will correct a lot of these problems. The liver (along with all the other organs) must have thiamine to make the cellular energy so that it can perform its functions. Dr. Costantini said that his patients would continue to improve for 6 months and this is what I experienced too. Dr. Chandler Marrs said that you didn't get in this shape overnight and it will take some time for the different health issues to "unwind".
suggested reading: Hiding in Plain Sight: Modern Thiamine DeficiencyThey are going to get the hospital to talk to my doctor asap.
Here's an article for your consideration:
Thiamine Saves
Please read.
“…Many people who have undertaken a low carbohydrate diet have noticed a change for the worse in sleeping habits. Since lowering carbohydrate intake always includes lowering grain consumption and thus thiamin consumption, this is a potential mechanism by which low carbohydrate diets may negatively impact sleep. The problem may not be in the low carbohydrate status so much as low GABA caused by a lack of thiamin intake. In people who periodically binge on sugar, overexercise, or drink coffee or alcohol the problem will be worse. Carbohydrate intake could come in to play once adrenal insufficiency sets in because in the absence of carbohydrate, cortisol is used to increase glucose output by the liver. Also, since low thiamin has been shown to reduce liver glycogen storage, this would impact your ability to meet the brain's glucose needs when asleep.” -
@skywxlker do you eat liver and oysters? Why get B vitamins from sups instead of getting them from liver? I would eat liver daily and oysters daily until you either have a negative reaction (then reduce to once a week for both) or until your symptoms stop.
Also, another better source of B vitamins is brewer's yeast, so I would try to use that as well in excess.
Also, maybe reduce the meat and replace with gelatin, milk, and tropical fruits. You shouldn't need tons of protein if your in such an unhealthy state.
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@secondkelping said in refeeding syndrome like symptoms with severe mecfs. please help:
@skywxlker do you eat liver and oysters? Why get B vitamins from sups instead of getting them from liver? I would eat liver daily and oysters daily until you either have a negative reaction (then reduce to once a week for both) or until your symptoms stop.
Ray Peat said the most frequent to eat a little liver is once a week. Although I have some in the freezer, I've gotten out of the habit. I think there's too much A in liver to eat it more frequently than once a week. Although I do eat oysters occasionally, I'm not planning on ever eating them more than once a week. But that's me and my health ideas; you are free to do whatever you please.
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@mostlylurking I agree but I think you should treat yourself as if you are in a severe deficit of nutrients and eat until you no longer crave any of these nutrient dense foods. Then, switch to eating them once a week.
It would be better to gorge on nutrient dense foods to see if that's the problem or to see if it could be something else. Just a thought.
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@secondkelping said in refeeding syndrome like symptoms with severe mecfs. please help:
@mostlylurking I agree but I think you should treat yourself as if you are in a severe deficit of nutrients and eat until you no longer crave any of these nutrient dense foods. Then, switch to eating them once a week.
It would be better to gorge on nutrient dense foods to see if that's the problem or to see if it could be something else. Just a thought.
If you are deficient in say, thiamine or whatever, and you gorge on things that don't have much of that in them but do have enormous amounts of vitamin A in them (like liver), you can gorge and gorge for weeks on end and never feel better and wind up with vitamin A toxicity on top of whatever is actually the problem.
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@mostlylurking I think it's a lot harder to become vitamin A toxic than many believe, but this is only true if you're eating enough calories with the various nutrients that one needs. I mean, I've eaten liver for 2 weeks straight before my body no longer craved it. Maybe 2 oz. a day. This is after going an extended period w/o having it for a fast.
I just now started to feel fully satiated, so I'm back to 4 oz. serving per week (I technically eat a "bite" per day). Anyway, no signs of toxicity because I was low on Vit A and B vitamins. If I pushed it now, since I've been satiated then I would probably see negative effects sooner rather than later.
