Constant Overstimulated feeling
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Hey,
I have a lot of gut health issues I am working on putting together a plan to address, but I was looking for pointers on a specific issue.
Frequently, I feel incredibly over stimulated. Not necessarily anxious, but a constant desire to move and sometimes weird little muscle twitches and just a general "uncomfortably amped" feeling. Has anybody had this and done anything that has successfully mediated it? I have a ridiculous screen time due to work and bad habits, not sure if that's part of it. Thanks in advance.
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@DBL21 try 20 mins or grounding a day, get your bare feet on the grass. This will offload the positively charged electrons and neutralise with the abundant negative ions from the earth.
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@DBL21 also magnesium
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Sounds like an adrenaline issue. What's your diet like? Keeping yourself level from sugar crashes will prevent adrenaline surges. Having some fruit or other sugar with a little salty protein and coconut oil will keep things levels. The MCTs in the coconut oil will also help with fueling the brain along with glucose. If these crashes happen too fast between meals then that suggests an issue with your liver holding glycogen, which is most often high cortisol from hypothyroidism. If you're in a pinch and need to quickly kill the adrenaline response you can take 30-50mgs of Progest-E.
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@Mulloch94 My diet is terrible, and I have essentially no appetite these days. I assume I'm probably subclinical hypothyroid, but I don't know a way to raise it without supplementing thyroid hormones which I DO NOT want to do.
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@DBL21 said in Constant Overstimulated feeling:
supplementing thyroid hormones which I DO NOT want to do
How come? Supplementing thyroid when you need thyroid is not something bad to do. It's not like juicing steroids, or even playing around with testosterone, it's probably the safest therapy possible given the circumstances. Just submitting to live a life of hypothyroidism is more dangerous.
You should get checked out first (TSH, T4, T3, cholesterol, etc.), and also check yourself out (pulse and temps,and then again after meals). But if it all leans towards you being hypo I wouldn't waste another day not starting thyroid therapy.
If you have concerns my first recommendation would be to read Broda Barnes book. it's invaluable, everyone should read it before considering thyroid. It even covers the dosing protocol. If you still have some problems, I think Danny's article demystifying thyroid would be helpful. All this goes without saying you should gradually but consistently take steps to improve your diet as well.
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@Mulloch94
I had slightly high cholesterol and TSH w/T4 reflex at 3.29 when I got bloodwork last. I guess I could do it but idk it weirds me out without a lot of background knowledge and the availability for tight testing intervals