insights welcome
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I have been dealing with the following and would like some opinions about what's happening and some advice:
-dry/dehydrated skin
-hungry soon after eating
-tired after i eat
-general fatigue, apathy, occasional brain fog
-occasionally itchy/irritated (like a histamine response) after eating or while laying in bed at night
-occasional itchy butt crack, groin area
-rash breakouts in armpits and inner elbow area, occasionally neck
-itchy inner left ear
-seb derm on scalp
-bit of tinea versicolor on back -
@nothingclever i believe i have a systemic fungal issue, either due to a long-term vegan diet in the past or too many colon cleanses/detoxing or mold exposure or messed up microbiome or all of the above. I've tried anti-candida diets and keto and carnivore and ray peat style eating on and off and experienced some relief at times. I've also been prescribed diflucan which provides temporary relief but is harsh on my body. the more i read and research and experiment that more i think all of my symptoms are related to an underlying fungal issue, though when i was near bed ridden at my worst years ago i got tested for mycotoxins and it came back negative, same for lyme, and all my blood work was good....
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@nothingclever i am currently not eating starches/complex carbs and feeling a bit better, though I don't stay full/satiated for long after eating. i think i was having reactions to eggs and chocolate and sugarcane so i cut those out, and I'm taking some liver cleansing supps along with glutathione and glutamate and sacc boulardi. I'm basically just eating dates/berries and seafood 3 times a day, along with bone broth throughout the day and herbal tea.
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Because you mentioned skin and itch/irritation I'm linking this:
https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/skin.htmlI was recently reading about skin outbreaks, rashes, etc. This page covers a lot of skin conditions including the ones you mentioned in the GNM perspective.
Questions you may consider: Why were you doing vegan diet? Why cleanses and "detoxing?"
If your blood work is good, allergen test is good, and there is no fungus in your environment, consider the cause is elsewhere. Food may be related. I would say fruit and cooked vegetables/greens might help. Gelatin and collagen from broth seems like a good idea. I know alcohol gives me histamine/inflammation reactions so rarely ever drink.
As an aside the page mentions plantar warts. Strangely enough I had this once. It was there for several months and became painful (bottom of the left foot metatarsal area). I had recently moved and left a relationship and was homesick for both. It became painful when I was once again very far from my new home. I had it frozen off after returning, and it didn't come back. I think I was moving on. It may sound a little like wishful or magical thinking, but I think this is one or two things that I've found consistent with GNM.
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@nothingclever said in insights welcome:
I'm basically just eating dates/berries and seafood 3 times a day, along with bone broth throughout the day and...
Hi,
You're overdriving the capacity of the body when eating like that. Not the only problem.
You lack enzyme DAO (exhausted). The capacity of the body is 50 Unity/day. Most people are able to manage 150-200 Unit/day if not every day.
*) PDF about histamine: Mind H3 and L3. Not only.
https://www.mastzellaktivierung.info/en/downloads.html
=> Food list + choose language.
Useful info (same source):
https://www.histaminintoleranz.ch/en/therapy.html
https://www.mastzellaktivierung.info/en/downloads.html#lm_en (PDF listing, sorting alphabetically by category or not) if you want to choose your language.
*) Do not take B3 niacin more than 20-25 mg.
*) We don't take an extra layer probiotic when the digestion is off. It overloads and make the communication between the brain and the microbiome fizzy.
First calm down / dampen. But not once left and once on the right side. Need a plan. What I can't do here.
Note: I'm not a health professional. -
@Corngold thanks for responding.
To answer your questions, I was on a vegan diet because it originally remedied all of my skin issues in my 20s (acne, psoriasis, eczema), but eventually I felt weak, depleted etc. I was cleansing/detoxing in my 30s utilizing bentonite clay and other supps followed by liver gallbladder flushes because I was convinced it would help my gut after years of medication as a kid and then the vegan diet in my 20s. It helped me be able to not be so restrictive with my diet and seemed to help with intolerances and gut discomfort.
I believe my issues to be fungal because antifungal meds (Diflucan) provide relief, but it’s harsh on my body and only provides temporary relief. I eat fruit and veggie brother and greens every meal, gelatin and collagen (supplement) give me gas and skin issues but I also drink bone broth everyday and eat bone marrow and oxtail. I stopped drinking 6 weeks ago to see if that was the underlying issue and I haven’t gotten any better as a result.
I had a plantar wart in the same spot when I was 24 and I got it frozen off and went vegan and it never came back (even not being vegan now for over 15 years).
Thanks for the link I’ll check it out.
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@LucH thanks for responding. I must say I find your comment hard to understand but I will check out the links and perhaps it will be more clear. Seems like you’re emphasizing histimine reactions being prevalent due to my current diet. Are you suggesting i stop taking the sacc boulardi due to probiotics confusing the microbiome?
I definitely don’t know what you mean by this, “ First calm down / dampen. But not once left and once on the right side. Need a plan. What I can't do here.” perhaps English isn’t your first language or I’m daft or both….
Thanks for clarifying that you’re not a medical professional, I haven’t found any medical professionals to be helpful for wellbeing and nutrition.
