ADHD, Severe fatigue, digestion problems etc..
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Okay q4h, how's it going... Are you getting a handle on this? It can be a form of self sabotage for us. Water isn't benign you see, it's a solvent. And while it can initially feel energising (depending on prior consumption and gastrointestinal contents), it can leave you lower when that passes. With a distorted sense of immediate needs. That can be cyclical until you break it.
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Not bad. Slowly drinking less. Switched to apple purée not apple juice and got some jam too. Got goat cheese instead of goat milk.
I do have slight liver pain from liver. Probably too much vit A from all that liver. Going to stop liver and eat potatoes for copper from now on. Potato and meat/organ and fruit diet for now until I spend time in the sun and use up my vit A stores.
Overall doing well. Energy improving from iron supplements.
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I was going to suggest, because you need to be careful in trying to readjust. That you discipline yourself not on total amount but on sip sizes and replacements.
So you can have as much water as you want. But you'd self forbid to gulp down large amounts of it. Make every sip size about half your tongue size, swallowing it gently. And in doing that, you'd be likely to find yourself desiring less over the course of a few days.
Meanwhile, you can consume as much sugary/electrolytic alternative as you like. I've done a lot of experimentation around adding varying amounts of salt to various types of drink. But for someone trying to readjust their own fluid balance, I wouldn't recommend doing that. Just salt your food to taste as Dr Peat advised (conservatively! salt appetite is also a moving target in my experience). Drink anything you want that isn't water, and add a level but generous teaspoon of sugar, honey, molasses or maple syrup to it. The easy extra carbs will assist in controlling your compulsion to tank large amounts of hypotonic fluids.
And around this. Try to eat above your appetite and be disciplined in keeping a schedule around your meals. Three of them a day, at around the same time, Because it's probably a bit suppressed in the midst of the cycle you're currently in.
In my inner world, I refer to this kind of thing as "camel mode" (you're free to laugh, I do, self amusement is often my goal to assist with self discipline). And in "camel mode", my sense of my own cognition, impulse, energy, and reflection on any expenditure would suggest it's something resembling "optimal". Which makes sense to me. In the absence of potable water, I ought to be ok with occasional trips to a river, where my hand would guide the amounts.
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Ok good good! Keep going.
Yes that sounds reasonable. I never got in to the liver thing personally. But I may still try it at some point.
In fact I don't tend to toil too much these days over micronutrition. I used to. It was a phase. These days as long as my foods are "whole"(ish), I just try to balance my macros and let the clandestine chemist inside of me do his thing. Seems to work. Most of the time.
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I am currently feeling high thyroid but depressed and flat lol. Oh well.
I definitely see the merit in low vit A. Also personally I do find micronutrients important. Selenium is helping with cold feet a ton.
Going to try JUST potato and beef hearts with tallow or whatever for a week. And gelatin/broths as well as maybe goat cheese. In fact I might do a simple diet like this for a few months and eat other foods only if I crave them or something. Just need simple for now. Simple helps my type of brain until I improve my brain function.
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@questforhealth said in ADHD, Severe fatigue, digestion problems etc..:
@ThinPicking
depressed and flatYou can get out of this (sustainably), I'm rooting for you
@questforhealth said in ADHD, Severe fatigue, digestion problems etc..:
@ThinPicking
I definitely see the merit in low vit A.Might I suggest you alter that statement in your inner world to "I definitely see the merit in moderating consumption of concentrated sources of vit A."
There's more logic in it. And your inner voice is more powerful than you may yet be giving it credit for. As a "young" person.
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Yes definitely! I am currently eating a bowl of rice with some butter and gooseberry jam so I imagine both those have some vit A. Also sprinkled gelatin powder on top. It looks like something my father used to feed to the chickens. But tastes good and salty. Just getting ready for the water to leave me again!
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Why do I feel a weird dull pain sensation on the left side of my body, my cheek, my toes, my wrist and my left hand. Right side feels fine? It’s spreading up my leg a bit but my face and arm are the same. Wtf?
Heavy metals? Wtf!
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@questforhealth Maybe peripheral neuropathy, do you easily get delirium/hallucinations from cyproheptadine or diphenhydramine (benadryl)?
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Sort of. What do you think my solution for this will be?
Last night I took cypro while sleep deprived and thought the air force jets flying around were an alien invasion
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Wondering if amongst all this,
I need to just move back to eastern europe to be with family and your OWN people, grow some lambs, some fruit bushes, a potato garden etc... spend time in the sun, at village parties and so on...
People are sane in the eastern european countryside... Calm. Normal.
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@questforhealth In the end, I have the impression, with experience and time, that the solution to everything chronic revolves around improving the liver (coffee, niacin, taurine, glycine, selenium, vitamin E, vitamin C), thyroid (selenium, b vitamins) and serotonin regulation (niacin, lysine, glycine, zinc, magnesium).
@questforhealth said in ADHD, Severe fatigue, digestion problems etc..:
People are sane in the eastern european countryside... Calm. Normal.
For my part, what made me extremely ill was when I started living on my own in Western Europe. Here, the environment is ill, and it reflects on the people. There may be a little more money but there's no cultural, spiritual, emotional, human or food wealth.
If you think it's the right thing to do to get back to your family and culture for your own well-being, then do it.
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The part of the U.K. I live in is magical somehow in its own way. Quite lucky.
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Burnt my beef tallow. Baked my beef bones.
In a practical sense could I try eating pure fruit for a few days for liver pain? Nothing else.
I think i’ve been mixing too much fat and carbs and protein together. Seems like I need to keep it separate?
I crave fruit EXTREMELY bad, especially sour cherries and that sort of stuff.
Do i just do it? I always try get my ingredients from food instead of supplements. If someone tells me to take taurine i’ll just eat some mutton. Vit c i’ll eat cherries etc etc....
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Ate oreos today and projectile vomited. True pig food
I can’t even look at the junk food isle in the supermarket without feeling nauseous anymore
Returning to nature and getting senses back. Going to be canoeing and helping clean up a river next week. Beautiful. Might bring some organic food to cook for volunteers and see how everyone feels about that
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@questforhealth said in New "Mission" of RPF:
? not sure what you mean exactly. still got a copper deficiency which makes it hard to understand things... basic stuff. i feel really fkin stupid form a 'copper detox' which just gave me a copper deficiency
no wonder charlie can be so fkin stupid
Did you get any blood work yet? And how's the fatigue?
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no blood work im just going by instinct
fatigue got better but i think i dipped into copper deficiency.
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Ok.
And what of the sociable hours on a weekday. Are you working, are you studying, what is occupying you q4h?
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don't really do any of that stuff yet because of energy levels but want to when they improve
for now i just read about stuff on the computer mostly but try to limit screentime more now
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maybe i didnt mind spending time around people as a child but honestly just having no filter due to awful adhd just makes me fucking hate people now i'd rather just read about stuff until I get that controlled...
i am very serotonin overloaded currently. serotonin has a smell to it that i know very well.. not joking serotonin has a smell.
dont fkin ask me to describe it. I dont think I could. maybe it has a slight banana or pineapple smell to it but other than that it smells like constipation... idk its difficult
