Sunday, May 5, 2024

So dry.

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Can't figure it out.  I have been drinking less water, until a few days ago.  But I had stopped eating for three days, until later last night.  Even then, only two eight ounce bowls of soup.  I had forgotten about electrolytes, something you need on carnivore, probably keto too.  Or extra salt, though I'd more recommend electrolytes.

Though, in my case, since I need to take waterpills I need medical grade potassium, as well as magnesium, zinc, and other minerals.  Plus, doc says I was low on vitamin D (in spite of taking 2k per day, so I've upped it to 10k).  And, renal doctor suggested niacin (one of the B vitamins).  I had been on a B super complex, but... lost track of that.  With all they want, and at the levels I need to take, I'm going to ask them to put it in for medical.  Those are... expensive.  I have some, of some, but not all.  I... can't afford more, and more, and more.

Still, things are better.  There are going to be problems.  But not all of it can be fixed by diet, or even standard supplements.  If your kidneys are bad, your liver isn't working well, and your gut biome is bad (or just went through two higher dose antibiotic treatments), nutrient absorption is problematic.

I have started back on kefir.  Which will help with the gut biome.  The liver and kidney are doing better, but are still at the medium stages of failure.  They can only get better just so fast, and maybe only just so far?  I don't know.  Will find out.  Kefir is probably my best bet at a quicker improvement in nutrient uptake.

Meat?  With occasional liver, kidneys, gizzards, and other offal?  Has every vitamin, mineral, protein, and else, that you need.  But your body has to be in shape to use it.  Carbs?  Your body doesn't need external carbohydrates.  Why?  It can synthesize those from both fat and protein.  Look it up.  Don't let them bs you.  The only thing I would recommend adding to a carnivore diet would be fermented foods and drink.

If I could figure out how to make my own sauerkraut, I'd do it.  But, kefir I can make, and well.  It took a few years to get the practice, and system, down.  But now?  I can easily make, stop making for a bit, and restart the process from frozen samples.  And it is rather easy, it's just that anything that requires daily attention can... get lost in the shuffle.  

The most difficult part of kefir was getting used to consuming it.  If you think plain real whole yogurt is difficult, this will blow your mind.  But, once you get used to it, you will love it.  My mouth waters when I think about it.  Even after I had stopped eating it for a few months, because I couldn't keep up.

Just... some food notes I have taken through thin and thick, on and off track, and a few suggestions about being your own doctor.  You can't do it all, maybe.  Certainly not initially.  But you can get there.  It's going to hurt.  A lot.  I suppose the choice is a shorter harder life, surgeries, medicines that are questionably, arguably, as bad as the disease(s), or... taking one for your own gipper... yourself.  If you can.  Choices.

Though, understand.  Even I have learned to lean in a bit more slowly, when getting back to carnivore.  Cold turkey runs are absolutely brutal.  But... it's a good learning thing.  And if you can keep it up?  Yeah.  Even better.  But if you fail, just come back in at it at a lower trajectory.

Someone... remembers.  The question?  Enough time?

Time isn't what is seems.  Or... so says a... timekiller?  Perhaps.

7 comments:

  1. I'm on a month of getting up to the bathroom or a month of getting up to guzzle water. Have to force myself to eat anything sometimes because my system gets out of whack and hits me with nausea, hot and cold sweats, now that I have correlated the two, it has improved. Still don't understand the loss of a "normal" appetite, all part of the game I guess.

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  2. Drying up will do that. I never had to go dry, but have seen that from others.

    I have some bad news for you. When, if, you go to even keto, but especially carnivore? You will go through these things.

    There are things you can do to mitigate. Are you consuming electrolytes? That will help, a bit, with the various fluid issues. Currently, I am taking two doses, but am long fasting. Normally one dose a day will do.

    As well, if your body begins to burn fat? Which it probably is if your nausea is keeping you from eating? Then all those toxins your body stored in with the fat will begin coming out. From foods and drinking.

    They never really tell you how bad it gets. But... it gets bad as heck. Consider it this way? You know drying up is tough. What you didn't realize is, your addiction(?) wasn't just to alcohol. That was just the public one. Your addiction to carbs might be even more harsh. You... will be drying up for that, too. Ugh.

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  3. Water alone won't hydrate you. It will, mostly, just pass through. If you are that thirsty, water won't work. I also take a mineral supplement, with zinc, magnesium, manganese, and else. If you start getting cramps, in the legs, it should/could help.

    I would recommend you talk to a doctor, have him do a panel on you. I am low on some things. It part because of the diet, in part because of my illnesses not allowing good nutrient absorption.

    He'll try to get you on statins, which I refused. But I'll add niacin. Though, that might be better obtained through nutritional yeast than supplements... exploring that currently.

    Look. I'm just writing what I am seeing, so far. And from my perspective. You'll have to do your own bio-engineering. Decide what and who you trust. But trying a few things? It's... an expensive hobby. But, once you get on a sort of routine, the price? What is a clean healthy life really worth?

    I have limits. I can't do grass-fed, grass finished, local beef. Beyond my means. I just get what I can at the grocery stores, and when it is on sale. But I do add some of these other things.

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  4. See, that's why I've been reading. Little pieces of the puzzle. Toxins in fat I knew, but never made the step of releasing your toxins by burning your own fat, makes sense.
    Thanks for the wish of "good fortunes in the wars to come" I think I know of what you were referring.

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  5. Yes. The learning is a slow, arduous process. I'm still learning. Heck, doctors are still learning. I'm teaching them things, as I sort them.

    They don't like to learn. At some point, a pro thinks he knows it all. But like with the poisons in the fat, being released, making one ill? They want to think that is a bad sign, so the diet should be foreshortened. Rather than understand, like with drying out, there will be side effects that are difficult to deal with, but must happen for health to return. Which... you know intimately well.

    Imagine if, while going through what you are, a doctor just said that if it's that difficult, perhaps you should just start drinking again.

    Man, I'm still learning. And, diet, and health? Are moving targets. But so is life in general.

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  6. "...Imagine if, while going through what you are, a doctor just said that if it's that difficult, perhaps you should just start drinking again."...
    3.5 out of 7 days a week, I'd say "Doc, I'm buying the first round" Luckily,so far, the other days win. I understand that they may suggest treatments in their financiers interest rather than their patients (first do no harm). That is why I don't trust. I knew my Doc, when covid hit she "changed" like she was reading a script she didn't believe but was forced to regurgitate. I could see it in her eyes when I asked questions... the I'm lying with my whole body, except my lying mouth spouting the big-med-pharma lines... her eyes gave it away. She couldn't take the lie and quit her practice several months later.

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  7. Wow, an (if eventually) honest doctor? Who knew. I didn't think that species yet existed.

    I don't think they take that vow anymore. Depends when your doctor took the oath. My question is, did they think they were just getting extra pay... so sell out? Or did they know that a lot of these shots (potentially all of them) were fatal, or could be? Sadly, I believe the latter. Even if not at first, after a bit... they had to know. Handing out the Jim Jones coolaid cups. The first ones, maybe not. After those died... yeah.

    I wish you luck in staying sober. And, figuring out carnivore, or even keto to start. It's... all one addiction or another. I just can't, yet anyway, cut sweets. Pseudo keto sweets. But I have learned how to mitigate, a bit.

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