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I Ate a Pound of Bacon AMA
I've got a wonderful neighbor who always showers me with delicious, home-raised bacon at the slightest whim.
Husband has been having gut problems from fatty pork, so I've removed the various types of it from our diet for several months. When he went on a business trip I decided to get out a nice pound of my neighbor's bacon.
Over the course of the week, I polished it off. It had been a good while since I'd had fatty pork.
The results weren't good. Ah bacon... I knew you well. :'0
I think that people who feel better off of vitamin A, but who are still experiencing symptoms MIGHT want to look into why I suspect bacon is bad for me.
The first few days back on bacon and eggs for breakfast were glorious. I had rock-steady energy through the morning, and could make it through lunch without much more than a tiny snack. Digesting bacon has never been my issue.
Between my husband and I, I seem opposite in that I thrive on animal foods (both proteins and fats) and crave them much more than he does, I don't seem to need fiber or crave veggies and fruits. And vice versa. Bacon and eggs for breakfast, with a piece of toast and a bit of jam is my ultimate breakfast. Except for the Problem With Bacon.
Here at this website, there seems to be people from both camps, those who seem to need more vegetation and fiber, and those who need the opposite. D'damo might blame blood type. But who knows. I do think it might be genetic in some way.
I'll cut to the chase, I think this is the problem with bacon, for me. I don't think it was vitamin A! I think the amines built up, and by the end of the week I was experiencing insomnia, anxiety, and pustules on my forehead and nose.
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/idiopathic-intracranial-hypertension/
I think this explains how it feels:
"an increase of circulating neurotransmitters and neuromodulators (including tyramine, octopamine, and synephrine) in the hypothalamus, amygdala, and dopaminergic system."
Too many neurotransmitters totally feels like the right explanation for how I feel on bacon.
...Your brain is running around in a fever dream when you are trying to sleep. When awake, The sun is too bright, the sounds are too loud. You can't stand that the shoe salesman has been gone five minutes. You want to walk out of the store. You don't know if you can handle your other errands. God get me through this day....
A couple days off of bacon, and I was back to earth.
Now, how does this relate to vitamin A? Why is vitamin A on the same list with tyramine? Is it because they detox down the same pathways?
from the link in the post above: "
- Too much vitamin A or tyramine
- Certain medicines, such as steroids, tetracycline, or birth control pills"
I think getting vitamin A out of the way has allowed me to "peel the onion" a bit about this, and see what symptoms were actually coming from amines. I did actually suspect that amines were a problem before, having gone on the FAILSAFE diet for a little while and saw some improvements in my skin. But failsafe didn't limit vitamin A, so I was still having migraines.
Of course, Grant's wonderfully clever "prison food diet" would be low in amines, as long as he was eating his foods up quickly. It could be another thing like oxalates that he has cut back on incidentally.
This article contains some foods lists that seem to make sense to me. All of my favorites are on the bad list haha, including cheese, wine, beer, chocolate, sourdough, pickles and kraut. Basically my entire diet hahaha.... I wonder if, in a way, these foods with extra neurotransmitters are actually a bit of an "energizer" when they first arrive in your system.
https://www.healthline.com/health/tyramine-free-diets
I wonder if reducing these extra neurotransmitters in your diet might give a temporary feeling of dullness or a dip in adrenaline until you get used to it.
Last weekend I went to my parents' house for my birthday dinner. Among the gifts: smoked bacon. Damn, that stuff is delicious. I can't stop eating it. It's basically mostly fat, with the occasional muscle in between. The smoky flavor, the juicy fat. Totally understand bacon vice.
Happy Birthday! Practical gifts like food are really thoughtful.
Thank you! My mom is the epitome of practical. She's a great cook, great at sewing and housework and all things practical (her MBTI is ISTP), but as soon as it gets philosophical, she zones out. 🙂
Bacon, derp! Well, in my quest to eat more pork I ended up with a big tummy ache, again after a week of eating bacon.
We don't know what the path is, it is invisible. We run down the path until we hit the boundary on the right and bounce back into the path, veering to the left until we hit that boundary.
I don't think pork is wrong, I just think that bacon is too "aged" for me and I seem to have particular problems with aged food.
I can't help but wonder if SOME of the "problems" might actually be detox from getting more B1. But when things go as far as pain, that is when I change direction.
I also broke out in some whiteheads and dreamt long, imaginative and epic dreams. I had a bit of a hard time getting to sleep but once there I slept like a brick. I've also been napping which is odd for me.
I'm going to drop bacon for now. I have a nice pork roast to cook.