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Ka-BOOM: sudden overload from restaurant food.
Grant explains how vA can build up slowly, gradually, in the liver.
And then, suddenly, over-flow causes all kinds of nasty symptoms.
Happened to me yesterday.
vAe now for 20 months.
Not perfect, about 95%, with a few "slips".
Everything improving slowly, but steadily.
A joy to experience that.
But yesterday, got complacent.
Two restaurant meals in the same day.
Not serious transgressions, but restaurant food; who knows what goes into it.
Both Japanese restaurants -- normally "clean".
Felt okay for a few hours until evening ... then Ka-BOOM: sudden overflow.
Many old symptoms came flooding back.
Realized my mistake.
Solution is easy: avoid restaurant food.
But often bored with beef, rice, and sourdough bread ... "hungry" for a change.
However, all those symptoms of vA overload are much worse than mild boredom.
Only one choice: avoid restaurants.
Anyone else similar experience?
What did you eat? Maybe it was the seaweed in the sushi. Seaweed contains a lot of vitamin A. Getting plain rice at a Japanese restaurant is certainly not an issue. They often serve it upon request. But I understand, you wanted a change of taste in your diet for once.I really enjoy Japanese food, too. Sushi, ramen, gyoza. Actually, I think Japanese cuisine is generally low in vitamin A.
I hardly ever eat out, only on special occasions, because it's expensive.
Japanese food = loads of MSG. Even in the plain white rice.
I think soya is also a problem for people with thyroid issues. On the leaflet for levothyroxine it says ‘Products that contain soy (namely soy supplements) may interact with levothyroxine, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice. You should take your Levothyroxine on an empty stomach, usually before breakfast’. Soya is in a lot of things eg tofu, chocolate, ice cream, soya sauce, soya lecithins in a lot of processed food, hair products, creams. I’m not sure how people eat a lot of soya in Japan but don’t get thyroid issues. Is it counterbalanced with something that stops so much absorption? Is it because there is also eg seaweed/kelp/iodine? In a programme about Chernobyl, people were given iodine to stop them absorbing radioactive materials I think.
See 30.48 for lecithins (could be eg soya lecithins?)
Soya lecithins wrap up vitamin A and bring it through the digestive wall.
A search on Japan and autoimmune disease comes up with Kawasaki disease and ocular adnexal reactive lymphoid hyperplasia. May be the poisoning affects different organs/systems in different populations.
Click to access rejectmonsantogesoya.pdf
soya and glyphosate
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3945755/
Glyphosate and vitamin A
Quote from Tanveen on July 4, 2025, 10:57 amSoya lecithins wrap up vitamin A and bring it through the digestive wall.
The one time this year I slipped my diet I was far from home and hungry and I bought chocolate covered almonds. They had a good looking ingredient list because they were the fancy organic version. All except for soy lecithin. I got so sick eating that bag I couldn't work for a day, almost threw up.
Now I make chocolate at home with organic cocoa powder and beef fat and maple syrup, no I'll effects. Soy lecithin is, anecdotally to me, just awful.