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lil chick's log
It's interesting to me that the idea of A toxiciity is so much more accepted/known in the cat world than in the human world. But I've seen that many times that people figure things out faster in the animal world.
I was appalled to find that my cat food has a SUPER HIGH vitamin A level!!!! I had to really dig to find it out, and I can't find the amount on the dry feed my cats like. But the canned feed had over 5000IU vitamin A per 3 oz!!!!!
I wonder if, like me, the manufacturers were running on the idea that MORE IS MORE LOL.
OMG...
I do think it is possible my smaller cat is toxic. My larger one I don't suspect it. Yet.
This is going to be a weird post. Does anyone besides me ever see echoes of their lives ( fractals?) around them?
Besides my cat, my house is toxic. After 30 years together hubs and I have collected TOO MUCH stuff. Too much of a good thing is not a good thing.
Yesterday I was stung by ants while mowing the lawn. Bug bites get so itchy.
I was thinking of apitherapy. Why would getting systematically stung by bees, week after week, help people with things like MS?
Is it because we use up large amounts of vitamin A on bug bites?
Plant poisons are designed for things like bug defense.
A close relative of mine is one step away from dialysis. We got to chatting yesterday about overload of the fat soluble vitamins. She told me that long ago she was put on a vitamin A prescription for acne. So, of course, I thought about Grant and his kidneys. Besides the kidney thing, her diagnosis was once also called 'discoid lupus' because of a circular rash she had. I often thought that my facial rash could easily be called the "lupus butterfly". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_lupus_erythematosus
"It's never lupus." -Dr House
I have very hard water with lots of dissolved solids and I wonder if that plays into my skin issues.
Someone mentioned that calcium can get involved in this whole issue in a detrimental manner. For instance, someone here said they didn't feel well on Gerolsteiner mineral water.
Well, for a long time I've intuited that my hard water wasn't doing anything good for my rosacea.
I've often opted to use distilled on my face, but it is hard to pinpoint how much it helps or not.
As an aside, I also think my hair has gone softer. ALREADY? at 3.5 weeks?
I've got my hair in a kerchief again today. I just can't stand anything in my face lately the tickling is just too much. For other symptoms I would say occasional fatigue (which is not my norm), occasional head pressure, loose bowels, strong appetite, some grumpiness.
It's been several days now, and I don't think my raw, pastured, skim has done anything bad that I can notice. (My personal tolerance for milk is very high and I'm sure that makes a difference). I would wonder if the rat experiment food was just denatured so badly that it became it's own poison. But I'll tell you what. I haven't much faith in studies any more. So there's that. In the interest of "science" though, I'm not going to use my skim in cooking. Though it does get warmed up by the hot coffee. My morning drink is half coffee, half raw skim.
I was thinking about body styles. Some people, no matter what, WILL NOT GAIN MUCH FAT. It just isn't in their nature. You must know a few of these people.
Some people also (both male and female) have a straight, strong ribcage that doesn't narrow in at the bottom. Others have ribs that narrow-in at the bottom almost as if they are trained to a corset lol (the tapered male "wedge" shape and the female "hourglass"). I would expect that the straighter torso'd people have more room for a larger liver?
I wonder if different body styles are genetic adaptations to environment.
Would people with smaller livers or less body fat show toxicity symptoms faster?
Even larger barrels can get filled, though.
Interesting thoughts. I am underweight, and have a more hourglass figure, but when I was most toxic, I weighed less but had a swollen abdomen. Now I've gained maybe 5-7 pounds, and I have the hourglass figure back. I am small in general, and I ate LOADS of high vitamin A foods, in addition to taking vitamin A supplements, cod liver oil, etc. At this point, I know that if I eat a small amount of vitamin A (as in whole wheat instead of white flour), I will itch for days.
I am also a small, hourglass non-gainer. I was at a hefty (for me) 114 before starting this diet almost 4 weeks ago. I've lost 4 pounds in 4 weeks.
I felt a bit bonkers Friday. Def some sort of low blood sugar or fast weight-loss weirdness. Ravenous. Weak.
I invented a new spread it is: coconut oil + almond butter + maple syrup. For when I need calories. On the idea of satay but for the legume-sensitive.
Then yesterday I had a great day, and even took a small trip with a bolder attitude toward travel. I've really been a home body lately because of the vertigo. (It isn't a phobia, because a phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear. My fear of travel is totally RATIONAL haha. ) So, perhaps I'm falling into the good day/bad day sort of thing.
Good days ARE good. Bad days ARE bad! I get it! (in other news: Water is wet!)
I worry about making my diet too restricted and also worry about blaming certain foods wrongly after a symptom.
My (vitamin A toxic?) cat won't touch raw burger now after he had some sort of bad night (was it detox?).
I don't want to be my cat.
This ain't my first rodeo, and I've realized we don't always know what causes a symptom. That symptom might have come along on it's own without that glass of wine or that cheat on the dessert.
Hubs is a large, barrel chested, gainer. I feel that he fades in and out of vitamin A toxicity. He's being dragged along with me part of the way (not fully). A round patch of weirdness has disappeared like magic from his upper arm. (almost like ring worm, or discoid lupus) ("It's never lupus!" -Dr House).
He has a patch of eczema on his leg that will be under watch.