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lil chick's log
Metronidazole (metro-gel) can cause nerve damage (as I learned this weekend from surfing the interwebs regarding nerve damage)
Now, at one time, a long time ago, I tried going to a dermatologist for my rosacea. I don't have the records for that time, I have tried to find them. I don't think I was ever on accutane, but I do remember metro-gel. (and an oral antibiotic along with it for one year)
And that is about the time when I started having nerve issues. Back then it was ulnar tunnel.
Oh prescription drugs and your side effects that are worse than the original disease! So, it could be that my nerve issues might not even be about vitamin A. Though, I wonder... If a drug works on rosacea, perhaps is it because it is moving vitamin A around, and maybe that is why suddenly the nerves become affected.
Metronidazole induces neuropathy by thiamine deficiency. This is well known.
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Guess what guys, I'm experimenting with eating less eggs!
I'd like to get us down to normal egg-eating levels, not backyard-chicken-keeper levels. Like a normal family who just buys a dozen eggs per week.
It's actually been more interesting than I thought it would be, but I'm only about 1.5 weeks into the experiment.
Personally, if this turns out to be an important cog in my health wheel, I'm going to blame the supplements in chicken feed. I don't think there SHOULD be anything wrong with a few eggs a day. That's just my opinion. If you can't eat a few eggs a day, I suspect something is up. I've mentioned before that backyard-chicken eggs have DAYGLO orange yolks. (I found this illustration online below). However, whenever I used to hatch them out the babies were very healthy. (a good experiment, right?)
As I've said before I think there are upper limits to eggs, as I watched someone who drank blenders of eggs have problems. But I was of the opinion that a couple a day, every day, would be fine, in fact USEFUL because eggs contain everything needed to make a whole chick from beak to tail. Which seems like a uniquely diverse and holistic food to me.
I could be wrong though! One of my standards is: What did my 100-year old Nana think about eggs? She ate them. But not every day. Weekends, occasionally weekdays. Probably... weekly 2 -6 and more often on the lower side.
Hi @lil-chick,
Cool experiment. It may also have less to do with the yolk, the white is high in thiols which move around mercury in the body. I may experiment with just the yolk to see if my reaction is to the choline, vit A or to the proteins, sulfurs and thiols. I think humans should be able to tolerate around 5-7 per week. But the world is far more toxic than it used to be. Lots of mercury exposure.
Well, I guess it has been a little over a month now on lower egg intake. It is always hard to parse out one change in your diet when, of course, life happens with innumerable changes AND you have momentum of a certain health quo status. But here is my shot in the dark.
I feel that there have been some good and bad results, but that perhaps the balance is toward... the good!
Most important: Poop alert, don't read this if you are easily disgusted. Poops are less sticky. Interestingly, I read online that sticky poo can be a sign of "egg intolerance". IMO sticky poos aren't a good thing. Just imagine the cleanup needed in the pipe line! I think I have less flatulence, and perhaps that is because the pipeline isn't so sludgy. OR that maybe I'm tolerating fiber more on less eggs? Or maybe the fiber is picking up less sludge on its way out.
I actually think I'm sleeping slightly less well, but not badly. Some early rising is happening.
I believe I'm thinking slightly more clearly and am a bit more calm.
I feel like my blood sugar is even more awesome than it already was. Even less of a pee urge.
I think my forehead (final rosacea zone) is looking better for it. Also, I feel that here and there around my body there might be more"keratosis pilaris" or that they are suddenly trying to peel off or ?
My lips are still chapped all the time, and now I'm starting to wonder if it has to do instead with my gum issues and perhaps my saliva is inflammatory or acid I'm trying the oil pulling to help detox the mouth.
I always feel as though my hair sheds more in fall. I have been shedding a lot of hair and don't know if it is the egg change. I want to say that it seems like there has been a good effect to the outer third of my brows. darker?
I still like eggs a lot, have not lost my taste for them. One is enough to cure an egg urge though. My husband disagrees.
YIKES
I'm calling off the lower-egg experiment because I'm suffering with foot cramps now. They've gotten really bad. I think I have damage in my feet from the many years of high VA (and other toxins such as alcohol). (raynauds, areas of reduced feeling, one big toe doesn't move)
The changes I've been through in the last month were:
-ate way too much sugar and also took some alcohol drinks during Thanksgiving week.
-cut back on eggs
-it got colder
-life went indoor-sedentary
Choline has been seen as related to muscle cramping although it isn't as clear as potassium or magnesium. B vitamins could also be a thing with the bad choices over the holidays.
One of the problems with dropping eggs (for both husband and I) is we just don't eat as nutritious a breakfast as we did with the eggs. Say what you want about the VA content...eggs pull weight nutritionally.
We both MISSED them. (and I think that means something)
Well we will see if replacing them... helps. (Edited to add: yes, I think it does)
PS In re-reading some of Ourania's posts, she mentioned that warmth helps move lymph and I really do think I have to keep my feet and lower legs warmer and this all could be about COLD and not the eggs at all.
So, today, trying to think how to fix my feet issues and be warmer, I decided to click on a video by Dr. Sten Ekberg on cold hands and feet (he has several) and I was not very interested as I was really just trying to decide between high tech (heating pad) or low tech (brick) to warm my feet at night so I can get some sleep.
So he does seem like a smart guy and talking on and on (and I'm thinking gee this a long vid...) about stress responses, sympathetic, parasympathetic etc etc and a quick breathing technique (take easy slow breaths like 4-5 seconds in, and then 4-5 seconds out). Then more of the usual alternative talk... over time these habits can become your norm, etc etc
I was glancing down the comments while I listened lackadaisically. I'm seeing people saying "gee that breathing technique works right away". So I decided to do it, it was simple enough.
And DANG ...by the end of the video my hands were warm!
(echos of Dino, remember him? the naturopath who came through and told us a lot of our problems were breathing issues?)
I don't know if I buy in to all of Dr Ekberg's explanations, for instance, he blames a lot on stress and that isn't really me. But who cares what the explanations are if his techniques work!
As Orion just said on his log, the breathing ideas are fun stuff but maybe they don't LAST. True. Many things are like that though. You can easily slip out of practice with any helpful change.
I think my particular problems with good breathing right now involve: a bad habit of sucking in the gut (to look svelt), bad posture (computer usage) (and maybe some B1 stargazing too), and being lazy about getting outdoors and exercising. My breathing had gotten quite shallow and quick.
Many don't WANT the answer to be breathing. (I was on the fence when Dino was posting) The breathing threads that Dino started created some hubbub in the same way that "woo" topics do. But really... breathing is inherent to life. (a breathing exercise warmed my hands in twenty minutes when nothing else did!). It's frustrating though. We aren't here on a breathing website, we are on a diet-modification website. Maybe you don't think of yourself as "yogic" at all.
It's quiet here, and as I re-read Dino's posts I saw names of people who haven't visited for a long time. A question popped into my mind: Are they gone because the breathing worked? LOL
The trouble with rejecting answers is: sometimes there aren't multiple answers! If wrong breathing is what is making my hands and feet cold, then no other fix is going to work. You can't be picky about the fix when it comes!
Is breathing woo? If something works it is, by default, not woo.
Quote from lil chick on December 13, 2024, 1:15 pmAs Orion just said on his log, the breathing ideas are fun stuff but maybe they don't LAST. True. Many things are like that though. You can easily slip out of practice with any helpful change.
I think my particular problems with good breathing right now involve: a bad habit of sucking in the gut (to look svelt), bad posture (computer usage) (and maybe some B1 stargazing too), and being lazy about getting outdoors and exercising. My breathing had gotten quite shallow and quick.
Many don't WANT the answer to be breathing. (I was on the fence when Dino was posting) The breathing threads that Dino started created some hubbub in the same way that "woo" topics do. But really... breathing is inherent to life. (a breathing exercise warmed my hands in twenty minutes when nothing else did!). It's frustrating though. We aren't here on a breathing website, we are on a diet-modification website. Maybe you don't think of yourself as "yogic" at all.
It's quiet here, and as I re-read Dino's posts I saw names of people who haven't visited for a long time. A question popped into my mind: Are they gone because the breathing worked? LOL
The trouble with rejecting answers is: sometimes there aren't multiple answers! If wrong breathing is what is making my hands and feet cold, then no other fix is going to work. You can't be picky about the fix when it comes!
Is breathing woo? If something works it is, by default, not woo.
Hi! How's your breathing progress going? Is it the "typical" diaphragmatic breathing technique you are practicing? I think I'm gonna get into it again as some of my health issues started occuring around the time I was overtraining with body-weight and free weights amateur lifting. By the way, as far as I know, the breathe out phase must ideally be slower than the breathe-in by a couple seconds. The best way to do that is lying down but if you are proficient enough then standing and sitting positions work great as well. In the end, it all comes down to the vagus nerve(s). These mfs run right from your brain throughout the whole body up to the buttcrack, and a malfunctioning vagus nerve can wreak havoc on your health worse than any food sensitivities and toxicities and at times symptoms might be very similar. I do get very weak, lightheaded and almost passing out whenever food travels through my stomach, gut and colon sometimes.
Quote from Viktor on December 22, 2024, 7:19 am...
Hi! How's your breathing progress going? Is it the "typical" diaphragmatic breathing technique you are practicing? I think I'm gonna get into it again as some of my health issues started occuring around the time I was overtraining with body-weight and free weights amateur lifting. By the way, as far as I know, the breathe out phase must ideally be slower than the breathe-in by a couple seconds. The best way to do that is lying down but if you are proficient enough then standing and sitting positions work great as well. In the end, it all comes down to the vagus nerve(s). These mfs run right from your brain throughout the whole body up to the buttcrack, and a malfunctioning vagus nerve can wreak havoc on your health worse than any food sensitivities and toxicities and at times symptoms might be very similar. I do get very weak, lightheaded and almost passing out whenever food travels through my stomach, gut and colon sometimes.
Hi Viktor, thanks for the tip about the out-breath... I can use tips! Things haven't all been easy or comfortable and yet I am glad I'm making myself do it. "It" being trying to breathe more slowly and deeply. And keeping my mouth closed 24/7. Lying down flat actually seems harder to me for some reason, but maybe it is a factor of my particular "wrong situation" (weak/separated abs?). And sometimes I goof myself up at night trying to deep/slow breathe on my back at bed time and weird-myself out.
I've spoken before about being "asthmatic" after cleaning, and I cleaned house for Xmas yesterday. I didn't feel asthmatic at all at bedtime which is progress I guess! But I woke up in full snore with my nose itchy and a bit clogged. Do I actually need to think of mouth taping? It might explain the chapped lips? I have the (Hostage brand) tape and might try it.
That is so odd about the weakness you experience with the food passing through the system.
Every now and then I experience sort of a "switch" (perhaps the nerve system you talk about?). I feel it mostly in the front of my neck, a sudden release of some sort of tension that high/fast breathing creates. The shoulders are too high, the head/face muscles are too tense (when wrong breathing). Sometimes when I switch I feel like I'm suddenly "back down in" my body (rather than "pent up"). Once an "energy practitioner" told me that my head was disconnected from my body.
I like to sing and my ability to hold and project notes is better (although I'm still horrible).
I'm trying to learn how to square dance and last night one of the experienced dancers said : "She didn't breathe for the whole song!" and it made me think! Wow! even lay people notice I breathe wrong when stressed!