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Serious start:11 September 2019
@jiri, I have Hashimoto’s and the T3 therapy works well as it replaces that which my body has a hard time making. It is a temporary measure while I am trying to resolve Hashimoto’s - thus my research into this and over the years many other diets and protocols.
Helping myself has become a small obsession and at this point the low VA diet appears to be “the missing link”.
Your statement: “By taking active hormone T3 you will just deplete your key micronutrients faster and cause oxidative damage“.
Can you elaborate please and include the source of this information. Thank you in advance. I am always eager to learn.
Thank you for your suggestions. 🙂
12 days since I restarted my low vitamin A diet and the first day today when I actually feel normal. I had been experiencing symptoms of moodiness, feelings of negativity, depression and sadness. Today the cloud has lifted!
I imagine this was the first wave of detox. I will take whatever is coming but in the meantime I really enjoy this respite from ‘the moods’.
@beata-2 and why you have hashimoto. You have tested thyroid antibodies and they are high? Hashimoto means you have leaky gut and things like gluten, casein or any complex protein structures are leaking to the bloodstream and your immune system goes crazy.. Gluten/casein free diet is a must. Why taking T3 is bad? Well synthesis of T3 is tightly regulated by the body and if you just start taking T3 pills. The body can't function properly. Because the body is crazy complex and everything is connected. All hormones like thyroid hormones, stress hormones. Simply if you take T3 pill you mess up with every process in your body. So the body can't regain some balance because of that.. T3 and energy production is causing huge oxidative stress and if the body can't handle that oxidation. THe body is not stupid and will not make that T3. You by simply taking that active hormone you can cause crazy damage. Because the body can't regulate that once it is in the blood.. Heal your gut, lower your antibodies and stop taking that..
I don't think T3 is dangerous.
@jiri, my TPO antibodies are above the range and at present my focus is to see if the low vitamin A diet will make a difference.
I do not have gut permeability and I haven't had any gluten and casein in at least 10 years. I have a suspicion that my root canals might have something to do with it as well.
T3 only therapy works well for me which is also confirmed with the blood test. It is really important for me to have good thyroid functions while I am trying to bring the antibodies into range.
@beata-2 I don't know if you are a member of Garrett Smith's program but he has a couple of clients who have seen significant improvement in their autoimmune thyroid problems. I'm pretty sure one no longer has hashimoto's. Another has been consistently able to reduce their medication and is seeing improving test results.
For the last 2-3 weeks I felt awful and I could not even describe what “awful”really meant.
I was slightly nauseated, had occasional sharp eyeball pain, whole body pain, migrating finger joint pain, fatigue, moodiness, feeling overwhelmed, had light but frequent dizzy spells and occasionally for a second or two was missing awareness of time and space (and no, I did not take anything psychedelic to cause this). This was very strange and felt as if I was briefly transported into a different dimension! My sleep has been very poor, shallow with difficulties falling asleep.
Then a 24 hours headache started and it did not respond to a painkiller. Yesterday, (26 November, 2020) late morning my headache went away and - I felt like I emerged from a swamp: clear, positive, energetic - just my own self.
During that time - and for the last 2 months - my diet has consisted of beef, skinless chicken, beans, parsnip, celeriac, occasional rice, onion, white potatoes, sauerkraut and nuts. This is it. I make soups which I never get tired of them. I also take ascorbic acid daily and occasionally magnesium and vitamin B complex.
I am not sure what these 3 difficult weeks were. Detox perhaps and oh boy, this was more than unpleasant. Now, it almost seems like they never happened. I am relieved and continue with the low vitamin A diet.
Hair loss, itchy skin - first around my mouth then on the upper back and chest, mild depression, pain in my left finger joints, very poor sleep with difficulties falling asleep, awakening during the night and bad, struggling dreams on top, cravings for chicken liver.
These are the symptoms that popped up about 2 weeks ago. Vitamin B deficiency? Fat deficiency? Something else entirely?
I tried to supplement with vitamins B complex and then just biotin - both impossible for me to take. They give me shivers, feeling of nausea and general malaise.
I had a period of nails splitting horizontally but this now passed.
If vitamin A exists in nature in foods that are also rich in other vitamins (like vitamins B), how are we supposed to get sufficient B without the A?
My diet consists beef, skinless chicken, mushrooms, beans, nuts and peanuts, parsnips and celeriac, occasionally a tsp. of olive oil, some garlic. I eat mostly soups made with defatted bone broth. I drink hot water.
*Edit: I also have white rice or potatoes at least once every day.