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Quote from lil chick on March 23, 2026, 8:11 amOk, but husband and I have similar diets, and yet he has myxedema and I don't. (but I poisoned us both as WAPF'ers with cod liver oil and other things)
It doesn't matter if they have the same diet; you'll have problems, and the other person's energy deficit is multi-organ and different for everyone. Tell your husband to take tart cherry extract and liposomal luteolin for two weeks and see how he feels; he should improve a lot.
Quote from El on March 23, 2026, 8:12 amVale, pero mi marido y yo tenemos dietas parecidas, y sin embargo él tiene mixedema y yo no.
What diet?
Hi El,
It's so fun to see my words up there translated! I hope nothing is getting lost in translation. What I mean is that we have similar ways of eating, because I do a good portion of his cooking. However... and this is big... he does eat out a lot when he is away from home during work hours.
However, just genetically I can see that, for instance, his mother had myxedema and mine didn't. We just have different metabolisms by birth. And actually we are very much from the same gene pool. He is my uncle 7 times removed. hahaha. But really. And this might actually even be about the software type of genes (epi-genes?)
Vale, pero mi marido y yo tenemos dietas parecidas, y sin embargo él tiene Mixedema y yo no.
¿Qué dieta?
Hola El,
¡Qué divertido ver mis palabras traducidas! Espero que no se pierda nada en la traducción. Lo que quiero decir es que tenemos hábitos alimenticios similares, ya que yo cocino bastante para él. Sin embargo... y esto es importante... come mucho fuera de casa cuando está fuera durante su jornada laboral.
Sin embargo, genéticamente puedo ver que, por ejemplo, su madre tenía mixedema y la mía no. Simplemente tenemos metabolismos diferentes desde el nacimiento. Y, de hecho, provenimos del mismo acervo genético. Es mi tío séptimo. Jajaja. Pero en serio. Y esto podría incluso tratarse de genes de tipo software (¿epigenes?).
I understand that people put forward the idea that modern obesity surge might be about high levels of fructose. But I don't think it applies to me.
(obesity in the 1970's was rare). (I was born in 1963)
I personally have never eaten large amounts of fructose. Soda made me ill from childhood and I drank very little of it. I have been a health nut since my late teens (because of things like migraines and chronic vomiting which I now put down to vitamin A since they have largely cleared up while off of it). I got rid of junk food very early on in my searches to be more healthy. I was a stay-at-home mother, and homesteader, who cooked from scratch through midlife. A wapfer who believed sweets were "white death". I don't really have a sweet tooth. Sweets make me feel ill especially if I eat them late in the day.
I also have not been so subject to junk fats as everyone else. These also make me sick to my stomach.
My husband might get more fructose and junk fat than me, since he eats lunch out a lot. But I have been cooking for husband for 38 years.
My case seems to be textbook vitamin-A overload. (which started in the womb and was exacerbated with cod liver oil, shelves full of butternut squash, liver, pounds and pounds of butter, etc. Booze may have also played into my case with my daily drink)
Now, just because your theory doesn't apply to me, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And vice versa!
After the vaccine, my thyroid levels fluctuated widely and one point, an endocrinologist said that I had gone from under to over active. Another endocrinologist said no, it was actually that I was on the wrong dose. I wasn’t able to take any dose for quite a while as I couldn’t stop vomiting for the first 6 months (clearly the body trying to expel what poisons they had put in us). I’ve think that taking the levothyroxine syrup thyroid medicine has helped to improve the symptoms a bit quicker but I wouldn’t take it unless I actually had thyroid issues. Even now I am still getting massive swelling in my stomach over 3 years later, very painful.
Quote from lil chick on March 23, 2026, 10:34 am(obesity in the 1970's was rare). (I was born in 1963)
I was born in 1964. In my baby book is the hospital recommended “ formula” so my mom , who lived on Hersey bars and Pepsi while pregnant with me, wouldn’t have to be bothered with breast feeding me. It consisted of Karo Corn Syrup and canned evaporated milk.
No wonder I am so FUBARed!
what were you fed?
I was breast fed until 9 months, which is very lucky for the time. My mother, however, was not breast fed, which is very unlucky for her time. (1940)
My mother failed to thrive, and one of the stories she tells is that her father got her to grow by feeding her ice cream. :). Ice cream is still her fave food. (she is still with us!). So I suppose a certain amount of me is derived from hot fudge sundaes.
After infancy I was a well-fed child: steak, chicken, vegetables, milk, bread, potatoes, spaghetti, cold cuts, apples, oranges, cereal, eggs and bacon, ham, tuna, cheese etc. Typical 70's diet.