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What is going on here
Could the bloat be swelling or is it gas?
I have been having swelling in my feet, and my feet are one of my "bad things". (Raynauds) Swelling can sometimes accompany healing...It's not obvious to look at but feels tender to walk on.
Swelling is also a sign of low vit C... yesterday bought and cut up a pineapple. That thing was enticing me from across the room.
Hi Tar, I have a little bloating/breathing experience for you! Don't know if it will help.
Long story short I think I might have a lurking tendency for hiatal hernia (where the stomach tries to come up into the diaphram area)
There are exersizes for this (heel drop on the stair)
I also think I swallowed some air while working (mouthbreathing) or while having a cool drink. The drink and the air made for a full stomach, which was pushing up on the diaphram.
Using the nebulizer with just saline was way way different then the saline +glutathione combo. I did it for two days and breathing became worse and worse. The glutathione really gets the mucus up and out.
Otherwise I am doing very well. The winning combo was Broccomax (sulforaphane) + glutathione nebulized.
Personally I experienced reduced bloating and easier breathing around 2-4 weeks of VA restriction, but now between week 5-7 I'm again having increased bloating, shortness of breath, and weird edemas in different places that come and go, its funny how VA detox proceeds.
@Collden I think these symptoms can come and go with the detox. I seem to have gained some bloating around 6-8 month and not something I usually get. I can't recall my laboured breathing at the beginning as it is something I get when stressed. However definetly noticing it now at 9 months.
I am officially at 8 months today. Months 4/5/6 seem to been the worst for me with respect to excretion symptoms so far. Feels like I hit a tipping point and may be in downhill part now, see how the next few months go.
@Orion.Celebrating that tipping point and far lessening of all symptoms.
@tar Hello!
I was wondering if you saw this post below yesterday and I wondered if you could give us an update? Have you ever seen a reduction in your type 1 insulin needs?
Looking back at your log, I'm also interested in whether detox got easier for you over time and what you did as "an antidote".
thanks in advance!
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/my-diabetes-type-i-recovery-story/
Quote from lil chick on May 28, 2021, 4:56 am@tar Hello!
I was wondering if you saw this post below yesterday and I wondered if you could give us an update? Have you ever seen a reduction in your type 1 insulin needs?
Looking back at your log, I'm also interested in whether detox got easier for you over time and what you did as "an antidote".
thanks in advance!
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/my-diabetes-type-i-recovery-story/
A lot has changed with me since I last posted here. I never got the kind of success in getting off insulin like that guy, but he was late onset and I was childhood onset.
I still do low vitamin A. If I don't, I have a hard time falling asleep and usually get depressed. I don't believe in the detox theory around vitamin A. Meaning, there are some people who cut out vitamin A and their health just gets better and better overtime. Other people cut VA, they get that honeymoon, and then they slump and get ongoing "detox."
The solution touted by many is to stick with it, eat lots of beans, and slowly but surely you'll get better. I did not experience this. I do not see many others experiencing this. Frankly, the whole idea that you detox and it feels bad and then you feel better is kind of a myth imo. At most you should feel bad for a couple weeks to a month before starting to improve if you are onto the right cause/effect.
I believe people who fall into this later category may be dealing with chronic underlying infections, physical structural problems, microbiome problems, or something else that needs to be addressed.
Since posting in this thread, I am 20 pounds lighter, I have done work on my microbiome (using antibiotics and herbals), started a raw meat diet, done intermittent protein intake, and found other supplements that really helped me. None of these things were under the umbrella of the "VA as a toxin" theory, and they have really improved my life.
So bottom line, low VA diet is great, but if you don't get the health that just keeps improving, keep searching
Helminth Infection and Type 1 Diabetes
Since the initial broadening of the hygiene hypothesis to encompass autoimmune diseases, the NOD mouse model of T1D has provided crucial data and insights regarding the interplay between infection and autoimmunity. Among the first demonstrations of this, experiments conducted in the NOD mouse showed that helminth infection is capable of altering the course of autoimmune diabetes and that helminth products and antigens, in the absence of live infection, can modulate the immune system in ways that suppress and control autoimmune destruction of islets and disease progression [59, 61, 62]. Furthermore, as a spontaneous model of autoimmunity, the NOD mouse has enabled detailed exploration of multiple mechanisms by which helminth infections and products exert their influences on underlying autoimmune processes.
Yes I agree. This is how I see things now too. I think that vA toxicity is very important. However, not everyone is a good detoxer and some people need more than just a reduction in vA to correct their health. The liver needs to be working well otherwise the detox can become a re-tox.
I think real damage is done. And I don't think deotx is fast. I look at some yellow places on my teeth and think to myself: self, how long would that take to get rid of? (and these are the bones that show)
Now, they say you are "new again" every 7 years... But how much of the old (infiltrated) you is reused?
One other thing I didnt mention was Mold.
I do a mold detoxification binder that has really helped me stabilize both mentally and physically. Mold messes with your detox pathways so some people may be dealing with that who aren't "detoxing"