[quote]Jorge Garzafox wrote:
Have you done a good allergy test (ex. food)?
***YES-the Leap MRT test which cost me $950…showed I do not have a high reactivity to much of anything, despite this doctor wants me on chicken, lean beef, fruits and veggies. Nothing processed at all. So thats what Im sticking with. I was using milk and yogurt for protein shakes but for now he wants me to just cut out anything man made…doesnt think Im allergic to anything but figures it will be good for my system until I am feeling better. So I basically am on a caveman diet, and I still do occasionally have rice though since its so easy.
Do you have mercury feelings on your teeth?
***Never had a cavity in my life.
Whats your blood preassure?
***for past three years it severely fluctautes. One day Id get 180/100 at a doctors office, next day 120/70…no predictable pattern either. I had so many appoinments a week we tracked it tightly, and could not come up with reasons other than general stress? There have been points it dropped lower and id get light headed if I got up fast or laughed too hard, literally would black out!
Whats your diet like? Give us an example of a common day
***Well its kinda FUBAR a little now because Im with family for holidays, so Ive been eating “normal”. But a typical day is wake up and take my thyroid, then wait a few hours and then have a protein shake. 3 hours later chicken and potatoe, BCAA shake during workout, post workout chicken or buffalo beef and spinach or another veggie, and later another protein shake. I was doing more fruit, but re-reading Dr. Wilsons book it says to avoid fruit with AD…but I was doing lots of bananas, apples, grapes, pears, along with Omega 3 Trail Mix from Trader Joes as my in between meals snacks.
How many hours of sleep a day do you get?
***Been trying to get 7-9, but I wake up all the time…used to be from sickness, stress, pain, but past few months ive settled into retirement a little better, doing lots of meditation and relaxation training with bio and neurofeedback, and on my own. So I will fall asleep great after a body scan and feel like Im good to go, and wake up 2-3 hours later…and do that a few times a night. So doc gave me Xyrem/GHB, saying its better than sleep medications because it converts to GABA, helps with GH and dopamine which I could use. I didnt bring it on the holiday here but am hoping I can start getting more long term sound sleep with it.
where do you tend to accumulate most of your fat?
***Until this period of the perfect storm in my life, I really didnt have fat. Been a good 10% my entire life, highly competitive athlete, and trained hard core in olympic lifts and powerlifting, MMA, and did all the football and hockey workouts alongside the Ivy League and Big East athletes I coached up until I was 30 no problems. So now, for the past few years, its SCARY how much weight and bodyfat Ive gained, and every ounce of it is in my gut and love handles. With clothes on most people who know me think I lost weight from what I used to be, when really im 260, with a gigantic belly (for me at least). I was normally in the 220-245 range, with the times I hit 245 being very difficult and intentional, eating 6k calories a day, protein shakes every 3 hours on the dime, seriously heavy volume training in the O and P lifts. So id say naturally Im 220-230…with a 34-36" waist…now Im 260 with a 38-40" waist according to clothes size at least. Its f–king annoying.
Do you eat or use to eat to much processed food?
***Nope. I started eating like a bodybuilding in 7th grade, along with hard training and supplementation…and continued evolving my diet from the bodybuilding stuff to more of a power athletes diet over the years as I made mistakes, as I was a high school and college football player, and after college still trained college athletes and did MMA, so kept eating like one. So nah, never was a big junk food or processd food guy.
You have to remember that both adrenal fatigue and immune system are cortisol related. So if you are not fixing that problem first it doesn’t matter what you take you are never going to get well.
Once you find out or ruled out the cause of your systematic problem, you start with the protocols.
Because there are a lot of things that help but everything is specific for some problem. What you have been taking or doing MIGHT not be what you need.
It can be as simple as you are not getting enough vitamin D!!!
So do you get enough sun light?
***Vitamin D and B levels were low for past few years. Currently on Vit D 5000iu day. B12 Methy 3x week SubQ, and once every two weeks B complex and multi vitamin shot in the doctor office.
In in SoCal now, so been getting plenty of sunlight but thats just in past 4 months.
Any suggestions please shoot them to me…I got medically retired, want to get back into physical and mental shape to study up to apply to some PhD programs. Hell even if I cant get back into great shape and strong enough to start a PhD program, Id just like my quality of life to improve…compared to the life I used to live a short time ago up until 31, Im hitting 35 in a few days and feel like a 70 year old. Too young to be feeling this way. I went from one extreme to the other from some botched surgeries, internal infections, and a few years of seriously incompetent workers comp doctors who shoved enormous amounts of pain killers, anti biotics, muscle relaxers, and other medications that finally 3 years later fought to get to Hopkins who referred me to Cleveland Clinic, and was told I was so sick and screwed up because the workers comp doctors and process had me bouncing around to too many doctors who didnt pay attention to the high amount of medications I was on, anti biotics that killed all the good bacteria and flora in my system, and the meds along with stress from being told I had cancer or a disease they couldnt find, physical illness, and pending retirement hassles, blunted my hormones…
So thats my story in a nutshell.
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