Balance path

[Canari]

It crossed my mind that when looking for balance, we go nowhere! Maybe this is the real choice of to be or not to be? When we are balanced, WE ARE. Alive.

They say that the path does not go to your goals but that the path is the goal itself. Apart from the sense of time (no idea up to what point this is an illusion!), there is indeed no path. We oscillate, we charge and discharge the scale plates. Minerals are the same, we eat them, we pee them, our body decides what she wants to keep or not, charge what cannot be excreted, and we try to help. Balance is adding what is needed, removing what has to.

i just found out today that I had not started any log! As I cannot start yesterday....

1st thing I had to mention today, I have made myself a coffee, 1st for a long time. I am sleepy, and last night I felt a nearly come back of heat going up. I have been eating less vegs, but fruits yes, and no juicing. It is clear that any sugar causes me a problem. I have to try with starches or stay off. The problem is that the lab told me to stay low in all fats and I do not know why.

And the big problem are the 3 last big mangoes from the garden and the chirimoya starting to ripen!

I have been working hard with stones and carrying earth etc, so I thought I could... With no sugar I clearly have less muscle pains = less lactic acid. I am soooo sleepy! Nap today, and 2 days rest... I will be busy the week-end so I have to rest now.

 

[Nighteyes]

With no sugar I clearly have less muscle pains = less lactic acid.

Interesting thoughts about balance Canari I have this exact problem as well...I go into lactic acidosis when I eat even small amounts of carbs. Even too much protein does this as well. Fasting really is effective at removing lactic acid! I have done two 30 hour fasts now and both times I had absolutely no lactic acid. Could run and bicycle and everything. Think something is screwed up with glycolysis / oxidative phosphorylation .. I must have read the UC/IBD (formerly mitochondrial thread) at least five times.. No solution yet...

 

[HerrFisch]

[mention]Nighteyes[/mention]
Why do you think / how do you know you are in lactic acidosis? Sure about that?

 

[Nighteyes]

@Nighteyes
Why do you think / how do you know you are in lactic acidosis? Sure about that?

Hi HerrFisch - no I am not sure at all. I just know that I get that weak, burning feelings in my legs (even from just walking up the stairs). I have had no tests for lactate or anything.. Maybe I used the wrong term when writin "lactic acidosis".. I meant that I get fatiqued muscles really easily and heavy legs when walking/running.. Overdoing carbs causes this every time

 

[Canari]

I really have had what you say, all my life. It took me time to understand others did not have the same. Pains and aches for really nothing. look at my labs, I have lactate in organic acid test.
Proteins can cause neo-glucogenesis. With veggies, raw and in juices, I get better.

 

[Canari]

Crashed again.... Today I could barely walk, I am full of aches and pains! I have been fasting today, and vomiting last night, with some kind of gastritis. I have traveled and done too much last week, as I was feeling good!

I have bought veggies for juicing...

 

[Canari]

Yesterday I have eaten chirimoyas.... fruits but not acidic and they suited me well actually. I am still hurting in many muscles, with intense lactic acid. I look like an arthritic when I get up and start to walk! I am taking mint for my stomach. Got rid of the nausea yesterday with tarragon.

Actually, during 4 days I had no vinegar and no greens, only carrot and onion as veggies, and high protein from fish, then some sugar.

But I had a super good cranio sacral therapy, that helped a lot with some liver and kidney tension (he asked me if I had had kidney stones, and he felt kidneys and liver needed more work). As a result, I feel liberated at structural level on my lower ribs and upper abdominals. I had some lower back pain as a reaction (also reaction to a new bed for 3 nights), and now back to normal there. My legs and shoulders are aching from only walking 1 hour on the road sunday with a rucksack....

 

[Canari]

I am getting better again, and the best of all is that I sleep well and no urgency for peeing either. Coming out of 1 year of this problem and longer if I consider the night pee problem. I was glad to see it could have been progest-e!

I decided to up glutamate.

So I eat some old goat cheese, but little, and will also eat again miso and kombu.

 

[Canari]

Lentils yesterday, and even hull-less type, = cannot close trousers today! I also took HCl.

More over, I was feeling good until midday, and suddenly felt stomach acid, ok I was bending in the garden.... but I also felt a big desire to sleep and stayed on the sofa a bit, and SLEPT until 4!

 

[Canari]

More over, I am still thinking about the problem of having taken progesterone.... It can be related to the low copper too....
But why I felt nothing when taking prog? Most people notice an effect, I did not.
Unsensitive receptors?

 

[Nighteyes]

Lentils yesterday, and even hull-less type, = cannot close trousers today! I also took HCl.

More over, I was feeling good until midday, and suddenly felt stomach acid, ok I was bending in the garden.... but I also felt a big desire to sleep and stayed on the sofa a bit, and SLEPT until 4!

Interesting Canari - lentils give me mild heartburn as well. Feeling of acid burbs. I usually avoid them because of this but it is a shame as they are delicious and nutritious. I tried your suggestion of raw beef steak made from minced tartar meat. It was really good and digested so much better than cooked. I will experiment more with raw meat instead of cooked. Would probably also lower the content of AGEs.

 

[Canari]

It was really good and digested so much better than cooked.

Great, we are going to see with the experiment!
If we have a problem with acids and protein assimilation, it makes sense!
I had heart burn with bananas for dinner... I am off bananas at the moment.

This evening I am having some very mild hot flush.

 

[Canari]

At the moment, I have good energy and even abuse a bit of it... i work physically sometimes more than 8 hours and have 1 big meal in the evening and I am better when I sleep less than more... I have 2 small meals during the day, sometimes one is only as many oranges as i can eat.

Since I drop apple vinegar and take only orange and lemon as acids, I can stand betain HCl!

I eat a lot of eggs and meat. Some old cheese and miso for glutamate. A lot of salt.

 

[Canari]

So... I am loosing more hair again for some days, and the bulb looks very visible and white, seems greasy.
I also noticed this morning that my skin has gone dry on my lower leg part.

I tried to eat rice made by friends 2 days ago. Followed a bad night! It was integral rice, so I chew and salivated it a lot. No way. I woke up a 3 am to go and pee, and also because of back ache with some slight stomach burn. It got better by burping. This back ache is special because it is always linked to stomach discomfort, and I think due to diaphragm tension on the vertebras. The problem is that nerves ache, some pain on the ribs and in my cheeks!

In the morning I had some both side colon ache. I also woke up with nerve pain in feet and hands, with some numb fingers.

Yesterday I have eaten a lot of meat and no carb, and I feel much better.

 

[Canari]

I was almost sure those last days.... and tonight 100%: some hot flushes are back. They had gone after the fast....

 

[Shelly]

Sometimes it is good to have these things confirmed that you can't consume certain foods. I ate a handful of almonds last night 30 mins later got muscle fatigue and weakness. Thankfully back to normal this morning. Glad you feel better on no carb.

 

[Canari]

I still do not feel better, puffed eyes in the morning, urgency to pee at night came back too. And as nobody seems to trust the labs prescription, and as I do not know what to do instead... And sometimes I feel as I am not "ill enough", so there is no need to help me balance me... Thanks for your answer @Shelly !

 

[Shelly]

I know what you mean about not "ill enough". I am still not sure I have Rheumatoid but I do have joint pain and arthritic changes but don't have the classic stiffness in the morning and no swelling around joints so I am wondering if it is all to do with the high copper and I also have sore muscles in all the tender points they say online for fibromyalgia and still not been diagnosed. When people look at you and think you don't look sick that is difficult. I am not so bad now got myself out of being bedridden for 3 weeks 3 years ago and have got some function back but I know I have to be careful not to overdo it otherwise I head back to extreme fatigue levels. Every time I go to the Dr they look at my obesity and send me off for blood sugar tests which lately have come back pre-diabetic it's almost like they are waiting for me to get full diabetes then they will help me by putting me on their drugs. For me this has been trial and error and I am getting some of the pieces to fit. I want my life back to be able to do things I did before so tweaking things and finding out what works. Like finding out I am copper toxic has been a breakthrough for me and realising that the diet prescribed for me doesn't take into account that too high carb I get bad candida, too low carb and my liver hurts and too much protein and I get ammonia symptoms. It's our body puzzle and we have to keep trying different pieces until they fit but also in time when we get things right the puzzle will change. But thinking that the biggest thing is to get myself in a position where I can do a long fast for healing which I think is the key to a lot of my problems. I guess that this forum is helping each other to find the right pieces to their puzzle I hope you find yours.

 

[Canari]

I was diagnosed with fibromyalia, a beginning one, but did not want to get it ackknowledged, and threw away the papers!
As I am slender as a teenager... I look fit!

My liver hurts sometimes but I don't know if this can be from too low carb.... What are your ammonia symtoms? I want to up my proteins more....

Yesterday had no time to prepare much food and took some fruits, and did not drink enough. I ended with a terrible headache! I threw up dinner. I used the rope for doing the cervical exercise, which helped each time for a moment, I did the slow breathing exercise but actually I could not keep the slow breathing properly. I went to bed and put my head down the mattress to have a rest and extend my spine and I could sleep enough. This morning I had bags under my eyes.

I have been shoping and went back with 1 k beef steack, beef liver, fish, and a leg of free range new-zealand lamb!
Today veg juice meat and egg. Well with papaya, it has enzymes...
All raw and meat in lemon juice! Good digestion so far....
I want to fast again....
I wait for the traditionnal time to fast until easter!

 

[Canari]

Shadow look up there, last post, what I got!

Btw I wanna share something that happened last week. I think I ate to much fat and I ended up sick, nausea, vomit, stomach gas, them my whole body started to ache(I used to feel this when I had fever, like the skin became hypersensible, even with my lack of body sensitivity I was able to identify it), the other day I had muscle pain

It is what I got, but it seemed to be from carbs and not fats. I also had headache. No sciatica but definitely some nerve pain in the 4 limbs, with tinglings in some fingers.

I still have this "fever like" sensibility, as this happens to me very often when I am tired. I have it now, and almost every evening.

I feel what I probably relate to sugar level and cortisol, irritability with some heat coming up and some stronger heart beats, though still slow at max 60.

That's volume contraction, chloride depletion. It causes disregulation of the nerves, and it ameliorates with time when you partially or fully correct the fluid and electrolyte losses through food/water.

Is this that causes the digestion problem? Which is cause, which is effect?
Since I stopped vinegar, I can stand betaine HCL well, I take 600mg. Yesterday evening I forgot, and woke at 3am with reflux....
I also salt a lot, I have always loved salt. I now have more thirst than usual.

I know I usually do not drink enough. Another member mentionned the same, wake up with thirst but "cannot drink", I also litterally forget about it! I think it is because because I would pee too much and my body wants to keep minerals. If I drink more, I just pee too much. I really have a lot of colour from beet root juice, only with one not big root per day. Rest is cucumber, radish carrot. I like coliflor and onion, which seems to be a liking for sulfur?

Today I am better with only bitters, veg juice, 1 avocado, lemon juice, meat and eggs and old goat cheese.

I am low in potassium. I am not sure in what form and with what else I should take K.
@mattyb when you say electrolites, is it something that is standardized and I just need to go to a sport shop?