Nighteyes' log

[Canari]

I think I might be retaining too much CO2 as I feel soo much better with lots of exercise and breathing exercises (forcing hyperventilation). I always yawn when increasing my breathing rate intentionally and suspect that GABA is kept low because of high CO2. Therefore hyperventilating might be helping me relax by increasing GABA conversion. I also feel soo much better after beer/mulled wine which increases GABA (along with many other effects, I know).

Yawns are good if you feel a change towards relaxation. If they are feeling unfinished with too much inhale, then it is an intent of the body to relax, but with not enough relax. I have also posted taking into account GABA.... And I also want to try increasing histamine, as I had lowered all those foods when started with Peat style!

I had a recipe high in this: red lentil soup cooked with kombu and then some miso added in the plate. It is the best digested bean. Just wash it well before cooking so it does not foam. Some soaking helps too though it has no shell. Kombu and miso have natural glutamate. I was also craving aged cheese, so I use aged local goat cheese, raw and organic, the best! And only 16€/kg for such quality!

good to rotate things and really believe in gboluev's quote about doing anything cronically is never a good thing.

cdsnuts says the same...

Not even sure copper is still high since I am emotionally so much more stable (maybe even too stable and sort of dulled).

Keep in mind this is some vagal reaction of the freeze type. It is just useful to know that it means there is still a lot of sympathetic activation behind this, so you are not surprised if this comes out as emotions. Try to feel the physiological signs of your emotions when they come out, as it helps to discharge them. Practise with little ones, stay with them until you feel a physiological change and a sigh or yawn.

End of the year is good for "social engagement", and this removes freeze tendencies, but only if we are at ease with the interactions going upward! Have you noticed some changes in human relationship? Is this part of what you also feel too stable and dulled? Less reactive, more distant, or the reverse and more connected... No good or bad answer, just interresting to notice. For me for example, when interactions are veeery slowly increasing in rapidity/intensity it feels good, but if there is a lot of movement and agitation, then I need to separate and become more a spectator, or else I do not feel present anymore. I am like muscles needing to be heated and I am not good at sprint!

 

[Nighteyes]

Yawns are good if you feel a change towards relaxation. If they are feeling unfinished with too much inhale, then it is an intent of the body to relax, but with not enough relax. I have also posted taking into account GABA.... And I also want to try increasing histamine, as I had lowered all those foods when started with Peat style!

I had a recipe high in this: red lentil soup cooked with kombu and then some miso added in the plate. It is the best digested bean. Just wash it well before cooking so it does not foam. Some soaking helps too though it has no shell. Kombu and miso have natural glutamate. I was also craving aged cheese, so I use aged local goat cheese, raw and organic, the best! And only 16€/kg for such quality!


cdsnuts says the same...


Keep in mind this is some vagal reaction of the freeze type. It is just useful to know that it means there is still a lot of sympathetic activation behind this, so you are not surprised if this comes out as emotions. Try to feel the physiological signs of your emotions when they come out, as it helps to discharge them. Practise with little ones, stay with them until you feel a physiological change and a sigh or yawn.

End of the year is good for "social engagement", and this removes freeze tendencies, but only if we are at ease with the interactions going upward! Have you noticed some changes in human relationship? Is this part of what you also feel too stable and dulled? Less reactive, more distant, or the reverse and more connected... No good or bad answer, just interresting to notice. For me for example, when interactions are veeery slowly increasing in rapidity/intensity it feels good, but if there is a lot of movement and agitation, then I need to separate and become more a spectator, or else I do not feel present anymore. I am like muscles needing to be heated and I am not good at sprint!

Red lentil soup is excellent! I enjoy eating that often as well. Provides many trace nutrients as well and molybdenum and manganese which are low in my hair.

The things is.. I have very few strong emotions at all. Not trying to change this or make it bad or good. It's just how it currently is. back when I was drinking and partying I would get much more emotional and unstable and show signs of high estrogen/prolactin. I would also often get hives and itching back then. I really do think histamine must play a role in this. Look forward to trying the histidine when it arrives.

For now I use coffee to try and get mood up when I feel too dull in social settings. Or grab a glass of wine / beer. These things always get me chatting and laughing. Without any crash or negativity next day it seems. So I think in small amounts they might be helping. Or maybe it is wishful thinking. But anything in moderation I suppose.

 

[Nighteyes]

And I totally get what you mean Canari about withdrawing in social situations when things are moving too fast. I simply go into preservation mode and withdraw big time. I really cannot stand too many people that I have to engage with at one time. Small gathering with calm people is the best. Uni is therefore really not that nice. I prefer dinner time with family and frieds in familiar setting. Could be a "survival" thing when energy production is not high enough to meet the social pressure etc. Alcohol (wine/beer etc) probably temporarily provides this....

 

[Canari]

And I totally get what you mean Canari about withdrawing in social situations when things are moving too fast. I simply go into preservation mode and withdraw big time. I really cannot stand too many people that I have to engage with at one time. Small gathering with calm people is the best. Uni is therefore really not that nice. I prefer dinner time with family and frieds in familiar setting. Could be a "survival" thing when energy production is not high enough to meet the social pressure etc. Alcohol (wine/beer etc) probably temporarily provides this....

It is my well known survival mode... I have always done this -I know it now- because of my pre birth contamination (which is of course a threat you cannot defend from... thus the withdrawal as last ressource)
It is more than a survival thing about energy, but you get it! It has to do with the vagus nerve. It has 2 branches, dorsal and ventral. Only the dorsal vagus is finished at birth and before. It is the one that causes the famous freeze response. Withdrawal is a light freeze response (and collapse would be a big one). Feeling high and merging and in a sort of bliss is also a form of freeze, most often called dissociation, very often with a loss of painful sensations, physical and/or emotional (because it is a protection).

The ventral part of the vagus is responsible for social engagement! But it is working well only when there is no freeze response... It does not matter finding the hen or the egg order: even as a cause or a consequence of health problems, of course the body feels triggered. I would use coffee or alcohol as little as possible but profit of calm contacts to feel more present and less withdrawn. Doing this is what I meant by "not trying to change it". Those drinks make you change it. Even if there is little to feel, notice it, this will cultivate the growth of the sprouting seed!

By feeling, I mean to notice it more consciously, and where in the body, and taking some time for it. Stay with the "little better" sensation you feel after dinner for example. Feel your breath flow without modifying it, feel that you sense some more heat at skin level. Also simple exercises such as looking around in the room and finding what you like and what makes you sense security. A simple one is to look around and name all the colours, or chose a color and look for it in the room and outside. It can sound little and even stupid, but survival needs security, and at a much more conscious body sensation level than we learned from our culture.

You see, "when energy production is not high enough", is too much a Peat idea for me! In freeze, energy production is high, but covered, like the accelerator being stuck with a hand-brake over it. I started to speak about it in RPF because i do not fully buy Peat in his text about learned helplessness that I found deceiving. Then when gbolduev wrote this autumn in RPF, I was just coming back home from my mother's burial and processing the grieving etc, and he wrote that there was a link between minerals and the nervous system. If we work not only with supps but also with diet, exercise, fasting, light, breathing... we have to include the nervous system, as it makes all work! And it can modify what works wrong, it can help any recovery.

 

[Nighteyes]

Small (but painful) update

So. Over the last couple of weeks the good results have just kept on happening. I have even started to gain weight and it is mostly muscle. I no longer get lactic acid feeling in my legs from carbs and this is a huge one for me!

To be honest I am not 100% sure what took care of the lactic acid but I am sure getting out of alkalosis is a part of it. I still have some imbalance in this department I think because it feels like I am not utilizing calcium well during the night. I always wake up with sensitive teeth that feel demineralized somehow. I also more often than not have foamy urine ...

Last night I had a major setback though. I had the most insane gallbladder attack that kept me up the whole night with excruciating pain. I almost called the hospital at one point.. scary to say the least.
I am still trying to find out what triggered it. I had a light meal for dinner (cole slaw and orange). I recently started taking malic acid which I thought would actually help reduce these attacks by softening stones? Maybe a stone was softened enough for it to lodge itself into place..
I also went to the sauna yesterday where some dude poured loads of water with peppermint oil on the stones. Could this really cause an attack? Peppermint apparently does affect the gallbladder, or so google tells me.

Whatever set if off I am glad to say I am much better today. (slept from 7 am to 11 am). I drank a lot of epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) during the attack but did not feel an effect. Maybe it still helped though. I have decided to stop the malic acid for now until I clear up the cause. I DO NOT want to be caught with such an attack again.. seriously traumatizing.

 

[Orion]

I recently started taking malic acid which I thought would actually help reduce these attacks by softening stones?

How much malic acid were you using?

 

[Nighteyes]

How much malic acid were you using?

About 1/4 teaspoon in a glass of water morning and evening. Just enough to make the water taste pleasantly sour.

 

[Orion]

About 1/4 teaspoon in a glass of water morning and evening. Just enough to make the water taste pleasantly sour.

I have been using about the same amount, but no reactions like you have. I am planning starting liver flushes in January, and will be trying bigger doses.

 

[Nighteyes]

I have been using about the same amount, but no reactions like you have. I am planning starting liver flushes in January, and will be trying bigger doses.

Thanks - that helps rule out the malic acid Will introduce it again after Christmas. The peppermint Oil seems the most likely culprit

 

[Canari]

I recently started taking malic acid which I thought would actually help reduce these attacks by softening stones? Maybe a stone was softened enough for it to lodge itself into place..
I also went to the sauna yesterday where some dude poured loads of water with peppermint oil on the stones. Could this really cause an attack? Peppermint apparently does affect the gallbladder

Maybe both...
Softening the stones, and then peppermint is cholagogue and choleretic, so it helps produce and flush bile.
When you take too much mint, you would know it by having problem to sleep, as it wakes up!

I take malic acid only in the evening, 1 capsule, and then I take orange juice with olive oil in the morning. It does a very mild regular flush. I had some light pain (just enough to feel pain without calling this suffering) and it went away.

 

[Nighteyes]

Maybe both...
Softening the stones, and then peppermint is cholagogue and choleretic, so it helps produce and flush bile.
When you take too much mint, you would know it by having problem to sleep, as it wakes up!

I take malic acid only in the evening, 1 capsule, and then I take orange juice with olive oil in the morning. It does a very mild regular flush. I had some light pain (just enough to feel pain without calling this suffering) and it went away.

Yeah I think the high dose peppermint from the sauna was simply too much at once. Based on the contents of the toilet this morning (too much information maybe?) my bile is definitely way too thick and poor flowing. Will try and incorporate taurine again and maybe some fish for the PUFA. Apperently PUFAS are quite important for keeping the bile thin. I have notoriously been avoiding PUFA for years so maybe this is a factor. Too much butter.

 

[Canari]

Apperently PUFAS are quite important for keeping the bile thin. I have notoriously been avoiding PUFA for years so maybe this is a factor. Too much butter.

My pain obvioulsy came from coconut oil! When I came back to olive oil, it was much better. I don't know for butter, does is stimulate bile ? coconut does not....

Green with olive oil / lemon and orange juice (if you avoid vinegar) in the morning, or try the orange juice with olive oil....

Why taurine?

 

[Nighteyes]

My pain obvioulsy came from coconut oil! When I came back to olive oil, it was much better. I don't know for butter, does is stimulate bile ? coconut does not....

Green with olive oil / lemon and orange juice (if you avoid vinegar) in the morning, or try the orange juice with olive oil....

Why taurine?

It helps keep bile moving and liquid. I will definitely use less butter and more olive oil etc! Butter does not stimulate bile well for me I suppose.

"The main reason I decided to write on this topic, however, it taurine's role in the gall bladder and liver. Taurine is an essential element in gall bladder health. Bile, which is made in the liver and stored in the gall bladder, is made of bile acids and bile salts. Taurine is a major component of the bile acids and helps to keep bile salts dissolved. When there is a deficiency of taurine there is less of the bile acid and so the salts are able to form stones. Gall stones are a sign that taurine levels may be low and should be evaluated. Supplementing with taurine may help prevent gall bladder surgery in those with chronic gall stones."

https://hackstasis.com/forums/-/list

 

[Canari]

Eating meat and lacking taurine means there is a general problem with protein digestion or assimilation -> HCl needed?
Pets that are made vegan by their owners strongly lack taurine and cats would die if not supplemented.

@Nighteyes do you take milkthistle? It can promote bile flow.

 

[Canari]

Possible cause of gall bladder issues

For taurine, if you need Mg too, there is a form called magnesium taurate...

 

[HerrFisch]

@Nighteyes
Did your histidine arrive? And have you tried it yet?

 

[Nighteyes]

@Nighteyes
Did your histidine arrive? And have you tried it yet?

Hi @HerrFisch

Yes the Histidine arrived and I tried it (low dose) for a week or so. It did not seem to do much while I took it and I always had that warning going on in my head that it might be loweing zinc. And then just around christmas I ran into a major gallbladder attack (or at least I think it was - see earlier post). Since then I have been pretty much off all supplements. For the last few weeks my focus has been on diet and that is going well. Taking less supplements really feels better. Easier to gauge effect from foods

 

[HerrFisch]

To be honest, I dont really know what a gallbladder attack is. How would you descibe it. Similar to stmach pain?

 

[Nighteyes]

To be honest, I dont really know what a gallbladder attack is. How would you descibe it. Similar to stmach pain?

Sorry, did not see your reply till now yes, similar although worse than anything I have ever experienced before.. Litterally thought I was done for. Pain was radiating out from the right side just below the ribs.. and towards back as well.. A humbling experience really and kind of turned things upside down for me, diet and supplement wise.

 

[Canari]

Ho that was a bad one!
Better is to notice there is somehting goin on there BEFORE an attack, when things change slowly: pay attention when you have some diffuse slight pain bellow the right ribs! For me it is 1 inch bellow ribs and a bit more on the side than the center. But we might have different anatomies... There can be some pain and then also some tenderness when pressing the zone.

When the pain is a bit lower, it comes from the space where upper gut changes to colon, and this creates the same sort of slight pain, though for me a bit sharper. I had this after a colontherapy. Too much pressure from the water.