Are you taking raw thyroid as well as raw adrenal?
Have you seen a doctor re all this, yet? I mean if it's truly dangerous and adrenal-related, such as with addison's disease, it's absolutely essential to get cortisol injections. Though, it'sunlikely to be as severe as that.
Also, the thing with adrenals is to avoid over-stimulation(alcohol/violent exercise etc.) in general, as that weakens the adrenals.
What concerns me is that you've made multiple changes in your diet and you're still facing issues. This suggests to me that you may have some condition that either isn't diet-related at all or is related to some long-term nutritional deficiency which you've overlooked. Is "high-meat" effective re digestion-issues? I take it my past suggestion re enzymes didn't work for you? What about adaptogenic/stress-relieving herbs like siberian ginseng, schisandra, astragalus etc.? I'll admit these herbs were useless in fixing my health-problems pre-rawpalaeo diet, but I was in a Raw Vegan/fruitarian phase for most of that time, so they might work on a more healthy RAF diet.
I do apologise re my previous suggestion re Intermittent Fasting as it failed to work for you. I'm now more careful to warn against doing IF if one happens to have adrenal-related issues - (though, contrariwise, IF did work for me pretty well when I switched, early on in the diet, from eating all through the day to 1 large meal a day, despite my own adrenal-related issues at the time).
I take it you were 100% healthy prior to doing raw vegan, or am I wrong re this?
I don't take thyroid because, as it was pointed before, adrenals should be adressed first.
When I was in the hospital with kidney stones I tried to ask doctors if I had adrenal fatigue. It seems they heard it from me for the first time.
Now I supplement with Isocort, the freeze-dried adrenal cortex extract and it contains some cortisol naturally. I think no any additional herbs are needed.
Currently I have some "high-meat" in the fridge. I'm hesitant whether to consume it or not. I think that maybe a person with weak health like me won't benefit from it at all. And as I remember from the past I didn't benefit from it in terms of increased energy etc.
As for the enzymes I can't find them here. I think I have to order them from abroad. I am gonna look some online sources.
Yes, it may be true that I have a rather serious health issue which cannot be helped by diet alone or is harder to overcome. Maybe I have chronic kidney disease? Maybe meats are bad for me? Maybe i still suffer from high in purines organs and marrow? As soon as I get the opportunity to check whether I have the reoccurrence of stones I will know for sure whether meats or zero-carbing were to blame back then.
I think yes, I was healthy before vegan diet. I mean, it wasn't perfect, but I was a good soccer player, exercised and spent all nights long with females
From the very first day of my life and till 23 I was living off of carbs mostly. Our local traditional diet is bread, potatoes (second bread), different porridges, little vegs, rare fruit in the season and occasional meat. Fat is usually derived from sunflower.
When I started raw animal food diet, i.e. Primal Diet with plenty of dairy, honey and some fruits, I improved tremendously as compared to my previous raw vegan experience. After a mere 4 month on that diet I was able to enjoy my life once again. Then happened something which wrecked my recovery and put me a long way back. I can only think of two things:
1)parasitic invasion
2)Intermittent fasting
I think that I might have got infected with parasites on raw meats diet. But I wonder why I was feeling better after four months on raw meats... If parasites were to blame, I would have probably suffered from a start.
And, what is most interestingly, my downhill began when I started to eat only once daily or even once every other day. I did change little in my diet at that point. I eliminated dairy and increased organ meats consumption. I stopped honey and only ate a piece of fruit daily. But what was changed that was my eating pattern.
My assumption is that a practice of infrequent eating caused too much stress both mentally and physically, slowed down metabolism which affected my thyroid and finally worn out my adrenals which were under pretty much stress even before that.
You don't have to apologise, we make our own choices and we are responsible for them. Clearly, IF works for some. But it appears not for all.
sincerely
Yuri
