Hey guys what's up? I've got some advice to ask, both nutritional/health and professional/career.
I'll start with the nutritional stuff since this is a diet forum. I feel like I may be experiencing a bit of what Yuri talks about in his journal. I don't think I'm digesting food well. My reason for thinking this is because a lot of the time I have an upset stomach, sometimes gas, and a lot of the time my bowel movements are different from each other. I've had the expectation that I could follow my raw paleo diet "most of the time" and get away with eating whatever some of the time, but maybe that isn't going to work out. But then when I eat on plan I don't feel quite right. This could be my body trying to zero in on what I'm giving it to work with, and being unable to get used to digesting any one thing. What keeps coming to mind is the fact that I was able to eat and feel good on just about anything before I started messing with "diets."
Also my energy isn't great, and I can't even remember whether it's worse than at other times in my life or if I've always been tired at certain times of the day. It seems like certain times of the day I feel tired no matter what, as if my body wants rest then. But it's strange times, the early afternoon, the morning, and not at all at night.
What I'm looking for is if anyone went through anything similar. I remember reading Yuri's journal and it seems like I have some of the same stuff. He says it's adrenal fatigue. It seems like my body doesn't want to work well. I can understand not getting peak performance out of it when I go off plan eating, but I would think a healthy body would get what it can from whatever you feed it. A lot of raw vegans define health in a way that if you eat something bad you'll get all sick, but I like to think that a healthy person could withstand something like that and perform adequate. I see people all the time that eat something crappy like a bagel for breakfast and seem to function very well. And I feel like I used to be like that.
I just bought an adrenal gland and I'm going to thaw it out and eat it and see if I notice a boost in energy or anything else good. I might also try some dried gland supplements, or perhaps HCl tablets and see if my digestion picks up with that. I want to zero in on what helps me, but sometimes I'm not patient enough to see an idea through.
As for professional stuff, I'm trying to decide what route to go in future schooling. Right now I'm working as a biologist and took the GRE to go to grad school. I was thinking either anthropology, some kind of biology, or paleontology/paleobiology. I could do some kind of research about paleolithic diet.
But since thinking that I've been a bit discouraged with emailing professors from schools near me, and don't see much research they're doing that's within my interests. And I've been considering another path, which is going to medical school. I was thinking endocrinology, and maybe I could do something with my patients where I give them the option of trying to stay off of or severely limit meds and treat stuff like diabetes and other glandular disorders with diet or natural supplements. Much like I am going to be experimenting on myself with now. I don't know how much leeway you have as a doctor to go off the orthodox path, but if I could do something like that I would want to. My role model in this path is Dr. Kurt Harris, whose website many people have read here. I could be like him, perhaps even team up with him and some other doctors to promote paleolithic nutrition, maybe write a book etc...
Anyway any advice or comments are welcome, thanks!
