Hi,
I was depressed last night and not feeling well. Since last July I've struggled with trying to correct the mess that a vegan diet did tom my GI tract. I've been in denial in a way. What I've needed to do is go back to low carb vegs and animal proteins only and quit the nuts, seeds, grains, legumes, at least for a while. Broccoli, cabbage, and onions inhibit bacteria. So do turnips and rutabaga but they're higher carb.
I noticed as of late that I don't tolerate things like Betaine HCl, distilled vinegar, and even calcium lactate any more. Betaine gives me palpitations, and taking 5-7 caps with each meal depleted my magnesium. Vinegar to acidify my GI tract does not feel like it's the right thing to do. Raw ACV made me quite sick.
I had the idea that my pH was too alkaline. It's weird but I seem to be able to tolerate acid producing foods OK, foods like meat, eggs, rice, tomato, corn, Ezekiel bread, and olives, but the eczema on my head didn't improve, and if I kept eating all these carbs, I don't know if it would ever improve, or would take a long time if it did. If I was too alkaline, I could taste it and feel it. I've been that way before and it can make me so tired that I can hardly get off of the sofa. I don't think I've been too alkaline in a good 10 years or so.
Not sure what made me sick yesterday, well, actually, I am. I was going to try the 2 or 3 day VCO cleanse, and I did OK with it while taking my home made pasteurized organic milk kefir, but when I took pasteurized organic store yogurt, I got sick and had bloating, fatigue, head fog, and all that awful stuff. I just need to be real careful what I eat at this time. I hate to admit it but I need to go back to square one, the square I haven't been at in 15 or 20 years. It seems so unreal to walk into stores and not be able to buy the foods I've been buying for years but I need to eat to live at this time.
For the second time I found calcium supps to sedate me. I broke my ankle last Summer after I collided with a car on my bicycle and was taking calcium tinctures to help mend the bone, and they used to make me feel groggy, sedated, and sleepy. I tried Calcium Lactate for a week or so and it seems to do about the same thing. Not a good feeling at all. You sleep like a log but you feel kind of subdued and depressed in the daytime, and, it isn't worth it. I was told that thyroid hormone is needed to build bone, among other things like Ca and Mg.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do but this makes more sense than the raw vegan or even cooked vegan diets. I'm going to have to educate myself on this RPD more. I'm kind of tired of changing the way I eat, reading health books, etc. Low carb is really the WTG tho. If grains prevent me from healing my GI tract at this time, this will most likely subtract from my well being when I feel my GI tract is healthy. My stubbornness to quit grain may be a big part of the reason why I have poor muscle tone and eczema. I have to start at square one in order to get to square 2, 3, and 4. You can't skip any steps.
Not sure if I'd devote to this way of eating. If cooked paleo improves your health some, and raw does even more, than I may try it myself. I have no social life, so from that POV, I could do it.