Quote from: PaleoPhil on Yesterday at 05:41:42 PM
Most carbs other than raw fermented honey, wild Maine blueberries and yogurt tend to make me feel cold and tired, presumably due to something screwed up in my system (such as gut dysbiosis and/or metabolic dysfunction). Animal fats warm and energize me, but if I never eat carbs, then that also seems to eventually cause me to become cold. So eating plenty of fats and intermittently eating carbs seems to maximize warmth for me.
Another major thing that has helped my cold tolerance is following cold therapy tips from Wim Hoff and Todd Becker (such as taking gradually colder showers).
I don't quite understand the blame on carbs..Im getting conflicting opinion from the forum...some say carbs causes their problems whereas contrast some say you should keep carbs in (for example: Perfect Health Diet (book), and 180degree health), or even high carbs, what is this madness?
I don't know what you're referring to re: blaming carbs. I didn't read the whole thread, and I only read a small fraction of the threads, so maybe I missed something here or in another thread. I just shared my experience, FWIW, and blamed my own body rather than carbs. As I said, I do eat some carbs, and I hope some day that I will be able to improve my carb tolerance further with probiotics or other therapies. I experimented with quite a few carby foods to see which ones I can currently handle best. I've seen plenty of folks report thriving on moderate to high carb intakes, I'm just not currently one of them, though I seem to be tolerating them somewhat better than in the past, especially when I stick to my best-tolerated carby foods. I enjoy Paul Jaminet's Perfect Health Diet blog quite a bit and he recommends low carb (20-30% of calories) and eats low carb himself, despite giving the OK to "safe starches" for most folks.
That video is pretty good and in line with what I wrote above and my experience and raw Paleo in general (he could have covered the differences between eczema and psoriasis and my understanding is that symptoms on the outside of the elbows are actually much more common with psoriasis than eczema--including for a friend of mine who had psoriasis--but that's a minor point). He mentioned gut dysbiosis, which I mentioned above. He also mentioned nutrient deficiency, leaky gut, malabsorption, fungal overgrowth, toxic processed foods, food intolerances, and healthy saturated fats, which all fit in nicely with raw Paleo and have been discussed at this forum before. He sounded a bit down on parasites and I didn't notice him mention symbiotic or commensal parasites, which are a feature in the hygiene hypothesis you mentioned, which is also known as the old friends hypothesis and which I think is quite important, and eczema is one of the diseases which have been specifically linked to lack of "old friends" (Is Cleanliness to Blame for Increasing Allergies?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100413160901.htm).
As eveheart explained, HCL is hydrochloric acid. If your body isn't producing enough HCL, it reduces your ability to digest foods and thereby your ability to absorb nutrients. You mentioned digestive stress, so it's at least a possible factor. I didn't notice any benefit from an HCL supplement myself, but I do at times consume some acidic foods at the start of meals, such as lemon juice squeezed into water or raw sauerkraut, and these foods are more enjoyable than the supplements. I think some folks at this forum did report benefit from HCL supplements.
On a related note, Todd Becker has an interesting contrarian view on supplements:
http://gettingstronger.org/2012/11/why-i-dont-take-vitamin-d-supplements/Im getting my fats from bone marrow, the best I can get possibly..How much is enough?
What other animal fat sources are you eating? I eat as much as I want and I use the bones for broth (and it's possible to make raw broth). The right amount for you depends on your individual body. No one can determine that except you through experience.
I don't enjoy organ meats but eat the ones I find most tolerable anyway, as they're healthy and I hope I'll acquire a taste for them. There are also many ways to eat them without having to taste them, or to make them taste better, and you can find plenty of tips on that online. I found that patience helps, and if something super beneficial really turns me off then I either go slow or put it aside for another day and focus on something I can handle now.
One of the good points re: coldness that Matt Stone and Danny Roddy have made is that not eating enough calories can cause coldness.
Cold therapy (see Wim Hof, Todd Becker, etc.) has worked well for me. I used to have chronically cold hands (and people would remark about them if I shook their hand or touched them), whereas now I routinely melt snowballs and ice cubes in my hands and have only worn gloves two or three times in the last 3 years or so. If the weather gets into the minuses, then I tend to put my hands in my pockets after walking for about a half mile or so, but still don't need gloves if I'm not using my hands.
YMMV, find what works for you.
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