I started the vegan diet about 51/2 years ago. I think I've had the best results thus far from the Jaminets PHD. I have had small improvements since then but way below what I had expected. My diet has changed a little over the last two years, mostly different variations of a paleo type diet.
#Coffee buzz or panic attack you make the call full#
Doctor didn't think anything of my labs until I firmly requested that he run a full thyroid panel because of my clinical hypothyroid symptoms, and he was surprised to notice that my RT3 was high, and that I had TPOab antibodies in my results. Also, since you were vegan, were you eating a lot of foods with goitrogens and if so, were you cooking them well enough to partially eliminate them? Goitrogens are known to suppress the thyroid, in addition to the thyroid suppressive effects of intensive exercise.Īlso, you mentioned a goiter, and your thyroid, but no specific diagnosis? If your doctor is just going off of your labs and says you are fine, what was he referring to? If he just looked at your TSH and maybe T4, that isn't enough, as you need to know T3, RT3, TPOab + TGab for starters. I'd be very curious to hear any thoughts on this and/or advice.Ĭurious, but what does your diet look like now that you aren't vegan? You mentioned that a holistic doctor suggested high candida, so are you following one of the Candida diets that are low in sugar/fruit? That recommendation is pretty anti- Ray Peat, as all of his food related suggestions involve eating enough fructose or sucrose to give your body the glucose it needs, especially if you are hypothyroid.
My ability to handle stress has also greatly diminished. It is more difficult for me to learn and retain things. In addition to this my cognitive abilities have taken a sharp decline. Still even today my energy and drive are shot! I'm a 44 year old male who just not four years ago was sparring 3-5 nights a week with guys half my age to now it hard to even walk a mile or two. I am wondering if the high activity lifestyle, not enough sleep, and that stupid vegan diet juice thing I did didn't screw up my thyroid and if the problems I had immediately after stopping the caffeine was because it was helping my thyroid? My docs would tell me that they thought that I was using the caffeine to self medicate but could not tell me how that was working. Sometimes my goiter gives me that choking feeling. I have also developed in the last couple of years a multi-modular goiter. It feels like a typical catch-22 situation. Somehow I was able to keep all that going until I quit the caffeine. My diet for about a year and a half before this was vegan with lots of juicing! I also was training twice a day in various combat sports with only an average of about 4-5 hours of nightly sleep. During this time if I had even a small amount of caffeine I'd have some intense panic, even today four years later I still have to be very careful. I decided that I was going to have to endure through it and it took about two years before the panic attacks weren't a daily part of my life. But, the other problems flared back up ( heart palms and digestive issues) so once again I quit caffeine, and this time the panic was far worse! After a few weeks I couldn't take it anymore and started back drinking coffee and felt much better as far aas panic goes. Well, the first time I quit I got the usual caffeine withdrawal symptoms along with all sorts of other crazy symptoms that I later learned were panic symptoms.
It was recommended to me to ask this question here so here I go.Ībout 4 years ago I quit coffee and all caffeinated products due to them giving me heart palpitations and digestive problems.