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From:	Libre (50.53.152.79)
Subject:	Re: My Nutritional Analysis
Date:	October 30, 2012 at 2:42 pm PST

In Reply to: My Nutritional Analysis posted by D on October 29, 2012 at 8:08 am:

Just a few things:

1. You sound stressed out and afraid
2. What has changed in the last year?

I know very much about #1.
I went through 1.5 years of sheer terror trying to figure out what
was wrong with me. Every aspect of my system went haywire and
started breaking down. As the Allopathic (regular) doctors did their
tests, all they could come up with was (of course) it must be my
died. Back then I had been a Vegan for 4 years, and man did they
jump on that. They kept jumping on the same thing : Protein,
Protein! Wrong. I got plenty of protein, more than enough let me
tell you. I dumbly listened to them and added a Vegan protein
shake for a while, and felt much much worse, blood pressure went
through the roof.

In the end after seeing Hundreds of Doctors (I am not
exaggerating), some both Allopathic and Naturopathic, the only
thing that was remarkably off was the fact that my Adrenalin was
off the charts, my fight or flight was going crazy (sympathetic
nervous system) and I had no system working to relax me
(Parasympathetic). No matter how much Meditation, Accupuncture,
or any other calming system, nothing relaxed me. I had to change
my life, which I am still in the process of. I had to realize, if I was
going to fall apart, get sick and die, well, obviously there was
nothing I could do about it. There were no answers "Out There",
they had to come from "In Here". I have been a quasi-Buddhist for a
while, and I became more of one as I got sicker and couldn't move
or get out of bed.

letting go of all the fear, putting myself in a new life, a new world,
learning more about my body and mind and self has slowly begun
the crawl out of hell.

All this to say, I know where you are. It is a terrible and scary place,
and it all comes from inside. The mind is the most powerful thing
in the universe, and when it is scared, the amount of chemicals and
energy it can use to destroy (or build) is astronomical. The adrenal
/ neural cascade is an absolutely amazing thing. I know. It nearly
killed me. However it didn't show up on any X-Rays / MRI's / blood
work, etc. But inside every nerve, vessel, muscle, organ, etc hurt
like nothing I have felt before.

So, to you I would say:

The stress you are under (as was I) can throw off how your body
can correctly process just about everything. Vitamin D takes a big
hit, Sex hormones take the biggest hit of all (I have no testosterone
and they can't figure out why, as all my systems work fine), Then
because of the Vit. D deficiency, other things begin to go haywire.
The Thyroid is in charge of so many critical things along with the
Para Thyroid (like Calcium balance). D, Calcium and Thyroid
chemicals are all intricately linked together, and stress and
adrenalin over a period of time play incredibly harsh havoc on all of
them, which then starts other systems to go crazy.

About your tracking:

You start out and your numbers on Fitday are fine, then over the
course of the year they decline.

So either you ate different after a year, or over the last six months
you started and continued to eat differently.

About getting basic balance:
If you are really worried about your Calcium,
Eat more Broccoli and other veggies high in Calcium.

Taking Vitamins are not healthy as they are made in a lab and our
bodies don't understand their chemical compounding nature. They
aren't like vitamins in the wild. So our bodies expel just about all of
them (up to 99.9%). It just becomes very expensive urine.

Sorry for the long note, but when I hear others in a panic about
their body not working right, and I hear the fear in their voice, I
know what they are feeling, so well. I hope something I have said
helps, and sadly, but hopefully, the way back is slow, methodical,
but can happen.

Hoping the best. - Libre

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