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I am only doing low carb, not full ketogenic, but I weigh 32 pounds less than I did fifteen months ago and I don't know how to quantify how much better I feel, but it's a lot... like getting back fifty IQ points... even if it doesn't seem to have helped the sleep disorders that much.
I had gained 45 pounds from my pre-surgery norm by two years after. So I got on thyroid replacement and then dropped all 45 in one fell swoop. It took me nearly seven years to gain almost 40 of those pounds back. So I quit eating grain, ran my doctor into a corner, took him by the throat and demanded a nice dosage lowering but switched back to natural thyroid prescription, and I am now almost back to my old normal weight... without dieting.
I am concerned because my left eye is trying to get away from my face again, which the ophthalmologist felt was almost certainly due to an autoimmune problem, but I think might simply be some nano shit from the sky being particularly resented by my left eye... or a germ that doesn't ever get killed all the way just wakes back up every so often, or I need more vitamin C, or... or my eye really has a good reason to keep trying to flee like this. Whatever. It might be a sign that my thyroid is tanking further, and I will know instanter the next time I get on the scale whether I need to go back and scare the doctor into upping my thyroid supplement again.
The whole modern world is designed to harm your thyroid gland. It's not just the radiation. It's fluoride and the shit they put in the flour they make your damn bread with and other stuff too. Everybody's thyroid glands are struggling. The lack of iodine, even if you're using that crap toxic iodized table salt, might be enough to stave off goiter, but it isn't enough to stave off breast and prostate and other cancers, and not enough to keep your thyroid working up to snuff otherwise either.
I guess I am lucky that I can tell which way my thyroid is headed by remembering to get on the scale every few days. Maybe not everybody gets that cue. But it is royal pain in the ass, and the only way to guard against it is to stop filling your grocery cart with poison.
Yes, yes indeedy, that is very expensive. I can only eke out a little real, grass-fed, food, have to make do with meats and vegetables that might not be as natural as it gets, but, even so, even when not perfect yet, and despite the goddam eye thing coming back, it's just ridiculously better.
It's better enough that I will be back at the doc's throat in a matter of minutes if that scale starts going back the other way by even three pounds. How many of the fat people out there crying that they don't overeat, that they can't lose weight, are in fact simply hypothyroid and don't know it? Do people know that air is fattening when their thyroid glands are on the way out?
Or is hypothyroidism why people seem so much dimmer than they ever did before? Is it that they don't have the mental acumen left to tell their thyroids are cutting out on them? Or am I just going obsessive here in my effort to remain upright until it's reasonable to get in bed?
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