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certain things... the most annoying things about my health lately, get a lot worse when i am fasting

the cramping, from dehydration due to ketosis i guess

the double vision gets worse

the visual migrane stuff gets worse

it's good though, because the causes of these things need to be purged and the intensification of them changes my subconscious motivation somehow, i can't explain it... since the last time, i have cut way back on alcohol, and the caffeine intake has dialed up a little, but after this fast i think it's probably time for both things to leave, exit stage left lol

for real, that pain from not being able to do these ordinary things i'm used to but have had trouble with for a while now

i'm so over it, i feel like a cripple

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, just thinking back on it, i'm pretty damn sure now that the trigger of my current bout of vision problem is me stupidly drinking coke zero yesterday

the reaction was so intense, but i knew that one of the ingredients in it was a problem, just that usually it came along with sucralose, so i think acesulfame-k is the major cause of it... and it probably gets worse from the phosporic acid in the drink precipitating a lot of the calcium in the water i am drinking

still gonna leave the coffee machine in the cupboard anyway, i know i'm gonna be pretty foggy for a few days especially combining the fasting with it

oof it's giving me a headache just thinking about it, i guess if it's real bad i can pop it down to dispense some but gonna try to cut it right back

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gojiberra 1y ago

Cutting caffeine & fasting at the same time? You are very hard on yourself.

Caffeine is extremely powerful for me. If I go without for 24 hours, I will get a headache and throw up around 36 hours around 48 hours I start coming out of the fog but it takes 3 weeks to get back to feeling normal without caffeine.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, i changed my mind haha

kept thinking about it and concluded that the espresso is kinda ok, a bit dehydrating, but i had been also drinking red bull in recent days, which in the past i have found in some situations brings on the visual migraine

the migraine is eased off and my vision is converging much better now

just gonna be really careful... no artificial sweeteners and no energy drinks, just espresso, the odd whisky and soda and i'm gonna try get through one more day of no food with those new rules in place... i'm feeling a little keto this afternoon

that was the other thing, the red bull was also triggering something with my kidneys i think... and i'm pretty sure there is some connection between the kidneys, the peripheral neuropathy (as well as the vision problem also pain in my hands and feet, and the cramping) and i'm not doing so well at this new moon fast tbh, i kinda broke it a bit last night eating some goat cheese

anyhow, i guess it's all information, what i got from this was that Acesulfame-K is bad shit, super bad

https://pruitthealth.com/wellness-blog/blogid14

"Long term exposure to methylene chloride can cause nausea, headaches, mood problems, impairment of the liver and kidneys, problems with eyesight and possibly cancer. Acesulfame-K may contribute to hypoglycemia."

impairment of the liver and kidneys and eyesight problems

which they connect to methylene chloride (dichloromethane) - i assume it's a metabolite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloromethane

nah, idk what the connection is - i guess maybe it's a solvent used in extracting it, but DCM is used for a lot of things, traces of that stuff is bad, but in the amounts i would expect from a fully dry food grade extract it's not gonna be that bad

and it looks like there has been zero real research and any stuff that talks about vision, liver and kidney problems is hard to find but perplexity found me some

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/acesulfame-k-and-vision-and-ki-HxYh5v46T7.r4JZbghcBmQ

there is strong indications that this stuff causes kidney damage, and i also had other things go on around the same time, like, severe reactions to maltodextrin, which i already had previously experienced that it caused me to pee a disturbingly dark brown color when i was given a drink containing it in prison back in 2014... again, this stuff also has been creeping into foods everywhere especially my favourite, potato chips, and i think there is good reason to suspect that this is all connected to the onset of the cramping problems as well

so it's probably no wonder that my health is dramatically improving from fasting and eating primarily beef mince in recent months

this vision problem slammed me pretty hard this morning though

gojiberra 1y ago

Aspartame sounds especially bad.

I started avoiding any fake sweeteners a couple years ago due to the "leaky gut" problems they cause. Apparently they kill a lot of good gut biome.

Couple that with alcohol (just 1 or 2 drinks at lunch) and unhealthy American food, I had nightly heart burn.

Thankfully avoiding alcohol (except for the occasional drink) fixed the heart burn

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, i hadn't drank any artificial sweetened stuff until 2021... it probably was the early early stages of onset of type 2 diabetes that was causing the - at the time - mild symptoms like cramping and peripheral neuropathy

now i know what it all is... all that seed oil fried potatoes for 20 years and energy drinks for a lot of that time, and then the additives kept on stacking up, the maltodextrin, the drinks with sugar but also artificial sweeteners, probably colors and flavors have been involved too, there is so much shit in the food these days that never was there 20 years ago, or at all 40 years ago

and on top, i've had celiac the whole time, but the odd thing is that the rash from it didn't start to happen until i was in my late 20s, 2006 and after... so it's probably GMO wheat or some shit, combined with all the other shit, probably glyphosate in the seed oils, so many easy things to point at, and bugger me hard shit to avoid now

gojiberra 1y ago

It does seem that humans are really sturdy, and it's all the bad stuff combined in the last few decades that just does us in. it's hard to not consume up to the limit of what we can tolerate.

My great aunt at 98 still drinks a glass of wine before bed. I would sleep horribly if I did that. if i had a squeaky clean diet, i could probably go back to it.

she also ate a donut for breakfast and sausage & eggs (not saying this is bad).

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

breaking my fast so i'm liking the sound of eggs a lot right now... i have all this beef dripping and it's just not really appropriate to use it to fry beef patties (gonna have a couple and a couple eggs for breakfast, got a real cranking hankering lol) ohshit i have to go down to the damn bank tho