Random thought: your "thyroid" "fix" might be another one of those little miracle cures from rapid-turn-over cells after cutting out seed oils.
Like the "no sunburn" or "no gum bleeding" thing I have. Maybe some cells in your body were built with crummy membranes from PUFAs, and they just happened to be in your thyroid, or somewhere along that pathway?
So by cutting out PUFAs for just a few weeks or months, those cells might've been rebuilt "fixed" and now the effects will last until you rebuild them broken again (i.e. go back on a PUFA diet).
Cell turnover varies dramatically, with the fastest being mucous membranes like gums, intestinal/stomach lining, then skin cells (<3 months) and I think bone the slowest (7 years or so).
You've also noticed the 'no sunburn' thing? I've never been prone to sunburn unless I work at it, and this summer I didn't seem to be any less prone to it than usual. But I've heard that from a lot of different sources now.
Pretty sure. I've always been extremely susceptible to sunburn. Last fall I got a massive sunburn walking outside for just maybe an hour.
To test it, this summer I sat in the July sun, no shirt, no sunscreen, for 2 hours around noon. This would've probably put me in the hospital before. This time: very slight pinkish hue at night. Gone the next morning.
> To test it, this summer I sat in the July sun, no shirt, no sunscreen, for 2 hours around noon. This time: very slight pinkish hue at night. Gone the next morning.
This sounds like me, I've always laughed at people who insist on sunscreen to face the ferocious English sun. In my youth no-one gave a toss, except for extremely pale-skinned ginger Celtic types who don't seem to be able to tolerate the sun at all, and women who wanted to spend all day lying in the sun in foreign hell-holes to make themselves change colour.
Nowadays I think there are black people in England who wear sunscreen. Maybe something *has* changed.
> Last fall I got a massive sunburn walking outside for just maybe an hour.
Cripes! Do you have unusually pale skin/ginger hair? Because if not it does sound like you were unnaturally sensitive to sunburn and that's now fixed. Most interesting if true...
Also for the first time in my (adult) life didn't have gum bleeding/inflammation/stern warning to floss more at the dentist.
Coincidence?
Skin cells, and especially gums cells I think, have very fast cell turnover. So they could be early signs of dePUFAcation.
Oh yea, feels like my eyes got as good again as they were in my youth. Not that I had bad eyes (no prescription), but felt like they'd gone from 100% in my youth to 85%, which I'd written off to aging.
So, all this *could* be coincidence, we're in an anti-PUFA bubble and we're hearing all these good effects, and so every time we notice improvements in things we're going to think PUFAs, and every time things get worse we're not going to think that.
And things naturally go up and down.
But on the other hand, it could all be PUFAs. If the damned things really are sodding up mitochondria and causing the 'epidemic of hypothyroidism', then giving them up is going to simultaneously improve every single system in the body.
And the same if they're sneaking into cell membranes. I imagine some very carefully constructed systems rely on the composition of cell membranes being as it should be.
I'm definitely getting a feeling of improved well-being. Have been since the start of all this, but it may or may not be illusionary. I'm easy to fool. My friends (and now my family) are saying that I seem livelier too.
I had been thinking that maybe PUFAs in the mitochondrial membranes were responsible, so imagine my surprise to find that the inner membrane is actually made of PUFAs (linoleic acid in the form of cardiolipin). That makes the idea rather paradoxical, but I haven't quite given up on it yet.
The reduction in thyroid dose seems real though. As does the weight loss. Probably it was either no-processed-food or ex150 that did it, and ex150 and no-sulphites were the things that happened just before I started getting effects I could measure. So thank you very much!
Random thought: your "thyroid" "fix" might be another one of those little miracle cures from rapid-turn-over cells after cutting out seed oils.
Like the "no sunburn" or "no gum bleeding" thing I have. Maybe some cells in your body were built with crummy membranes from PUFAs, and they just happened to be in your thyroid, or somewhere along that pathway?
So by cutting out PUFAs for just a few weeks or months, those cells might've been rebuilt "fixed" and now the effects will last until you rebuild them broken again (i.e. go back on a PUFA diet).
Cell turnover varies dramatically, with the fastest being mucous membranes like gums, intestinal/stomach lining, then skin cells (<3 months) and I think bone the slowest (7 years or so).
You've also noticed the 'no sunburn' thing? I've never been prone to sunburn unless I work at it, and this summer I didn't seem to be any less prone to it than usual. But I've heard that from a lot of different sources now.
Are you sure?
Pretty sure. I've always been extremely susceptible to sunburn. Last fall I got a massive sunburn walking outside for just maybe an hour.
To test it, this summer I sat in the July sun, no shirt, no sunscreen, for 2 hours around noon. This would've probably put me in the hospital before. This time: very slight pinkish hue at night. Gone the next morning.
> To test it, this summer I sat in the July sun, no shirt, no sunscreen, for 2 hours around noon. This time: very slight pinkish hue at night. Gone the next morning.
This sounds like me, I've always laughed at people who insist on sunscreen to face the ferocious English sun. In my youth no-one gave a toss, except for extremely pale-skinned ginger Celtic types who don't seem to be able to tolerate the sun at all, and women who wanted to spend all day lying in the sun in foreign hell-holes to make themselves change colour.
Nowadays I think there are black people in England who wear sunscreen. Maybe something *has* changed.
> Last fall I got a massive sunburn walking outside for just maybe an hour.
Cripes! Do you have unusually pale skin/ginger hair? Because if not it does sound like you were unnaturally sensitive to sunburn and that's now fixed. Most interesting if true...
Not unusual, and not ginger.
Also for the first time in my (adult) life didn't have gum bleeding/inflammation/stern warning to floss more at the dentist.
Coincidence?
Skin cells, and especially gums cells I think, have very fast cell turnover. So they could be early signs of dePUFAcation.
Oh yea, feels like my eyes got as good again as they were in my youth. Not that I had bad eyes (no prescription), but felt like they'd gone from 100% in my youth to 85%, which I'd written off to aging.
So, all this *could* be coincidence, we're in an anti-PUFA bubble and we're hearing all these good effects, and so every time we notice improvements in things we're going to think PUFAs, and every time things get worse we're not going to think that.
And things naturally go up and down.
But on the other hand, it could all be PUFAs. If the damned things really are sodding up mitochondria and causing the 'epidemic of hypothyroidism', then giving them up is going to simultaneously improve every single system in the body.
And the same if they're sneaking into cell membranes. I imagine some very carefully constructed systems rely on the composition of cell membranes being as it should be.
Gift horse! Examine teeth!!
Like I said, got teeth examined already ;)
I'm definitely getting a feeling of improved well-being. Have been since the start of all this, but it may or may not be illusionary. I'm easy to fool. My friends (and now my family) are saying that I seem livelier too.
I had been thinking that maybe PUFAs in the mitochondrial membranes were responsible, so imagine my surprise to find that the inner membrane is actually made of PUFAs (linoleic acid in the form of cardiolipin). That makes the idea rather paradoxical, but I haven't quite given up on it yet.
The reduction in thyroid dose seems real though. As does the weight loss. Probably it was either no-processed-food or ex150 that did it, and ex150 and no-sulphites were the things that happened just before I started getting effects I could measure. So thank you very much!
What's in the box? - Calories.
many many many many calories