Re: Ketogenic Diet - Path To Transformation?
This is a bit of an overdue status update on my experiences so far in the past month or so.
I've been primarily living off beef bone broth and it's been going pretty well. When I started it was great--I had had long standing issues with reflux after eating and it went away, which was incredibly exciting. They returned for a bit afterwards, though, after I added pork fat to the broth--after removing the pork fat and switching to butter, the reflux is at least 90% gone. I had been wondering if there was something going on with my gut flora, so for a little while before introducing the beef bone broth I was eating Kerrygold cultured butter (the silver package) with better success than the pork fat. However after introducing the broth, I had a negative digestive reaction to it, so I've been using the standard Kerrygold butter (gold package) with good success. Currently, though, I'm not sure if I can successfully eat pork or whether it's something to do with where I've been getting it from (I've been to the farm a number of times and the pigs forage a lot, but they also get non-organic grain--so it likely contains GMOs, so perhaps that's playing a role). I had tried HCL and there didn't seem to be an amount that would result in good digestion, so right now I have to assume that it was the pork.
I was seeing an acupuncturist for about a month or so and at one point he said that he thought that I had mucus somewhere in my intestines (I think he said lower intestines). This appears to be the case and after first starting the broth I had diarrhea for about a week and there was definitely mucus at times. I've also had mucus in my lungs and sinuses for a while and all of these have definitely been improving. There seems to be a significant correlation between even the slightest digestion issues I have and any flare ups in my eczema, mucus production, and also sneezing (I've been sneezing if my digestion is off, sometimes a lot, and I usually feel better afterwards)--I almost never sneeze otherwise. All of this has been improving with the bone broth. I have been feeling nauseous on occasion--when this happens I'll often get some stomach gurgling and my digestion will start to move and I may have gas or maybe diarrhea, or maybe neither. Occasionally I've still had some diarrhea in the past couple of weeks, but it's been rare and may be the result from when I eat pork (which I ate recently for a special occasion). I have a bowel movement ranging from once a day to once every few days, usually soft and small and which has been getting darker recently (hopefully from better nutrient absorption).
For a while, I was also having extremely foamy urine that was often very dark colored. I also would often get up at night to pee and release a large quantity of foamy urine and then go more in the morning. The urine, however, seems to have returned to a lighter color and is ranging between moderate and no foam recently, which I take as an improvement.
I'm currently not regularly taking any supplements (I took some Vit C throughout the day yesterday or the day before in water and had a bit of reflux) and I had a really strange reaction to take 375MG of Magnesium a little over a week ago. I got hot, felt nauseous, and had an increased heart rate (fairly significant increase, too), along with the tension in my back getting worse (I've had some tension in my back for a while--in the left kidney area and right mid-upper back--this also seems very strongly correlated with how well my digestion is doing). This was taking Magnesium Taurate from Cardiovascular Research with these other ingredients: Gelatin, Calcium Stearate, Cellulose, Silicon Dioxide, and Croscarmellose Sodium. I haven't tried taking Magnesium Citrate in a while (I have it in powder form), so I may try that and see how I react. I also tried HCL once recently and had some reflux from it, so I currently don't think that I have HCL issues, but I'm not entirely confident that this is the case--I may try more later, but I'm also really, really tired of having reflux at all.
My heart rate is still higher than I'd like it to be (last measured at a little over 70BPM a week or so ago--I think it's around there currently), but has definitely been improving (down from the mid 80s) and I think drops below 70 at times as well. This also seems to be strongly correlated with my digestion, so I've been hypothesizing that I may have been having some kind of reaction to pork (a main staple food for over a year) and possibly other things and that this was causing an adrenaline release which was bleeding my energy reserves dry and causing the back tension I have. I still have much lower energy than I'd like, but this seems to be slowly improving, especially with weight lifting.
The weight lifting has been going very well, though it feels daunting sometimes when I have low energy. The first time left my body sore for about a week (during which I didn't lift any more), but subsequent sessions have been much smoother. The results are pretty much staggering--I've done (I think) my fourth session today, and prior to this it appears that I've lost a good amount of body fat and am seeing increased muscle tone. I didn't have very much body fat (I'd say I'm probably a medium build--not really skinny or fat), but it's surprising to see it go so quickly, especially with only a few 20 minute work outs. I don't have a scale so I haven't weighed myself, so this is by my subjective observations.
I'm intrigued by the coffee experiment--I've actually never drank a cup of coffee in my life (I'm 29, by the way), but I'll probably hold off until my digestion gets a bit more in order. I looked around the local Whole Foods today to see about cream options, in the event I decide to try such an experiment, and all they had was various kinds of heavy cream, not double cream, and the heavy creams definitely felt pretty liquidy when I shook them, so I doubt they've been double centrifuged and I'm not sure that I want to get that close to milk.
I think that's pretty much everything for now :)
, I didn’t see little growing hair yet, and about the weather as Im living in a tropical area it supposed to be rain and dry season but it didn’t applied to this year it have been a mix between those!!! So I don’t know to relate to the season change. 
