Just a quick message for folks who might be on a Keto or Carnivore diet. Today I woke up with a screaming headache over my left temple and a nauseated stomach. I sat in my easy chair and began to remain calm while watching some sports on television. As the day progressed my symptoms never abated and the nausea remained constant. My wife got onto a Carnivore site and read an article about the Carnivore flu. Come to find out, a lowering of carbs in your diet can lead to headaches and upset stomach. Their solution was to increase carb intake. I said, hmmmm, "honey, can you go and get that Key Lime pie from the freezer and cut me off a slice?" She did and within 15 minutes my headache vanished and the nausea disappeared. About a year ago I was on the Keto diet and while shopping at a local hardware store I began experiencing the Keto flu, a overall crappy feeling that comes over you quickly. We headed to Sonic and I had a hamburger and a coke and the symptoms passed.
So, if your are on a Carivore or Keto diet and begin feeling like the precursor of vomiting is fixing to hit, your headache won't go away, and you cannot control your body temp. (hot-cold-hot-cold). Try adding a bit of sugar to get your body some needed carbs it might be yearning for. All it took for me was one thin slice of Key Lime Pie and it worked quickly. Remember that if your are in Ketosis on a Keto diet this might kick you out of Ketosis, but I say it's better to feel better rather than worrying about staying in Ketosis. Heck, you can always pick up the diet tomorrow and the damage from one slice of pie is not going to hurt your weight loss program.
For me, it was either do this or the possiblity of seeing a neurologist and having him try to fix the problem with medication. I'd rather chug down some sugar and have my symptoms go away than chugging mind altering prescription drugs which has the horrible side effects of suicidal thoughts. (been there, done that and it sucked!)
I'm not a doctor, just a regular Joe who has come across a possible solution and thought it might be helpful. If it does, GREAT, if you think it's way out in left field, no hard feeling on my part. Just trying to help folks who might be in the same boat.
God bless and have a great day!
So I’ve been thinking about this diet recently, and I see a lot of people concerned with testosterone levels hoping to raise them, and what I think is kind of ironic is that an important compound found in veggies like broccoli, brussel sprouts, and cauliflower called DIM or diindolylmethane which in men helps regulate estrogen levels to make most of what testosterone you do have, now I have a pretty certain gut feeling that whatever benefit from the high fat carnivore type diets don’t do much of anything to regulate hormones, but I’m not a nutritionist or a doctor so I don’t know, but curious of other people’s thoughts, is DIM a blind spot in the carnivore diet?
A great way to naturally raise your Testosterone level, is by cutting out plants that contain high levels of phytoestrogen, like flax and soy.
That makes sense, from what I’ve been reading the past hour it seems like low carbs+high cholesterol= higher testosterone, but initially I was bugging out at the idea that without regulation estrogen would get imbalanced, I did see some people recommend DIM, as well as Boron so maybe I am on to something 🤷🏼♂️ But I do like to put on my tinfoil hat and approach new things as the devils advocate, would (((they))) trick men into eating an imbalanced diet under the banner of machismo in order to diminish vitality? takes tinfoil hat off Another thing that bugs me is Teeth, look inside a Carnivores mouth(Wolf), a Herbivores mouth(Cow), and an Omnivores mouth(Humans). How can we say that we should be eating only one thing or the other when we are literally made by god to eat both? It is very hard for me to understand the thought process and I only ever have more questions than answers when I study these diets, maybe I’m too skeptical but I’m not sold yet
I look at the Garden of Eden as to how we should eat. God didn't put a plate of food in front of Adam and Eve every single day, He told them you can eat anything in this Garden except one. So that tells me they had to pluck the fruit off the trees, harvest the potatos and toss them into a fire to cook them and even somehow get a deer to munch on....God probably snagged one into a tree so Adam could harvest it. Thus a God diet would be one that NO PROCESSED FOOD is on the dinner plate. If you go and grow your own food then that is the closest we can get to a God diet. Sure, it won't taste the same as a store bought fruit of veggie, but it won't have the chemical spray residue on it nor will it be genetically altered in a laboratory. Our forefathers two hundred years ago didn't have a big box store to shop in, they generally had a garden to grow veggies in and a forest to hunt animals in. They "made" their own food, very God-like. Our overlords want us sick, thus they pack in a lot of carbs into our food to keep us sick, thus going to the doctor to pay high prices for medicines that should "cure" us be we keep on eating the crappy carb cereal. Go figure. All I'm trying to do is cut the cord to processed food and somehow it bit me in the butt yesterday. So I take this as a lesson learned and now I can go on with a healthier lifestyle. This morning I feel great! What a difference a day makes.
First and foremost I’m glad you feel better, those type of headaches are no joke, and I can agree with cutting out processed food, that stuff IS poison! I just had to air out my concern and see if it was even legitimate