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!
But would you disagree with the idea that not getting a source of something to regulate or keep in check estrogen levels could lead to them surpassing the testosterone, and no matter the amount of testosterone if the ratio is skewed and there’s more free estrogen than testosterone it could develop into a soy boy hormone imbalance? I’ve considered the carnivore diet, actually did the paleo diet a long time ago but I guess I’m just really curious how that all would work, and as I search I find conflicting information from nutritional/fitness websites saying it raises T, and personal testimonies that their T has decreased on the diet, granted those posts I found were from reddit and there’s probably an argument to be made they had low T anyways LOL, just seeing what people think as far as keeping the other important hormone in check
Also I understand this is mostly irrelevant to your post so sorry for being somewhat off topic
I did find a few videos discussing the topic if anyone is interested, it seems it is something to keep an eye on, but it doesn’t appear to be as bad as I was thinking. If anyone is interested here are the two short videos I found.
https://youtu.be/ICMzWMhRpuE?si=OnettdAD3w2OV4G0
https://youtu.be/CN2A1t6ieUs?si=h9pdRx-CVzdOme9E