Leptin Reset Experiment starts today - Jack Kruse style page 2095

[LSSeeker]

AmieSue, I think our working principle here (until DrK tells us otherwise) is that if you're doing the LR or CT, you need CO. Because CO is for people with neolithic disease, and who does CT or LR if you don't have neolithic disease? (Ok, some people who have already reached optimal might continue CT in the winter.)

Once we're there, we stop the year-round winter (CT + ketogenic diet) and we stop the year-round CO.

I was thinking we always want to be cold adapted, so even after LS and free of neolithic disease, we maintain our cold adaptedness (by CT a couple times a week) while eating seasonally (non ketogenic in summer and according to post leptin reset).

[kkcarlton]

Thanks Colleen. I think I may just make an appt with a low carb endocrinologist I've been looking at. He may be more apt to help me out with adjusting my Armour and also with some BHRT too. If he doesnt work out, I am heading up to Cleveland.

KK-
I think my cortisol is low in the am, but to tell you something....the Leptin Rx has helped raise those numbers. I wish I had tested back 2 months ago when I started this. Now, I am at least feeling like moving more in the AM whereas before I began the Rx, I crawled out of bed wishing I could crawl back into it an hour later. So I know just by feeling, that cortisol has improved. I assume it has been helping my adrenals, and will continue to help them.

I meant to ask you how you feel in the morning. That's great that you have improved and I bet it will continue with LR and CT.

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I don't see the big deal in entering SIX letters before submitting a post. Seriously - there are worse things in life!

[matey]

I've been reading about cold baths... which gives me goosebumps just thinking about them. Am I right that the idea behind them is to increase metabolism? If so won't turning down the thermostat at home do the same thing?

[L8F]

I've been reading about cold baths... which gives me goosebumps just thinking about them. Am I right that the idea behind them is to increase metabolism? If so won't turning down the thermostat at home do the same thing?

You probably need to go back and read Dr K's blogs on the cold, and probably the Leptin Rx ones too. It is a whole lot more than burning more calories cause you are cold thing. Water works way faster than cold air, but cold air is good too. Lots of great info in the blogs, step by step directions as well as explanations.

[DigitalSurgeon]

how about a more thread-like comment section on your blog.... would be easier to find answers corresponding to questions, too

Yes its coming. I think the time has come. I think it will be behind a firewall because I cant practice medicine on the internet.

[L8F]

Yes its coming. I think the time has come. I think it will be behind a firewall because I cant practice medicine on the internet.

+one billion

[waywardsister]

When I read about the slow weight loss, I immediately thought "thyroid!" Your TPO antibodies are significant, despite what the lab says (they're going to be lower because you don't eat gluten) and the fact that you are also Celiac tells me that it's highly likely that your immune system is attacking your thyroid and that Hashimoto's is at work here. The two tend to go hand-in-hand.

I highly recommend looking into immune modulation for the Hashimoto's. There are some really great practitioners here (and this is a great book!): Contact Info for Dr. Kharrazian

Hmm. I've suspected a thyroid issue, which is why I ordered those tests back in June. Looks like they only tested TPO and not TbAB. I know very little about thyroid stuff. I've been having gut issues on and off as well, for seemingly no reason, so maybe this is why? Know of a lab that tests both (and who'll let me order from Canada?)

I'll see what I can find around here (Toronto) as far as a practitioner goes - thinking I'll have to find a naturopath, just bc they tend to be more tuned in to this sort of stuff than regular docs. Really appreciate your response. Many of the symptoms of Hashi's are similar to symptoms I had before I got off the gluten, and who knows if they are just gluten-related or if they were from gluten + thyroid attack (not surprising, if so). The depression was a HUGE one - that was my biggest relief when I went gluten-free, that my depression went away (constant low-level, which I wasn't even aware of, and then bouts of what I called my black moods).

[waywardsister]

Not so good there, definitely estrogen dominance and low everything overall.

Low fT3 (ignore the docs saying it's fine), possible Hashimoto's (from what they're telling me).

Another brilliant (useless) analysis by MamaGrok, that'll be $95!

Do you take payment in coconut products?

Thank you for that. Hashi's would not be a surprise to me at all, nor would some hormonal stuff. What's tricky is that I'm really in tune with my body, and I can tell when something is 'off', but it's super subtle so I wonder if I'm imagining it (hence the test, which confused me). I found out I was celiac at 30, so 30 years of eating gluten (and a lot of it) it's no surprise that other issues are floating around.

Off to read more about estrogen dominance and Hashi's. I have a good friend with Hashi's, she'll be thrilled!
I may finally be able to force her to actually pay attention to the fact that she has an AI disease, she really doesn't think about it much or treat it.

I'm really happy though to have (at least) online communities where people are proactive about their health. IRL, not so much! I can see repercussions of gluten intolerance throughout my family, mainly on my paternal side, but the only person who went g-free after my dx was my sister. Now I have a young Aunt with vascular dementia and a myriad of other health problems, a cousin with MS... the list goes on. I ain't goin' down like that.

[Mud Flinger]

I know! I'm a little overwhelmed when I think about it. The injury to my back wasn't acute; I didn't even know I had DDD. The left side of my body went numb, then my leg; I lost strength, suffered terrible migraines. I suffered phantom hip pain for years. I couldn't take care of the garden anymore; couldn't even push a supermarket trolly around a corner.

And just now, encouraged by this progress, I tested out a kettlebell. I've been so afraid of trying, because lifting any weight would always send little electric shocks down my leg, soon followed by a migraine.

And I did it! And IT DIDN'T HURT!!! It's only an 8Kg kettlebell, but I couldn't use a 4Kg just a few months ago.

Dr Kruse, thankyou. I'm gonna be strong again!! Woohooo.

This is just so amazing for you - I tear up thinking about how you must feel! To have your life back again after such an event is awesome!

[Groketteliveson]

I've seen mention of bitter melon several times now on Dr. K's blog. If I remember right (which I probably don't!) I think he said it helped him get through the CT easier. How exactly does that happen? Does one take this in supplement form? Anyone tried it?

Ive been using it. Mine comes in liquid form and I drop about 40 drops into a glass of ice cold water. I can't really describe what it tastes like( nothing really) but its not distasteful.