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I’ve recently learned how important a health gut flora is. I took a course of antibiotics and had a month of severe depression, anxiety, constipation and genera

I’ve recently learned how important a health gut flora is. I took a course of antibiotics and had a month of severe depression, anxiety, constipation and general sense of hopelessness. It was fucking awful. I’ve completely cut out sugar and processed foods and refined carbs. I’m starting to feel genuinely good. That month was the scariest period of my life. The experience has also shown me how ignorant we still are in terms of nutrition and medicine. My surgeon basically gaslit me, and handed me 5 different prescriptions. Hopefully we get to a place where nutrition is taking seriously, and we get proper tools to evaluate our body’s health

tharkun__ 5y ago
Amen! Thanks for sharing! I would like to add that _all_ of my blood markers improved to completely normal levels when doing keto. Except for cholesterol, which improved too (HDL and LDL) but not to "normal" levels. I've been on statins before (up to max dose over ~15 years) and it did nothing except to cause muscle pain as the dose went up, which caused me to stop them, because the heart is a muscle and a serious (if seldom) side effect of statins is to cause muscles (including the heart) to do things they shouldn't. In an arm muscle it's painful. In a heart muscle it's deadly. Same experience with gaslighting from most doctors. Not helpful at all. I figured this all out through experimentation and internet research. What triggered it for me was getting migraines worse than drinking 10 bottles of sweet wine from a 333ml bottle of alcohol free beer. A long research period that also explained a lot of previously just weird experiences. And none of the doctors helped at all. My current GP is awesome though in that regard. She doesn't know much about this stuff either but she's curious. She googled with me, prescribed the blood tests needed etc. Just awesome!

tharkun__ 5y ago

Amen! Thanks for sharing! I would like to add that _all_ of my blood markers improved to completely normal levels when doing keto. Except for cholesterol, which improved too (HDL and LDL) but not to "normal" levels. I've been on statins before (up to max dose over ~15 years) and it did nothing except to cause muscle pain as the dose went up, which caused me to stop them, because the heart is a muscle and a serious (if seldom) side effect of statins is to cause muscles (including the heart) to do things they shouldn't. In an arm muscle it's painful. In a heart muscle it's deadly. Same experience with gaslighting from most doctors. Not helpful at all. I figured this all out through experimentation and internet research. What triggered it for me was getting migraines worse than drinking 10 bottles of sweet wine from a 333ml bottle of alcohol free beer. A long research period that also explained a lot of previously just weird experiences. And none of the doctors helped at all. My current GP is awesome though in that regard. She doesn't know much about this stuff either but she's curious. She googled with me, prescribed the blood tests needed etc. Just awesome!