8th December 2003
Joeh,
NO, please don't think like that. You will NOT end up sterol if you suppress your hormones through diet. That's because you will actually be working on balancing them, and whatever nutrients your body wasn't able to convert, produce, or absorb, will now have a much better opportunity to do so.
I understand that you don't want to drop your current regimen. Trust me I do. I stayed on Avandia for several months after changing my diet. Then I thought it might be causing me some problems (like how the estrogen might be affecting your moods now) and so I stopped it. While SCIENCE and other Former Acne Sufferers TESTIMONIES said that changing your diet to a Hormonal Balancing Diet one would clear you, I was still soo afraid that I was going to breakout. I was in the midst of my Breakout Cycle and .....nothing bad happened. 1 Month past, 2 months past, 3 and so forth until finally more than a year has past. Heck I don't even take Spiro as often as I used to. Maybe I will take it for a whole week, other times not for 2 weeks. It varies. I was never perfect on the spiro once I realized that it didn't have as BIG of an effect as I was hoping. The main reason I still keep it (haven't refilled my prescription yet) is because of the mild hirsutism that I KNOW it has helped. Yet, if I perfect my diet (one of these days) that should be reduced even more so than it already has through changing my diet.
I just don't want you to limit your OPTIONS. I wish I knew how diet could effect our self-esteem, but all I know is that carbohydrates can make people feel more Hyperactive, Depressed, Cloudy, and/or Fatigued. So dropping some of them MAY help improve your mood some. Just like you are thrilled as can be and are shouting your Remedy all over the board, that's how happy I am. It feels even better to know that it wasnt' because of medication. Prior to me going off of the Avandia, since I wasn't certain about my diet, I was soo hesitant about wanting to bring children into this world with my genes. Now, I still don't want to put my body through that for all the kids I want to have (probably adopt some), but now I'm so confident in KNOWING that I can handle the whole psychotic pregnancy as well as being able to provide the knowledge, etc neccessary to help my future kids overcome (prevent) any such hormonal problems from happening to them. It feel soooo amazing.
It's the FREEDOM that I get from knowing that I'm not tied down by any medication or supplement. That's good to know because what if one day you cant afford them or the supplements become overRegulated by the govt. and what was once affordable is now beyond what you could afford. I suppose the same fear exists when you think of the foods we eat, in terms of GMO foods and Pollution, but what I do know is more and more governement officials, doctors, scientists, and even resturants are recognizing the EFFECTIVENESS of a Low Carbohydrate Diet! I don't ever see this as something dying or as some sort of fad, because there are way too many books and way too many Low Carb Diets, for their not to be some truth (and there is) to these diets. The problem is what is the RIGHT low Carb diet. There are some bad ones out there and there are some VERY good ones.
So now I'm starting to look at other aspects of nutrient deffiency to see why my hair doesn't like to grow or stick around very long (on my head). I started developing dandruff 2 years ago and I've ALWAYS had dry hair. Of course doing some research last night it started to make sense. While I have the whole hormonal DHT reason for the problem, its' also because I'm EFA defficient. I've always had Dry skin, with the exception of my face (used to be very oily) and upper body. Then last night while I was deep conditioning my hair I started to think about the things that my body responds to best, that's usually natural products. It's usually products that naturally contain EFAs like Shea butter, Olive Oil, Safflower Oil, Jojoba Oil etc. These were things that absorb into my hair and skin and made them both very happy.
So upon doing research, I found out that through the introduction of Partially Hydrogenated or Hydrogenated oils/Transfatty Acids in the 1940s, not only increased Insulin Resistance (these altered/Abnormal fats--alter proteins--alter insulin--cells don't recognize this Abnormal Insulin--increases productiong of More Insulin--increases production of more MALE hormones, etc) and other diseases that are a result (coronary heart disease, obesity, non-insulin dependent diabetes, TypeII) but they also PREVENT conversion of Omega 3 (most people are defficient in this one) and Omega 6 oils in the body by denaturing the enzymes neccessary for conversion, thus INCREASING one's fatty acid deficiency. That's a good example of how Foods, or the Wrong foods (usually altered) can become ENZYME INHIBITORS and consquently increase your nutrient defficiencies and hormonal imbalance. These Bad oils I've decreased consumption of, but I haven't made it my goal to eliminate 100% because its HARDER to eliminate these (and still eat ready made food) than it was to Eliminate Wheat/Gluten (that's in 90% of ready-made foods). Again, I've known the answers, but I didn't fully understand the right way of accomplishing my goal (thank you Sunfell). So now that's something I need to work on ;-)
Hey Sunfell, do you know of any good EFAs supplements. I would take these things religiously but I have trouble swallowing the large capsules. Know of any brands with smaller capsules or a good tasting liquid brand?
Thanks
P.S., Some FYIs:
[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7910281&dopt=Abstract[/url]
[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8001841&dopt=Abstract[/url]
but the Scientific studies are still rather up and down on this issue. Are Partially Hydrogenated Oils safer than Hydrogenated? Would it also depend on the kind of oil that's been altered? Not to mention wether or not these oils contain pesticides. Until they figure it out, I guess avoiding as much as possible and seeing what happens is one's best bet.
NO, please don't think like that. You will NOT end up sterol if you suppress your hormones through diet. That's because you will actually be working on balancing them, and whatever nutrients your body wasn't able to convert, produce, or absorb, will now have a much better opportunity to do so.
I understand that you don't want to drop your current regimen. Trust me I do. I stayed on Avandia for several months after changing my diet. Then I thought it might be causing me some problems (like how the estrogen might be affecting your moods now) and so I stopped it. While SCIENCE and other Former Acne Sufferers TESTIMONIES said that changing your diet to a Hormonal Balancing Diet one would clear you, I was still soo afraid that I was going to breakout. I was in the midst of my Breakout Cycle and .....nothing bad happened. 1 Month past, 2 months past, 3 and so forth until finally more than a year has past. Heck I don't even take Spiro as often as I used to. Maybe I will take it for a whole week, other times not for 2 weeks. It varies. I was never perfect on the spiro once I realized that it didn't have as BIG of an effect as I was hoping. The main reason I still keep it (haven't refilled my prescription yet) is because of the mild hirsutism that I KNOW it has helped. Yet, if I perfect my diet (one of these days) that should be reduced even more so than it already has through changing my diet.
I just don't want you to limit your OPTIONS. I wish I knew how diet could effect our self-esteem, but all I know is that carbohydrates can make people feel more Hyperactive, Depressed, Cloudy, and/or Fatigued. So dropping some of them MAY help improve your mood some. Just like you are thrilled as can be and are shouting your Remedy all over the board, that's how happy I am. It feels even better to know that it wasnt' because of medication. Prior to me going off of the Avandia, since I wasn't certain about my diet, I was soo hesitant about wanting to bring children into this world with my genes. Now, I still don't want to put my body through that for all the kids I want to have (probably adopt some), but now I'm so confident in KNOWING that I can handle the whole psychotic pregnancy as well as being able to provide the knowledge, etc neccessary to help my future kids overcome (prevent) any such hormonal problems from happening to them. It feel soooo amazing.
It's the FREEDOM that I get from knowing that I'm not tied down by any medication or supplement. That's good to know because what if one day you cant afford them or the supplements become overRegulated by the govt. and what was once affordable is now beyond what you could afford. I suppose the same fear exists when you think of the foods we eat, in terms of GMO foods and Pollution, but what I do know is more and more governement officials, doctors, scientists, and even resturants are recognizing the EFFECTIVENESS of a Low Carbohydrate Diet! I don't ever see this as something dying or as some sort of fad, because there are way too many books and way too many Low Carb Diets, for their not to be some truth (and there is) to these diets. The problem is what is the RIGHT low Carb diet. There are some bad ones out there and there are some VERY good ones.
So now I'm starting to look at other aspects of nutrient deffiency to see why my hair doesn't like to grow or stick around very long (on my head). I started developing dandruff 2 years ago and I've ALWAYS had dry hair. Of course doing some research last night it started to make sense. While I have the whole hormonal DHT reason for the problem, its' also because I'm EFA defficient. I've always had Dry skin, with the exception of my face (used to be very oily) and upper body. Then last night while I was deep conditioning my hair I started to think about the things that my body responds to best, that's usually natural products. It's usually products that naturally contain EFAs like Shea butter, Olive Oil, Safflower Oil, Jojoba Oil etc. These were things that absorb into my hair and skin and made them both very happy.
So upon doing research, I found out that through the introduction of Partially Hydrogenated or Hydrogenated oils/Transfatty Acids in the 1940s, not only increased Insulin Resistance (these altered/Abnormal fats--alter proteins--alter insulin--cells don't recognize this Abnormal Insulin--increases productiong of More Insulin--increases production of more MALE hormones, etc) and other diseases that are a result (coronary heart disease, obesity, non-insulin dependent diabetes, TypeII) but they also PREVENT conversion of Omega 3 (most people are defficient in this one) and Omega 6 oils in the body by denaturing the enzymes neccessary for conversion, thus INCREASING one's fatty acid deficiency. That's a good example of how Foods, or the Wrong foods (usually altered) can become ENZYME INHIBITORS and consquently increase your nutrient defficiencies and hormonal imbalance. These Bad oils I've decreased consumption of, but I haven't made it my goal to eliminate 100% because its HARDER to eliminate these (and still eat ready made food) than it was to Eliminate Wheat/Gluten (that's in 90% of ready-made foods). Again, I've known the answers, but I didn't fully understand the right way of accomplishing my goal (thank you Sunfell). So now that's something I need to work on ;-)
Hey Sunfell, do you know of any good EFAs supplements. I would take these things religiously but I have trouble swallowing the large capsules. Know of any brands with smaller capsules or a good tasting liquid brand?
Thanks
P.S., Some FYIs:
[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7910281&dopt=Abstract[/url]
[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8001841&dopt=Abstract[/url]
but the Scientific studies are still rather up and down on this issue. Are Partially Hydrogenated Oils safer than Hydrogenated? Would it also depend on the kind of oil that's been altered? Not to mention wether or not these oils contain pesticides. Until they figure it out, I guess avoiding as much as possible and seeing what happens is one's best bet.