 *I'm not a doctor, nutritionist, or any kind of medical professional. None of this is medical advice. Always seek advice from your doctor before changing your diet and/or healing routine. I am just a human sharing my experience with this protocol. Welcome back!I've been beaning for 720 days! That's enough beans to fill an olympic size swimming pool! New here? Click below to start at the beginning. As usual, I have a lot to share.Last mitosis, I promised to write about MCAS in this installment. But, then I realized it may be too much so I made it a post of its own. If you have a lot of food sensitivities, weird symptoms, and no protocol seems to help, you may have MCAS. You can read about it here. On to some big news: I'm taking a break from beans.I've been on the bean protocol for almost 2 years now and I've had some amazing improvements. But, those were mostly in the beginning. So many things have gone downhill and keep sinking more and more. So, towards the end of this mitosis, I just stopped eating beans. In the back of my mind I had been wondering if a bean break was the right move. Ultimately, my body told me no more beans for now. I'm not be done with beans forever.I feel like right now, the fiber is not doing my struggling gut any favors. My gut is begging for a break. I'm also starting a healing program with a naturopath. I finally have the funds to test everything. I'm planning on making posts about that process to pick up where the beans have left off. So check for those in the future. I'm thinking they'll be posted every 3 months like I've been doing with the bean posts. I'm excited to work with this new doctor. She explained my blood sugar crashes! You know how stress spikes your cortisol but chronic stress can actually drop your cortisol levels?Well, our bodies need cortisol to act as a cushion to prevent blood sugar crashes. 🤯 So, that's probably why I'm struggling so freaking hard on digestive enzymes. And, why any little bit of sugar leads to a crash. I LOVE when things make sense. So many weird things go on with my body and I've always known there was a reason (or many) as to why, but never made much progress toward those answers. So, to hear something like that gives me hope that I'm not such a dire case after all and that with some small changes, I have a chance at getting better. Anyway, let's move on.
With this mitosis, I found my new favorite thing in the whole wide world.
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 *I'm not a doctor, nutritionist, or any kind of medical professional. None of this is medical advice. "You're so sensitive."If only I had a dollar for every time I've heard that. I've been confused my whole life how other people could:
Everything hurts.And, every year it gets worse. No matter what I try. Nothing helps. In fact, most things seem to make everything worse. And, I've tried A LOT. What the hell is going on? I've been asking myself that question for decades. Yes, decades. I've been sick my whole life. *I'm not a doctor, nutritionist, or any kind of medical professional. None of this is medical advice. Always seek advice from your doctor before changing your diet and/or healing routine. I am just a human sharing my experience with this protocol.
Moral of the story, if you can't poop, consider digestive enzymes. *I'm not a doctor, nutritionist, or any kind of medical professional. None of this is medical advice. Always seek advice from your doctor before changing your diet and/or healing routine. I am just a human sharing my experience with this protocol. Should you be eating your beans with fats?Some us on the Bean Protocol should be combining our beans with fats and others need to time when we eat our fats to be sure it isn't near our beans. But why? And which is right for you? I am NOT an expert but this is my understanding of why some should combine and some shouldn't. If you are lacking in hormones, eat your beans with fats.I have hypothyroidism. I lack thyroid hormones. Since I have this ongoing lack of thyroid hormones, I combine my beans with fats before I consume them. I do this so the beans don't take too many hormones out of my body with each dose. I think of it as a more gentle version of the bean protocol. If you have too many hormones, eat your fats away from your beans.Maybe you have PCOS and too much testosterone. Or hyperthyroidism with too many thyroid hormones. Or simply an overproduction of stress hormones from adrenal fatigue. These are the times to keep those beans away from your fats. That way the beans can collect as many extra hormones as possible and shuffle them out of your system. Some of you, like me, will overproduce certain hormones and under produce others.That's why I am treating the underproducing hormones first by supporting my thyroid with iodized salt and eating my beans with fats. Then, once my thyroid has healed, I'm going to tackle my stress hormone over production by shifting my beans away from fats. So, there it is!I hope that helped some of you understand which method may be best for you. And, if you have information and insights on this, please comment below.
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