Peat, Honey, Chicken Thyroid? Not For Me!

My first attempt at a Peat friendly "Dacian Diet" failed miserably after only a few days. Itching and aching all over, I wonder what could have been so bad? Was it the newly introduced honey? Or the rarely before tried, Peatian chicken neck soup? These were the only novelties in the last couple of days and I feel awful.  And dismayed.

This cannot work. Autoimmunity is killing me. Something in my simple diet is just not right anymore.

I have read a lot lately.

I am afraid this entire Peatian trip has to end completely. At least for now. This is not good for me, no matter how hard I try to slant it in my favor and to tailor it to fit my genes and my condition.

I need to go back to what people call "an autoimmune diet". The harshest of all.

Hello again, old friends I had left behind... "The Scientist Formerly Known as Autoimmune Mom", Mickey Trescott? I am ready to follow your advice now... Dr. Michael Maes, formerly practicing in the Netherlands, currently in Bangkok, cited over and over for your seminal work in curing autoimmunity and leaky gut symptoms? I just might look you up one of these days... My team of Medlife doctors? OK... I will submit to the endoscopies and biopsies and all the tests you want to perform.

Milk, my trusted friend, farewell! Honey, you sounded good in theory, but... Millet, I never even knew what you tasted like, but I read that you were anti-thyroid anyway, so no big loss there -- I am glad my ancestors survived you!

Dr. Peat, your advice did not work out for me... First it was the hormones that I did not react well to. I read your books on the subject and I was less than convinced. I read what others experienced, I read all those studies warning against progesterone supplementation and the spell of your scientific writing fell apart... I kept following your dietary advice, but it became harder and harder to maintain my weight on it.  If at least my antibodies titers had improved, but they actually increased, which probably means that dairy is not good for me. As to other pro-thyroid advice you offer: I never believed in NDT for Hashimoto and it appears that even chicken necks are causing my illness to flare.  Anyway, thank you for the insights, at least you made me interrogate many mainstream views.  You cured my fear of sugar and my over-reliance on veggies, and you reinforced my trust in the almighty broth...

I will find the right diet and the right supplementation.

If I have to travel to the Moon to be myself again and if it takes tube feeding and giving up all foods I ever enjoyed in order to achieve this, I shall do whatever it takes! I sampled the best for so long and I took great pleasure in it all, but if going at it means suffering, I am not interested anymore...  I leave those pleasures to those who can experience them without losing their health -- enjoy, y'all!

Food is a pitiful "enemy" or "temptation" in the big scheme of things...

I will not be poisoned...

So...

What is there left to eat? :)