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? :)

Positive Anti-Gliadins After Two Years of a Gluten Free Diet & Early Central European *Farmers* mtDNA?

I don't think so! :)

My maternal haplogroup is N1a, very rare for Europe (0.2%). My ancestry is 99.8 European on a standard 23andme estimate, 100 % on a speculative estimate.  One might say I have 50,000 years old mitochondria which were transmitted to me, from mother to daughter from the proverbial European Eve.

Nice! I like to combine that with my O/O Rh- blood type and marvel at my outlandish origins! :)

But scientists also say that, since this is such a rare haplogroup, it helps them determine early migrations. They found it in the ancient LBK pottery culture, among other places, so I keep seeing it associated with the Neolithic farmers who presumably came into Europe and replaced the old Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.

A not uncharacteristic huge leap of my imagination led me to ask:

How come I am gluten sensitive then? Not only mildly sensitive, but after two years of being obsessively gluten-free, my tests still show positive for Anti-Gliadin IgG! So I must be picking up minute quantities of this stuff from cross-contamination and I keep making antibodies!

This makes me think their whole story is wrong, and Dieneke is right when proposing that

"So, it is just as likely that N1a may be indigenous to central Europe and the Neolithic was associated with some of the other 18 sequences that were found in the Linear Pottery sample. Indeed, if N1a turns out to be Paleolithic, then the conclusions of their study will be completely reversed, and the great decrease in frequency of N1a would indicate an almost complete replacement of Paleolithic people by Neolithic farmers."

I think am a true hunter gatherer at heart and cereal eating was never a forte in my lineage -- we merely survived it somehow.

So here I am, being bumped out of the genetic picture by hypothyroidism and autoimmunity, possibly brought about by gluten intolerance. So farmers still kick hunter-gatherer butt and I am an example thereof. Nice job, you morons! :)

Okay, fine, you cereal fed killers! We, noble Scythians who loved our grassfed meat and whatever Mother Earth graciously offered us, shall leave this planet to you! Do your disgusting intensive agriculture and pollute it all you want, we won't be on it anymore to witness the damage!