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This is what I had the whole time and now I'm free of these hypoglycemic-like symptoms in just days of going on a week-long juice fast, then a diet of more vegetables and less animal protein (but not vegetarian)!
From Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book "Eat to Live" (pg 164-167):
Headaches, Hypoglycemia, and Hunger
"It's almost incredible to believe, but almost all patients with headaches and hypoglycemia get well permanently following the formula for health in this book. I believe it has very much to do with detoxification.
The body can heal itself when the obstacles to healing or stressors are removed. The reason people can't ever make complete recoveries is that they are addicted to their bad habits and unhealthful ways of eating and drinking.
Imagine if you were drinking ten cups of coffee daily. If you stopped drinking coffee, you would feel ill; you might get headaches, feel weak, even get the shakes. Fortunately, this would resolve slowly over four to six days, and then you would be well.
So, if you were this heavy coffee drinker, when do you think you would feel the worst? Right after eating, upon waking up in the morning, or when delaying or skipping a meal?
You are correct if you answered either upon first waking up or when delaying or skipping a meal. The body goes through withdrawal, or detoxification, most effectively when it is not busy digesting food. A heavy meal will stop the ill feelings, or you'll feel better if you just take another cup of coffee, but the cycle of feeling ill will start all over again the minute the caffeine level drops or the glucose level in the blood starts to go down.
Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill — the same as during drug withdrawal.
In medical school my classmates and I learned from a researcher that animal protein places a detoxification stress on the liver and that the nitrogenous wastes generated are toxic. These metabolic toxins (about fourteen of them) rise in the bloodstream and accompany the rise in uric acid after a meal rich in animal protein. Withdrawal from these toxins can cause uncomfortable symptoms in susceptible individuals, symptoms that many call hypoglycemia.
Most Americans are protein-toxic. Like the patient with cirrhosis (but less so), they are toxic because their body detoxification system struggles under the excessive nitrogen load in addition to all the salt, caffeine, sweets, trans fats, and other noxious chemicals we consume.
Many people come into my office with a diagnosis of hypoglycemia, meaning they feel ill when they delay eating. They are often told to eat a diet with frequent feedings of high-protein food. I insist that this diet is the precise cause of the condition, not the remedy; it is no more a remedy than putting them on a cup of coffee every hour. Sure, they will feel better temporarily, but if they want to make a complete and lasting recovery, they must unscramble their thinking. They must put up with about one week of not feeling so great, but then they can be set free from their discomfort and their addiction to bad habits and a toxic diet."
From his website:
Eating low nutrient foods fuels overeating behavior
"Last, but not least, Dr. Fuhrman's unique contribution to the Science of nutritional care, disease reversal and weight loss is his explanation of the physiology behind hunger and food cravings.
It is important to recognize that low nutrient eating (and toxic eating) leads to increased cellular toxicity with undesirable levels of free radicals and advanced glycation end products (AGE's), lipofuscin, lipid A2E and other toxins that contribute to the development of chronic disease. His findings are that these toxic substances lead to addictive withdrawal symptoms (toxic hunger) which result in the desire to eat more frequently and overeat. Low nutrient eating, therefore, establishes a mechanism that leads to food addictions and food cravings that can't be ignored. This is the reason why calorie counting diets fail. Without addressing dietary quality, excess food cravings are almost impossible to ignore.
Fortunately the drive to over-consume calories is blunted by high micronutrient, high food antioxidant, consumption and the symptoms that people thought were hypoglycemia or even hunger, simply disappear after following his dietary recommendations. Not only do people lose the symptoms of fatigue, headaches, irritability and stomach cramping, but they get back in touch with true hunger felt in the throat, which simply makes eating more pleasurable and directs them to a more appropriate amount of calories for their body's biological needs."
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/are-you-a-nutritarian.aspx
“TOXIC HUNGER” THE MAIN CAUSE OF OBESITY
by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
"Instead of true hunger, people get detoxification or withdrawal symptoms that they mistakenly consider hunger. They feel shaky, head-achy, weak, fatigue, get abdominal cramps or spasms and other symptoms which they consider manifestations of hunger symptoms because they are relieved by eating. I call this “toxic hunger.” Toxic hunger is the symptoms a person experiences that are due to toxic wastes being mobilized for elimination. It occurs after a meal is digested and the digestive track is empty, and it could make us feel very uncomfortable.
Generally, we eat to get rid of these withdrawal symptoms and it works. In fact, this is one of the most important contributors to our population’s overweight condition. We eat the wrong foods and just a few hours later we feel ill, stressed out, shaky, weak, mentally dull, and we are driven to eat again to relieve the discomfort. Did you ever hear someone saying they needed to eat because they feel so shaky? The question is, are these symptoms “true hunger,” “hypoglycemia” or something else? I claim that these symptoms occur simultaneous to our blood Sugar decreasing but they are not caused by “hypoglycemia.” Rather, they result from sensitivity to mobilization of waste products which is enhanced when most active digestion is finished."
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This is a reply to # 1,973,701This article makes some interesting points however... I am not sure the "cure" is exactly what CFS/Adrenal Fatigue patients need. I am UNDERweight. I've lost 20lbs since I first became sick. I've done several fasts and stayed on the candida/paleo diet for years. Luckily in the past few months I've been able to get my weight back up about 5lbs. But I must eat AT LEAST 6 meals a day to maintain 110lbs. I am not clinically "hypoglycemic" but I have all the symptoms - headaches, dizziness, hot flashes, feeling like I am going to pass out.
I definitely think Toxic Hunger exists for a lot of people but from what I understand about Nutritional Balancing... I am a slow oxidizer, my body is creating energy slower than I can consume it.
Maybe its both... maybe my body is taking on another layer of toxins and I restrain the healing instead by making my body digest food. But for many of us who have nutritional imbalances, the juice fasts and diets just further deplete our levels.
Thanks for the article - I always want to try and understand different theories about the problem!
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This is a reply to # 1,973,713If you have the hypoglycemic-like symptoms, you seem to have toxic hunger. I got a glucose monitor that confirmed my blood Sugar was fine and that I didn't have hypoG.
All I did was go on a week-long low-sugar vegetable juice fast (low on sugary carrots and beets, a little lemon juice added, lots of cabbage, kale, mustard greens and the like) and my hypoglycemic-like symptoms went away after the first day of juicing. When starting to eat solid food again, it's basically 70% vegetables, 10% fish, rest fruit and rice.
I feel my liver and kidneys still need to heal from all the years of heavy meat eating -- thinking and being told I had hypoglycemia and lots of protein is what I needed to eat -- but other than that, I have no more of those hypoglycemic-like symptoms and I'm slowly reintroducing other foods with no problems.
Confirm with your practitioner, but I wouldn't worry too much that your losing weight. You need to "reboot" yourself by getting rid of all the toxins that have accumulated in your body, then rebuild yourself back up. That's what I'm doing and I'm feeling stronger everyday!
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This is a reply to # 1,973,701"then a diet of more vegetables and less animal protein (but not vegetarian)!"
This is the exact same diet that Dr. Larry Wilson suggests with the NB. I had been eating a paleo diet for almost 4 years and still getting the hypoglycemic reactions. When I gave up the fruit and started the NB supplements the hypoglycemia finally went away. I was very low in chromium.
I fill my plate with about 20 grms of protein and then the remainder is cooked vegetables and salad in the summer.
I have reintroduced some in season fruit as a treat and have been able to handle it.- Re: Your Hypoglycemia may not be Hyp... Marie64
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This is a reply to # 1,973,790Hi Nataway,
I think that is great news that you are able to juice and for 7 days. How did you feel while juicing, any detox re actions?
I am finally able to juice once again, I am up to 24 oz daily.
14 months ago I could not juice even a few ounces I would become more ill feeling. I think people need to get their adrenals stronger to handle juicing, NB helped me out greatly in those 14 months.
Marie
Ps. I message you to find out more info on this 7 day juicing, I may want to try it. Thanks
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This is a reply to # 1,973,797Luckily I didn't have any bad reactions to the veggie juice fast at all! Only mild discomforts as to be expected.
What relieved a lot of anxiety was monitoring my blood Sugar with a glucose meter to see my Sugar levels were fine the whole time and any discomfort feeling was just detox reactions and not low blood sugar. That was actually real empowering for me that made me able to mentally take on any detox reactions with greater ease because I knew it was just temporary detox symptoms and not some potential severe health problem.
Using FasterEFT helped a lot with the cravings I got during the juice fast. That might have been the most useful!
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This is a reply to # 1,973,790Fruit hasn't been a problem at all ever since finishing my veggie juice fast.
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This is a reply to # 1,973,701Is fasting recommended to "reboot" our system? Is this book referring to reactive hypoglycemia or another type of hypoglycemia?
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This is a reply to # 1,974,270I'm just totally confused now as to how much protein I should be eating. With my recovery I've started light workouts. So, if I'm not eating animal protein I need to replace it with something...no idea what.
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This is a reply to # 1,974,288I tried to be clear in my initial post that I didn't go vegetarian after my temporary veggie juice fast to get out of toxic hunger. My meals since have been about 10% protein and I'll be slowly increasing that amount to a max of about 30% of my meals when I feel my liver and kidneys have detoxified enough.
I've heard from various diet experts that don't make your meals more than 30% protein, so that why I'm choosing that percentage. Of course I'll be trying to do a better job at listening to my body.
Are you having any of these toxic hunger symptoms, or just worried about the future?
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This is a reply to # 1,974,270Reactive hypoglycemia and the Doctor says that the usual high-animal protein diet recommended for this kind of HypoG is exactly what is causing these hypoglycemic-like symptoms in some people (i.e. "toxic hunger") and that's exactly what was happening to me. I was misdiagnosed this whole time. I was eating so much meat because that's the only thing that seemed to provide any relief to my symptoms.
You don't have to juice fast to cure this toxic hunger. It's just what I did, partly because that Join the Reboot/Sick, Tired, and Nearly Dead documentary has been out promoting juicing to reboot your system. It worked really fast and good for me, so personally I'd recommend a veggie juice fast to get out of toxic hunger.
It only took me a couple of days juicing to get out of toxic hunger. I juiced for longer just to try to detox my organs.- Re: Your Hypoglycemia may not be Hyp... lalobear
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This is a reply to # 1,974,320Natway,
This is all very interesting but when I developed hypoglycemia I was on almost 95% vegeterian diet for about 2 years and prior to that I ate very little meat all my life.
Now I eat meat everyday because otherwise I feel awful. So how do I know what kind of hypo I have and how to fix it?- Re: Your Hypoglycemia may not be Hyp... natway
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This is a reply to # 1,974,360Are you still feeling awful everyday, or only when you go long time without eating, as most people would?
To check if you're hypoglycemic, get a glucose meter (Target brand is the cheapest and works good) and check your blood about 2 hours after eating, or especially when you feel awful. These should be your numbers:
Under 70 mg/dl is considered low/hypo.
Between 90-110 mg/dl is considered healthy range.
Over 130 mg/dl is considered high/hyper.
If you're feeling awful and you numbers are over 70, you're most likely not hypoglycemic and if they are not sky high (diabetic), you probably have toxic hunger.
When I went on my veggie juice fast, my glucose was always normal, so I knew I had toxic hunger and not hypoglycemia.
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This is a reply to # 1,974,511Natway,
I feel awful only when i wait too long too eat. I need to eat every 2-3 hours or i feel weak, tired, faintish, anxiety.
I have tested my glucose before during these times and it has been in the 6 to 6.5 range...I don't know what that would translate to on your meter. The way we read our meter up here in Canada that number is considered normal.
Does that mean it's toxic hunger?
I will do some more readings and get a better picture.- Re: Your Hypoglycemia may not be Hyp... natway
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This is a reply to # 1,974,609Ah you Canucks, always doing things a little differently up there! Just kidding. ;)
"Normal blood Sugar levels for Canada are 4 to 7mmol/l."
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5618593_normal-blood_sugar-level-nondiabetic.html
Yep, looks like you have Toxic Hunger instead of hypoglycemia, just like I had. Your glucose levels are perfect, as mine were this whole time.
Do yourself a favor, go out and get a juicer and start doing a veggie juice fast like I did and you'll be cured of it in no time! Then eat a diet higher in vegetables and raw food and lower in animal protein and processed foods and you should be fine.
Monitor your blood Sugar throughout the veggie juice fast to make sure and, maybe more importantly, to reduce your anxiety about undertaking a new diet path that prior you would think would be the total antithesis of what you needed and would send you to the emergency room!
You might have to detox your liver and kidneys for a while from all the years we were eating a diet that was slowly poisoning us even though that's what we were told to eat to improve our condition. :(- Re: Your Hypoglycemia may not be Hyp... lalobear
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This is a reply to # 1,974,650Natway,
I like your Canuck comment lol.
That is so scary for me to try....going on a juice fast! How long would I do this and could I eat anything else at all? How much juice would I consume in one day?
I used to juice everyday until I developed Adrenal fatigue and then I just couldn't tolerate it anymore. Maybe it's because what I was juicing had too much potassium and I should have added a little salt to balance it out.
My guess is that you don't have adrenal fatigue right?
Have you ever done a hair analysis? Mine showed that I have so many things off balance. Apparently that explains the hypoglycemia but now the problem is of course to get things back in balance.....which is where the supplements and diet come in.
It seems to take time but many have fixed their hypo this way.
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This is a reply to # 1,974,663Yeah, the anxiety was the worst part for me too! That's why having a glucose monitor was essential for me to even think of trying it. I think I was monitoring my Sugar every hour for the first part of the day!
I only did my veggie juice fast for a week, but fortunately, my hypoglycemic-like symptoms (toxic hunger) went away after only the first couple of days. It was really easy for me. Almost kicking myself how easy it was! Not going to say it will be the same for others though.
I had meat cooked and ready in case my juice fast sent me in a low blood Sugar dive. Suffice to say, all that meat I prepared just in case went to feeding my dog for the next couple of days! I haven't had meat since doing this, except a little fish, and that was almost a month ago now. Never thought I'd be able to do that.
You don't have to do a juice fast. You can temporarily go on a vegetarian diet of mostly raw foods to detox yourself out of toxic hunger. I just think a veggie juice fast would be the quickest way. You could juice along with that temporary diet too.
The amount of veggie juice I drank was about 32-40 oz a day, sipping it throughout. I juiced a lot of cabbage and greens, like kale, and went easy of the carrots and beets to not make it too sugary. A little lemon juice was the only fruit juice I added. Helped kill the bad taste of all the green vegetables!
I do have AF from all the lack of sleep caused by my condition. I'm still trying to come out of it, but gave me no trouble during my change of diet. I did have a blood analysis and like you, everything in me was off. No supplements ever helped me though, most likely because I was always eating that poisonous high-animal protein diet I thought, felt, and was told I had to eat or else I'd die. Little did I (and all my doctors) know that diet was slowly killing me.
Let me make it clear I'm not advocating or becoming a vegetarian. I'm just detoxing myself for a while from eating too much meat (and other bad stuff) for so long before slowly adding meat back into my diet. It's just like sodium, eating too much, or too little will eventually cause health problems. You got to find the balance.- Re: Your Hypoglycemia may not be Hyp... lalobear
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This is a reply to # 1,974,702natway,
I like that you're not some extremist trying to force
'no meat' down everyones throat. This is a very interesting theory .....I would love it if it could solve my problem.
I am going to look at it and maybe try it once i have everything in place like you said...have some meat cooked and ready in case of a crash.
Did you lose major weight when doing the juicing? I am already underweight and can't afford to lose more, that's another obstacle.
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This is a reply to # 1,974,725I've lost a lot of weight, but I juiced fasted for a week, ate a diet of mostly raw salad for the next week, then went on another juice fast for almost another week, before starting to eat cooked food again. I wanted to totally detoxify, so losing a lot of my body fat was going to be a side effect I'm willing to put up with for the short term until I can build myself back up. Lots of toxins are stored in your body fat and I'd rather be temporarily skinny any day of the week then go through one more day of those horrible hypoglycemic-like symptoms now known as toxic hunger!
You don't have to juice fast for as long as I did if you're worried about losing weight. You might only need to juice fast for a few days until your toxic hunger symptoms go away, then maybe go mostly raw and mostly vegetarian diet for a week or so before introducing meat back in. I'd start with fish first since it's easier for your body to digest than other meats.
My symptoms were gone after the first two days of juice fasting and have never came back.- Re: Your Hypoglycemia may not be Hyp... jurplesman
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I do not agree with the original writer that hypoglycemia is toxic hunger, in the sense that hypoglycemic symptoms follows upon he absorption of toxic substances. Perhaps it is rather exactly the other way around mainly that being hypoglycemic you do not absorb sufficient anti-oxidants and hence you may become toxic. This may be a case of confusing symptoms with causes.
I have treated too many people with hypoglycemia, to go down to that path. I think it is more a case of not truly understanding the consequences of hypoglycemia, a separate disease from diabetes, but its forerunner and one that is not as yet recognized by conventional medicine. Marilyn Light. It cannot be treated by drugs and that's why it may not be recognized for commercial reasons.
Hypoglycemia is really pre-diabtic insulin resistance, marked by unstable blood sugar levels that can cause the over-secretion of stress hormones - such as adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones help to rebalance blood sugar levels to the brain. Being stress hormones they give us a delusion of being stressed without an external cause.
The hypoglycemic diet, which is really a Palaeolithic diet - the kind of diet to which our body has adapted over millions of years - is a high protein/low carbohydrate diet. This diet is the first step in the treatment of many forms of mood disorders and one that is subsequently adjusted to the individual needs of the patient.
If hypoglycemia is a delusion of toxic stress hunger, too many of my recovered clients would be in fact delusional.- Re: Your Hypoglycemia may not be Hyp... natway
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This is a reply to # 1,976,783You are misinterpreting. This if for people who think they have hypoglycemia, but really have Toxic Hunger instead. It's not for people who actually have hypoglycemia (confirmed with a simple glucose meter) in which they most likely need to increase their intake and quality of animal protein.
If what you have is actually Toxic Hunger (which is what I had the whole time), eating a diet higher in meat is what's causing this Toxic Hunger feeling which symptoms mimic hypoglycemia, except that your blood Sugar levels aren't going low.
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This is a reply to # 1,973,701I should have mentioned this in my original post for those wondering if they have hypoglycemia or Toxic Hunger.
Get a simple home blood glucose meter from the drug store to monitor your blood Sugar to confirm if you have hypoglycemia, or not.
Here's a list of different ways to check your blood glucose levels. With a home blood glucose meter, I recommend you check your glucose levels all these three ways*:
1) Fasting blood Sugar (FBS) -- basically first thing in the morning after not eating or drinking for at least 8 hours
2) 2-hour postprandial blood Sugar -- basically 2 hours after eating or drinking
3) Random blood sugar (RBS) -- checking anytime you wish.
(*I trust these three methods more than doing a doctor initiated Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (doing an 8-12 hr fast, then getting a series of blood glucose measurements taken after you drink a sweet liquid that contains glucose), because a lot of practitioners question the accuracy of that kind of test because the test is done different depending how the doctor does it and it's an absolutely horrible test to have to do.)
GLUCOSE LEVELS (depending where you read)
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Blood glucose should basically be between: 70 and 140 mg/dL
Healthy levels are between: 90 - 120 mg/dl
Healthy fasting levels are between: 70 and 100 mg/dL
Below 70 mg/dL is considered "low."
Serious low levels are: 40 mg/dl for women, 50 mg/dl for men
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If using the glucose meter confirms you don't have hypoglycemia, Toxic Hunger should be your first suspect as to what is causing your hypoglycemic-like symptoms. - Reactive Hypoglycemia is also a symp... natway
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This is a reply to # 1,973,701I forgot to include this part in my OP that talks about the Toxic Hunger symptom of reactive hypoglycemia...
Eat to Live (pg 166)
"The word hypoglycemia means "low glucose in the bloodstream." It gives people the impression that the low glucose level itself is the cause of the problem.
Certain uncommon medical conditions (such as insulin-secreting tumors), excessive diabetic medication, and other rare illnesses can cause hypoglycemia and even hypoglycemic coma, but I am referring to those people with reactive hypoglycemia. They feel ill when they delay eating, but they do not have a serious medical condition, nor do their blood sugars drop dangerously low. Most people carrying this diagnosis do not have fasting glucose below 50; when their blood is drawn when they delay eating and feel extremely ill, the blood Sugar is usually not low enough to account for their feeling so ill. There seems to be no correlation between the severity of the symptoms and their low glucose levels, but they feel uncomfortable if they try to stop treating themselves with high-protein diets.
It is a massive over simplification to think that a lower level of glucose in the blood is the sole cause of this problem. I find that the people with the most troublesome symptoms do not even have low glucose levels."
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i am a traditional naturoopath, in practice for 30 years. i learned simple basic naturopathic principles to begin with and thats what i teach.
for people who feel ill if they don't eat: classical naturopathy calls it a detox reaction-- the body gets a chance to do housekeeping when it doesn't have to digest-digest-digest as usual and you get those headaches, nausea, etc.
the answer is to cleanse, and i'm not talking go out and buy something expensive and hyped-up in a box. go slow and take some time-- have raw vegan days, have some raw juices days, lots of salad, learn food combining, use flaxseed as a colon aid, learn about colon cleansing.
there are many simple safe and cheap basic practices that over time bring about healthful changes. cleansing/detox is the foundation of build a strong vital force to overcome those other conditions.
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This is a reply to # 1,973,701I know im getting late with this but I just wanted to add that I think Toxic Hunger does exist, but there is no need to claim that any Hypoglycemic person its indeed suffering from that no no.
Why do I think this? Well, I am on NB (tomorrow will get my supps!!) and every week or every 5 days, sometimes every two weeks I get crazy and have to eat fruits, cookies or feta cheese or even ice cream.
For example just some hours ago... I was feeling very anxious and mentally screwed, very hungry when my parents returned home so I had to do something. All this day and the rest of the week I have been eating completely healthy type NB diet, with no problems or cravings.
Ate three apples, one plum, some feta cheese, three multigrain cookies, one dehydrated fig and six dehydrates apricots. Finally this horrible unstoppable hunger went away, but not completely. Now I am thinking in eating more. I need it :(
I know im detoxing because yesterday I cried a lot all of a sudden while having dinner. I do not cry usually, maybe once a month or once every two months.
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This is a reply to # 1,988,935I hope I didn't make it sound like all hypoglycemia is Toxic Hunger. Just saying one's hypoglycemia *may not* be, but instead Toxic Hunger.
Dr. Fuhrman mentions reactive hypoglycemia can be a symptom of Toxic Hunger. A couple people on here seemed like they may have had this because they said they either passed out or felt so bad they had to go to the emergency room only for the test results at the hospital coming up that their glucose levels were fine.
I advice anyone who has low blood Sugar symptoms to immediately start monitoring their glucose levels. If your levels are normal, then that's a sure bet you have Toxic Hunger instead.
There are a couple of rare types of hypoglycemia caused by tumors that cause constant elevation of insulin.
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This is a reply to # 1,988,978Hi Natway, so if the glucose meter says that my blood Sugar is low, does that mean its not toxic hunger and can I still become a nutritarian?
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This is a reply to # 1,973,701my hypoglycemia
that i had taken to be an integral part of "me" since a childhood "diagnosis", was resolved after a water fast...
I don't want to make the "water fast"
a pill, (or magic bullet-thinking) as allopathics tends to do, with any sort of nutrient or new idea, but i mean to say--- the Water Fast Changed my mind.
(and gave me time to let the body catch up to that changed mind)
and mind is the Builder.
ironically, though, the body seems to be always
'in charge', and the Water Fast -properly prepared for- is wonderful, largely because it is maybe one of the few things
that can turn the mind toward its own power,
and show it,Truth, ( and its open inherent place în that) beyond the physical.
Radical!!!!
C
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