Leaky Gut / Adrenal Fatigue / Weight Loss - Losing Hope

Hello everyone, I just basically need some insight and advice. I've been steadily becoming more unhealthy and losing more and more weight over the last 8-10 years.

My diet has always been terrible and I've lived a pretty sedentary lifestyle. When i was young i drank TONS of soda, ate TONS of candy and simple sugars, and always preferred carbs to any other food options. When i was a bit older, i drank TONS of alcohol and was prescribed opiates for a shoulder injury for over a year.

I've been in and out of the hospital tons of times, had minor stuff done like endoscopy/colonoscopy, EKG, blood work, H Pylori test, candida test, gastric emptying test etc... I'm 24 years old, male, about 5ft 7 and 113 pounds. I've always had stomach issues and weighed my most in high school 6 years ago at 130ish.

My symptoms come in waves, but seem immediate these days:

-Severe Adrenal Fatigue (almost falling asleep after eating/at random intervals when i really crave sugar/simple carbs)

-Constant belching after meals, like air is trapped in my stomach

-Small pinpoint sizes red dots all over my skin

-Itchy scalp/nose after eating

-Severe brain fog and zoned out feeling

-Stomach pain in my intestinal areas

-Tons of moles on my body

-Hair loss, hair is just falling out of my head at work all day now

-Super pale skin and extremely susceptible to the cold

-Cracking joints EVERYWHERE, i crack so much it's scary

-Severe anxiety / depression

-Arthritis in hands / constant joints locking up

What I've tried:

-50 billion pro-biotic pill every morning for a couple weeks now

-5g L-Glutamine powder daily for a month, this seemed to hurt more than it helped.

-I briefly tried the GAPs diet, but it's so overwhelming that i get really discouraged and quit during the intro stages. Iv'e spent hundreds of dollars on whole foods to find out i hate the taste or can't cook it well, and give up. It seems that when i'm mentally at my lowest, it's so easy to eat refined and garbage foods because my body is screaming for them.

-My diet isn't great, but i don't eat any dairy due to intolerances. When i do eat carbs or sugar, or even caffeine, i feel horrible, but my body craves it so much that it's borderline impossible to turn down.


I'm honestly close to giving up at this point, and if my girlfriend wasn't so supportive, i already would have. My job is very high stress and i sit at a desk all day. My symptoms get 100x worse when i'm moving around, especially if i try to work out.

I'm so scared that i'm going to die of malnutrition soon, i look like Christian Bale from the Machinist, and it really makes me feel like an alien. Does anyone have any ideas on a possible solution? Tweet