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Has anyone dealt with this but really bad? Its awful for me, really holds me back in life because I am so stuck in my head I won’t even be able to hear someone else in a conversation… just feels selfish
I wonder if theres a herb or a tea I can drink or something I can eat that would help to slow down thoughts just enough to not say rude things to people without realising… absolute survival mode
“Rosemary is often used in aromatherapy to increase concentration and memory, and to relieve stress. One study suggests that rosemary, combined with other pleasant-smelling oils, may lower cortisol levels and help reduce anxiety. Another study found that the use of lavender and rosemary essential oil sachets reduced test taking stress in graduate nursing students.”
Herbs don’t seem like they do what they are meant to do unless you get really good ones… Sad really
Yes! I’m trying to figure out if its some mineral deficiency and not enough calming brain juices.
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I don’t know if this might be a piece to your puzzle Quest, but I was reminded of this Peat quote this morning. Maybe less meat and less fiber from fruit would reduce cortisol from eating those two things?
“One of the reasons that the single meal eaters tend to get fat and diabetic, is that it triggers a great surge of insulin, and the insulin then triggers cortisol. If you can eat foods that don’t trigger insulin, that’s the ideal thing. And fruit happens to be the best single type of food for not triggering the stress reactions, because it combines very small amounts of protein, with large amounts of sugar and minerals. Potassium happens to handle sugar in place of insulin, and the fructose component of fruit doesn’t require insulin. So, eating a lot of fruit, even at one meal a day, produces much smaller amounts of insulin, obesity, and cortisol, than eating, for example, just one big meal of meat and potatoes. Meat powerfully stimulates insulin and cortisol. And starches are more stimulating to insulin than sugars.” (Effects of Stress and Trauma, KMUD)” -Ray Peat
Hmm. I don’t eat much meat these days. Mainly beans and carbs. I read that HIGH FIBRE and HIGH PROTEIN diet (beans) raises testosterone which should calm the mind. Beans also just give me energy and strength nothing else gives me funnily.
I crave protein if I’m being active, can’t go without. I just can’t handle sugar recently at all Cari, I mostly crave salty food now, I’ve been putting hot sauce on everything too maybe a sign of higher testosterone levels so maybe thats not all there is to it… Ok maybe I will eat sweet stuff if I deplete my sugar but otherwise not so much…
Weird weird stuff. I do also think a lack of copper and iron in my case makes my racing thoughts worse…
Milk can put me to sleep but I’m iron deficient so can’t eat that.
very tricky
You know what Cari. I just realised I’ve been sleepwalking my whole life. Socially. Emotionally. Just in every way literally what on earht is happening… I will drive past a spot in the car wiht my dad and realise there was a farm in a certain place we drove by thousands of times and I never noticed it??? Its like im waking up for the first time in my life? How do we cope with the emotional side of things seriously? Its been very traumatic growing up with awful health… I feel like the trauma physically makes me fatigued, so i cant help my community and my family and the good people around me…
“Intestinal irritation can cause disturbances of the nervous system,6 and should be considered as a possibility in disorders of attention. Toxins produced by intestinal bacteria can affect the brain directly, but more often act by damaging the livers ability to regulate blood glucose.” -Ray Peat
“the brain is energetically a very expensive organ in terms of its energy requirements, and the liver has to be very efficient to meet its needs, so when there is a nutritional or hormonal problem, the problems can be especially intense. Nutritional needs for sugar, protein, vitamins, and minerals can be very high.” -Ray Peat
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