Leigh--I'm so glad you found someone to work with who was helpful. That's great.
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Originally Posted by whoMe
Anyone want to point me to their favorite grape seed extract and/or GABA? Now that I'm finally ordering from iherb and my brain is too fried to choose between the hundreds of choices?
I haven't searched beyond Yasko's yet. I decided to drop the GABA for a while, not sure it was doing anything, but I'm wondering if glutamates, esp when I move metals, may be an issue, so I kept the grapeseed extract. When I run out, I should look at iherb's offerings.
The discussion I want to have is about when to declare enough is enough. At some point, it comes to a decision of keep trying and researching vs calling it good enough and moving on with life. There's this need to 'be healthy' but how healthy is healthy? There's always something more. Where's the balance? Do I get good enough for me to be more or less symptom free? Me and the kids? Work on the kids to 'save' future generations? Stop for myself once kids are done nursing? Keep chugging as fast as I can while reproducing then call it done for myself and just live life after?
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This has been on my mind lately, esp with me not feeling good ever since getting back from El Paso. I feel like I'm not doing great (also not doing great with the basic stuff I know will help me feel good, like more meat, fewer thrown-together meals, earlier bedtime), and it feels like it did a year or two ago when I still had a lot of work to do. And that BBT thing--is my thyroid just, at some level, permanently broken? But if I feel pretty good when I take care of myself, does that still count?
I'm wondering if I'm going to cycle back to some of this after I'm done with pregnancy and nursing (presuming I'm not done now given that my cycles are still pretty messed up, but I haven't put a concerted effort toward just fixing them yet), and so that's part of why I've been okay with feeling pretty good.
But even then--I thought I felt normal and okay before all this--maybe my expectations were too low? Because I know if I went back on gluten, or ate anything like I did before, bad stuff would happen (like my gluten experiment last fall). So clearly some things are more fragile than they used to be. That's disturbing.
For the kids... it's hard to say. DD's moods, in the past 3 years, have gotten much more even, there's a lot less overreaction, she's a lot more pleasant to be around. Part is surely aging, but part is the health stuff. A friend commented just recently on how DD doesn't whine/fight about stuff with me (I was quick to mention it happens at home), but I really think part is due to the work I've put in. But I don't know how to differentiate between potential easygoing-ness and easygoing-ness that's inhibited by health problems.
Maybe it's okay to stop for a while, and reserve the right to revisit the issue at a later time? But I don't know what I'm going to do (hopefully next spring/summer) when I know I'm done chelating the kids with ALA, I've given them a reasonable amount of glycine, I've given them modified citrus pectin--basically I've done all the things that I could fit in, time-wise, for myself, if I still see lingering issues, or more likely I taper off the supps and then problems start creeping in. That's my fear, and I don't really know where to go with it.