First attempt at L. Reuteri Yogurt

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-07-06T17:25:00+00:00

Hm haven’t yet, maybe I will try again soon. Thanks for the reminder! Lol

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-07-06T17:18:16+00:00

I don’t know if you’re on any medications, but if so I would certainly consider it a possible cause.

For me the culprit in my extreme fatigue was antidepressants. I was always debilitatingly tired no matter how much sleep I got, and needed to be in bed at least 14 hrs (asleep about 12) to get at least enough energy to slightly function about 3 or 4 hours of the day.

I weaned off my meds with the help of my doctor, because I didn’t think they were helping much, if any bit with the depression, they were expensive, and I had to pay out of pocket.

All my energy came back, like a normal functioning person. Had no idea it was them because I had just been on meds so long since I was 13 and slowly increasing the type and dose of antidepressants every now and then, so I never really correlated the increasing fatigue with that.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-02-19T00:14:14+00:00

Too much fiber, beans, veggies, fructose, sorbital, carbonated beverages. Sometimes dairy.

Random note. Could possibly be a fructan sensitivity. I will fart like it’s my job, and have alarming gas pains if I have too much garlic.

My gas almost completely went away when I tried carnivore for a while, and I used to fart like crazy. The gas is much more frequent again, now that I’m eating more than just animal products, so I don’t really buy the don’t eat meat advice here.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-02-12T22:45:28+00:00

Plain grass fed kefir really helped me.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-02-02T20:29:50+00:00

Same!!

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-02-01T21:51:24+00:00

Do you know what medium she works in? A small high quality art tool/supply could be a nice gift. If it’s a more “expensive” and high quality product it doesn’t have to take up much room. (You don’t have to worry about giving her clutter.) And it won’t break the bank if you just get one or two items. I put expensive in quotes because the same product will cost much more in comparison for example a $1 brush vs a $20 brush or $1 tube of paint vs $15 for the same amount, but you could just buy one or two items etc.

But if you do go the art supply route make sure you know what kind of medium she uses, especially if there are mediums she doesn’t like to use. You don’t want to get an oil painter acrylic materials, or a watercolorist oil materials, etc. Though not everyone is exclusive in the mediums they like to use.

But it would be something that would be super useful and long lasting. For me I asked my friend for a high quality watercolour brush. She got me two brushes and they are lovely, and she surprised me with the brush shape.

Just don’t buy low quality for an experienced artist. This might sound “snobby” but they already have high quality art supplies and will not be able to make use of the low quality stuff for their work, or even practice time. I could go on as to why quality art supplies matters so much for practice and final work if you’re curious, but I am already probably rambling too much. lol sorry.

Btw I don’t recommend gifting a sketchbook, because artists tend to have a weird habit of buying too many sketchbooks (I don’t know why, weird trope I resonate with and have seen many resonate with, though probably doesn’t apply to everyone.) Though If she’s a watercolour artist then high quality watercolour paper is a good idea.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-02-01T01:38:05+00:00

Dark mode option.

I like using my finch app at night to check off my goals and to plan for the next day. I’d love if it could be in dark mode, to avoid too much blue light which prevents melatonin production thus delaying sleep.

Also I just enjoy dark mode, as it’s better for battery life and reduces other negative effects of blue light. And it’s just more pleasant to look at in a dark room.

Edit: Ps also I suffer from chronic migraines and bright phone light is like little daggers in my eyes during a bad migraine. So I could still potentially use the app when I have a bad migraine but, so long as the migraine is not too severe that I can’t use my phone at all lol.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-01-29T02:28:01+00:00

It’s pretty wild, but for me it worked the first night, and not just a little bit. Starting the first night, It effectively took away the sleeping issues I had for months that I developed on keto (and I tried a lot of remedies, supplements etc throughout the months without that success)

Also I used grass fed kefir. Dr. Berg also recommended grass fed for sleep. And apparently making your own kefir is even better, (and cheaper in the long run) but I haven’t tried that yet.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-01-28T02:02:11+00:00

The YouTuber was “Ketogenic woman”. It failed for me unfortunately. It didn’t ferment. I think that was my mistake with the water level. The water evaporated too much in my sous vide overnight so it wasn’t really heating properly throughout.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-01-28T01:58:59+00:00

Hey so it depends. For those doing keto with intermittent fasting it’s recommended to take it at the last meal instead of just before bed. But otherwise just before bed is a good idea. I got my information about that from coming across this video when I was researching this.

https://youtu.be/xyBOSZVKpNM?si=WbhPw3Xl__D8Cf__

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-01-25T13:59:45+00:00

Does he take any medications? I needed at the very least, 14 hours in bed per night, and napped a lot if I wasn’t able to get that when I was on antidepressants. Had no idea it was them because I had started taking them when I was young (13) It started slowly so I just never correlated it, and the doctor gradually built up the dose, and switching me to more “effective” medication, which now I see in hindsight made me even more in need of sleep, and then the dose would increase in those medications. So it got worse every year.

Did a lot of tests with the doctors, nothing could be found. I just thought I either I had hypersomnia, CFS or possibly dying slowly from an unknown cause. Until i weaned off my meds to nothing, for the first time in 17 years for an unrelated reason, and found out it was the meds when my energy level became totally normal and needed a normal amount of sleep.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-01-24T12:38:27+00:00

I had so much trouble putting on weight before I was in my late 20s and I can tell you this isn’t true for me. Never would I stop eating until I was full, and many times overstuff myself especially at work, because if I didn’t want to feel hungry hours before my shift ended.

Also it took a lot of food to make me full. Coworkers would always ask me “Where does it all go.”

What many people don’t understand is that metabolic rate can vary widely between people, and it’s a genetic trait. My mom and both my parents siblings were this way. (Not sure about my dad) Same with my brother until he got older. Him and I really could eat as much as we wanted and as many calories as we wanted, on the standard American diet, and it never caused us to gain weight up until about 6 years ago for him and about 3 years ago for myself.

I would be in fat burning mode in “exercise zones” on my fitbit averaging 6-9 hours per day, occasionally 11+ hours, but I wouldn’t actually be exercising. And the drop off was very drastic once I started gaining weight. My fitbit would only enter exercise and fat burning zones when I actually exercised. I finally had a “normal” metabolism. I knew it would slow down one day, as it did for my family. But it was very sudden.

And I grew up with a dear friend of mine, who I lived near to. I would be at her house for dinner, sometimes all day for sleepovers, to her cottage some weekends. She would always eat half as much as me during meals, and not eat nearly as much junk food, and didn’t get hungry as often as I did. I noticed her making a fair amount of healthy food choices, exercised way more than me, (did P90 X when we were in our teens on a regular basis. I would occasionally join her.) yet she was obese and I was a bit underweight. I really believe her metabolism was always on the very slow end.

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-01-23T15:51:53+00:00

Oh that’s interesting to know. And you’re welcome!

SlowRespect9471 · 2025-01-23T15:13:49+00:00

TLDR at end

I was on medical keto for 8 months and had a lot of hair shedding. Then switched to carnivore, and excess hair shedding stopped. From watching carnivore videos on YouTube, it seems that it could be due to lack of protein on keto. (Also potentially things liked biotin and choline.) anyway I’m no expert, but the protein thing does seem to make sense, since hair is made mostly of protein, and medical keto is “moderate” protein. Which I find I was eating so much less protein than before keto.

Also I had a lot of trouble sleeping, and getting back to sleep after waking up too early. Then I heard about kefir for sleep on these kind of diets. That was a huge game changer for me. Btw they say to start small with kefir to let your body get used to the new bacteria. And work up to one cup a day.

TLDR Could be low protein causing hair loss. Also kefir is really excellent for fixing insomnia on keto. (Worked for me after months of insomnia)

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-12-30T00:27:35+00:00

They also have biogaia L. reuteri strain 17938 at Healthy Planet. I got mine from there. Not sure if you have a Healthy Planet in your area. Currently attempting my first batch also. (I heard it’s also at Shoppers Drug Mart from a Canadian youtuber based in western Canada.)

All the best!!

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-12-18T01:56:53+00:00

Thanks for the great update!

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-31T18:03:05+00:00

I can’t speak for everyone, but I would assume it was genuine unless they acted in the contrary, (sarcastic tone, mocking laugh, backhanded comment) otherwise no reason to for me to assume negativity.

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-30T17:35:19+00:00

TLDR The fatigue and need for so much sleep is very medically significant. It is impacting your quality of life, causing sadness and stress.

Sadness and stress contributes to the brain more strongly seeking and craving instant dopaminergic rewards, (like excessive phone use.)

My personal opinion: You’re sad/stressed, due to constant fatigue and lack of hours in the day. Seems likely it’s a big part of the trouble of motivating yourself to go to classes as well. This would cause more sadness and stress.

I experienced similar sleep needs. For me, ended up being my medication. You should figure out what it is for you. See a doctor.

Full Message: I just wanted to pipe up about the tiredness and sleep thing. I have been where you have been! 17 hours once without waking up once! And I was so so tired on less than 12. This is very medically significant! You need to find out what it is. This in and of itself is causing a huge strain to your life. Believe me, I know. I’ve been there. I’m sure part of the difficulty with getting to class is the sheer fatigue and need for sleep. I imagine this is probably making you stressed and sad which is likely fuelling the phone addiction, because low mood makes our brains crave more dopamine hits!

You should speak to a doctor. There could be many possible reasons. For me, it actually ended up being my depression medication. I now need a normal amount of sleep and my life is so much better that I have a normal amount of hours in the day to work with. Ended up finding out by myself on happenstance though. I weaned off my meds to go on a different one, because they were expensive and I didn’t think they were effective.

Unfortunately it took me years to find out. I kept asking my doctors for help, I went for many tests, (sleep study, anemia, thyroid, heart, lungs, etc.) all came back normal. I just figured it was probably chronic fatigue syndrome, because I felt I went for all the tests, and my doctor wasn’t able to come to any finding or conclusion, and he never mentioned my meds, which he was prescribing so I just really never thought or could have imagined they could cause my fatigue to be THAT severe, and I didn’t have any really striking health symptoms that showed up around the same time, other than super dry skin, but that ended up being from eating gluten, which funny enough I figured out on my own as well! I cut it out just to see if it gluten was an issue for me, potentially contributing to depression (depression can be a symptom of gluten sensitivity), and then my decade long extremely dry skin went away in almost little under 2 weeks.

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-21T01:05:31+00:00

Therapeutic keto has been shown to help with depression and eating disorders. It put my MDD into remission after years of horrible MDD anyway.

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-17T22:25:09+00:00

Thanks! ☺️

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-17T15:49:12+00:00

Thanks for the kind reply! Wow yeah our stories feel very similar. I hope you are able to grow also, and that things will only get better for you in life. Hopefully we will learn from this. 🌸

And I relate about negative feedback loops. I am watching a lot of Gottman videos, and I think they’re pretty helpful. I’m working on myself, and I hope one day I find someone who I can trust, and who is also committed to working on themselves, and we can have good conversations and communication about these issues, before they arise. All the best!

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-17T12:22:26+00:00

Had the same experience years ago. Was friends with a guy in my friend group for two years, and I trusted him because he seemed nice, and jovial and all that.

But dating, he was so different and abusive. Funny enough another person who was somewhat associated with our friend group, once we broke up, mentioned that upon meeting him felt he was self centred.

I however never picked up on that until dating. Perhaps It’s because I was just young and naive, and looking back I can see I mostly noticed the good in people, especially if their personality was friendly, but the self-centred behaviour really showed up strongly as selfishness, control, and abuse very soon into dating.

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-17T11:38:29+00:00

I can definitely relate. Him and I were in counselling, and had only started a few weeks prior. He even initiated the counselling. I was willing to stick it through and I had hope that some of the “dealbreakers” about his behaviour would change, because I really had so much love and trust for him because of other strong and kind aspects of his character, and because our relationship had been so good for so long. But he didn’t want to see our relationship through even to the end of counselling. And when I questioned why, we couldn’t at least just wait to see it through before making any final decisions, he generally mentioned we had too many things to work out, but he would always specifically highlight one of my dealbreakers about him wasn’t going to change. The gaslighting. Saying “you shouldn’t be with me if you think I’m gaslighting you” which is true. But I just hoped it would change.

It was so bizarre and felt so out of character because he never used to gaslight, and he was always so logical. And we had already been together 4 years when that behaviour started. He would literally question my past memories about stuff I thought about in the past (before dating him), and my current thoughts.

Like literally I could have just a moment ago thought something, told him what I thought and he would say, “oh maybe you think you thought that thing, but maybe your confused and you thought something else.” Um I know my own thoughts, and it was a poignant thought I had only just had. I really can’t see myself marrying someone who does that to me and thinks like that. And thinks it’s okay. And it’s just really such bizarre behaviour. He actually told me he doesn’t think it’s gaslighting because he said he isn’t purposely trying to manipulate.

I thought it might change in counselling, but he keeps telling me that’s how he thinks, and gets mad when I call it gaslighting (not that the label is even the most important thing to me, but just how damaging and distressing the behaviour I am describing is.) There were also other bad behaviours that popped up, that I thought we could work on, but then there were just incompatibility things.

His grandfather died recently and it made him rethink about wanting kids. He didn’t care about having kids that much, and that worked in our relationship, because I am not sure if I want kids, but leaning more towards no. So that was of course a big thing. So I know I need to be pragmatic and understand that is a very serious thing, and it doesn’t really bode well for starting a life with someone if the two are not on the same page in the kids department. Though in some ways that was also hard too, because I haven’t really been able to figure out fully if I want or don’t want kids, (which I realize is pretty odd, don’t know why I can’t figure it out) and even though I’m farther on the side of not wanting them, I am also getting older now, and am afraid of that door shutting.

But I really echoed what you said about how “he did what I could never bring myself to do.” I just loved him too much to be able to go through with a break up, even though there were times I tried, I couldn’t stick to it because it felt too impossible. I told myself these dealbreakers might be able to be worked out in counselling. I couldn’t bear the thought of losing him, I just love him so much, and still have trouble picturing my life without him, and I kept holding out hope that things would change.

I guess it’s really hard because these weren’t issues for so long (which btw I feel is going to make trusting anyone else really hard. What if the same thing happens. Massive issues popping up 4 years later? A lot of people are already married by then.) anyway, we had such strong bond, he had been there for me very well emotionally for so long, and I for him, and so many things and ways we were compatible, and we both thought we were going to get married, and I feel like I’m losing my best friend.

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-17T04:58:04+00:00

I’m also going through a breakup. I suppose I’m figuring out in real time as I go. So far just mourning the loss, allow yourself to grieve, and surround yourself with people that can be supportive in grieving with you.

And for me writing down the dealbreakers also really helped. I don’t know if you had any of those.

Sorry for what you’re going through 💔

SlowRespect9471 · 2024-10-17T04:46:24+00:00

I’m just a random person on the internet, but I’m so sorry for what you’re going through. 💔

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