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My Health Journey: From toxic mold and lyme to reaching 1000ng/dl+ T levels
At 17 years old I was riddled with almost every symptom imaginable. Chronic fatigue, joint pain and random weekly fevers for years with no resolution.
On the outside - I looked like the spitting image of health to my friends. I ate clean all the time, wore six pack abs at all seasons, and could run 4:30 splits. This could not have been further from the truth.
Without knowing it at the time, I had created the perfect storm to completely destroy my health.
Overtraining, and undereating combined with working out in a basement with black mold and getting babesia - it's no wonder my body gave out.
But the bouts of debilitating fatigue and brain fog weren’t even the worst of my symptoms.
As a young man I was struggling with zero sex drive or function. After years of unsuccessful sex I considered ending it all. Doctors said I was too young to have any of these issues and either tried to get me referred to a therapist or just prescribed me with viagra.
After nearly 5 years of trying every protocol, diet, and supplement and spending thousands of dollars in testing I was no closer to any real answer. Other than a misdiagnosis of lymphoma - Doctors were at a complete loss of what was going on.
It wasn’t until I began working with multiple naturopaths, functional medicine practitioners, and yes - spending more money on testing that I was able to start determining the causes of my issues.
2022 A New Me
I quit my job, went traveling, and came back with a completely different game plan. I was introduced to the work of Ray Peat through Danny Roddy and Georgi Dinkov, and began connecting all the dots.
I stopped training all together, on an animal based diet with lots of carbs, and used several protocols that helped increase my testosterone and thyroid levels to more than double what they had been.
My mood, personality, sex drive all came back online for the first time in over 5 years. I felt like I had hit puberty again.
Not only was I now putting muscle on despite working out less, I had started enjoying old hobbies again. The heavy cloud in my head had been lifted - and I was once again this child with a healthy dopaminergic system. Yay me.
To go over every detail of what helped (and hurt) would be a literal book. But to hear my whole story I’ll be posting a future article here soon.
For now - check out the rest of my twitter for bits of info I’ve learned on my journey thus far.
Keep fighting my friend :) you’re closer than you think
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