I have a life long struggle with mood swing, fatigue, sugar/carb craving, and weight. About 10 years ago I went on Atkins just for the weight loss and it worked well, I lost between 10 and 12 lbs a month without trying, I ate 'till I was satiated, no more carb cravings ( after the first 4 to 5 days of withdrawal ) after about a month I noticed that I didn't feel tired all the time, I had energy
, then I noticed the mood swings went away, I felt happy
, when I got down to about 155 (I'm 5'10") I was still eating a lot but was still loosing weight so I decided to add more carbs, good stuff not my old friends from the junk food community, well that was my down fall, the mood swings/foggy mind returned.
10 years later something happens to get me back on track, I go back on Atkins , but now I have the Internet. Was it all carbs or just a few offenders ?, After a lot of research I found Dogtorj's site and decided I was gluten sensitive and just for good measure I eliminated the big 4 and started on the "Eat right for your blood type" diet, which for me is a vegetarian diet very little or no meat. Things seemed to be going OK, then I would have some days of pretty bad depression or anxiety, I would re-check what I was eating and taking as supplements , as a last ditch effort I stopped taking all supplements ( omega3, zinc, vit-c, magnesium, B12, etc.) and within a day I felt a whole lot better. I forget what it was but something urged me to Google sugar sensitivity which led me to Fructose intolerance and sensitivity, after reading from the links below I looked at the ingredients on my "NOW" brand sub-lingual B-12, the first 2 are fructose and sobitol. Can it be just that small amount can set off these symptoms ? Maybe that and the fruit I was eating . I don't know, but it seems to me there's a connection,
" Symptoms
This condition is common in patients with symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. A small proportion of patients with both fructose malabsorption and lactose intolerance also suffer from coeliac disease. "
http://www.answers.com/topic/fructose-malabsorption
http://www.foodintol.com/sugar.asp#diff
http://www.bu.edu/aldolase/HFI/
Like so many other assumptions I've made I thought it was just sugar in general (excess) that was the problem , I had no idea that fructose in particular was a culprit and in some cases fatal.
What do you think ?