One of the gals on the TLO (Trying Low Oxalates) group goes so far as to say “it’s oxalate until proven otherwise!” and I tend to agree.
Ref: http://oxvox.com/oxalate-dumping-symptoms-what-to-expect/
Thanks for the link Edith.
When I first had recurrent bouts of paraoxysmal AFib I ended up in hospital emergency quite a few times. Mainly due to fear, because it’s distressing to have one’s heart go wonky. Akin to falling in love, but the cause is not so well established. The younger doctors like to run tests and tell me I’m having a heart attack. I’ve learnt not to go to emergency in the evening because they are very good and attentive and wake me up every hour to check if I’m alive. The no sleep compounds the unwellness and takes a few days to recover. So it is better to go in the morning and take a good book.
Since the first few episodes I learnt about AFib and what I can do to manage it and treat an attack. I haven’t needed a doctor’s medical intervention for about 18 months. Though I did spend a night in Emergency this year (when I got to 21d on carnivore in September), but I had pretty much sorted out the problem before I got to the Emergency front door.
The oxalate dumping hypothesis works in well with the paroxysmal Afib in my case. It takes out some of the idiopathic component. Especially as this is the second time I’ve had a run at carnivore and found that around the 3 week mark things happen, or change. And now that has been repeatable (n=1).
We haven’t talked much about the Carnivore/LOD (low oxalate diet) honeymoon period in these carnivore threads, as yet.… We need a different word than 'honey’moon.
I’ll modify the carnivore approach. may add tea, more coffee, and/or chocolate. I’ll see where the link you provided takes me.
Another interesting thing I’ll note is that the oxalate dumping symptoms, leading up to the Afib flip, coincided with an increase in morning, fasted blood ketones. Usually on ketocarnivore I have 0.1mmol/L of Bhb fasted in the morning and for the first two weeks of carnivore a slightly higher blood glucose of 5.7 - 5.9 mmol/L. In the past week my morning ketones have been 0.3mmol/L and the BG has dropped back to my standard nutritional ketosis level fasted of 4.9 to 5.2mmol/L. So there may be a biomarker indicator (warning for me) that an Afib episode is imminent if/when I notice this shift.
Hooray for biohacking! As Ivor Cummins says, “If you don’t measure it, you can’t fix it.”
Caveat: obviously this is all observational conjecture… but if a few people pop up with similar observations, we may be on to something.
