thanks so much for your response Tom, I do have an HR monitor (Polar H7) which I wear all day, and it’s how I know my HR was going crazy starting day 4 of the diet.
BP monitor is a good one, i’ll look into that.
I also use the HRV app, it tells me when to slow down as you know, which is useful but sometimes its readings seem quite random and not related to anything.
My main problems are I hear lots of people saying more salt, and others saying more potassium - I personally think neither were responsible, I had an electrolyte test and all my levels were good. I wish I had a solid understanding of which and what I should be taking and which causes what, there’s so much conflicting advice over electrolytes and how much water we should be drinking. The other thing, and I think this is more likely, was that it was stressing my adrenals, or heart or something, not having the carbs, and because I’m so fragile/sensitive, I can’t risk putting my body under more stress, I could make myself bedridden for weeks or even forever! My normal diet is a moderate carb paleo diet, that seems to help, I eat a starchy carb every other evening meal, and that’s all I seem to need, but going lower, into keto was just too much.
How do I counteract the stress I was putting my body/adrenals underwithout just waiting it out? is it even possible?
Also, the asthma, why on earth woudl the stress give me asthma, somoene someone somewhere said keto creates some kind of temporary oxygen-deficient state, why is this? What is the mechanism of this and can that give me asthma or is it something else?
thanks again
Keto is too scary and uncertain for me. it’s such a shame because I did notice some really good results too.