it could be not enough quality sleep, maybe he developed it before he became raw paleo
diet alone won't cure it

Well, I acquired most of my current symptoms while eating pure raw paleo. I was very strong in the beginning but collapsed eventually. Exercises and intermittent fasting completely ruined my life.

Anger/anxiety/unhappiness/stress/trauma reek havoc on the body and can lead to everything from hayfever to auto immune disorders and death. It can stuff up your cortisol levels/hormones/stop digestion/adrenal problems, this forum is obsessed with diet as a cure but it's not always the answer.

That's exactly right mate, a truer word was never spoken!

Everyone on here claims to have adrenal insufficency lately this is a red flag to me, it's in fashion like peptic ulcers were in the 80's and carpal tunnel was in the 90's. The sub concious is very suggestive.

Yeah, adrenal fatigue is pretty much in vogue these days.

How do you interpret those values to get adrenal fatigue?
Most of them seem to be in range.

According to Dr. James L. Wilson:

The urinary cortisol, what I've found, is that you cannot use the lab’s normal reference ranges because they are much too broad. They are trying to pick up disease and this is not a disease per se this is an imbalance. And so they are much too broad. But if you take a 24 hour urinary cortisol test and instead of looking at the entire reference range if your scores are in the lower third of that lab’s reference range, because each lab has its own reference range, than you probably have some sort of adrenal dysfunction.

Now as for what they indicate. There has never been to me confirmation of exactly what urinary cortisol is measuring. There's been conjectures about whether it's spill-over or whether it's actual production of the adrenal glands, but it does seem to correspond generally, if the cortisol readings are in the lower third, it seems to correspond with the signs and symptoms of adrenal fatigue.

My thyroid panel dated 25.04.2008 (just after I stopped Intermittent Fasting):
TSH – 1.33 (range 0.25 – 5.2)
fT4 – 17.87 (range 10.0 – 25.0)
fT3 – 12.64 (range 5.4 – 14.0)

My thyroid panel dated 26.04.2010 (after 8 ZC months):
TSH – 1.43 (range 0.17 – 4.05)
fT4 – 18.9 (range 11.5 – 23.0)
fT3 – 2.5 (range 2.5 – 5.8 )
Anti-TPO – 20.3 (range 0 – 12.0)
Anti-TG – 22.3 – (range 0 – 30.0)

My 24-hour Urinary free cortisol levels dated 21.04.2008:
182.7 µg/24h (range 58.0 – 403.0 µg/24h)

My 24-hour Urinary free cortisol levels dated 16.11.2009:
254.8 nmol/24h (range 160 – 1112 nmol/24h)

My testosterone levels dated 05.05.2010:
18.73 nmol/l (range 6.07 – 27.1 nmol/l)

Diets are helpless in the cases of extreme adrenal fatigue.

Yuri I know it sounds very simple but did you try magnesium supllements?
I know I know its sounds stupid or simple because you tried more complex things
But what if you try 500mg magnesium 2x day total 1000mg mornin/before night?
Magnesium is everything in your body it controls more than 350 enzymes
just give it a try and tell me how it was I gotta know.

Sometimes the most complicated issues have the simplest solutions. Unfortunately, it is not my case. I tried Peter Gillham's Natural Calm and Premier Magnesium Glycinate. I haven't really noticed any significant improvements.

It could also explain Yuri's breakdown he described in his diary since intermittant fasting is also supposed to be taxing on the adrenals.

And I assure you there are a lot of other unfortunate people who were crippled by intermittent fasting.

Nanook of the North documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit) and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook of the North was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history.

The film is in the public domain and can be viewed at:

http://www.archive.org/details/PhantasmagoriaTheater-NanookOfTheNorth1922752

Another interesting film in the public domain, about Eskimos in winter in Alaska, 1950:

http://www.archive.org/details/EskimosW1950

Yeah, I'm still puzzled as to why you continue ZC. Based on your reports and rhetoric, I figured you had abandoned it a while ago. I didn't mean to imply that I thought you should use iodine as a way to continue ZC. Quite the contrary, I've read that iodine deficiency is a common side effect of ZC.

I don't even eat ZC myself, and it was only ever meant to be a temporary experiment in my case, but it turned out I did better on it than I expected. I even got lectured to and my posts basically ridiculed for talking too much about Inuit consumption of berries, leaves and other plant foods at the ZIOH forum.

I am sort of looking for the route of escape right now. Yes, I did have a couple of fruit meals recently, so I am not ZC anymore.

Mate, it was really incautious act on your part to talk about carbs on that artificial forum.

Update: I don't like those berries. They are way too astringent.
I got some some that looked ripe and they still don't taste good.

Like any other natural/wild berries the sea-buckthorn berries are hardly edible in any significant quantities. I juice them to avoid the unpleasant after-effects of astringency.

I recently tried one cup of heirloom organic blueberries and even that sent my BG from 106 to 149 mg/dl an hour later.

Were you insulin resistant before LC?

Most fruits, just like the vegetables, contain hefty amounts of antinutrients. This FAQ covers the most common ones, such as oxalates, goitrogenic substances, allergens, purines , pesticide residues, and nightshades.

Buckwheat is neither grain nor seed. Its a starchy fruit believe it or not.

But ZC, VLC, and LC don't work for everyone. The least toxic carb, the unheated honey, contains 50% of fructose.

The question remains if SUGAR, even RAW, is superior to COOKED STARCH...

Look at the nutrition for 100g of buckwheat then compare it to 100g of any fruit.  That's why fruit is superior.

So yes, you should have checked the nutrients, antinutrients/toxins, and fructose levels before posting this.