My hair and eyes have changed over the past two years and now I am wondering what role my diet could be playing here.

I was unable to find good links to studies. I was hoping someone here might be able to point me into the right direction.
I read a bit about iridology to understand why my eyes might be changing. There hasn't been a drastic color change, my eyes are still green. But I used to have more brown, yellow and some orange parts in my eye, that have been reduced. The color also seems more even, with less of a "wave" like texture. This make my eyes look a bit lighter and I feel sometimes a bit blueish? Not sure. I will have to compare my eyes to old pictures to compare the two. I do remember changes from child hood to adult hood though.

My sister even underwent a lot of changes. Her eyes went from completely green to completely light brown/ hazel by the time she was a teen/ young adult.



I know now that these brown, orange and yellow bits could have been a sign of toxic build up, kidney and liver or digestive problems.

Aside from my eye color, I noticed my hair color changing. I was unable to find anything regarding diet and changing hair colors at all! Of course the change is also subtle. My hair is still dark brown, but the hue is changing. My hair is getting redder! So much that people have actually asked me what dye I am using (I don't dye at all). Especially the past year I have noticed changes, meaning I can even see red tones at the roots already. My hair is darker at the roots and gets lighter and redder as it grows out, but the roots do show it too. My hair color was never an ashy brown, but I really don't remember red tones. I am determined to collect a lot of old images to create some sort of collage, so I can demonstrate the change.
One thing I noticed is that my hair color also changes very much depending on the light and can be more or less reddish/ orange. But in the past it did not matter what light I was in, my hair wasn't this red.
I am by no means a redhead, but I can truly call this auburn. I hope the change doesn't signalize anything bad

Does anyone know why my hair color could be changing? I have only made a few guesses, but I haven't been able to confirm these yet...
My thoughts are that maybe a more nutrient rich diet could have simply restored my hair color to the way it should be? I remember pictures of me as a child where my hair seems more red than when I was in my 20's for example.

I remember a time when I was sick and not eating well at all (I wasn't able to stomach much food) and back then I noticed how my hair color grew in sort of greyish, ashy at the roots, with some very "pale" hairs here and there. None of this is visible anymore.

My diet: I don't eat much raw foods to be honest (I never made the transition fully) , but I have been fully Paleo for two years now and made lots of health progress this way also.
I eat a moderate amount of carbs I believe, less than a standard diet for sure, but more than 120 g I suppose. I have added some yellow potatoes to my diet because I digest these well and they helped me gain and maintain my now healthier weight. Aside from that I eat lots of meat and eggs, and some veggies, a few fruits. So for the most part my diet is starch, fat and protein. I eat quality meats raw but most of my meat is cooked, organic beef, veggies and starch always cooked and fruits raw...though my fruits are the not so sweet ones like tomato, cucumber etc.

I cut out all vegetables to see if it will help my indigestion problems and the acne I developed since eating a low carb/ ketogenic diet.

When searching for Paleo and Fruit only I came across the Wai Diet. I like some aspects of it, but others I don't, (so much sugar) so I am now trying to tweak it to my liking.

Until recently I ate a  omnivorous Paleo Diet with cooked veggies and some cooked meat. 
I don't have a lot of options. I CAN NOT go low carb again, because I don't have a spare liver or thyroid. My health was bad then and adding carbs resolved all the problems. So that is just not for me right now.
I also don't want to eat extremely high carb, and it seems loading up on fruits that can happen.

The diet allows raw meat aside from fish nowadays, which made it a lot better. My plan is to eat raw fish as well as raw grasfed and wild meat.

I want to cut out veggies until I get relief and then carefully reintroduce a few, one at a time.

I the meantime I am wondering how I can reduce the sugar in this diet and add some fat aside from olive oil.
What would be some good not so sweet fruits that still have a decent amount of calories and nutrients?

At the moment I am eating about 200g of raw meat or fish a day. Can't afford to buy much more (I still get a stomach ache and soft stools from raw meat, but hope it will stop). I eat bananas, coconut, avocado, cucumber, tomato and zucchini too. I don't season and drink only water. (the adding juice with oil part sounded a bit extreme)

I want to make sure I don't lose weight, as always. I get to 2700 cals with this diet, that is more than before, so I suppose there is no way I would lose weight?

I recently posted about hormone related issues and PMS. One thing that I thought was hormone related was my recent hair loss.
But now I had it stop several times for a few days, which makes me think it is not necessarily all hormones.

One day I got in contact with wheat on accident. I had ordered all meat but it seems the chicken was lightly coated in flour. I react to it Celiacs do. I get really sick, stomach pains, nausea, pains in joints and muscles, brain fog, acne, and the last time ai also noticed hair loss, after it had been gone for 4 days.
It stopped after 1 1/2 days and I started feeling more normal again too.

But I also had this when I did not eat any wheat, so I don't think it is only that. Maybe my body reacts to something else (the only "cheat" food I had when out was peanuts, but I have been on a very strict diet). It might also be a lack of something, I don't eat a lot of meat due to the costs, but I thought enough to be okay, once or twice a day about two to three pieces (not sure of the grams).

My PMS was better this time when I ovulated, like almost not there and my acne has improved dramatically since taking milk thistle, burdock root, DIM and chasteberry. My hair loss was reduced, but not stopped when increasing my Vit. D3 intake from 2000 to 5000 IU. Not sure if more Vit. D would help, it is a lot to take with supplements, but increasing it naturally never worked for me. That said, the hair loss was gone for a while on 2000 IU, so I don't think that alone is the problem either.

What else could be a cause for on and off hair loss?

I usually eat a partly raw, partly cooked paleo diet. Not too many carbs, but some to maintain my weight.

I also eat raw butter to maintain or even gain, and I feel good on it. I usually avoid other dairy, but a while ago when there was not much else to eat and supermarkets closed I ate a large amount of cheese.
Lately I haven't been looking as well, maybe a little sick, with dark circles under my eyes that I usually don't have, but the next day I was glowing, with clearer skin and no dark circles.
At first I did not even connect it with the cheese, but whenever I snuck some cheese I noticed a change, sometimes even the same day, like my skin would be less greasy and softer.

When I first transitioned to a paleo diet, my skin was great. I did not have problems, but it looked better still, just healthier and more clear.
But after a little while, I noticed cheating even the slightest bit can cause me acne for weeks. Atm I have a hard time getting rid of it, which also might have to do with the return of my period since the birth of my son, but certain diet habits at least better it.

I would have expected dairy to cause me to break out, not the opposite. I don't really want to consume dairy, so I am hoping to find out what dairy provides that I might be missing?
Is a lack of calcium really a myth? Could it be my body is so used to the hormones from dairy that my skin does better with it? (not that I want the hormones :/), I remember the birth control pill having a similar effect, not taking it atm.

I would like to find whatever I am lacking in other foods.

I had discomfort, jaw pain and swollen gums and now little teeth are popping through in the back. They were pulled 12 years ago (actually removed surgically). How can that be?
And I am unsure what to do about it now. They were pulled because my jaw was too small for them supposedly. But I don't want to have them pulled and then they just regrow again.
Has anyone ever had that?

I usually try not to talk about it. But sometimes it is just hard to avoid. So I am thinking I need a good way of explaining to friends and family why I am eating this way.
Two careful attempts failed. When I told my mother about benefits of raw meat she got VERY upset, saying that I am risking getting colon cancer.
When I told friends I started eating this way for health reasons, and why grains are bad, or cooked foods, they said I can not simply say that one diet is better than another.
They feel a balanced standard diet is just as good and that there is not enough proof for any diet to be superior. Grains, according to them, simply don't "fit" into the raw paleo diet philosophy and concept.

The fact that I got rid of 3 diseases in a short time (Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, Pituitary Tumor, Pre Cervical Cancer CIN3), does not seem surprising to anyone.

Maybe I used the wrong approach when I told them, but I mean what other good reasons can I possibly give? Its not like I eat this way simply for the fun of it....

How have you told others? I am interested to hear. Do you have any suggestions? I am worried how my family will react once my son will start eating solids...raw paleo solids.  They keep wanting to feed him Sausage and Cookies (I was raised on Cookies, Cake, Coffee, Wurst, Bread and Tea I think )

I can't help but think, that a C-Section could have an impact on the body on the long run, other than just lengthy healing.

I had to have a C-Section. I went almost 43 weeks in pregnancy (which also seems weird), and my baby's heart beat dropped to 50 during a check up (placenta was old). I was literally slapped on the surgery table within seconds (I agreed to it of course).

Anyhow...many other mothers always rave about how quickly they "healed" from a C-Section, and many would do it again or prefer it to natural birth.
To me a C-Section seems so wrong. I still somewhat feel down about the fact that I was not able to give birth naturally. It does not feel like giving birth, I was not able to hold my baby right away, breastfeeding was harder because of it.
No doubt, I felt okay and like I could manage after, even with a very low dose of pain meds, which I had requested to be low. I was able to get up the same day, walking was never a problem...but I did not feel good doing all that.
Aside from the obvious pain at the incision site, it felt like there were all kinds of things wrong, uncomfortable and achy.
I was able to function once at home, but I did experience prolonged pain. Up to 6 months postpartum it was worst, and even now at 9 months postpartum I still experience minor pains. Recently I worked out for the first time since pregnancy (pilates our neighbor teaches) and some of the moves were just impossible to do because I felt like my stomach was going to tear apart (I also had diastasis recti, abdominal separation).

Long story short, I really wonder if a wound this dramatic has any impact on my body other than the obvious risk for future pregnancies. In nature you would never survive if someone tore your stomach open! Makes me think if my body is always somewhat dealing with the aftermath, using extra strength to fix me up (I could use that strength for something else)...

Next child, I am really hoping for a VBAC, natural birth after C-Section. But the risks scare me...another C-Section scares me too. I really want more children, at least one sibling for my son would be wonderful

Can anyone tell me more about it?

I have a favor to ask.
A friend of mine just received very bad news regarding her health. She suffers from lupus and multiple sclerosis and has recently been treated for it with light chemo therapy (!!!) .
Her health is worsening dramatically though, especially since the treatments. Here is what she wrote:

I have had 2 rounds of chemo in the last two months. I'm in kidney and liver failure officially. My ms has gotten so bad I lose speech 3 times a week and I am frequently paralyzed. I will be permanently paralyzed within 5 years and most of my cognitive function will be gone in 1o years.

She is a mother of a 6 months old baby. It breaks my heart to think she won't be able to hold him and ultimately not even be able to be there for him anymore.
She does not know about the dangers of a SAD diet, nor the health benefits of the raw paleo diet. I don't know her very closely, but seeing this I offered advice, risking that I might be called crazy....but rather 'me-crazy, than her-sick' imo.

I would like to send her a lot of good info about how she could better her health with dietary changes. Links, experiences and info from your side, studies, stories about people that did get better...anything helps.

I am also asking for some info that would convince a newbie. I am sure she will be worried about getting sick off of raw food etc. Or she may not believe it because the standard nutritionist will give completely different advice.

TIA!
Suiren

...did I register here. My husband has been a member here for quite some time. He has convinced me (or what is written here and elsewhere that is), that this is the healthiest way to eat. It just makes sense to me.
I have a bunch of "health issues"(according to doctors, not that I notice), I don't need any more, so I am willing to give up my much loved bread, cookies, pasta, you name it...
Transitioning has been hard for me, because I shed pounds faster than you can say 'diet'.
I also seem to have a problem with hypoglycemia.

Last but not least, I am nursing my 8 month old baby and I often worry about my "grain fed" breastmilk , I know it is still best, but for sure better on a better diet.

Suiren