kryptobs2000
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tl;dr Don't eat tomatoes, potatoes, peppers (not peppercorn though), and eggplant for 2 months and your condition may improve or vanish completely.
I have hardly seen anything about this, so I guess it's not too well known. I'd like to thank "biodebugger" on reddit for helping me out on this.
What do I do?:In short, don't eat anything from the nightshade family and your hh will improve, if not completely go away within 1-2 months. This primarily includes potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers (but not peppercorn afaik). Here is a more complete list of things to avoid, but I haven't strickly followed it, mostly just avoiding the 3 things I mentioned before, but I could just never have eaten many due to my diet. If anyone has any specific questions in regards to my own diet I'll try my best to answer.
Why it works: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of it is this. The aforementioned paper is where I am getting this from, and thus would be a better and more thorough reference, but I'll try to give a quick explanation.
Some foods we commonly eat, namely those in the nightshade family, contain a chemical called alpha-solanine. Once in our body alpha-solanine acts as a cholinesterase inhibitor. Cholinesterase breaks down and metabolises acetycholine which is responsible for sweating, and muscle movement. If you also have twitching problems or arthiritus this may also be linked to it (though I've done far less research on that, next to none). This chemical cannot be metabolized by our bodies, as such it has a half life of 1-2 months, you probably will not see result for at least a month, if not two.
My experience: I have had hyperhidrosis for, as far as I can remember, around 10 years. I didn't know what it was called for at least 5, I don't really know what I thought, but I almost always tried to wear a jacket or something. I'd sweat on my hands, feet, and underams the most, but I actually sweat all over, just not in 'uncomfortable' amounts.
I'm tired, so I'll just make it brief. I came across this idea, about 6 months ago maybe, but due to very little support, and potatoes and tomatoes in particular being very hard to avoid, I didn't try it for awhile. A little while back I decided to do it and after about 4 weeks my hands dried up significantly, now they are completely dry, and so did my underarms. I believe I started it at the beginning of April and I accidentally ate some corn dogs last week with potato flower which made it come back for 2 or 3 days as well as possibly any and all of 2 slices of pizza, some BBQ, and some bean soup (tomato paste) the week before, which may have made me sweat up to a week or slightly more. I have not been very thorough as you can see.
I can provide some more information late if anyone is interested. I also came across a report by someone I think was a dr claiming this to help with a significant portion of his patients arthitus as well. I haven't done anymore research on that. Also came across someone mentioning (someone uncredible I might add, just forum speculation) this as a possible theory to why asian women don't experience hot flashes during menopause. I mention that specifically mostly because I often would have hot flashes, it felt as though my body did not know what temperature it was, which in it's own way made things worse than simply sweating.
Last thing I wanted to mention, and I have seen it mentioned once elsewhere, though I cannot remember where, is for myself I would sweat the most between 11am and 8pm. It seems to correlate with my activity/metobolic rate perhaps. At night (10pm-~morning) it was not uncommon for me to not sweat at all. I recently noticed, now that I'm looking for it (corndogs for instance) that when I eat something that day I will sweat that night. I've had many night (fastfood I would guess) where I would wake up in a cold sweat too, theoretically because I have higher levels of this stuff in me.
I have hardly seen anything about this, so I guess it's not too well known. I'd like to thank "biodebugger" on reddit for helping me out on this.
What do I do?:In short, don't eat anything from the nightshade family and your hh will improve, if not completely go away within 1-2 months. This primarily includes potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers (but not peppercorn afaik). Here is a more complete list of things to avoid, but I haven't strickly followed it, mostly just avoiding the 3 things I mentioned before, but I could just never have eaten many due to my diet. If anyone has any specific questions in regards to my own diet I'll try my best to answer.
Why it works: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of it is this. The aforementioned paper is where I am getting this from, and thus would be a better and more thorough reference, but I'll try to give a quick explanation.
Some foods we commonly eat, namely those in the nightshade family, contain a chemical called alpha-solanine. Once in our body alpha-solanine acts as a cholinesterase inhibitor. Cholinesterase breaks down and metabolises acetycholine which is responsible for sweating, and muscle movement. If you also have twitching problems or arthiritus this may also be linked to it (though I've done far less research on that, next to none). This chemical cannot be metabolized by our bodies, as such it has a half life of 1-2 months, you probably will not see result for at least a month, if not two.
My experience: I have had hyperhidrosis for, as far as I can remember, around 10 years. I didn't know what it was called for at least 5, I don't really know what I thought, but I almost always tried to wear a jacket or something. I'd sweat on my hands, feet, and underams the most, but I actually sweat all over, just not in 'uncomfortable' amounts.
I'm tired, so I'll just make it brief. I came across this idea, about 6 months ago maybe, but due to very little support, and potatoes and tomatoes in particular being very hard to avoid, I didn't try it for awhile. A little while back I decided to do it and after about 4 weeks my hands dried up significantly, now they are completely dry, and so did my underarms. I believe I started it at the beginning of April and I accidentally ate some corn dogs last week with potato flower which made it come back for 2 or 3 days as well as possibly any and all of 2 slices of pizza, some BBQ, and some bean soup (tomato paste) the week before, which may have made me sweat up to a week or slightly more. I have not been very thorough as you can see.
I can provide some more information late if anyone is interested. I also came across a report by someone I think was a dr claiming this to help with a significant portion of his patients arthitus as well. I haven't done anymore research on that. Also came across someone mentioning (someone uncredible I might add, just forum speculation) this as a possible theory to why asian women don't experience hot flashes during menopause. I mention that specifically mostly because I often would have hot flashes, it felt as though my body did not know what temperature it was, which in it's own way made things worse than simply sweating.
Last thing I wanted to mention, and I have seen it mentioned once elsewhere, though I cannot remember where, is for myself I would sweat the most between 11am and 8pm. It seems to correlate with my activity/metobolic rate perhaps. At night (10pm-~morning) it was not uncommon for me to not sweat at all. I recently noticed, now that I'm looking for it (corndogs for instance) that when I eat something that day I will sweat that night. I've had many night (fastfood I would guess) where I would wake up in a cold sweat too, theoretically because I have higher levels of this stuff in me.
Now, I think they might also play a role in anxiety and such too. Nightshades contain chemicals known as alkaloids, which can be irritating to the body, some being more sensitive than others. Here's a nice article that can explain it much better than I can. 