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Posted 2/16/2022 12:50 PM (GMT 0)
Been on the keto diet for a few months. Have seen some mild improvements but since starting the BO from my armpits is unbearable. Sinks through into my clothes and then basically the smell stains my clothes. Never had this before keto. Maybe Garzie knows if this is normal and how to mitigate. From a brief look at reddit it seems like this is actually fairly common.
Posted 2/16/2022 1:52 PM (GMT 0)
I got this as well. And since going carnivore my stools smell heinous. I mean heinous.

The BO seems to be finally improving/gone 1y in. For a while i was scrubbing w/ a tea-tree oil body wash pretty hard. Your body goes through all sorts of metabolic changes in keto
Posted 2/16/2022 4:16 PM (GMT 0)
yep - i have pretty bad odour in my armpits while on keto - but am also treating Bart pretty heavily with herbs and methylene blue at the same time - and notice that whenever i am feeling the effects of treatment - the ammonia type smell increases - so i think it may be more to do with that than the keto diet - though hard to pick them apart at present .....
Posted 2/16/2022 4:50 PM (GMT 0)
Bartonella die off smells real bad, but I've also gotten the keto smell which smells like rancid oil or grease. Basically the lipids are being released from fat stores but not metabolized. My doctor described it generally as "mitochondrial dysfunction" but I had low carnitine and I suspect that had a lot to do with it, since carnitine is required for fatty acid metabolism.
Posted 2/16/2022 5:28 PM (GMT 0)
Lyme + Bart + Keto has got to be the most loathsome trifecta of smells 🤣.
Posted 2/17/2022 1:45 AM (GMT 0)
The armpit BO is likely apocrine sweat, which is stimulated by adrenaline. This can be a sign that you're stressing your adrenals too hard.
Posted 2/18/2022 7:21 PM (GMT 0)
Garzie - have you tried any ketone esters? I just ordered some ketoneaid to see what benefits I might notice since I’ve had so much trouble cutting carbs out - you got me thinking saying how people can go higher on carbs and stay in ketosis the other week.

Probably going to try it out tomorrow morning.
Posted 2/18/2022 8:03 PM (GMT 0)
hi Loski

nope - i have not tried them - for me it was mostly a mental problem of being in a mostly fat avoiding mindset for my first 45 years - so Keto was a big step for me to get my head around - but within a week or so of doing it and noticing i was feeling better, and seeing my fiancé get so much better, all that went away

i think after 3-4 weeks i had figured out what to eat and it became normal for me v shortly after that.
my fiance needed to eat only fish, meat, eggs, olives, green salad leaves and nothing else to stay in ketosis - but she was around 55kg and female - ladies often seem to have more trouble getting into ketosis - or so i read.
i was around 82kg male, and had more muscle mass ( had worked out all my life, lost weight and strength with lyme but still had some muscle ) so i could eat much more carbs and still stay in ketosis - but it seemed to work best for me at around 25g to 30g of dietary carbohydrate a day - i am eating a little more these days - mainly from more green veg as my gut has got a little better.

long term i would like to be able to eat more foods and more fibre - but gut is still sensitive due to bartonella i think so for the near term is still the best thing i have
Posted 2/18/2022 10:01 PM (GMT 0)

RainyCloud said...
Lyme + Bart + Keto has got to be the most loathsome trifecta of smells 🤣.

add an allicin stench and i could clear a room quik... greens seemed to help! any chlorophyll but specifically chlorella and bentonite baths became essential if i wanted to be in public....
Posted 2/22/2022 7:58 AM (GMT 0)
That's funny bluelyme, allicin would make it worse indeed 🤣
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