Hello everyone! It is going to be a very long story. I lived with my parents till 1999, then I bought a flat of my own and began to live by myself. Soon after that I began to suffer from heart palpitation which were especially severe at nights sometimes making me to call for ambulance. I went to see cardiologists, but no matter what they did they could find nothing wrong with me. They prescribed me some medicine which did not help me at all. So I had been suffering from more or less severe heart palpitations for about 9 years. Then they stopped completely. I became a zero carber in july 2015. To my great unplesant surprise I began to experience those long forgotten heart palpitations from time to time though in a very weak form. I searched for heart palpitations low carb and zero carb communities and was shocked to find some comments about the heart palpitations and that they immediately stopped when people added some cereals back in their diets ( greens and other vegetables did not help in that matter). And it dawned on me... There were no refined vegetable oils in Russia till the end of 90's. So living with my parents I ate what my mother cooked and she used mostly lard and butter for cooking, the only vegetable oil available at that time was unrefined sunflower oil which had a very strong rather unpleasant odour so my mother added it only in salads. When I moved in my flat I cooked for myself and I found it more cheaper to use refined odourless sunflower oil (which had appeared on shop shelves in great quantities then ) for cooking instead of lard and butter. I consumed a lot of refined sunflower oil and eventually heart palpitations came... But I saw no connection at that time. I was obese from the age of 6, knowing nothing about low carb or zero carb way of eating I knew that I gain fat rapidly when eating bread and cereals. So I did not eat them since 1997. After an event in my life which occured in 2009 I reintroduced some buckwheat back in my diet and immediately my heart palpitations were gone. But I did not see the connection at that time either. Having read those comments of low and zero carbers about their heart palpitations I suddenly saw the connection at last! So I made an experiment. For a few days I began to add vegetable oils to my meat and eggs. With sunflower oil it was bad, with flax seed oil it was worse and with рыжиковое oil ( sorry, do not know the english translation of the oil ) it was unbareable. My resting heartbeat rate spiked fron 60 to 80 heartbeats per minute, I had a few fits of high blood preasure which went up to 170/110, night heartpalpitations were severe and I could not sleep. Then I began to eat buckwheat and... my pulse went to normal and my heart palpitations stopped. Since from my personal experience I knew that oil + cereal = rapid fat gain I ceased the experiment and went back to my ZC WOE with great relief. Now I know that I have a food allegy for vegetable oils which cause high blood pressure and severe heart palpitations in me and that due to some unknown reasons buckwheat prevents all the bad effects of the vegetable oils. As for my ZC weak heart palpitations I also found the culprit. It is dairy. I am sure it is not dairy itself but vegetable oils that are added into fake dairy which is a problen in Russia. When I eat homemade dairy I have no problems at all. That is my story. PS. I can eat copious amounts of animal fat without any problems.
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