Hey Everyone,
I'm new here and just reaching out to see if anyone can help me. I feel like ive tried everything and feel totally lost.
Im sensitive to almost every food. Ive tried so my diets, Keto, Vegan, Vegetarian, Carnivore, GAPS, and then varied elimination diets, but i seem to react to almost eveything. Its been 15 years of trying. Im losing hope.
I have tried Chinese medicine, Ayurvedia medicine, and tried to follow their food plans too but still i react constantly.
My face swells up and i look unrecognisable, crushing fatigue and migrains almost every day. I have Diagnosed M.E/CFS. Is this just something we have to live with or is there any help out there?
Any suggestions that any of you might have would be really appreciated.
Many thanks
Dan
Hi Dan, that is rough, its not something you just have to accept, although I found acceptance does help with changing it.
My situation was similar to yours in many ways but is now dramatically improved.
Food sensitivities seem to be in a few categories, experimenting with these might help:
1) Allergies and IgG and IgA intolerances are seemingly mostly to proteins, I was allergic to around 40 different plant proteins.
Our bodies need amino acids, and we dont seem to get allergies to the amino acids themselves, only to the proteins we dont fully digest.
Due to all the other health problems we don't digest the proteins well and then become deficient in some amino acids.
If you are allergic or deficient or both then try using amino acid drinks rather than eating proteins, I use Alpha Amino and add Glycine because those are the ones I tend to be low in.
If you do eat animal proteins make sure your stomach acid is high enough - cheap to supplement.
If you get reflux its usually because the valve in the stomach doesn't close because the acid is too LOW, not too high.
Cutting out most proteins and supplementing amino acids made a massive difference to me.
A good diverse digestive enzyme like Enzymedica Digest Spectrum covers many of these bases.
2) Once digestion is compromised, and due to our modern lack of traditional cooking methods, and our hurried lifestyle, many of us are very sensitive to plant based substances like lectins.
Consider a mono diet e.g. a few days of only amino acids and corn or sweet potato.
My biggest weak point turned out to be nightshades.
If a mono diet is too hard consider investing in ELISA array allergy and food intolerance testing, or "food inflammation testing" which can look at ~170 foods and tell you exactly what you do and don't react to.
3) Once in a vicious circle the toxic overload is challenging. When you work on keeping your liver healthy you start noticing when headaches are liver related.
I rely on a combination of a herbal mix for liver health like dandelion, taurine, and milkthistle, and on regular asparagus and pears.
Fruits and seaweeds are blessings both for detoxing and for healing.
I make a daily detox smoothie with turmeric, coriander, atlantic red dulse, amino acids, barley green and wheatgrass, and beetroot powder. If you persist it bears fruits eventually so try to do it in a way you can enjoy and sustain. I add cranberries and dates.
4) My biggest other problem related to micro circulation, have seen so many specialists over the years with all parts of my body affected. Triple anticoagulant therapy - in a natural version made a massive difference for me - Dan Shen, Turmeric with black pepper, and White willow bark. I cannot recommend
sciencedrivensupplements.com highly enough.
5) If found it necessary to constantly keep researching, no-one out there has all the answers for our specific combinations of challenges.
Good luck, I hope you have some good improvements soon!
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