Re: meat allergy?

[Guest guest]

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> I have been doing various cleanses with my naturopath's guidance in

efforts to get my gut

> working optimally. Most recently I did a three week Standard

Process cleanse which

> involves drinking shakes, and eating exclusively vegetables and

fruits in a two to one ratio.

> No condiments, no spices, etc.

Over the years I have done many cleanses, I even became a vegetarian

for 2 years but since starting on the BTD I find the reason for

cleanses a bit strange.

I'm not sure of what is in your shakes (any protein?) so I'm going

out on a limb here.

For 3 weeks, you have provided your body with sub-optimal nutrition,

a veritable starvation. After this 3 weeks you introduce foods and

expect your body to give you a sign that everything is right. I'm not

surprised that you had diarrhea. I think your body is suffering from

confusion.

I suggest the anti-cleanse. Eat only beneficial foods for 3 months so

that your body is getting optimal nutrition. If you are still getting

symptoms, remove a beneficial food one at a time and see if that

makes a difference.

There's this bizarre idea that is rampant in alternative circles that

the body somehow needs a rest from doing what it's made to do. Your

gut doesn't work in isolation from the rest of your body. During

those 3 weeks how did you supply your immune system with the correct

nutrition? Did your nervous system function at 100%?

If your heart had problems like high blood pressure, would you stop

the flow of blood for 3 weeks to give it a rest? After 3 weeks, maybe

introduce white blood cells first, maybe some plasma next.

I'm sorry if I'm getting facetious here. I've just had it with the

whole alternative fasting, cleansing business.

Rant over.

[Guest guest]

Cleansing is fine, sort of. If the bowels don't have the bacteria balance

needed to work properly, cleansing is minimally effective.

My analogy --- Your lawn is in bad shape and the grass is over run by weekds

and bare patches, so you dig it all up, clear it away, and you now have good

clean soil. To then have a healthy lawn you need to sow grass seed, cover

it, water it and pamper it for a whole season. If not you end up with the

same mess you tried to clean up.

So. You have cleansed but have you reestablished the good bacterial

balance. Usually a bad balance with the bad food is why you need to

cleanse in the first place. Maintain a good bacterial balance and every

thing works right.

Acidophilus

FOS

Glutamine

Rice Bran

etc.........

to rebuild proper digestion.

Kathy

On 7/12/06, Beseler <cbeseler@...> wrote:

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> I have been doing various cleanses with my naturopath's guidance in

> efforts to get my gut

> working optimally. Most recently I did a three week Standard Process

> cleanse which

> involves drinking shakes, and eating exclusively vegetables and fruits in

> a two to one ratio.

> No condiments, no spices, etc.

>

> My question comes from the next phase. I am adding one new food each day

> to test for

> food allergies (meat, then eggs, then nuts, then corn, then wheat, then

> dairy etc.) I am

> excited about this as it really should give me a good understanding of how

> my body reacts

> to foods, to what degree and in what ways....at least thats what I

> thought. It turns out that

> after starting to eat red meat again (grass fed) I had diarrhea (twice

> after introducing it)

> which would suggest my gut is not quite processing it like it should.

>

> What am I to make of this given its a mainstay of the BT diet? Is it

> possible that red meat

> is not good for me? I had no reaction to either chicken or turkey or eggs

> so far.

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>

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Cheers,

Kathy

[Guest guest]

s wrote:

> Cleansing is fine, sort of.

???

> My analogy --- Your lawn is in bad shape and the grass is over run by weekds

> and bare patches, so you dig it all up, clear it away,

Doing that with the body would require you to remove the intestine and

get a transplant just because the cells of the intestine are in poor

health. Great if you have an identical twin on standby who does not need

their intestine and can give it to you.

But if you want to get real here, you have only the one set of

intestinal lining cells that are there - it's what's there, however

badly you damaged it with junk food and drugs.

The ONLY healthy option is to repair it, not dig it up!! The cells

there are delicate and they are easily damaged. No chemicals or resting

states will help them feel better.

> and you now have good

> clean soil.

Bad analogy. The gut cells can not be " weeded " - they have to be repaired.

> To then have a healthy lawn you need to sow grass seed, cover

> it, water it and pamper it for a whole season.

With the intestines you have to do this right away - without the

weeding/trasnsplant step :-)

> If not you end up with the

> same mess you tried to clean up.

Huh?

If you put junk in your intestines yes you will more damage - whether

the junk is a " cleanse " or bad food - but if you put nutritious things

there, they will repair and be healthy and resist damage.

> So. You have cleansed but have you reestablished the good bacterial

> balance. Usually a bad balance with the bad food is why you need to

> cleanse in the first place.

No. It's why you need to replace the bad food with the right food. Any

delay such as a " cleanse " is only going to damage the cells even more

and make it harder to repair them, not easier.

> Maintain a good bacterial balance and every

> thing works right.

Yes. But no cleanse does that.

You have to do it with diet and supplements.

> Acidophilus

> FOS

> Glutamine

> Rice Bran

> etc.........

> to rebuild proper digestion.

Right.

Rebuild - not cleanse!

> On 7/12/06, Beseler <cbeseler@...> wrote:

> I have been doing various cleanses with my naturopath's guidance

Have you ever looked at the curriculum of a naturopathy school?

They study a dozen different professional areas and have about 3 to 8

credit hours in each. That does NOT an expert make!

USe a naturopath to know if you ned herbs, reiki, homeopathy or

acupuncture - THEN go to a professional in that field who has 300 to 500

credit hours of formal study.

Naturopaths have about 100 to 300 credit hours depending on the school

attended - in VERY many areas - but nothing to speak of in each area.

It's all superficial overview level. So do not be surprised if their

clinical nutrition or homeopathy or herbology or metabolism or reiki or

acupuncture or aromatherapy or.....etc etc....

is not at a deep level. There's no time to get in depth with that kind

of course. Would you trust a doctor with so little training in his

specific field?

>> involves drinking shakes, and eating exclusively vegetables and fruits in

>> a two to one ratio.

>> No condiments, no spices, etc.

TERRIBLE nutrition - it would have resulted in a lot of damage.

Spices etc are a great way to get antioxidants in the diet, they are

loaded with nutrients.

To check this all out - analyse your food and add up the nutrients you

actually ate and see if yo met minimum daily requirements to prevent

cell death (RDA it's called) I'll bet not:-)

Here's a link where you can tell what's in where:

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

You should get the minimum daily amounts official amounts from food being:

(and they are low if anything)

Vit A 700 RAE units.

Vit C 75 mg.

Vit D 200 IU

Vit E (from alpha tocopheral) 15.

Vit K 90

Thiamine 1.1

Riboflavin 1.1

Niacin 14.

B6 1.3

Folate food source, 400.

B12 2.4

Pantothenic acid 5

Biotin 30

Choline 425mg

Namaste,

Irene

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