Re: Gas/WD/milk/kombucha/sleeping-Chris

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> I just recently (a week ago) eliminated milk completely from my

diet. I'm

> going to try Probiogurt, the 30-hour goat yogurt, when I get a

chance. My gas

> problem has almost completely gone away.

This is so interesting. When I was in junior high school, I began to

drink lots of milk – a glass or two every meal, and eating ice cream

for dessert almost every evening. I was drinking 3-5 glasses of milk

plus a huge bowl of ice cream per day and after about a year or so of

that, I would get lots of bloating, gas, rumbling, churning, and

abdominal pain. Severe abdominal pain and cramping while running

more than half a mile. Someone mentioned lactose intolerance and so

I tried taking lactase before drinking milk. This didn't help at

all, despite taking a handful of lactase before, during, and after a

glass of milk. It took me another 12 years to finally give up on

milk and ice cream which did alleviate a portion of the digestive

problems.

A couple of months ago, right before I discovered pyroluria, I was

doing a series of food allergy/elimination experiments and got

unusual results. When I ate gluten-free, egg-free, milk-free, and

corn-free for two weeks, I didn't notice any significant reduction in

bloating or abdominal problems. But when I re-introduced each of

these back, I got headaches with gluten, hypoglycemia-like symptoms

with eggs, extra bloating and digestion problems with milk, and

headaches, hives, and bad anxiety with corn. Each time my pulse

would rise from 90 to 100-110.

Yesterday, before I read your post, I had read an article about

autism in which the author noted that all autistic children are

gluten- and casein-intolerant. I don't know if that's true or not,

but since like 25% of all autistic children are pyroluric and

therefore B6 deficient, it would follow that they would be unable to

digest the proteins gluten and casein, since B6 is needed for

synthesis of the enzyme(s) or whatever is needed for protein

digestion and assimilation.

After reading your experiences with milk, it made me wonder if I'm

not really allergic to all these foods, but just not digesting the

proteins gluten, casein, and whatever the protein in corn is, along

with the proteins in meat, chicken, eggs, nuts, and beans. I don't

know much about leaky gut syndrome, but I think maybe over the years,

I've done enough damage to my digestive system that undigested

proteins are really causing problems.

I don't really know how to fix the problem. Last night I was

thumbing through Jordan Rubin's " Restoring Your Digestive Health, "

and thinking I might eat only broth, coconut oil, and fermented

veggies for awhile and experiment with enzymes and other digestion

aids until I can successfully digest the protein in broth. Then move

on to other types of protein until I can eventually eat gluten, corn

protein, and casein without looking pregnant. I've experimented with

enzymes in the past (omegazyme and whatever Radiant Life carries) and

neither has really helped much. Maybe there's not anywhere enough

protein enzymes for my situation in standard enzymes. Jordan Rubin

suggested two protein digestants to help people who can't digest

protein.

- Hydrozyme (Biotics Research): Betaine HCI, Glutamic Acid, Ammonium

Chloride, Pepsin, pancreatin and vitamin B-6.

- Zypan (Standard Process): Proprietary blend: Betaine hydrochloride,

pancreas Cytosol™ extract, pancreatin (3X), fatty acid, pepsin

(1:10,000), ammonium chloride, bovine spleen, and ovine spleen.

Other ingredients: Cellulose, lactose, and calcium stearate.

These just seem like regular HCl/pancrean supplements. I don't see

anything like proteolytic enzymes that makes them better for protein

digestion - maybe I'm missing something? I had unpleasant and

atypical experiences with HCl that I don't really want to re-

experience.

Anyway, just some random thoughts. Probably doesn't really help you

much.

Cara