Re: Introduction, ramblings and a few questions!

[Guest guest]

Hi and everyone else,

I've just joined the list, too. I'm down in Tasmania I've been

reading Dr Mercola's site for quite a while now, and I've also been

on a list for raw feeding pets

(rawpaws/) where someone gave a link to

this group.

> ...And for those dairy allergic people, can you use ghee in your

> cooking since it has such a small amount of caesin in it?...

I can't - it's as bad as butter for me I believe some people are

better with it though.

Cheers,

Tas'.

[Guest guest]

Good to know, mine's still in the fridge waiting for me to get up the courage

LOL, and the kvass goes in the fridge today. I've got to be less chicken. I

meant to serv the kraut with supper the last few days but I forgot (honestly I

did, scared as I am I DO want to eat it) To me taste is secondary. My main

concern is helping my health. I have IBS and I am DESPERATE to eat without

having so much pain after. I've noticed a HUGE difference when I prepare foods

NT I don't get sick, eat normal food and HURT! Well, gotta run.

<parnham@...> wrote:

When I tried the Sauerkraut after having never eaten it in my life

and not even being a fan of cabbage, well..........YUMMY!

Mrs. Siemens

Helpmeet to , mommy to Zachary & Lydia

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salvation.... "

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[Guest guest]

> Introduction, ramblings and a few questions!

>

>

>Hi,

>

>My name is and I live in Perth, Australia. I finally got

>Sally's book from the Library last week and after reading it cover

>to cover in about 2 days, I am hooked. So I have made my own cream

>cheese and whey from yoghurt and then Sauerkraut, Corn Relish and

>Banana Bread. Next is Orange Marmalade and Fruit Chutney. Home

>made cream cheese is the best!!!! And it is sooo nice to know that

>it is good to put butter on my food after all (I remember eating

>butter straight from the container when I was a kid).

Geez girl - you don't waste time! LOL! It took me several months after

reading NT to make so many NT recipes (I'm just slow, I guess :-)

>Anyway, yummy as the Sauerkraut is, if I use less salt, will that

>lessen the intensity of the " pickled " flavour and make it milder?

Not if you let it ferment longer. I usually let mine ferment for a week or

two at room temp, FWIW.

>

>I have a 15 month old son who has had eczema since he was two months

>old. We have since discovered he allergic/intolerant to dairy,

>wheat, nut, soy, egg, brassica, canteloupe, strawberry, sugar, honey

>and more. We have seen naturopaths, homeopaths, and tried a variety

>of things but we haven't had much progress yet. But we still keep

>trying.

Are you absolutely positive there's no gluten in any of the products he

eats? It's often in products that you'd never think it was in, or has

contaminated other products, like oats or spices. And it's a common cause of

eczema for the gluten-intolerant.

>

>One thing that they all agree on is that he lacks the intestinal gut

>flora we need so now I can fill him up with lots of healthy lacto-

>fermented foods!!! Has anyone else had any success with this way of

>cooking and skin conditions like eczema???

My psoriasis cleared up on this kind of eating. You might consider

kefirizing young coconut water for him a la Donna Gates. Google the " Body

Ecology " website for more info. This is a very powerful probiotic brew that

she's used to treat autistic children (who tend to have messed up gut

flora). If I had access to young green coconuts, I'd drink it myself

regularly. If that's not an option, then milk kefir using raw milk from

grass-fed cows is also a fantastic source of probiotics. I think the only

limitation with lacto-fermented foods is that they tend to feed the small

intestine and not the large, to my knowledge. AFAIK, they don't contain any

bifidobacteria species, which are specific to the large intestine. I'm not

sure if that is a problem or not, but worth keeping in mind for a child with

gut bacterial issues.

Is your son still breast feeding? If not, how long did he breast feed? Has

he been vaccinated? If so, does Australia use thimerasol (a form of mercury)

as a vaccine preservative as companies here in the States do? Do you have

any dental amalgams? These could possibly point to reasons behind his gut,

skin and allergy problems. Lack of breast feeding and mercury exposure via

the mother's dental amalgams and (it's theorized) through

thimerasol-preserved vaccines often cause these issues in babies and

children.

>

>And for those dairy allergic people, can you use ghee in your

>cooking since it has such a small amount of caesin in it?

True ghee doesn't have any casein in it - it's 100% fat. I used it when I

was otherwise dairy-free.

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

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Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

http://www.westonaprice.org

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[Guest guest]

Hi Suze,

> My psoriasis cleared up on this kind of eating.

That's just what I want to hear. I'll have to tell my MIL who has

psoriasis.

You might consider

> kefirizing young coconut water for him a la Donna Gates.

Fresh Coconuts are not something you find here. Occassionally you

find a very old whole coconut at a supermarket which is sold as a

novelty more than anything.

>If I had access to young green coconuts, I'd drink it myself

> regularly. If that's not an option, then milk kefir using raw milk

from grass-fed cows is also a fantastic source of probiotics. I

think the only limitation with lacto-fermented foods is that they

tend to feed the small intestine and not the large, to my knowledge.

AFAIK, they don't contain any bifidobacteria species, which are

specific to the large intestine. I'm not sure if that is a problem

or not, but worth keeping in mind for a child with gut bacterial

issues.

My son doesn't agree with cows milk but you can buy raw organic

goats milk here so I am going to try making a batch of products with

that and see how he does. Now I just have to figure out where to

buy Kefir grains. Can you get them from dairy/cheese product

manufacturer? I had never heard of Kefir (or Piima for that matter)

until I read NT so I am expecting to get a few strange looks from

people once I start there search. Any other Aussies out there who

can help help me???

> Is your son still breast feeding? If not, how long did he breast

feed?

Yes, and he is showing no signs of stopping (not that I want him

to). If I drink too much cows milk (or eat too much of my home made

cream cheese) he will throw up after breastfeeding.

> Has he been vaccinated?

Absolutely NOT!

> Do you have any dental amalgams?

Yes and he has been tested as having a high level of mercury in his

system. Not really sure what to do about this yet. We're seeing

the naturopath again this week so hopefully we will come up with a

few new strategies. He's also being allergy tested again so

hopefully we'll be able to bring some foods back into our diet.

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

> Re: Introduction, ramblings and a few questions!

>

>My son doesn't agree with cows milk but you can buy raw organic

>goats milk here so I am going to try making a batch of products with

>that and see how he does. Now I just have to figure out where to

>buy Kefir grains. Can you get them from dairy/cheese product

>manufacturer?

Not that I'm aware of, but you've got the kefir king in your neck 'o the

woods. His name is Dom and you could get grains from him. Website:

http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html Or you could probably get

them from someone on the kefir group:

Kefir_making

>> Do you have any dental amalgams?

>

>Yes and he has been tested as having a high level of mercury in his

>system.

Ah, I was afraid of that. Unfortunately he's likely getting it through your

breast milk (some research has shown that mercury is passed via breast

milk), and probably got a good dose through the placenta before birth.

Nothing you can do about that now, but you can detoxify him of the mercury

already in his system.

Not really sure what to do about this yet. We're seeing

>the naturopath again this week so hopefully we will come up with a

>few new strategies.

Well, if I had a child with high mercury levels, I'd detox him with a safe

protocol - my preference would be Hall Cutler's protocol (He wrote

" Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment " ) and has the most conservative

(read " safe " ) yet effective mercury removal protocol that I've come across

yet. Many, many parents of autistic children (and children with several

other disorders associated with mercury poisoning) use his protocol. I urge

you to join the Autism-mercury list for more info about how to detoxify

mercury from a child - many parents on that list are using his protocol (as

well as others), which involves chelation primarily. I'm about to have my

amalgams removed and will chelate with his protocol, plus do sauna therapy

(probably infrared) and also perhaps do colonics, as most mercury is

evacuated via the colon.

http://www.noamalgam.com (Andy's website)

There are plenty of non-safe mercury detox protocols out there, so I'd just

warn you to research it well and choose your protocol carefully. Some

protocols may actually redistribute mercury to the brain and other organs,

which causes more harm.

Does your son have any symptoms of autism? Several researchers consider

autism to be a form of mercury poisoning, and it seems that removing mercury

is often curative. Here are several other disorders associated with mercury

poisoning that many parents on the Autism-mercury list are dealing with:

aspergers, ADD, ADHD, PDD, PDD-NOS, SID, oppositional defiance disorder,

apraxia, and speech disorders.

>He's also being allergy tested again so

>hopefully we'll be able to bring some foods back into our diet.

Mercury is known to cause allergies as well, so you have a good chance of

clearing those up if you detoxify his mercury.

Best of luck!

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

http://www.westonaprice.org

----------------------------

“The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause

heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times.” --

Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt

University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher.

The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics

<http://www.thincs.org>

----------------------------

[Guest guest]

> Well, if I had a child with high mercury levels, I'd detox him

with a safe

> protocol - my preference would be Hall Cutler's protocol

(He wrote

> " Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment " ) and has the most

conservative

> (read " safe " ) yet effective mercury removal protocol that I've

come across

> yet.

This is what I've heard is safe. I'm still trying to figure out

what to do about my fillings.

http://www.awakennutrition.com/faq.html

Robin