salicylates in sprouts

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Emma,

I used to be an ordinary SAD eater until age 38, when I had colon cancer -

in a family where we die early of cancer or heart. So I rotated my ways 180°

to eat " Dr Weil's type diet " (called after dr Kousmine over here). I stuck

to it because it was so efficient on my vitality and on my psyproblems (I

had used to be a borderline person). At age 45 I had ulcerative colitis

(autoimmune disease akin to Crohn; I guess you know). This is where you

might be intererested. It was a soft kind of " body crying to be heard " . I

was not too worried but I consulted a gastro: he had me take Pentasa (amines

salicylées). The day after it was a disaster. I started losing pure blood,

it got worse. After three days I stopped the medecine. I went on losing 30

pounds in a month. I could not digest anything anymore: food would come out

the way it went in. I decided not to use any more medecine, even homeopathy.

I tried the extreme ways of vegetarianism at that time -> GF CF then being

raw foodist. It took me a year to accept the idea of SCD although I was so

weak I could not even walk or have a shower alone. I got much better with

SCD and discovered, while studying my diary over those long months, that I

had a kind of allergy to vegetables. Two of my homeopath doctors I consulted

by phone laughed of course. I know now it was a kind of salicylates

reaction. Could it be that the strong reaction to Pentasa started the

reaction to salicylates? This would explain why I got over it (by the way

doing an homeopathy thing a few years ago that reverted the " Pentasa

shock " ). I still cannot overdo it with salicylates but not the way it used

to be.

I thought it might interest you in your research.

Bye

Cordialement

Taty Lauwers

taty@...

www.taty.be/nouveau.htm

Re: Guidance for minimising amines in foods

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>> I had a period in my life where I was overreactive to salicylates.

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>> quiet now. At that period, I had a feeling that sprouted grains or

>> vegetables (leek, etc) made me worse ( I was a raw vegetarian at

> that time).

>> I dropped them for meat and eggs etc. Got much better. Would you know

>> sprouts composition in salicylates or other plant poisons? I know

> molds are

>> not too good (when you do not rinse them properly) but I was still a

>> compulsive person at that time so rinsing was done OK.

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> Hi Taty.

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> Sprouted grains is a difficult question to answer. I don't think they

> have been tested. Grains do not contain salicylates, but some people

> think grass is high in salicylates. So it is possible that sprouted

> grains *might* contain salicylates. But sprouted grains and seeds do

> contain some strange amines like octopamine, spermine, spermidine etc.

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> Leek is quite low in salicylates but is sulphurous, and I think

> contains a few irritants when raw.

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> I don't know whether this is a food chemical intolerance or not. I

> have heard of people having short-term intolerances. If you tolerate

> vegetables now, it could be that you were deficient in a

> vitamin/mineral cofactor you needed. Or perhaps these were the

> symptoms of the vegetarian diet?

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