Re: Alergies, Intolerances, Sensitivities...what does ELAINE SAY?

March 1, 2006

>

> Can some one with a lot of time, that knew what Elaine would

> say...speak up about this. I don't know what to think anymore. I am

> confused. I no not to eat it if it causes anayphalaxis or a deadly

> reaction..that is clear...but the rest is not. Look forward wto

> person with experience with the SCDiet to help commit here.

I have a condition known as Multiple Chemical Sensitvities which struck me six

years ago

and six months before I started SCD. I met Elaine at a Potluck Luncheon for SCD

followers

in Toronto. As we chatted and I started to describe my " allergies " she bristled

and said

looking for many allergies was a " needle in the haystack " thing. I later

realized the immune

sytem, always on guard to protect us often perceives danger where none exists.

In time I

was able to separate sensitivities from true allergies. She was really a bear on

this but held

fast to avoiding any food that would give you toxic shock, avoiding that food

forever.

Hope this helps.

Carol F.

SCD 6 years, celiac, SCD Cooking Classes

March 1, 2006

Hello All:

These are all just different expressions of the same problems. We are loaded

with chemicals, toxins and metals everywhere we go. Generally, the body

keeps up and gets rid of them. For some people, through a combination of

factors: diet, levels and kinds of toxins, and our patricular genetic

predispositon we start expressing physically and mentally the toxic cycle.

Malnutrition, bad bugs, less ability to detoxify, most of us live in or near

a city, drive a car everyday, use hygiene products, soaps, detergents,

fabrics that are loaded with toxins. We send things to the dry cleaners

and conveniently pack things in plastic. many drink from bottled water, etc.

so basically we keep adding to our toxic load everyday with everything we

do. most toxins are at home. a carpet can offgas for up to 10 years! most

people have linoleum (the newer kind) in their kitchens and bathrooms, and

most people do not have a porcelain tub anymore. those things add up and if

we do not periodically clean up inside, it keeps adding up until we start

turning on those genes!!! and disease expresses in different ways depending

in our particular predispositions.

Basically, we need to clean up periodically, just like for our kids. It is

the same thing!! Just people don't think that their arthritis, depression,

fibromyalgia, weight gain and other problems are a product of the

combination between toxic overload and bad gut! It all self feeds after

that.

I have lots of info on this topic, if anyone is interested email me. I

also developed a very severe form of MCS as one of the problems I developed

after delivery of my daughter Fiol. And we learned this the hard way.

take care

maria

mom to fiol 15 mo ASD

>

> Dear Carol, and anybody else with experience,

>

> What you wrote below make since. Before being diagnosed with Celiac

> Disease I now have over 14 sensitivities, allergies to antibiotics,

> narcotics and a various list of other medications. Some have caused

> anaphylaxis...the other ones just give me miserable GI symptoms and

> hives. I have to be careful with sulfites, and now believe that phenols has

> been a problem (after reading up on it...it makes too much since and fits

> the problems our family is having). During this time on SCDiet have any of

> your problems from the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity disappeared or became

> more manageable. Does the leaky gut heal...or is it genetic that some of us

> just have permeable guts (due to genetic predisposition)?

>

> Thank you!

> Antoinette

> Entire family SCDiet 8 days (Celiac/paleo like for 14 months)

>

> Re: Alergies, Intolerances, Sensitivities...what

> does ELAINE SAY?

>

> >

> > Can some one with a lot of time, that knew what Elaine would

> > say...speak up about this. I don't know what to think anymore. I am

> > confused. I no not to eat it if it causes anayphalaxis or a deadly

> > reaction..that is clear...but the rest is not. Look forward wto

> > person with experience with the SCDiet to help commit here.

>

> I have a condition known as Multiple Chemical Sensitvities which struck

> me six years ago

> and six months before I started SCD. I met Elaine at a Potluck Luncheon

> for SCD followers

> in Toronto. As we chatted and I started to describe my " allergies " she

> bristled and said

> looking for many allergies was a " needle in the haystack " thing. I later

> realized the immune

> sytem, always on guard to protect us often perceives danger where none

> exists. In time I

> was able to separate sensitivities from true allergies. She was really a

> bear on this but held

> fast to avoiding any food that would give you toxic shock, avoiding that

> food forever.

> Hope this helps.

>

> Carol F.

> SCD 6 years, celiac, SCD Cooking Classes

>

> For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

> _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

> websites:

> http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info<

> http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/>

> and

> http://www.pecanbread.comhttp://www.pecanbread.com/>

>

March 1, 2006