Re: Re: budwig

[Guest guest]

At 01:52 PM 7/12/2010, you wrote:

I just wanted to know if anyone

here is on that diet or has had experience with it and if so I'd really

like to talk with you via email.

As it happens, I use DCCC and flax oil, and have, since I got my cancer

diagnosis.

Flax oil is not SCD illegal, but it is often not recommended because you

have to be so careful to get it scrupulously fresh.

<wry grin> My holistic vet prescribed cottage cheese and flax oil

for my Sunny-girl's heart murmur, and so, every evening, I fix some DCCC

and flax oil, and hand out bowls to all three dogs before eating my own.

I mean, really! You don't think Shadow and Babette were going to let

Sunny and me get away with hogging a treat like that, do you?

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

[Guest guest]

Just a head's up if you are not doing this already:http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/007323.htmlFish Oil Cuts Breast Cancer Risk?Over a period of 6 years fish oil usage was correlated with reduced incidence of breast cancer.I'm actually thinking about trying to incorporate it into my own diet (using dripped yogurt) since I'm now officially at a higher risk for breast cancer. At the very least it would make my Mum feel better about the protocol and at most it could help me stay cancer-free.StaceyI just wanted to know if anyone here is on that diet or has had experience with it and if so I'd really like to talk with you via email.As it happens, I use DCCC and flax oil, and have, since I got my cancer diagnosis.Flax oil is not SCD illegal, but it is often not recommended because you have to be so careful to get it scrupulously fresh.<wry grin> My holistic vet prescribed cottage cheese and flax oil for my Sunny-girl's heart murmur, and so, every evening, I fix some DCCC and flax oil, and hand out bowls to all three dogs before eating my own. I mean, really! You don't think Shadow and Babette were going to let Sunny and me get away with hogging a treat like that, do you?— Marilyn New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001 Darn Good SCD Cook No Human Children Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund Babette the Foundling Beagle------------------------------------

[Guest guest]

At 12:50 AM 7/13/2010, you wrote:

Since when do you have three

dogs and not two?

Since someone abandoned a seven month old beagle on our neighborhood, and

she turned up on our side ramp the day after my Mom's memorial, cold,

hungry, and scared. We asked around, but no one claimed her. After the

way she hugged up against me, shivering, and so grateful for a cuddle, I

wasn't sticking her back outside to get run over, or something.

A Beagle is NOT a Dachshund... but I hafta say, my Shadow-goof is being

an amazingly patient foster parent to her.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

[Guest guest]

At 11:07 AM 7/13/2010, you wrote:

I'm actually thinking about

trying to incorporate it into my own diet (using dripped yogurt) since

I'm now officially at a higher risk for breast cancer. At the very least

it would make my Mum feel better about the protocol and at most it could

help me stay cancer-free.

Yep, but also look to fish oils for prevention.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

[Guest guest]

At 12:08 PM 7/17/2010, you wrote:

Wow- this diet is very

fascinating to me. My Integrative/Nutrigenomic Doc always told me that

our bodies are only able to convert 2% of the ALA to EPA in Flax... how

crazy is it that somehow this works with the cottage cheese? I am so

happy that this is working for your mom, Stacey. Can't wait to hear how

it goes!

It may have something to do with mixing the flax oil with the cottage

cheese.

One book I read on Omega 3s said that flax oil (and flax seed, which is a

problem for us SCDers because of the high lignins in the seeds, which can

feed bad bacteria) is the best source for Omega 3s.

However, another book I read said that some people cannot convert from

ALA to DHA and EPA, and must get it from an animal source. The same thing

can be true of beta carotene (Vitamin A precursor. Beta carotene has uses

in its own form, and when it's converted to Vitamin A. But some people

can't convert to Vitamin A and must find a source for both beta carotene

and pre-formed Vitamin A.

You have to keep in mind that in some cases, the recommendation for flax

oil comes from vegetarians who consider fish oils (or any animal product)

bad.

That said, I do have DCCC and flax oil several times a week.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

[Guest guest]

At 04:52 PM 7/18/2010, you wrote:

It is fascinating and confusing

as heck how many different opinions there are out there! I am sure there

are many foods that complement each other like the flax oil and cottage

cheese. I am reading " Food Synergy " right now trying to see if

there's anything interesting. Although it's tough to validate a book when

they are recommending things like soy products... talk about confusing.

Luckily I have 100% faith in SCD all by itself

Thanks for that info Marilyn- I never knew about Beta

Carotene!

SCD works better than all the diet advice and nutritional supplements

I've read about put together. It's why, nine years into it, I'm sticking

with SCD... and why I'm here on this list helping others with

it.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

[Guest guest]

Holly,

I've had little red bumps on the backs of my arms and the front of my

thighs all my life but its been disappearing since I've started taking

echinacea and low-dose naltrexone (they both seem to be helping by

body destroy infections so I'm not sure which to credit). My theory

was that it was a sign of latent infection, a bit like acne. Do you

recall where you heard the beta-carotene theory? I'm curious about

this now, because I have a friend with Celiac disease who has the same

skin condition on her arms.

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> Marilyn, do you happen to know how a person can find out if they can't convert

beta carotene to vitamin A? I have these awful little red bumps all over my

thighs (and less bad on the backs of my arms). I've heard that this can be a

sign of not being able to convert beta carotene.

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> Holly

> Crohn's

> SCD 12/01/08

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[Guest guest]

At 01:50 AM 7/19/2010, you wrote:

Marilyn, do you happen to know

how a person can find out if they can't convert beta carotene to vitamin

A? I have these awful little red bumps all over my thighs (and less bad

on the backs of my arms). I've heard that this can be a sign of not being

able to convert beta carotene.

It's not something I have researched to date.

I do know that I don't convert ALA to GLA, since ALA does not work the

same for my muscle spasms as GLA. I also noted that although I was using

a multi-vitamin with beta-carotene, my eyes (tendency to night blindness)

do better with pre-formed Vitamin A, so I'm assuming that I wasn't

properly converting it.

There may well be a lab test out there, but I haven't gone looking for

it, as the doctors who are covered by my insurance aren't interested in

such things.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle