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| | From:  ViveUtVivas (Original Message) | Sent: 7/24/2007 5:02 PM |
Thanks you for your reply to my previous post.
With as little detail as possible:
after 7 years of high stress living (16 hour work days - 7 days/week ) I became ill with severe skin rashes, headache, "irrational anger", totally clogged sinuses, vision deterioration, etc.
My diet through that period consisted of a lot of store bought fruit during the day, and some cooked starchy meal for dinner between 10pm and 12am. Most of the food was "organic". The meals were increasingly low fat over the 7 years. The fat that I did use consisted of canola oil and/or cheeses ("organic" "raw (but not really raw)).
In reponse to this sudden life altering problem, I changed my diet.
I started to think that meat could be one of the keys.
I bounced back and forth between a Nourishing Traditions style diet, and a PrimalDiet/vonderplanitz diet.
None of this has really brought me back to life.
The rashes remain, fatigue, and lack of energy remains. Add psychological exhaustion from all the self denial and forced dietary schemes.
Starting 6 months ago my diet consisted of mostly raw cow milk. And I started depending on it excessivley, I didn't measure the amount, but probably 1 quart per day.
Then in February I ate a large amount of rye bread and cow's butter.
Then, in March, as a result of persistant skin rashes that seemed to be spreading, I started to eat large amounts of raw low quality chicken. The rashes started receding and now I have only one rash left (the largest and most irritating one). As it is difficult to eat only chicken, I started adding pork fat, pork muscle, pork liver, and rabbit liver. All of this food is commercially produced. (I left the U.S. 8 months ago-- I am now in East Europe and connot obtain organic food.) The animals are fed various mixtures of soy and other grains.
Now a worse problem has arrived: persistent and chronic chest pains spreading to the left arm and wrist, back pains, dizziness, and numbness in the fingers.
I dropped the diet (which was an immature attempt at "raw paleolithic") and concurrently started taking 1/2 aspirin per day and drinking coffee with fresh real honey and black tea with real honey. I started again eating alot of fruit, but now fresh from the various plum trees, raspberry bushes, blackberries, etc. In the winter I will not have access to such fresh fruit.
The chest pains and numbness have gone away, and so far the rashes have not returned.
So, by adding coffee and aspirin, I have broken a 10 year attempt to pursue "natural" health. I just want health, natural or not, before I die.
I look forward to hearing you advise and experiences. I hope I can find a more effective approach to my problems, and even solve them in the near future.
Thanks,
--Mike-- |
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What is not "natural" about coffee and aspirin? Aspirin is the lab made extract of certain tree back powders, right?
I suggest you consult a bunch of doctors for the various problems and see what they say. They may not be good at solutions for "chronic" problems, but if there is something "seriously wrong," you should at least find out about it.
It sounds to me like your cells are releasing AA, thus causing many if not most of your problems. Also, I don't know if you are getting enough high-quality protein, B vitamins, electrolyte minerals, etc., and you could be deficient in stomach acid as well. Have you tried testing yourself to see if your stomach is producing enough acid?
I too went through several different kinds of diet, including going gluten free for about 2 years. Even though I was eating the right diet at one point, I was still not taking enough stomach acid supplement and also not eating enough high-quality protein. It's frustrating but it's important to keep thinking about what the problem could be and also testing out different ideas. I had a terrible facial rash that lasted for more than 2 years, so I know how discouraging this situation can be, but I was also losing weight and getting weaker, which likely got to a truly "life threating" point at one time.
Have you tried to determine what your protein intake, etc. is? |
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