autoimmune issues and food -- useful info

[pr40]

just in case you have not read this article.

we found it useful

http://www.meandmydiabetes.com/2011/11/30/loren-cordain-autoimmune-disease-and-food-triggers/

[rowingmom]

Good for you for finding this article. This is the reason we follow a paleo, autoimmune diet. Here is a series of videos explaining Cordain's reasoning behind autoimmune reactions and MS.

 

 

This is the first of seven videos. You are familiar with the Robb Wolfe paleo diet blog?

[4Nikki]

Who would have thought that inflammation would also be connected to how our body absorbs food stuff?

[Valerie2013]

Wow. Really interesting article. Thanks for sharing.

 

We thought our daughter's symptoms became worse after I (mistakenly, I now realize) tried to reintroduce eggs into her diet.

[rowingmom]

We are still using organic egg yolks - always good to eat organic fats, as that is where pesticides accumulate. No whites though.

[norcalmom]

I went to the you tube link above (thank you) and there was another really good video series there - by Dr Terry Wahls. I've heard of her before, but I had never seen any of her stuff. The six part you tube preso it pretty good. Paleo diet focused.

[rowingmom]

Terry Wahls is great. The fact that she was able to bring herself into remission from secondary progressive MS using diet makes me really think about Buhner's stance that some bacterial infections (especially mycoplasmas) can act parasitically causing extreme nutrient deficiency. He also mentions associations (causative or not?) between mycoplasma and demylinating diseases and some cancers. His book on the mycoplasma and bartonella coinfections was a real eye-opener.

[norcalmom]

The book is awesome. But- its really hard to use his treatment with kids (at least with my kid). You have to take SOOO many herbs/supplements- most of which are either in tincture firm or dried herb form- taste icky. If you can find tablets- then you have too many to take- since as he states- these are really medicinal foods. You have to take a lot for them to have any effect.

The tincture taste disgusting- so there's no way DS will take them.

He inspired me to read several other books and everything I could find online about the herbs and the medicinal properties of a few that seem to make sense for my son.

I am trying to do something similar to what he does and Walhs did for DS. Find specific substances for his situation, and prioritize them.

Use of adaptogens really seem to make sense, and since Cordyceps is a really good one, as we'll as having two other modes if operation- antiinflamatory and ( forget ...third) I've introduced that into DS routine. Has to take 4-6 tablets per day for that alone, so it is really hard to do more than that although I would like to.

Going gluten free isn't an option, and we did that for a month early on with no results, so the stress it would introduce to DS probably now worth it.

I'm trying to focus on things that are good for him to incorporate, rather than eliminating things.

Adaptogens help body to figure out how to react - to create cytokines, or down regulate cytokines. There are several different kinds of cytokines- they aren't all bad ( it's all about balance anyway).

Since no one know which cytokines in PANs kids are out of whack ( yes- this reasearch has been done in other immune diseases, but they are often different- even opposite)

If you read Bruhners book, you already know all that.

I decided the safest one to try first would be an adaptogen. And to try to get more fermented foods into his diet, rat a Brazil nut per day, cook his meat rare, let him eat eggs like crazy- and since he likes sourdough, switch him to sourdough (wheat if possible) (levain) bread. (It's fermented- so I've read that even wheat sensible people can eat it).

Read that from account of woman that out her lupus into remission mainly with increasing fermented foods and raw milk products. I'm going to post some of the books in another thread when I have a chance. Read some very interesting things- decided to thiw a very wide next to see what commonalities I could between many disorders similar to pans.