I was recommended 6-7 books about diet and digestion (I had heartburn 24/7 and I had to go for a 20 minute walk after every meal otherwise I would get all clogged up. I did those walks everyday for about 6 months. Was a ‘mare.) When I started reading about diet I could hardly believe what I was reading. I knew so little. I am 38 years old and my knowledge was pathetic. Really, on a test I would have scored 5 out of 100. It is staggering what conventional wisdom has us believe, and I thought I had a healthy diet. I wasn’t even close. I did have to read a lot, because so much new information cannot go into my mind that quickly. I think I read 7 healthy food books in a row.

From your posts I can see that you are in the same boat as me, and up the same creek too. You are intolerant to so many foods n chemicals and that you keep getting the reactions/symptoms, one after the other, week after week in a never ending vicious circle of misery. My body never has enough time to get better because it spends all its time getting better from the previous hit.

If I eat one mouthful of, for example, cheese, what happens is my body feels pretty good. It tastes fantastic and I really do feel excellent overall. The sensation of yummy-ness is wonderful and I get an instant hit of pleasure and feeling good. 10-20 mins later I am back to normal. I am “normal” for about 20 hours, then I start to get a little bit of heartburn, then my skin on my hands goes dry, then my back starts hurting pretty badly as my spine becomes inflamed and swells up. the skin on my whole body dries out, I get constipated. My stomach stops all digestion for about 3 days. I do eat food but its as if I don’t eat any food for 3 days and I lose a lot of weight. I also feel like sh$t and want to curl up and stay away from the world. These symptoms last 5-10 days for me.

One mouthful did this. For me the same applies to all dairy/all wheat/all soya/all refined foods incl white rice/all junk foods and the nightshade family. One mouthful is all it takes.

That understanding took a LONG time to get in my head…..ONE MOUTHFUL is all it takes, to cause so much pain and troubles. So now I am past the cheating stage, I have had enough, it is ALL diet related and I only have myself to blame. I understand that my body cannot cope because its FUBAR.

The WHY of “why do I feel so GOOD eating a food that will make me SICK” is a excellent story for another day, but its fair to say we all have amazing bodies that try SO hard to remain healthy. If you didn’t get that feeling you would have been dead long time ago, but a story for another time.

So…….if you cheat you will screw yourself up. One mouthful. One mouthful is all it takes. And symptoms that last a long time. If you cheat again you get symptoms on top of symptoms!

So, how do we break the cycle? Break the vicious circle? We have tried all the bloody diets, and they work, to a degree, but they don’t really work, because we still can’t eat normal food and we can’t eat food that enables us to heal.

What we need to do is somehow STOP getting ill from eating the food we eat; so that the food we can eat can do its job of healing us. We need to have a stable period of healthy eating with no symptoms and where the body HEALS itself using the food we eat. all the supplements in the world will do bugger all if you cannot digest what you eat. This is what we have been trying to do with all the various special diets we have been working on, but its still not working, and any cheating just makes matters worse.

Catch 22: the food we eat screws us up, the food cannot do its job of healing us. If you don’t eat food then your done for anyway. Catch 22, we are screwed both ways! Or so it seems.

Phew……………. so I went on to a(nother) diet that was specially designed to do that. It was composed of foods that are guaranteed NOT to screw me up. To create a level playing field , reset to zero my digestion. Foods that did not cause a reaction with anyone, ever, because they where neutral and caused zero effects.

My foods where : lamb, trout, pears, honeydew melon, buckwheat, rice, green beans, avocado, pumpkin, extra virgin olive oil, sea salt.

This is all I ate for 10 days, and yes was difficult and meant I had to restrict my normal life, but my lifes funked so was no big deal, just a bit more tricky than usual.

I kept a food diary, took my Ph value to see my alkaline/acid balance all the time which was interesting.

Those 10 days where best 10 days of the previous 12 months I have had, because I had zero symptoms smacking me around the face! They where gradually getting less!
this made actually doing the diets easier, becaus they worked.

Next I was on a Rotation diet, which gave me a much bigger choice of foods, about 30 foods, but I was not allowed to eat the same food for another 5 days, each food was also in a group and I was not allowed to eat food from that group for the next 2 days. Was very difficult to manage and arrange. I had to sort out what and when I was gonna eat what and when…..! yes very difficult. Again it worked, slowly, but it was defo working a bit. No symptoms.

Next I was on a special diet to increase some enzymes ( I don’t know specifically) was called “HIT – increase DAO and MAO” whatever that is. Which was basically ultra healthy organic food, zero processed gunk, but also no fruit….which was very difficult indeed as that made up a large part of my diet before.

I also had lots of weird rules like no mint, no tap water, no pre-washed salads, no OTC drugs, no stored meat.

Anyway….end result was that it worked. I took no drugs, no supplements, do special herbs. Was just healthy food. For 10 day I was hungry like I had not eaten for a couple of years (I used to weigh 90kg, I am currently below 60kg now). I even put on 1kg. it was brilliant. I felt the most normal I have for a long time, although I did spent a LOT of time in the kitchen preparing all the food I ate. LOL

Then some idiot suggested I try cystine for metal detox, and I tried it like an idiot and that funked everything big style, again. Now I’m trying to get back to that, but………..now I know that it is possible through diet alone!

No way could I have figured this out myself. Reading all those booked helped me understand and help me find someone to help me. That someone designed the above diet, which is personal to me and you would defo have a different set of rules and plans of action. (I have “small intestine bacterial overgrowth” (SIBO), you have CANDIDA.)

I humbly suggest you find a nutrionist, or someone that can listen to you and design a plan of action especially for you.
The guy I found was in fact a mircobioligist, he ran lots of tests, diagnosed SIBO, then gave me my diet plan and sent me away.

This slight boost to my health has enable me to go forward with amalgam removal, which will hopefully further enable me to get better. Without the diet I could not attempt amalgam removal.

You cannot go forward because your digestion is holding you back, so digestion should be a top priority. IMHO.

Sunshine