What doctors can do is truly amazing, but only if you are sick in certain ways. Then we make the mistake of thinking doctors must be near god and can cure anything. This isn’t even close to true, and and honest doctor will tell you the same.
Doctors are mostly clueless when it comes to diet, they simply aren’t taught about it. So don’t expect any good advice and encouragement from the medical profession.
]]>Currently, reducing sugar (even natural sugar via fruit) is helping too. It’s hard to say this because, at some points, my body gets sicker without some fresh fruit in it..as if that’s providing some essential form of nutrition I wouldn’t get elsewhere. But, after taking a risk with some yeast inclusive foods, the sugar and yeast mix was not doing me well at all.
My allergic symptoms and sensitivities include the general (soy, wheat, milk, nuts, seeds, dried fruits with sulfites, sulfates, corn, gluten) as well as a host of fresh veggies and fruits with some reactions to greens, especially raw spinach)- basically, most available food. I’ve learned over-time that I can react to anything if I eat it consistently. And this could be why variation plays such an important role. In my case, high levels of variation, avoiding staples, is preferable.
And of course, that can be challenging with such a long list of things..and, eventually, for me, it includes consuming the things that are causing small reactions once in awhile, just to increase the variation…Not ideal, but this has been the second best thing to work so far.. HTH.
Thanks for starting this website and sharing so much of your experience. I’ve had a lot of difficulty with doctors as well and one who seemed to understand, but seemed reluctant to do something besides provide a subtle hint that diet could be a problem. Since then, actually changing my diet for changes in health has caught their attention as a negative thing.
It’s not a cool thing to have the world worship a certain profession and have an inside view into how the people who aren’t being served are really driving the change..then again, maybe it is a cool thing. 😉 Thanks for sharing your experience.
]]>You are probably best to avoid all yeast for now and see if you feel better, then try food with baker’s yeast (eg bread) and see if that makes you feel worse. In other words, start conservative, avoid everything, and then see if that’s really necessary.
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]]>Yeast is not an alcohol. Yeast does produce alcohol as a byproduct of life, just as we produce urine.
As far as I know, bread does produce alcohol while rising, but it all evaporates during baking, so no, you don’t have to worry about getting drunk from eating bread!
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T. Peters
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