Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Those blasted grains!! (now asthma)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

[fast5] Re: Those blasted grains!! (now asthma)

Without trying to go off topic, I appreciate what you wrote as I have an 8 year old with borderline asthma. I'm glad you were able to cure yourself with diet and lifestyle changes. I was recently talking to my doctor and he recommended the following website: http://www.asthmastory.com/ . There is some new evidence that possibly half of all adult onset asthma cases may be caused by a new strain of Chlamydia. There is also some compelling evidence that some infant and youth asthma may be attributed to ureaplasma ( http://www.drmirkin.com/morehealth/G144.htm , http://www.drmirkin.com/morehealth/G107.htm ) which tends to occur alongside Chlamydia infections.

-Rick

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, David Nyman <david@...> wrote:
>
> I think you're right that something seems to be changing, and not just in
> the US. For example, the incidence of childhood asthma seems to be very
> much on the increase, judging both by what I hear and the number of inhalers
> I see everywhere. Some of this, I would imagine, is simply more diagnosis
> combined with the tendency of the medical profession and drugs industry to
> medicalise everything, but this can't explain the whole phenomenon. Is it
> air pollution, dietary issues, obesity, excessive cleanliness leading to
> compromised immune function - or some combination of factors?
>
> You're quite correct that personally I'm lucky to have had few issues of
> this sort. However I did suffer from asthma decades ago, diagnosed by an MD
> with a pendulum (don't ask!) to be the consequence of a number of food
> allergies, the sources of which I religiously eliminated from my diet for
> some months. Alas, this had not the slightest effect, so finally in a bout
> of sheer frustration and scepticism, I ground some of the banned substances
> into a paste and performed a sublingual challenge (allegedly risking
> anaphylactic shock). Result: absolutely nothing. The asthma was ultimately
> permanently banished through a combination of weight reduction, improved
> aerobic fitness, and Buteyko breathing techniques. One interesting aspect
> of my improving condition was that, one by one, the stressors that had
> tended to produce an attack (e.g. cold air, smoky atmosphere, exercise, full
> stomach, red wine) ceased to trigger any wheezing, until ultimately I had
> become "immune" to them all, even in combination. So this tends to confirm
> that one's general health, fitness and immune status are critical to
> defending against environmental stress of various, apparently unrelated,
> kinds.
>
> David