I knew someone who got major IBS from salad ... his issue appears to have been clostridium, from after a surgery he had (it's common after surgeries, because of the antibiotics). Anyway, what solved it for him was taking a bit of bentonite (1/4 tsp) three times a week. Konjac powder works very well for this too. The konjac will cause gas the first week or two, but it stabilizes gut bacteria nicely. I take 1/4 tsp (mixed with psyllium, to make it dissolve better) in water, once a day. If there is some kind of other digestive issue, I take 1/4 tsp. of bentonite with water. It's good to have fiber with bentonite too, in that it can cause constipation for some people.
Fast-5 helps the gut, I think, because it gives the gut time to do "house cleaning" between meals. Having 30-feet of intestine ALWAYS full of food, there is no respite. It's working full time, all the time. Like doing pushups all day long.
I don't think they know what triggers migraine, but it does appear to be linked somehow to calcium/magnesium ions in the brain. Sometimes taking extra calcium and magnesium helps people in the long run (takes weeks though).
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:55 AM, pinkpuffin00 <janmickleburgh@btinternet.com> wrote:
Wow! Thankyou for all your replies.....REALLY APPRECIATED!!
I can't see all your comments here, but I have just read them individually and they are all really interesting.
I have had M.E. and severe migraines now for 18 years in total so have tried many of things you mention, including special health-diets exluding wheat, dairy, sugar etc...they didn't make one bit of difference to me. I seem to be the exception to the rule!!!! LOL
Also, my IBS appears to be aggrevated by vegetables, particularly salads. Have taken digestive enzymes etc but they make no difference. Now I am way too ill to do any special diets!! I seem to react to all the foods that other people say are good! I do have my niggles about dairy though, although when I gave it up for 8 months once, my health continued to get worse.
Someone mentioned coconut oil to help speed the metabolism. I did try that several years ago for other reasons and it didn't help with anything. After all these years of being so ill, I have come to realise that every single person is different in the way they react to things and things that may or may not help them. I also think stress is a huge factor, and I am about as stressed as I could possibly be for lots of various reasons...but there is nothing I can do about this.
If you pardon the pun....I just have a gut-feeling that something like EatStopEat or Fast-5 would help me. In what way, I don't know really, but I think it is worth it to give it shot. I am just recovering from a migraine so have just completed my 7th 24 hour fast. I find the fasts are ok, but harder on days when I feel better. Most of those 7 fasts were on days when I felt dreadful, so it wasn't so hard to cope with!! ha ha.
One of the bizarre reasons that I feel IF may help me is that many years ago I discovered that if I eat or drunk anything after about 7pm, then I was almost always migrainy the following day! Nobody ever believes me on this, and the neurologist looked at me like I was a raving idiot when I told him this. I test the theory every so often, and I have found that I can get away with a cup of tea with milk in the evening, but that any food, no matter what it is, makes me really migrainy the following day. Even taking supplement capsules or drugs from the dr late at night can have the same effect! I think my digestion just packs up early and refuses to operate all night! An alterntive therapist once did a hair analysis test on a piece of hair that I had cut during a migraine. She didn't know when I had cut it, and was gobsmacked that her tests reveiled that my digestion just wasn't working during the time that I had cut the hair ie. during a migraine. All very interesting stuff!
Anyway, I won't babble on any longer, but any comments would be very welcome.
PS. I have been looking into metabolism/circulation lately and have just started taking Cayenne Pepper today, in the hope that it may help with my obvious circulation problems. When I began to really research the subject, I found that just about all my symptoms could be caused by poor circulation!
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "beth_orsi" <emocpa@...> wrote:
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> I agree Heather! Fast 5 works for me because it's a daily habit. A while back I tried fasting once a week for 24 hours and it worked for a while, but after a while I ended up talking myself out of my fast day for a variety of reasons. and then just stopped altogether. The other problem I had was that at the time I was eating the SAD, (Standard American Diet) and I had severe withdrawal.. it was like I had the flu on my fast days and would just have to sleep most of the day to get through it. Before I started fast 5, I had been low carb for a long while and gluten free for 4 months. So I had zero withdrawal symptoms when I started fasting again. That's something to consider if you find you have a real hard time fasting in the beginning. Wheat especially has a nasty withdrawal. Read Wheat Belly by Dr. Davis.
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@> wrote:
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