Anyone with gastro problems?

[PaulaJoAnne]

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Good for you!!!!
You need to get milk Kefir cultures.
Water kefir is made with juice and sugar water. Yummy, but not what you are needing right now.
Kombucha is a sweetened black tea, that is fermented, with a mother, called a scoby.
You will want to get used to your new milk stuff first.
Only one or two changes at a time, per month, else you will go crazy.
Are you dropping grains for awhile, so as to give your gut a rest?

Read the stickies at the top of this forum, especially the How to start TF (traditional foods) for good support and ideas.
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdisplay.php?f=365

 

[birdnutz]

I have dropped ALOT of grains. Including the oils. But still like my occasional bread. The milk is YUMMY. My oldest son is not as impressed. lol. I also bought Q10 and vitamin c today. Got to really thinking about the time line today. I only had the hypothyroid problem medication. Nothing else. Then the big deal about cholestrol and statins. Then I started having other problems. Started with GERD and then BOY howdy did it get BAD! At this point I feel its just damped down. Always in the back ground. Not as bad as it was,but I can always feel it there. It's kind of hard to explain. I DO Not have hunger pangs anymore. Ever. But I can feel the inflamation starting up if I don't eat. Visualize a popping corn in slow motion. Thats what I feel at the back of my throat when it begins. Like something turning inside out.Then I go through about a week or so of hell to get it back to where I was before. Just wrings me out. Heck of a weight loss program. (not funny I know). Just don't know if it'll ever be the same again. But keep hoping and trying.

 

[Egg_newton]

I had a CAT scan a few months ago so I could officially be diagnosed with being "full of sh**"

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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It will get better. It takes a bit of time to get all the gut bacteria back to what it should be.
Thats why you want to start drinking the milk kefir.
You might want to look into www.gapsdiet.com at some point, for total whole body healing.

Its true that when you get started on the drug intervention for illness path, that you will end up worse in the long run, needing more and more drugs to deal with the cascading problems.
Do you have amalgam fillings? What about a root canal?
If you do, where do those fit into the timeline?

 

[birdnutz]

I had a filling . But not the silver. It was white. A year ago,about 6 months after starting the statin I had a molar shatter on 1 side. She filled with the white. Told me I could save my teeth. Now 1 yr later I don't have enough bone left. Keeps getting better.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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Make sure they do not give you a root canal.
For your tooth/bone health, look into getting started on a fermented cod liver oil and high vitamin butter oil regimen.
www.greenpasture.org for that.
I have healed several cavities going that route, plus my teeth have remineralized very well.

Tooth decay and renewal are nutrition based.

The path to going back to traditional foods is a wonderful one, and will give you your life back. It just takes time.
Think about how long its taken to get to the point you are at right now.

 

[birdnutz]

Today was raw milk, Q10 and vit. C . Also aloe era. Already ben on b-12 and b complex. I'm starting to feel like scarlett o'hara. "Theres always tommorrow" LOL Working at the positive and the energy to do it. Was going to go to the health food store for the cod liver. But energy level got into the way. So I'll have to try the local one. May have to order it.
ok, I'd read about the difference between light and dark cod liver oil. But whats fermented?

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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Please do not buy grocery and health food store clo.
By there own admission, the providers of the oil, are heat treating the livers to extract the oil. In doing so, theyare destroying the vitamins, and those must be replaced by synthetics, which the body will not recognize and utilize properly.
Sythetic A will build up and cause toxicity for example.
The FDA allows some very clever wording on, such as "natural levels of vitamins" on some brands.
That just means that they have replaced the dead vitamins.
Real clo, comes by putting the livers into a barrle, and fermenting them to let get the oil out.
Green Pastures has taken on the tall order of proving the real stuff for those that want it.

Now, it tastes awful, but any clo does, LOL!
There are various flavors, but honestly, just get the plain blend, and if its to awful to swallow with a liquid of choice, you can do what I do.
I buy the 00 capsules, and use a medicine syringe to fill them.
Then, I take 3 per day.

As far as energy level is concerned, your adrenal glands are probably shot.
You mentioned thyroid issues, so this stands to reason.
This is easy to suppliment. Licorice root extract, and raw organic Maca root at meals.

I am looking forward to the day, when I can scale back to maintanence levels on all of this stuff, but for now, I am healing, and that takes time, patience and work.

Also, go easy on the B12, as it is a strong detoxifier. Take the lowest dose you can find.