Diet

Did you all stop eating sugar when you started treatment? We are already gluten free, nut free and egg free in this house due to allergies. Yeesh.
Can you still have syrup or honey or stevie?

Jampee,

Hi. Yes most of us stop sugar, dairy, gluten, caffeine, alcohol. You can have stevia but make sure it's pure and doesn't have agave in it. I cant' eat eggs either. I have lots of avocado and olive oil to keep the fat on. Can you have seeds or sunflower butter may be a good option. Good luck.

Caffeine is not allowed if you have any adrenal issues.

Cheese and other dairy may be okay, it depends on a few factors, like if you are dealing with candida or other yeast/fungal issues - but be sure to keep it in small amounts.

The biggest reason these things are avoided generally is because of concerns over yeast/fungal issues during treatments.

I do not know how moms of toddlers do it with lyme. My hat is off to all of you. I was a Nanny and did not have to do housework or appointments, etc and just being with a babe all day was exhausting to keep them entertained, fed and safe.

I can't imagine doing it sick.

Ya cut out the worst offenders first which are gluten, wheat products, sugars, candies, sweets... Those are the worst ones. Also you will want to cut out alcohol as alcohol suppresses the immune system. But a little alcohol is fine in my opinion if it's just from the tinctures you use.

see the thing is sugars feed bacteria. They did a study where if they block the glucose metabolism in mice they will recover faster from
Bacterial infections.

Your best bet is to try and go all out keto if you can. As in get rid of all starches even. Or you can limit your starches down to like 1 or no more than 2 servings per day. But you need to make up and increase your fat particularly coconut fats, avocado, and butter from grass fed cows.

Many people are able to recover from Lyme by doing a ketogenic diet. Tim Ferris recovered with just a keto diet.

I feel much better on a keto diet. And when you do it for like months and months and months your energy levels come back online. Plus it starves some of the bugs. I don't think it starved bartonella though because I still have bartonella. But I do remember bartonella got much more aggressive when I consumed sugars so maybe it does starve it a bit. When I look for research articles it says Bart doesn't use glucose as fuel.

Best bet is to look up the mito food plan which I think can be downloaded for free, also check out the Wahl's protocol, and the bulletproof diet. I combine all 3 together. I intermittent fast everyday and every so often I do a protein fast. I'm also pretty light on protein and eat meat maybe just on average, 4-5 times per week. But I eat only 2 times per day now. As a general rule of thumb, the more vegetables and various veggies in your diet the healthier the diet is. But some veggies even might cause some food sensitivities. Sometimes soy, night shades (tomatoes, or peppers), corn, are a few of them.

You want to focus on getting sulfur rich veggies about 2-3 cups daily. My favorited are cauliflower, broccoli, ginger, onion, or garlic.

2-3 servings of greens is important to pull out toxins, and is rich in magnesium and chlorophyll, like kale, cilantro, collard greens.

Coffee is fine in my opinion. Just go for bulletproof coffee which has the lowest amount of mycotoxins of all coffee. It's also the tastiest smoothest and feels the cleanest of all coffees I have ever had. I never thought there would be a clean feeling coffee but bulletproof coffee is super clean and you can literally feel the difference.

I just looked up that diet and I dunno how that will work. I rarely eat meat. In not a fan. Uggh this whole thing is crazy. My whole world is upside down and it's so stressful to deal with all at once. Can't I at least just easy normal people food! ??!

I fell off the diet train yesterday.
Woke up today feeling so guilty about myself, it's hard to get back on my feet.
I hate days like this.

Is this an ok to eat breakfast?
Bobs Red Mill gluten free muesli
Lactose free milk
1/2 banana

Nice thread. I fell off the nutrition train this weekend Mustard Seed as well. I just want to offer that I if you begin to eat in a way to support your healing I've observed you find you don't miss things that were once a staple of your life. You've got some great feedback here already. I began with a loose paleo, then began to eat with an awareness of what causes inflammation, and presently tried the GAPS which has indeed lessen the nausea and GERD. I totally fell of the truck this weekend after a slew of terrible things. I'd like to add I am NOT a meat eater and was VERY averse so the GAPS diet was a huge shock to my system. I can tell by the effects of it though, my body needed something in it. Drinking bone broth and eating grass fed beef and organic chicken now. Going to give it another week and then begin to wean down to just bone broth and sources of protein other than meat.

blueberrymuffin said...
Traveler I was wondering why banana is not good for people who have inflammation?

I'm not Traveler, but banana's are very high in sugar. Most berries are much lower.