Medical medium diet is helping me

I'm following the Medical Medium diet + herbs + supplements with a lot of positive results.
My ex- lyme doctor adopted him, but he does not suggest his diet to all his patients.

I took my daughter to him 1.5 -2 years ago, because of extreme low iron in her blood.
We both are lyme free, but I take my daughter to him, sometimes (less than once a year...).

He talked about Anthony William and suggested me his first book.
I now bought all 5 books, and have been following his diet for 15 months.

MM's advice goes mostly for healing from chronic EBV and other herpes viruses, and also streptococcus.
Sooner or later, most lyme sufferers will bump into herpes family viruses, cytomegaly, HHV-6, simplex 1 and 2, etc, so it could also help ?

He uses mostly foods, but also herbs, and many are also used by lyme sufferers, such as cats claw, ashwaganda, lemon balm, licorice, Siberian ginseng, fresh ginger, raw garlic or supplements like zinc, B12, B vitamins, lysine etc.

All the herbs mentioned by MM are mentioned by Buhner somewhere.
I'm also a fan of Buhner, because of my lyme story, and I see how close they are.
Buhner is more complete in terms of herbal cocktails / combos, but both MM literature and Buhner are incredibly similar, in terms of herbs.

I realized that cutting certain foods that MM thinks is bad changed my life completely.
Such as cutting all eggs and all dairy, no matter if goat, sheep, cow. 100% out of my diet.

It was like inflammation diminished almost from a day to another.
We had been gluten free for a decade or more, so we did not have to cut gluten...

Husband's been suffering with severe skin infections, joint pains, trigeminal pain for the first time in life, fatigue, flares, cold body temperature in the last months....
He came home devastated last Monday, with his skin in flames, open wounds...

I put him in the MM diet too, liposomal vit C, nosodes, healing teas, cut all the inflammatory foods MM mentioned above, fed him with mostly raw foods, and by day 3, he was back on his feet again.

By day 4 back to work.
He's finally starting to believe me, that this diet will bring something to him too, I think.
He never followed us.
He has been skeptic to avoiding certain inflammatory foods, and never wanted to follow me.

Well, this year 2019-2020 I'm better off than him , and I used to be THE sickest one for decades.
Lyme was my lowest point (about 2005-2009).

What have this MM diet + herbs + supplements cleared?
- Brain fog, practically gone.
- Improved my mood, I'm less ups and downs.
- Healed ALL my food intolerances and allergies (tummy pain, burning mouth, diarrhea)

- Stabilized my weight (I have been losing weight for about 8-10 years, slowly but surely).
Now I'm a bit fatter than I was when I started it (about 4 pounds).
- My arthritis is healing (I started to be sure because it stopped progressing, but now is regressing).

- My 40 year old Raynaud syndrome is for the first time ever, truly improving: my dark purple / black fingers and toes are about 80% better most of the time.
I feel less cold in winter.

- My chilblains practically stopped coming after 25 years being chronic every SINGLE WINTER non stop.
- My sinuses are clearing.

- Even tinnitus is slowly going away, sometimes I barely have it.
- I don't catch colds anymore (more than a year cold free).

- My neck joints started to feel like it got sand (arthrosis/ arthritis?) for many years, maybe 10 or more. Even that is disappearing!

For my daughter, MM diet helped in these points:
- healed her extreme iron deficiency, that was life threatning.
- healed 95% her panic attacks - I never had to pick her back from school for the last year, since we started that, while before, I had to pick her (she would be sobbing, afraid of dying, no reason).

- healed her depression also around 95% (she would be depressed followed from panic attacks).
- her food allergies improved almost to 100%: she reacts only to kiwi now.
She's been born full of food allergies! Whole body eczema, terrible tummy pains...

- she's slowly gaining physical strength after those years with low iron, and is getting excellent grades in sports.

It's been an amazing experience.

Not easy to change, because from all foods most people eat daily, we can eat only 10% of that.
Just imagine your daily meals without eggs, dairy and gluten, we also cut corn, soy, rapeseed oil, MSG, farmed fish, pork for good. Then diminished all animal proteins left to about 2-3x a week, very small portions.
No fried food (except when we cheat and eat outside, but it's rare).
Our fat consumption fell by 90% of what we ate before.
We thrive on amazing amounts of fruits daily, veggies, leafy greens, cooked veggies, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash...

I read reports from people with lyme, who also improve with the diet.
It's sometimes not fast, but I think cutting foods he labeled as 'bad' was of great help for us.

I started celery juice for the last 6 months, but I swear that I herx horribly with it. Even if I don't have anything I consider my main lyme symptoms, I have nerve detox / pain, all my body gets painful after a couple of days of celery juice alone.

I also detoxed horribly in my gut, when I first took that.
I'm now more used, I do think it helps my digestion like nothing else did before.
I still herx though, even if I started it last May.

Anyway, I hope this can inspire someone to try it. It's practically the opposite of keto diet, which is more in trend in lyme communities.

Saralei, I hope this info can help anyone, who would like to try it.

The Raynaud improvement has been my most amazing result, I can barely believe is actually happening.
I suffer from it since childhood, and how could it improve now, after 50 ?

How can I not be sick with skin inflammation this year, from chilblains, that I suffer from every year for the last 25 years in winter?

My mold allergy also disappeared. My dust allergy. Even pollen allergy. All gone.
I mean, how is it possible??

I don't think I will ever come back eating like before.

I don't agree with all MM's opinions about lyme, as I did fall sick after a tick bite, that sent me to hell very fast.

I do believe in babesiosis, bartonella, ehrlichia, and borrelia, because what stopped all my symptoms were Borrelia nosodes. I don't think they are harmless pathogens, because of what I lived.

My daughter also almost died from FSME, a tick born viral encephalitis, so nope, lyme and ticks are not harmless!

Now they are harmless, I mean, we don't fall sick after tick bites any longer.
But before, I felt like looking at a tick would cause us lyme already!!
It has to do with weak immune systems, that's what I believe.
If your immune system is weak, lyme wrecks havoc.

So this part concerning lyme, it's one of the few parts I don't agree with Anthony William either.

But my lyme doctor seems to think it could help some of his patients, so he told me to read his book.

Was your liver a major issue? Do you think that's the best book of his to read for everyone, or only for those with known liver challenges?

I appreciate you sharing your experience, and wow! What a relief it must be to see those improvements.

Saraeli: yes, it's been an amazing and surprising experience, indeed!
Well, since lyme, I knew my liver had never been the same.
Naturopaths kept saying I had a liver problem, others said gut.
Well, I thought I had my whole GI tract as my main problem....

According to Anthony William, the liver is the reason why peoples' gut + stomachs are so bad.
It's not the gut.
If both the stomach acids + the liver bile were good, the gut would not have to fight all these pathogens it has to, because good stomach acids kill most pathogens before it reaches the gut.
The liver bile, if strong enough, will cancel toxins and infections, help digest proteins and fats so that these do not rot in the gut.
Rotting food in the gut is the main reason the gut is infected. The reason is always stomach + liver.

I talked about Liver Rescue because with this book, you simply understand THE WHOLE idea behind his diet recommendations. Why low protein, why low fat? Why celery juice? Why high fruit / high good carbs?
The liver is an extremely intelligent organ, it has almost a brain of its own.

It will hold pathogens, to protect us, it will hold toxins, to protect us. But this way, it weakens.
Its bile weakens, then next high protein high fat dish you take, the bile won't be able to break these down completely, therefore, they rot in the gut, feed SIBO, bad pathogens, bad fungi etc.

It even holds radioactive particles, to protect us.
It holds fats and proteins, to protect us.
And so on. It can only work well if you feed it with good sugars from fruits, clean carbs.

Why is there thin people suffering from pre fatty livers?
Why people die of cirrhosis without ever having drank alcohol?
Why almost everyone has pre fatty livers, no matter your body weight, in fact?

that's the only reason I recommend to read the Liver book. It's like you get the whole picture why people fall chronically ill from the gut, stomach, and how to support the liver, so that your gut and stomach can heal.

Without a healthy liver, the fight against pathogens will not be easy, because the liver is the place of extreme concentration of pathogens and die off toxins.

It's pretty fascinating to read. Everybody with a chronic disease will have a sluggish and dirty liver. That's his point.

Post Edited (Shasta) : 2/13/2020 7:33:24 AM (GMT-7)

I will look into that Liver Rescue book.

I eat protein from meat today, not huge amounts, but when I was lyme ridden with a bad gut, all red meat (most fat) was difficult to digest. I experimented with Dr M's bile/gall bladder support (forgot exact product) and took supplemental stomach acid- which helped tremendously.

As far as Ms Williams food list, its not going to be the same for everyone, but that would be a good starting point. There will most likely be more to avoid. The LEAP MRT food inflammation blood test is very useful since we are not all the same, even with proper functioning livers.

Another point not mentioned as far as "gut rot" goes is also a big one regardless of liver health, which is FODMAPS. Some people cannot digest this and which will feed SIBO.

My lyme Dr put gut/digestion health and diet first and foremost before treating lyme, which is prob the reason I healed so fast after having lyme symptoms 25+ years. He also mentioned that gut health and diet is never a completed project - its a continuation/new life style. And unfortunately with Genes, the liver phase II pathway is a big deal too. If you have these (there are many), you may never be completely "right" as far as gut and liver health go. D-Limonene is specifically used for this and says so on the bottle of the Jarrow brand. Why this is not talked about more is beyond me. (?)

You won't find anything close to the FOODMAPs theory there, though.

I think there are 2 points on the rotten food topic: if you get allergy, sensibility to foods, and you still eat those foods (even the good ones), it won't be digested and it'll cause trouble.
Until we heal from these allergies / sensitivities, these foods have to be kept out of our diets.
No matter which diet you follow, this is a truth that does not change.

Another thing concerning rotten food, undigested food is the combination: there are good and bad combos!

Eating fats/ proteins WITH carbs / sugar / fruits won't go well together (bloating, bad digestion).
I learned that still during lyme. An MD described digestion and explained why.

High proteins / fats are more digested with the help of stomach acids (low pH), in the upper part of our digestive organs, while carbs / fruits / sugars are digested in the gut, needing high pH.
The moment you mix these categories, they do not get well digested.

Just eat a bowl of fruits AFTER having a heavy meal with pork, meats, fried foods, and you'll understand!
I knew about that long ago, already during lyme.

Anthony speaks of it again.
It's not ONLY a matter of giving a list of good and bad foods, and saying: eat this, not that.

You gotta know how to combine them, and what to avoid combining, so that your digestion goes smooth.
I still get gas if I eat high proteins/high fats with fruits. Horrible pain.

what he describes in Liver Rescue still is that there are so many DIFFERENT types of bile, in different concentrations and chemical components, to digest each type of food!!!

Anthony still talks about speed of digestion: he said melons are predigested.
If you are extremely weak, eat only melons, but do not mix them with anything else.
they will digest fast in a matter of minutes (if you're not allergic to them, of course).

The moment you mix melon with other fruits, the speed of digestion of each fruit is different, and you may feel a blockade.
If you eat melons AFTER you eat other foods, you may also feel bloating, blockades.
The culprit is not the melon, but the order you ate it!
The melon wants to move faster in your digestive tube than other fruits, that get in the middle of the melon way!

Post Edited (Shasta) : 2/13/2020 11:02:55 AM (GMT-7)

Can you get enough calories (2200-2500) without having potatoes with this diet?

Running wild: Potatoes are among the main food I eat. In great amounts. There's no restriction for potatoes.
The restriction is in the sauce: avoiding mixing fats with carbs.
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Astroman:

https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/healing-sibo
https://www.medicalmedium.com/blog/truth-about-your-candida

I've browsed some more of his info, my curiosity is up on this again. But, as Ive kind of hinted here earlier- you cant take one health gurus word 100%- you need to include other sources of info as well. As each independent health guru's preaching does has some faults which they , surprisingly are unaware of, or most likely just dont bring up since they are selling their "idea".

I suppose that can happen to people full of themselves- not to say that they do have some good info, its just not complete or straightforward, after all, they usually want to sell long stretched out books (thyroid gurus books are prime examples of way to many words lol !!).

Ive read some of his stuff before - and others written and verbal backing on the internet, but they seldom say what actually going on. Many popular "food health "backers" are just in it for the popularity (you tube videos $) and know nothing about body chemistry health.

Again, more speed reading "Medium" info highly suggests theory that EBV is the cause of many chronic conditions. One thing the author seems to not include is foot notes for proof that his theories are proof. Some spirit of sorts guided him to these truths (?) Sure, whatever.

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****My "cliff notes" on the limited info I read:

He does mention the celery juice aids in increasing HCL stomach acid production. Ok were getting somewhere.

He states proper HCL amounts kill 1)H.Pylori, 2)Strep bacteria and 3)EBV. OK, were onto something important.

1)H.Pylori cause digestive ulcers - obviously bad.

2)He states SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) is actually one or several strains of the Strep bacteria....So celery or HCL can help eradicate this. Sounds good, but proof?. Nowhere else says what bacteria SIBO is. If correct, great info.

Interesting note of mine- a friend had open heart surgery from Strep in his heart valves. Took drs too long to figure out it was a step infection. Almost died.

3)Supposedly 90% of US adults are harboring EBV. And apparently celery juice or HCL kills it.

States hashimoto is simply EBV attacking the thyroid gland. Maybe, but this is not complete. I have PROVEN with documentation/testing that Hashimoto, elevated antibodies and even thyroid nodules can also be a result of gluten consumption. Mr Williams did not mention this so far in the thyroid info I read from him. Does he not know? Or Is anti- gluten info per thyroid somewhere else in his writings? And is it the gluten or Roundup on US wheat since mid 1980's?

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Celery may be natural but Juicing it is inconvenient. If this aids in HCL production, you could take supplemental HCL, which is not a new idea. Getting it from celery is a new idea though.

I have used supplemented HCL with what felt like SIBO and candida flaring up....and it helped.

***If H.Pylori, Strep bacteria and EBV are the cause of many chronic conditions, I see no reason why continued use of HCL and monularin would not do the same or better than celery juice. *** I'll write a book on it LOL.

Actually, I'll take both of these semi- long term (longer than I did in the past) and see what benefits arise. Apparently celery juice doesn't do anything more than what I already did in the past. The ticket is apparently long term use.

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As a straight shooter, it gets me when "health gurus" find the need to write long stretched out books from what is nothing more than useful "data". As I mentioned, many thyroid gurus have done the same thing- turned ten pages of info into a novel LOL!!. Its just to make money obviously, thats their income.

That said, I hope his 500 (??) page liver book has a cliff notes version (I'll look).

"He says everything he knows came from an entity he calls Spirit!!"

Possibly abducted by intelligent alien life form. They're trying to save us thru Anthony "our savior" since their species is almost wiped out.

A little more straight forward......if he said he self studded every other health guru (as you noticed) and pieced them together would be a little more believable .................but thats passing credit to others.

That said i'll seek the liver info he has..........or search for others interpretation of it.

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good your feeling way better......and maybe you had some EBV hidden away? I tested several time, but as we know "bug" tests arent to great.

Like most people who have tried just about everything, I am always intrigued by new approaches (which I think might just do the trick). This diet, however, looks like a candida feast. Potatoes: starches which break down into sugars in the blink of an eye. Fruits: a sugar feast again. I have had ongoing issues with candida and, while I am delighted at the progress you have made, I can't help feeling that this guy has overlooked that many chronic sufferers have candida issues. What he proposes is a candida party.

Seb4, I was sincerely afraid, not of fruits, but of excess of other sweet things such as maple syrup and honey in my diet too.
During lyme and my whole life, I never stopped fruits.
I had been having candida, fungal infections, bacterial infections, protozoan, malarian, whatever infections you can find in a book, for years (specially worse during the years I fought lyme).
Of course, I heard to stop fruits, but every time I did, I felt just like dying.
The worst trial was keto: that put my brain in RED ALARM and I just jumped off.
I grew in the tropics, I could go get fruits in orchards, got mangos in great amounts during high season (for free, as people throw mangos off), oranges until I died full. I grew well, healthy.
Fruits are part of my life, and I had that gut feeling that without fruits, I would not have survived lyme.
So no matter if my skin was covered with chillblains, that I thought sometimes were fungal, I still continued eating fruits, not in the amounts I'm eating now.

Anthony says fruits are anti candida!
There are a few people with high candida values , that came back to show how their candida got under control (through medical exams) by eating high fruit, high potatoes.

As I said, my chilblains that feel like fungal come back for + 25 years every winter, for about 6-9 months a year....
Awful skin infections, very painful, and my body feels like poisoned (like a bad herx) the whole time.
I get daily flares, whole winter months, for more than 25 years.

Well, this year has been my best. I can't complain, really.
Whatever this is, it's infectious, but it has been so much quieter that I barely need treatment.

All that after eating an EXTREME high amount of fruits daily.
I don't eat a lot of potatoes, simply because I can't stomach a lot (I'm of a 'petite' stature).
Besides, fatty gravies are not allowed, so you got to stomach these potatoes fat free, low salt, according to Anthony.
but fruits, yes, I'm eating them totally free. about 10 portions or more a day.

I also had problems of underweight, food allergies. Several food allergies, specially fruit allergies.
They are all gone, 100% gone. I stopped losing weight after about 5-10 years only losing weight.
So my gut is getting better. I finally got back to 41-42 kg.

last 2 months I have been doing a honey experiment.
Buhner talked about honey, used topically, right, against all sorts of infections. He's a big fan.
Anthony speaks of a sort of Vitamin C shock therapy, which in fact, is a honey shock therapy, as he suggests 2 tsp honey every 2 hours, together with 1 gram Vit C (which is not a lot)....
So I'm taking high amounts of honey to see if my body reacts badly or good.

So far, so good. I even crave honey, and I'm eating it glass after glass.
I can have half a glass (250gr) a day without problem. I just feel good, I feel the rush in my brain, but not exciting it like coffee. Just more presence.
Absolutely no problem of fungal infections, or gut problems, nothing.

I mean, if Buhner says honey is one of the best medicine that exist topically, and if no fungus grow on honey (it can be kept for decades and it will be still good to be consumed), why not internally, in great amounts?
What can I say? I have no answers. I'm just doing experiments too, trying a very different approach.

People have tried different approaches, like myself.
In the end, I just did what I felt good on (fruits, veggies, some animal protein, lots of olive oil, leafy greens, some cheese, butter, etc). I still had chillblains yearly, I still had several fruit allergies increasing every year, I still kept losing weight, arthritis was still increasing every year, I started having then some joints with arthrosis, I still had episodes of brain fog...

All that is healing, since I changed my diet 15 months ago.

But this specific approach high on glucose, high on fructose (both only from natural sources), full of veggie juices, extreme low protein, low or practically ZERO fat sources, high on raw, zero dairy, zero eggs of any sorts, no vinegar, no rapseed, no soy, no corn... well, this exact combo was new to me.

I'm not saying it is the combo for everyone, but I just say it's been helping me.
Animal meats are PRIMARILY digested by bacteria and fungi in nature. The moment an animal dies, decomposing bacteria and fungi are the primarily critters that will decompose the cadaver.

it's a myth that dead animal meat are not feeding your candida and fungal infections, because that is the natural mechanism of degradation.

Post Edited (Shasta) : 2/20/2020 3:48:01 AM (GMT-7)

Thank you for that info Shasta. I figured my tinnitus was caused by a chonic infection. While I was being treated with antibiotics it totally went away but then slowly came back and now it is louder than ever, I am under a lot of stress right now though so that might be a playing a part. I will be checking out the editions you mentioned for sure. Thank you for your help.
I will have to look more into Buhners protocol. It is very interesting that the herbs her uses come to him in dreams. It sounds crazy but I know for a fact that some of the dreams that I have had have come true and have really helped me gauge where my life is headed.

Post Edited (CalmLittleBuddha) : 2/20/2020 9:17:11 AM (GMT-7)