Food allergies

Elimination diet is tough but can really reveal a lot! No gluten, dairy, egg, corn, soy, sugar. There’s a lot of books and stuff online to guide you. My version is 6 weeks without above and adding in catergories one at a time about every 4-5 days. I have had some slip ups though - but have not had bad reactions when I do.

I did notice that spinach is giving me headaches and my nose is running when eating certain foods. I think I have histamine issue, which goes along with food allergies. Funny though that the foods I thought were safe & healthy are actually causing issues.

There is red meat allergy associated with TBD.

TBD=Tick-borne disease

dont start too aggressively with the elimination diet, start gradual. i went too aggressive when i first started and it effected my blood glucose and ketones. not too mention my weight dropped way too low

sugar and red meat maybe a good place to start. then gluten, dairy, etc. take your time tho, its not a sprint

It funny (not actually) how the subject of food issues and posts about it come up so often here. Its obviously real.

Sometimes newbies ask "what special diet name should I be on? Wrong approach, you need to start with what you CAN tolerate and go forward adding one thing or sometimes similar food groups at a time (the elimination type of diet already mentioned). Whole foods are easiest to figure out since they are one thing.

For me the easiest meal to digest is basic skinless un-coated baked or grilled coated chicken (EDIT uncoated) and green beans. Liquid is water or un-sweetened almond milk. That is my go to when gut is not right and where I re-started elimination diets several times in the past.

EDIT: added More: Between lab testing foods and real trials it took a long time to figure this out. So I eat mostly whole natural foods leaving out what my body is shown to no tolerate via lab testing and real world results. I leave out glutan , corn , corn additives, most sugar and I can’t go nuts on fodmap natural sugars/carbs cause that will result in SIBO. My diet has no name, its the astroman diet!!! Hey, I can write a book and go on talk shows lol. Not.

A friend of an acquaintance just went vegan cause she "cant tolerate" any meat. I felt like mentioning the Lone star tick, but not everyone seeks answer's, I always like to know why things are the way they are, some people get overloaded to easily it seems.

I think working on the food angle is a great thing to explore. I'd try to find a core of whole foods you can start with and know you can tolerate like astroman mentioned. Chicken seems like a good option, and maybe some vegetables and fruit. Are you ok with rice and things like that? I always liked rice because it helps make me feel full. Oatmeal with fruit is another one I like. But it's highly individualized, I hope you will figure out a diet that helps for your situation, can make a difference in tamping down on inflammation.

You say you eat like crap... might not be a bad thing, gives you potential for improvement and maybe working on this angle will make a good difference in how you feel. The most basic and helpful thing for me was avoiding refined sugars and processed foods.

And I hope you can get back to working out again soon. I find it to be great therapy, great way to destress, feel like I'm accomplishing something, and it also makes me feel like a "normal" human being haha!

saraeli said...
This is a slight tangent, but there's a form of Lyme that's increasingly common in the midwest that causing a red meat allergy (not just sensitivity or intolerance). Might be worth looking into, in case red meat allergy is something that could escalate to a dangerous level for you one day. :-/ Good luck!

Sara (Lyme, ME, POTS, HPA axis dysfunction....)

That’s from the lone star tick mentioned here. Forget what they call the illness “ sari or stari” ? Anyone ?

sebreg said...
Alpha gal allergy or something like that right? I wonder if it is caused by some as yet unidentified pathogen... I'm confused as to how tick bite itself could cause such long-lasting immune dysregulation.

Yes, Alpha gal allergy seems to be name for the meat allergy part, which can last eight months to five years:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/alpha-gal_allergy
and:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/amblyomma_americanum

The rash itself from a Lone Star Tick is called STARI:
[southern tick-associated rash illness]
https://www.cdc.gov/stari/disease/index.html

Post Edited (astroman) : 1/19/2019 10:02:25 PM (GMT-7)

There should be some basic food that is tolerable. It will be whole food, home cooked as basic as possible. The only way to do this is eat one thing at a time, not meals, and after everything else is out of you. I went the extra step and did that food lab test I always mention. (170 "American" whole food items) it cleared some foggy air (pun intended).

Basic tender chicken and a boring cooked low fodmap veggie usually is and should be tolerable even with candida and sibo - if all the digestive organs are physically functioning properly. I almost lived on that for a month. Breakfast was a banana, rice cakes and water. No coffee ever with a bad gut. Or sugar drinks.

Many people who cant tolerate anything have something in common- gut flora thats all wrong. Wrong type and or wrong place in the gut.

Fasting is one quick possible way to reset gut flora. Doesn't need to be long. Some websites have mentioned this:
https://drjockers.com/leaky-gut-protocol/

You cant trust restaurants. If they dont know what they cook, leave. I asked for a gluten free salad- "oh sure'!. It was the same as everyone else's but they hand picked most of the huge breaded croutons off. Most, not all. It should have been assembled from scratch. If I were celiac, this would could have been bad. It wont kill me, but it does and was killing my thyroid. Got no tip from me, nope, nada. I told the shift manager on my way out. A six year old can make a new salad.

Post Edited (astroman) : 1/19/2019 10:37:40 PM (GMT-7)

I mentioned two ideas.

Doing nothing leads to nothing. I know. Whats the other saying?.......over-analysis leads to paralysis.

Im not fond of diets with names, we need to figure it out on our own the ways I mentioned. Hard work pays out in the long run.