Carnivore Update

“ Just wanted to share that I've been doing a strict carnivore diet (mostly lamb, salt, thats it). I've had little response to other herbal, abx etc treatments and figured why not.“

Diet can be a game changer - but I hope you’re not expecting the diet alone to be your treatment for the infections?

The article below was also interesting. Reducing MCAS symptoms can also allow for more proper lyme treatment
https://drruscio.com/mcas-symptoms-with-tania-dempsey/
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And so I am now running a study. I have a number of patients who have entered the study. And we are looking at what I would call a carnivore diet, where they’re eating primarily…We’re talking grass fed, organic, good sources of animal protein. We’re not talking conventional feed lot stuff.

And we’re finding that their mast cell symptoms, their histamines, and all that have gone down dramatically in just a very short period of time. And I think that speaks to the fact that the gut has time to repair because we, again, have more enzymes, more availability to break down the animal proteins and animal fats than we do, let’s say, plants.

Plants have, let’s say, cellulose. We don’t, as humans, have cellulase enzymes to break that down. And while we’re trying to break it down, it’s roughage. I think that that can irritate the gut. And so going back to what you said about the DAO enzyme, it maybe builds up after the gut repairs.

These are patients who initially really had maybe five or six foods that they could safely eat because they were so reactive to everything. And it felt like every week they had to eliminate another food because they would start reacting to that.

And so we were struggling to find the right diet for them because it was beyond just low histamine. We were like, “Okay. There was low histamine. And there was low FODMAP. And then it was something else.” And then I said, “I think we have to go back to basics.”

And they started with meats that were fresh. No leftovers because leftovers will have more histamine. And so this is fresh meat, grass fed, cooked that day. And slowly, their symptoms started getting better and better. And they still know that leftovers, if they eat the leftover burger from the night before, it’s going to be a problem for them.

But generally, their ability to get energy from their food, to feel good, to go through a day without reacting and without feeling bad and not breathing. One patient was having anaphylaxis every other day practically. And to go from that to breathing.

Garzie every time you mention something you made it's something I would enjoy eating too haha. Sounds delicious!

RainyCloud said...
Garzie every time you mention something you made it's something I would enjoy eating too haha. Sounds delicious!

come on over!

actually i used to like to cook all sorts of dishes and have people over for dinner.

these days i tend to cook mainly focussed on nutrition and keeping to things that i know are not reactive to me - so its is more or less the same things week after week - but it certainly helps - so i am happy to do it.

luckily i find the nutritious things are always tasty and never really get boring

I will be interested to see if anything gets worse or if you get new "bad" symptoms on carnivore. Oxalates are responsible for so much of my pain. If all you are eating is lamb that eliminates high oxalate foods. That may cause an oxalate dump which can be pretty bad.