Spinach and sunflower seeds - part 4

I thought about taking it to someone who could run tests and see why its working and whatnot and have them find others to try it on but I was wasting too much time trying to figure out who I should take this to when it could possibly be helping people that were suffering, so I decided to just spill the beans at this forum about what I discovered.
I have this down to where I can cause myself to flare and then cause myself to be symptom free at will by altering nutrients so if you find anybody interested in working with me on this let me know.

Post Edited (Cfromutah) : 11/4/2008 7:14:06 PM (GMT-7)

I took magnesium pills for awhile and did not reach remission but that's not to say that magnesium pills wont help. I have read that magnesium is better absorbed from foods than supplements so that's probably a factor. But I think there are also other things at play here. I'm 99% sure beta carotene plays a roll in making this work, and sunflower seeds are much higher in a certain nutrient than any other food. Its pantothenic acid, this nutrient may play a roll in making this work also. I can cause myself to get in a flare by not eating foods high in magnesium, beta carotene and pantothenic acid(contained in the sunflower seeds) But because of what I have learned about nutrition I have a few tricks I have learned to greatly accelerate causing a flare than by just avoiding these foods. salt, calcium and magnesium are all electrolytes in the body of course. Too much of one electrolyte will cause another to be out of balance. I can cause a flare pretty quickly by not eating foods with magnesium and eating a lot of very high sodium and high calcium foods, or even salt water and calcium suppliments will do it. Because I believe when I do this it throws the very much needed magnesium in the digestive system out of balance. So if I was to eat a bunch of pickles and pizza or cheese for a week I could cause myself to have a flare pretty quick if i also avoided foods with magnesium and beta carotene. I drink milk daily and eat pretty salty foods daily without a problem but these foods in very high quantity's throws the magnesium out of balance pretty fast and will cause a flare. If you dont believe me drink a bunch of pickle juice and see how much worse your UC symptoms get.

Post Edited (Cfromutah) : 11/6/2008 3:32:44 PM (GMT-7)

But I don't want to make this all sound to complicated. So the bottom line to put it simply is really all one needs to do to make this work is eat lots of spinach, sunflower seeds and I would eat peanuts also. These are the three that I know works so eat these three for sure if you can. But its not a bad Idea to eat other foods high in magnesium and beta carotene while your at it.
And you don't need to eliminate foods with calcium and salt but I would not over do them, as long as your eating foods with plenty of magnesium in them you can eat these foods in moderation without problems.
I also don't eat a lot of refined sugar but I never have even before I got UC so I don't really know the important's of this, but im sure it cant hurt.

Sunflower seeds are a good source of vitamin  E and spinach is an alkaline vegetable.Acid-alkaline

balance for a  good UC diet.

i've been doing this for about 4 days now and today my poop was mostly spinach and not formed but there was no blood, first time in many weeks. don't know if it's the hydrocort enemas i just started last night or what but i'm still keeping the faith with the diet.

while i was deployed to afghanistan i had no problems at all with my uc. i had responded well to meds and gotten over a flare a month earlier so they let me go. i was thinking maybe i didn't have any problems while i was away because i didn't have any alcohol while i was over there but when i got back home i started another flare so attributed it to drinking. however, i also remembered all those sunflower seeds i ate while i was deployed. it seemed like every care package had like 10 things of david's sunflower seeds so i munched on those constantly and laid off my fix when i returned home. just had to let you guys know. i'm going to go dig in some sunbutter now!

bokscarracer-Alcohol is also a mycotoxin (fungal poison) so that could, and may be a trigger for you. As well, perhaps your UC symptoms are environmentally based. Some people feel better when away from their regular habitat, like when they are on vacation, etc., only to return home and get those symptoms again. Is is possible you could be exposed to mold/water damage where you are living/working now? That can definitely be a UC trigger.

All alcohol, as far as I know. Here is a list of the top 10 myco-toxic foods:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/11/05/toxic-foods.aspx

Hi All,

I have not posted in a long time. Still doing canasa 1-2x a day plus hydrocort enema for my proctitis. Still bleeding. Anyway, I am not ready yet to go on 6MP or remicade because I am trying to get PG. I just came across this thread and am amazed by all the progress!!!

Would this help me? I have one inch of inflamation in the lower part of my rectum. Proctitis.

I am also taking 12 asacol pills a day.

In a nut shell - and I just read the entire thread...how much spinach should I eat? What kind? And is it just spinach and sunflower butter that has made such improvements in your lives??

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Do they have to be roasted? Ive been eating raw deshelled...

I would not think that roasting the seeds would change the molecular structure enough to matter if you ate roasted or raw sunflower seeds but to me the roasted taste much better so it is easier to eat a lot of them. I never tried the frozen spinach but I think some people have had success with it here. I would just eat these foods as often or as much as you can till you reach remission because you want to raise the nutrients from these foods as much as possible, once you reach remission you can experiment with reducing the amounts of these foods, and if you start having problems then increase them again. Now that I have the levels of nutrients from these foods up I don't need to eat nearly as much of them to stay in remission as I did when I first started this diet. I would also eat de shelled pumpkin seeds in addition to the sunflower seeds and spinach because pumpkin seeds are absolutely loaded with magnesium.

Thank you again for responding. I am going to start incorporating this into my diet. I bought frozen spinach vs. canned. I am just curious how much of the frozen spinach I should eat.

Kiss....I think you said you did frozen! I am going to try your recipe you posted too.