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Posted 12/10/2014 11:28 AM (GMT 0)
I've been experimenting Budwig diet for a week and i think it's great. In the Polish medical press there are many articles on it and according to them, the staple Budwig's paste can work miracles provided it is eaten every day. I follow this, what is believed, to be the original recipe: 150 g of skimmed cottage cheese mixed thoroughly (i use a blender) with three tablespoons of linseed oil. Cheese is a very important component here because: " The magic comes from the sulphur-rich milk proteins in the cheese making the omega-3 in the linseed oil more absorbable. Linseed Oil-Quark cream should be made with good-quality fresh ingredients and it will taste creamy, light and delicious".
Posted 12/10/2014 1:38 PM (GMT 0)
Wow Budwig diet is a new thing to me. Were you having symptoms when you started that got better? If so that's awesome, whatever works. So is the quark a separate ingredient from the cottage cheese and linseed oil?

I looked at the budwigcenter.com and it claims to help a host of ailments, UC or CD wasn't listed in the main paragraph but it does say it helps with a lot of other problems.
Posted 12/10/2014 1:47 PM (GMT 0)
hey, anything we can add to our list of helps, is always welcome - thanks ewa :-)
Posted 12/10/2014 2:23 PM (GMT 0)
Flax makes DSS colitis worse.

So what goes on,perhaps these models are just wrong, not too many things make DSS worse, while most things they

try makes it better.  Sometimes I wonder if we should do the opposite of what makes DSS better.

Flax oil is highly unsaturated, easily oxidized.,believe it promotes ROS, ROS can make for more inflammation.

But more of the right kind of inflammation might kill more bacteria.

Might somehow go along with the too many dietary antioxidants theory,impairing innate immune killing of bacteria.

Have tried in the past,but think it makes me worse.

Old Mike

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24763556

 

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 12/10/2014 7:48:55 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 12/10/2014 3:37 PM (GMT 0)
Levi, I wasn't flaring when I first started this Budwig mixture, but before when I tried eating flaxseed oil I didn't feel well, just like Old Mike. I came across an article about Budwig which said that this oil is absorbed best in such combination with skimmed cotttage cheese, it must be 0% fat, if not it will not work. As Johanna Budwig was German and it is close to Poland she was using a kind of Polish cottage cheese which is called "chudy twaróg", although, I guess that every eco skimmed (curd) cheese will do. According to dr Budwig's protocol, the type of flaxseed oil is of crucial importance. It cannot be bought at your local supermarket, because it is stored in improper conditions plus such supermarket oils contain more omega-6 acids which can do more harm for UC. The right flaxseed oil should have more omega-3 acids (about 57%), raw and it all should be stated on the label. The bottle should be dark and placed in the fridge all the time. As for Polish flaxseed oil (the best flaxseed oils are considered to be from Poland and from Kazachstan), the best variety is called "Szafir" and it is more dense than other oils. I buy it in some local eco shops. In the articles I've read it was said that this Budwig mixture is very good for colon problems (including UC and CD) and it is a booster for the immune system. I personally feel very good after eating it. I've read that she was nominated 7 times to the Nobel Prize and some of her ardent followers believe that the fact she didn't get it could be attributed to the global conspiracy of the pharmaceutical companies turn

soy, I'd be happy if it works for you smilewinkgrin

OM, maybe you should try flaxseed oil again in this mixture, because I also had bad experiences with taking oil alone. I used to buy it in the supermarket, so it was overloaded with bad acids (6-omega) and now I switched into different, eco sources, reading the labels carefully.
Posted 12/11/2014 2:25 AM (GMT 0)
I've read that she was nominated 7 times to the Nobel Prize and some of her ardent followers believe that the fact she didn't get it could be attributed to the global conspiracy of the pharmaceutical companies

I am not commenting on the Budwig formula, if it helps you then that's great.

But I have read a lot about the Nobel Prize and it is not possible to know whether someone has been nominated unless they win. The nominations are sealed for 50 years and no one except each individual group of nominators who meet to discuss the candidates knows who has been nominated by their peers. We only know who the winners are.

I still have faith in the ethics and integrity of the scientific community as a whole even though some individuals may not be completely without ties to Big Pharma.

Since you are Polish perhaps you have read the recent story about the letter Albert Einstein wrote to Marie Curie who was being awarded her second Nobel Prize and newspapers were trying to have her disqualified because she was in a relationship with a married colleague (her husband had died). Einstein was quite impressed with Curie's scientific achievements and told her to ignore the haters (I'm paraphrasing).
She was quite a remarkable scientist and woman.
Posted 12/11/2014 11:54 AM (GMT 0)

Old Mike said...
Flax makes DSS colitis worse.
So what goes on,perhaps these models are just wrong, not too many things make DSS worse, while most things they

try makes it better. Sometimes I wonder if we should do the opposite of what makes DSS better.



Flax oil is highly unsaturated, easily oxidized.,believe it promotes ROS, ROS can make for more inflammation.

But more of the right kind of inflammation might kill more bacteria.

Might somehow go along with the too many dietary antioxidants theory,impairing innate immune killing of bacteria.

Have tried in the past,but think it makes me worse.

Old Mike

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24763556

I cannot tolerate any kind of flax, that is why I am going with Canola oil to balance out my omega oils.
Posted 12/11/2014 7:34 PM (GMT 0)
Imagardener & aguywithuc- i never tolerated flax before and surprisingly it is only this combination of flaxseed oil and cheese that doesn't give me any bad sensations so i eat it every day with toasts :) As for other things mentioned in Budwig diet, my uc wouldn't ever tolerate them because it's mainly raw fruit and vegetables, something i must avoid. BTW, Maria Skłodowska was really an unbelievably brilliant and emancipated woman for her times and even in the present times she wouldn't make any career in ultracatholic Poland where one's moral conduct is more important than one's merits. I once read that she used to carry some radioactive substances in her pocket practically all the time and she even displayed other radioactive stuff in her house because she liked the fluorescent light it gave. Maybe this is the reason she died of leukemia, one of her daughters also died of leukemia, but her second daughter died at the age of 107 ! i remember she came to Poland to celebrate her 100 anniversary. It's amazing because as a child she also must have been exposed to radioactive radiation.
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