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Originally Posted by JaneS
The "Health Recovery" diet in the book is not for weight loss. It is for healing a number of autoimmune conditions including serious or not so serious digestive disorders: The HR diet is based on a lot of coconut oil and coconut milk, lacto-fermented foods and beverages (kefir sodas and yogurt), and lots of homemade bone broth. They recommend raw milk and kefir/yogurt but there is a high calcium milk alternative made from coconut milk and KAL dolomite powder if you are allergic to dairy. And the fermented foods and kefir sodas are great dairy free sources of probiotics. Also includes eggs, meat, liver (or just dessicated liver tablets), fish, cod liver oil, high vitamin butter oil, animal fats, vegetables, natural vitamin C from amla or acerola powder and only one serving of soaked grains/day. Swedish bitters or apple cider vinegar for liver and digestive support. |
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Originally Posted by nicolena
oh--and seeds. iread somewhere not to add seeds til 3 months, but is that sunflower seeds vs seeds in zucchini? when can i stop deseeding the zucchini? again, i know it's trial and error; i just hate not to deseed and go back to diarrhea again.
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Originally Posted by Pattyla
Nicolena- You are pasturizing your raw milk yougart when you heat it that much. you are fine. True raw milk yougart, you never heat the milk past 110 or so.
I'm really intrigued by the coconut oil. Hmmmm..... Might have to put that book on my wishlist.... |
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Originally Posted by JaneS
 Welcome!Gas and distention means you are not digesting your food properly. Like I said above, I think a vegan diet can contribute to this. Unsoaked whole grains and soy have huge amounts of digestive enzyme inhibitors. IBS means nothing to most doctors. It means they don't know what you have. However, there is actually some mainstream research showing it is SIBO, Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth... an intestinal flora issue. I posted several months back an interesting article on this at Medscape I think. This can definately be the cause of the inflammation you feel in the upper part of your intestine. I had this too, feeling like you have a bit of a shelf right? However, again, modern medicine mostly denies the intestinal flora role in digestive health and doesn't know what to do with it, despite the fact that it is the cornerstone of our immune and digestive system, weighs over 3 lbs in a normal adult and acts like another organ in its function.... we would die if our gi tract was sterilized. Yes I think pasteurized milk yogurt is indeed helpful. That is what the SCD is based on, they strictly forbid raw milk yogurt. However, Baby Jarrow is just bifidobacterium I think, for the large intestine and evidence is that lactobacillus for the small intestine is what's needed for the digestive issues that you are experiencing. Re: coconut While reading my new favorite book Eat Fat, Lose Fat I think the major reasons why Firefaery and I have gotten well rather more quickly than SCD says, is liberal use of coconut oil. Will be posting more about this in a bit. |
Years ago I found out enough about the dangers of soy and cut way back. I did discover that I had less gas. 
Since doing Eat to Live, I cut way back on grains, although didn't cut them out completely. My current GI stuff came about 7 months into doing E2L.
I did love dairy and would never have believed that I would ever give up cheese. I never did completely. Interestingly, we did have raw milk during my teenage years.
Even DD ate it, despite it being a bit spicy. She has also been drinking the kefir with me. I don't think that she has real issues other than at almost 4.5 still not sleeping through the night and a tendency towards circles under her eyes.
| I also make fudge (almond "fudge" and other freezer treats) and raw dehydrated macaroons with it. |
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Originally Posted by caedmyn
This is totally OT, but...I got a PM from somebody saying they adopted a baby and were searching for donor BM and asking if I would be interested in donating (I posted in the breast feeding forum that I thought I have an oversupply issue). But the PM'er has 0 posts and under her user name it says she is banned. Should I email her or do you think it is somebody weird, for lack of a better description.
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| Do you think it would be beneficial to combine this with SCD (add in kefir sodas & do lacto-fermented foods early) or would it be better to just stick to the SCD? |
. then i thought perhaps it was stress. i don't know what it is, but i put a little coconut oil on this am and am interested in buying some big tubs noW!
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Originally Posted by firefaery
At an ACTLC lecture a naturopath (who worked for Great Smokies for 7 years) stated that immune cells during pregnancy migrate from the gut to the breast tissue. So clearly the mother's gut health has alot to do with baby's gut health. Infants should have leaky gut, as Jane said, but the mother's milk SHOULD be working to heal that. It won't do it's job if mama has a damaged gut. IT's one of the reason's we know that if a baby is reacting to a food, it's really mama that is reacting-just probably compensating in a different way.
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