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further to taking the oil...and very glad you like it....its great for building our medium chain fatty acids too. its the only product i use for frying and stir frys now....another fantastically good thing it can be used for is oil pulling. tbf tomsbestfriend is also using it....she must have a very enlightened dentist. if you like coconut oil in the morning then holding a blob in your mouth for as long as poss before swilling and spitting it out may attract the night's built up toxins and offer a way out of the body for them. its an ancient practice, popular abroad, thats making a come back!

what else do you have for breakfast hanny? am very interested in breakfasts at the mo....usually don't fancy...are you gluten free?

My breakfast has to be gluten free. Which has made a great impact on the better functioning of my bowels.  Adding the colustrum helped as well.  After many years of using synthetic thyroid meds, and possibly other influences, the intestines were affected.  Gluten free and colustrum and living as much as possible (added) sugar free has made that I'm almost back to normal functioning bowels.  Synthetic thyroid meds were replaced with dessicated meds.  (Gentler on the system, I think, and the bonus of T3)  

At first the puzzle of a better functioning body and thus digestive system was by some called 'an enigma'.  Where to begin?  My body showed its malfunctioning in so many ways.  After the saliva test via the naturepath a lot became clear.  So then we worked on 'what's for breakfast'.  

For a long time I cooked millet, or quinoa, mixed that in with a certain amount of yoghurt (with aged cheese the only milkproduct still tolerated by my system)  added a teaspoon of cinnemon, topped that off with sliced almonds and on top of that fruit of the season (whatever is ready in my yard) (winters it comes from the freezer)  With the millet or quinoa while still warm I mixed in a small amount of coconut oil.  And all the supplements/capsules I take with coconut milk.  There's my breakfast.  However, with going away a lot in summer I opted for a gluten free muesli mix that can be sprinkled on top of my yoghurt and add the rest after that.  With this change I miss out on the coconut oil. And forgot that it was important to the whole of digestion. 

Perhaps too big an answer to your question. 

or i do a smoothy...yest i had banana with my frozen red grapes from last year...more coming up to hopefully ripen this year...whizzed with this new omega milk i'm trying but its got carageen...apparently junk ..in it but i'm giving it a go with a smidgen of spinach leaves.

want to do more smoothies was temporarily put off by the cruciferous crisis (! )...but that's over now...phew! tried really green now going to add in some apple ...i know i should be having more flax seed and oil..used to add it to soya yog...til found out the bad news about soya! you got a way of taking flax?

think youll get back into coconut oil?

My drinking water is filtered. 

we started last night...so in principle its going on until tomo eve when the first meal will be had. not all are doing two days g30 is stopping tonight.

I'm not sure what you call "immitation cereals".  

I consult with my naturepath and follow the suggestions given at that moment in time.  It may be adjusted another time.  This far I have been very impressed with his guidance, seeing the improvement in my well-being.  (although the LS has thrown a big wrench in this well-being, knowing the possible influence of globetasol and experiencing how aggresive this LS can be)  With that - I try to keep informed, like on this website and other.  However, there are times that I rather not, when I'm tired to concentrate so much on my own well-being and loose sight of other things that happen around me.  

On synthetics: The change that came when I went from synthetic thyroid meds to dessicated was enormous.  At the time I was loosing too much of my hair, an aditional symptom to the bowel sensitivity.  Though I'm not a person that spends a lot of time in front of the mirror, the thought of becoming balled was too much for me to bare.  So again I studied that extra info one receives with the medication and realized that maybe one of the possible side affects for me was severe hairloss and that these meds could be having that affect on me.  

As an extra note - I believe that a person should take foods from the whole circle of foods that are available to us.  Not too much of one and not too much of the other.  I try to find some kind of balance.

The next thing I note: Where does my food come from?  The vegies come from my garden, most of the fruit comes from my small orchard. I know that this is organically grown.  I was the one who stood next to the tree, so to speak, and know how the fruit has been treated.  Labor intensive, for sure, but I think well worth it.  

In short, if you can call this rambling short,  I try to gather info from all sides and sites and try to live as best as I can.  Perhaps I'll live one or two years longer than the person who is eating 'junk' food. (ha)  Or perhaps I am given the chance to grow older in relative comfort.  Who knows.   

Inflammation is caused by the ingestion of foods and toxins that promote swelling and histamine release due to the body's attempt to repel those toxins and foods that are in some way unnatural. The foods might be overloaded with pesticides or fertilisers or both. They might be de-natured GMO products that the body cannot cope with and which the body does not have the bacterial resources to digest. 

This is the current understanding of the onset of autoimmunity. Some in the scientific community, such as Sayer Ji, argue that  inflammation and diaorrhea is infact a healthy and appropriate reaction to unsuitable foodstuffs. Rather than repressing the body's rejection and its appropriate signals to us, or more drastically re-sectioning the bowel (taking part of it out), it might be better to pay attention to the signals that we are eating things that the body cannot deal with. Sorry this is getting a bit long and may not interest you but I would be very much like to hear your naturopath's opinion of this current understanding if s/he's following.   

I can only tell you about my personal observations and experiences. 

Like - how the switch from synthetic to dessicated thyroid meds have made a difference;  how Colustrum has supported the functioning of my intestines.  And that then has reflected on the whole of my well-being.  

It has, however, not made much of a difference to my LS.  Which at the moment is "raging mad."

of course theres extra expense in pursuing that I should have been more thoughtful before enquiring. Might I make a suggestion however?

So that would be all cereals, rice, millet the lot...for a month to 6 weeks. see if you get any relief from that. I 've found that I could re-introduce rice but i still have inflammation so i'm going to try to quit dairy again...gave it up in the past. I'd like to try raw dairy if i re-introduce dairy. The Paleo Mom really is a great guide to addressing bowel inflammation and she's got a cook book coming out...i've just bought it... so will have some recipes to share!

I say all this but the forthcoming protocol, should it interest you, doesn't promote giving up food groups ...she recommends a 'balanced diet' but everything organic, pref locally grown so you know it hasn't been treated and also raw dairy...so there's a few hints !

That said if there's relief from symptoms am sure the protocol works with abstinence from inflammatory foods as well....and I don't think its recommended to eat stuff which is known to be causing autoimmunity.

There are apparently a number of trigger foods and its different for many but allergy to grains is widespread due to the hefty treatment with fertilisers and pesticides that commercial wheat and other grains receive. Nuts and eggs can be allergens too and the list goes on but I think we need a lot of support to work through and really find out what our individual triggers are. However the paleo mom got over lichen planus by this elimination method. She calls it the Autoimmune Protocol (The AIP). Its the toughest regime and beyond Paleo...which you seem to be quite close to following?

What my problem is that I sometimes forget certain ingredients that are beneficial.  Just disappearing from my 'disk'.  (memory or other, I don't know, it just happens)  

Since most of my food is homegrown I'm not worried about the 'poisons'.  There is non on the food I have in my garden and in my orchard, pure organically grown.  All is as is.  Sometimes I'm unfortunate: mice, chipmunks, deer, marmots and the like enjoy the foods in my garden as well.  Sometimes a bear.  Let's say: We share.  

As I said before - I believe in a balanced diet.  Not too much of one and not too much of the other.  Milk I don't drink anymore for the longest time.  I eat only aged cheese, cause I seem to need these particular nutrients. Only so now and then an egg.  I'm fairly careful with nuts.  

I find that the way my intestines react to food is a pretty good indicator whether what I eat is good for me or not.  Anything not so good walks through my system with lots of speed.  

However, there are possibly things I totally missed. What do you know about nuts?