Gluten and Lectin Intolerance, Allergy, Sensitivity Part 2 My Journey

Continued from part one link here: http://foodtruthandlies.blogspot.com/2011/10/gluten-and-lectin-intolerance-allergy.html


Gluten, lectin intolerance, allergy and sensitivity.  Part 2


Finally, my research began to bear fruit as more and more articles on the topic of gluten and lectin intolerance, allergy and sensitivity appeared in the media. 
 I learned that GMO seeds for wheat and other grains like soy, oat, so on, have been forced upon farmers, like it or not.  Farmers are now growing wheat with a 90% gluten content.   It is one of the major contributing factors emerging in the epidemic of obesity that is clearly apparent in our society.  Another factor is too much sugar like high fructose corn sugar that has screwed up the pancreas and liver of countless people addicted to sodas, and other foods with that corn sugar in it.  So you have a weakened liver, unable to process all the chemicals, fats, sugars, gluten, lectin and other toxic substances sensible and insensible.  


Pile on toxic environments, on every level, body, mind, spirit, soul, and you have
 a melting pot of very, very sick people emerging and overwhelming the medical community's ability to handle it.
Plus the insurance liabilities we all carry in this global society. 


 Little wonder that no one has ever been able to grapple with and master 
the issue of health care for all.  How could one in an ever changing landscape
of illnesses and disasters that create new illnesses as part of our "routine" 
daily news fare.  


In any event, as I measured what I had learned and evaluated how I was  becoming increasingly ill and symptomatic over the years as Monsanto's GMO " wheat" caused me to have allergies and asthma like symptoms including find my lungs to fill up
 to the point of feeling like I was drowning every time I ate wheat and oats.
 Additionally,  terrible gastrointestinal symptoms made me miserable and
 constantly in search of facilities which limited my social life greatly.


With lectin intolerance I found that eating peanut butter, whether organic or not 
caused my joints and body to hurt so badly,  and my knees and wrists became 
swollen and hot.  At times I could only hobble due to the pain and spasms that
lectin caused my body to experience.  I also found I could not eat any kind of
 legume and most kinds of nuts were also excluded.  


This is when I entered warp speed to discover what the hades was happening to me, and how to fix it.


Thanks to the brilliant articles, cited below, by health writers such as Dr. Joseph Mercola and Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, that address both gluten and lectin intolerance, I was able to change the course of my health in a short period of time.


I immediately stopped eating any wheat products, including soups which use
 wheat as thickeners. I read every package of food before buying it. 
 Within 1 week from eliminating all gluten and lectin containing foods from 
my diet, I was nearly asymptomatic.  My body no longer felt like it was burning
 up inside (gluten causes this allergic reaction of heat); my lungs were 
clear and my allergies nearly absent.


A bonus of this new gluten and lectin free diet is an effortless weight loss of
 19 pounds in two months.  I wasn't even trying.  Gone was the inflammation
 and the consequent insatiable hunger created by food intolerance and 
allergy to a food.  My body no longer felt a bit of the "feeding frenzy" response.   


Out the door went all wheat products except for organically grown pastas manufactured in Italy.  Their wheat gluten content is not bio-engineered, and 
I cook the pasta for my husband who is OK with low gluten foods.  
Personally, I use gluten free pasta now.  Not great, but I recently found one
 by a Japanese organic noodle manufacturer whose product seems
 to have it nailed.  Their rice pastas are the best.


Now, on the matter of finding gluten free bread that looks and tastes good is a
 trial.
Add in the gnarly factor of high prices for tiny little loaves of nearly tasteless 
stuff is outrageous.  I have a bread maker and a sack of gluten free brown 
rice flour, xantham gum which acts like gluten, and a bunch of spices, cheese,
herbs and so forth to make a bangin' loaf of bread.   I hope.


Speaking of which, I wish Food Network or the Cooking  Channel would
 have a show on gluten free foods, especially baking.     

I have posted a number of articles on this site from the two outstanding 
resources for food truth and lies,  both Dr. Joseph Mercola and Mike Adams 
the Health Ranger. 


 I cite many other authorities on natural and alternative health, because
 they are truly in the Vanguard of changing the mind set of people and point 
us all toward natural healing and careful nutrition.  These many heroes 
of medicine and natural healing are offering options to the failure of traditional medicine and their toxic drugs. The iatrogenic death rates of people in 
reaction to the drugs they were prescribed to "heal" them ended up killing
 them is astonishing.


Some might say I like to "shake the trees" a little.  As a professional 
registered nurse and critical care clinician, I have a solid, albeit wrenching
 background in the "trenches" of ICUs. Also contributing to my mischief is my background as a psychologist and nutritional researcher and consultant
 for nearly 40 years. 


This provides me context and intent for adding my voice in praise or
 opposition to what is happening in the food world today.  


Being a guinea pig at the mercy of Monsanto just "fries my circuits", I tell ya!


Here are some articles on gluten and lectin intolerance from my archive on this site:


 http://foodtruthandlies.blogspot.com/2011/08/gluten-what-you-dont-know-might-kill.html

http://foodtruthandlies.blogspot.com/2011/07/3-ounces-of-this-day-may-be-harming.html

Gluten and Lectin Intolerance, Allergy, Sensitivity.  There are many more
 topics on this blog that speak to other chemicals that are killing us off, 
including fluoride, MSG, canola oil, pig blood in the meat we consume.  


The absolute grossest is the article on human feces recycled into
 "poop burgers" created by a Japanese scientist.  Ya gotta wonder!  

  I hope to have brought some significant issues to your attention.  


Thanks.  Kathleen

Gluten and Lectin Intolerance, Allergy, Sensitivity Part 1 My Journey

 Gluten and Lectin Intolerance, Allergy, Sensitivity.  Part 1 of 2  This is my journey 
discovering the havoc that gluten and lectin cause within the human body.
  
The resource section is in Part 2.  I hope you will take the time to read 
the links within that take you to the supportive documentation for this topic.


I would like to start out by reminding us of a trueism:  As your body ages and
 changes, physical reactions to foods, chemicals, heat, cold and so on also age
 and change. 


 For example; the difficulty of sensing and tolerating heat/cold ambient 
temperatures, especially in older people is due to aging thermo-receptors 
in the brain.  


Along with the physiological changes in nervous and skeletal system and structure, are a constellation of what seems like "sudden onset" of allergy like symptoms that appear from a host of sources.  


Consider these:
The heavily toxic, chemical and radiation loaded environment we are forced to
 live in has become increasingly poisonous since the Fukushima nuclear reaction burnouts.  


Our air, ground, water, foods, animals raised for consumption are 
all loaded with chemicals, and plutonium, etc. which we are forced to eat.


Secondly:  The poisonous, bioengineered foods that Monsanto Chemical has 
forced upon the world has had devastating effects upon the soil and 
ecosystems of:


 Africa, India, farmlands all across America, Spain, all of the UK, many, many
 countries worldwide.


Here is my post on death dealing, toxic effects of GMO organisms on human, 
plant,  animal, soil, environment.


http://foodtruthandlies.blogspot.com/2011/08/genetically-modified-organisms-are.html


Europeans are wide awake to the catastrophe of GMO foods, and refuse to use them.  The UK and Germany, along with India and other Asian countries are refusing to use GMO seeds.  Read this post about India's lawsuit below:


http://foodtruthandlies.blogspot.com/2011/09/india-files-biopiracy-lawsuit-against.html


The Rule of Big Pharma on our bodies and health.  Or lack thereof.  This is a whole 'nuther smoke, so to speak, and I will address that topic in a later post.


Bottom Line:  From just the few sources above, and not even considering the stress factors of life, toxic politicians, corrupt bankers, wall street and so on, we are fighting the battle for our lives.   Since we must eat to survive, and given little if any choice on whether or not we eat bio-engineered food given we can afford to, organic is the only choice.  Still, with the nuclear fall out in the mix, that brings up a host of new questions.


 In simple terms:  Survival.


Which brings me to Gluten and Lectin intolerance, allergy and sensitivity.


Long ago, wheat was grown with a low gluten level of around 30-35%.  Using 
natural seeds and organic farming back then,  I never had a single problem
with gluten intolerance.   Up until about 20 years ago, then things began to change.


At first I thought it was merely aging.  But, I found that the symptoms I was 
beginning to experience were very uncomfortable.  I was not able to identify 
the causative factor or factors.  
So I carried on with wheat products unaware of the consequences, at least on
 a conscious level.  I swear to you, at times I thought my gut was 
rumbling "Dammit!" pay attention!  What your feeding me sucks!


As time went on, allergies and allergy symptoms increased and it became 
such that I was frequently overwhelmed and constantly sick.  
The more I ate bread - for which I had a craving - (part of the allergic pattern
 is that the offending food becomes an "addiction") the worse my symptoms
 became.  So too with peanut butter.


 AND, I was gaining weight and constantly bloated, with all the misery that
 an irritable colon can torture you with and STILL I wasn't totally paying 
attention.  Yet.


Please go to part two for rest of post and resource links. 


End of Part 1. Gluten and Lectin Intolerance, Allergy, Sensitivity.


See Part 2 Balance of post and resources on gluten and lectin intolerance, allergy and sensitivity.   Below is the link:


http://foodtruthandlies.blogspot.com/2011/10/gluten-and-lectin-intolerance-allergy_15.html 

Mustard compound helps build muscle, increase strength and performance

Mustard compound helps build muscle, increase strength and performance.  What baffles my mind is the disconnect of modern medicine, the FDA, and Big Pharma to natural means of healing.  The use of herbs, plants, and so on when used in their natural state, are far more powerful than the chemicals the drug companies foist onto unsuspecting patients who then later either suffer horrific side effects or die.  Sure they know about these natural herbs, seeds, like mustard, and so on, but GREED and DECEITFUL PRACTICES by Big Pharma, enabled by the Federal Government are killing off our population at alarming rates.  IMO, it's like the "blind leading the blind" when it comes to the practice of medicine in this country today. 

Physicians "bought" by Big Pharma companies, LIE IN THEIR REPORTS ON DRUG SAFETY.  Physicians in private practice are constantly found remiss as they shovel pills at patients with little or no explanation of what they are, why and how they work, and the side effects to anticipate. 

 I know from personal experience this perilous route.  The stories I could tell you would shock you, and even though I am an educated person, specializing in health care and nutrition, these mishaps still shock me. 

 Especially after being hospitalized near death from the nearly catastrophic effects of an antibiotic.

" (NaturalNews) The simple mustard plant and its seeds have been in the news a lot lately because of their ever-expanding list of known health benefits. And yet another new study has found that mustard and certain types of vegetables naturally contain a steroid-like compound that can help increase appetite, promote the development of muscle mass, and boost overall athletic performance.

Bodybuilders, aging individuals with wasting muscles, and even just young- or middle-aged people looking to bulk up often start out experimenting with a variety of muscle-building powders and supplements with the hope that these will help to improve performance and promote muscle growth. Many of these products do, of course, work as intended when combined with exercise and weight-lifting -- but now it may be even easier to build muscle just by eating the right foods."

http://www.naturalnews.com/033810_mustard_muscle.html#ixzz1aUC5MhiM

"Besides promoting muscle growth and improved strength, mustard also helps alleviate migraine headaches and prevent cancer. It is also a powerful anti-fungal and antiseptic compound."  

Mustard compound helps build muscle, increase strength and performance.  The use of mustard and mustard seeds is an ancient "cure" that was used by my grandparents during the winter.   Their "mustard pack" was a "go to remedy" as they called it. 

 When we had colds and flu it was the first thing placed on chests to break up the congestion in the lungs.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033810_mustard_muscle.html#ixzz1aUC5MhiM

3 Foods that Can Trigger a Stroke

• 3 Foods that Can Trigger a Stroke.  This is an article full of helpful information. I agree with most of it, with the exception of saturated fats.    I have never used margarine and never will. It is disgusting to me.  I also do not use any other type of lard, canola which is so toxic to the body, sunflower or other oils that are commonly sold in grocery stores.  I use only Organic Virgin Coconut Oil, and Organic Virgin Olive Oil.   I also use pure organic butter.    All the other variables listed below are met with self control, keeping my environment calm and peaceful and consuming a natural foods Vitamin B complex. I also use only Himalayan Crystal Salt with all those incredible minerals.  It is awesome.  
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•  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/10/3-foods-that-can-trigger-a-stroke.aspx?e_cid=20111010_DNL_art_1 

• "Up to 80 percent of strokes are preventable. Diet, vitamin D status, and exercise are three important lifestyle factors that have a direct bearing on your individual risk
• Your diet plays a crucial role in reducing your risk for a stroke. Foods to avoid—because they can directly increase your risk—include processed foods containing trans fats, smoked- or processed meats, and diet sodas
• Before cutting out red meat and salt from your diet, fearing these foods may increase your stroke risk, learn how not all meats and salts are created equal. While some increase your risk, other varieties can have an opposite and beneficial effect. 

  Strokes Typically Occur Without ANY Warning

  This is why prevention is so important. You simply will not have any warning signs indicating that you're heading for a stroke in the future... And once you suffer a stroke, the damage, should you survive it, can be absolutely devastating.
  I like to refer to most strokes as a brain attack, which is similar to a heart attack; the only difference is that the blood clot blocks blood flow to your brain instead of your heart. As a result, brain cells begin to die. Naturally, the longer your brain goes without oxygen, the greater your risk of lasting brain damage. This is one area where conventional emergency medicine excels, as there are emergency medications that can actually dissolve a blood clot that is blocking blood flow to your brain, and if done quickly enough can virtually reverse any permanent neurological damage.
  In order to be effective, you typically need to get treated within one hour. This is clearly one of the miracles of modern science, however it all goes to waste if one does not address the underlying conditions after the stroke. However, if you notice any of these signs of stroke, you should get help right away:
  

  • Sudden trouble walking (dizziness, loss of balance, etc.)
  • Sudden confusion
  • Sudden numbness or weakness (especially on one side of your body only)
  • Sudden trouble seeing
  • Sudden severe headache 

  
  
•  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/10/3-foods-that-can-trigger-a-stroke.aspx?e_cid=20111010_DNL_art_1 

•  3 Foods that Can Trigger a Stroke
• High blood pressure
• Obesity
• High triglycerides and elevated homocysteine levels
• Low levels of HDL (good) cholesterol and high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol
• Smoking 
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• "Lastly, it may be worth mentioning that vitamin B3, or niacin, may help improve neurological function directly AFTER a stroke. When rats with ischemic stroke were given niacin, their brains showed growth of new blood vessels, and sprouting of nerve cells which greatly improved neurological outcome. While this likely needs to be studied further, it serves as yet another potent example of how nutrition is at the heart of all healing mechanisms in your body, even when it comes to something as serious as a stroke."
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• 3 Foods that Can Trigger a Stroke.  Red meat, Salt, Trans-Fats like saturated fats, Smoked and Processed Meats, Diet Soda May Dramatically Increase Your Stroke Risk, Vitamin D Deficiency, Psychological distress, Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and birth control pills.    These are excellent guidelines for folks who do need to address their diet and make modifications accordingly.

More Expensive than Organic Food - But it Poisons You

More Expensive than Organic Food - But it Poisons You.  Organic Foods is the only healthy way to eat in our modern world.  This outstanding article covers a great deal of the science and offers action through a Facebook link.  

The Clock is Ticking--Swift Action is Required

Scientists, as well as common sense, warn us that a public health Doomsday Clock is ticking. Within a decade, diet and environment-related diseases, including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer-heavily subsidized under our Big Pharma/chemical/genetically engineered/factory farm system-will likely bankrupt Medicare and the entire U.S. health care system.
Likewise, environmental chaos and oil shortages, unless we act quickly, will soon severely disrupt industrial agriculture and long-distance food transportation, leading to massive crop failures, food shortages, famine, war, and pestilence.
In the food sector, we cannot continue to hand over 88% of our consumer dollars to out-of-control, chemical-intensive, energy-intensive, polluting corporations and "profit at any cost" retail chains. The growth of the Organic Alternative is literally a matter of survival. The question then becomes how (and how quickly) can we move healthy, organic, and "natural" products from a 12% market share, to becoming the dominant force in American food and farming. This is a major undertaking, one that will require a major transformation in public consciousness and policy, but it is doable, and absolutely necessary.
Before we set our sights on making organic and "transition to organic" the norm, rather than the alternative, we need to take a closer, more critical look at the $50 billion annual natural food and products industry. How natural is the so-called natural food in our local market, coop, or grocery store? Is the "natural" sector moving our nation toward an organic future, or has it degenerated into a "green washed" marketing tool, disguising unhealthy and unsustainable food and farming practices as alternatives. Is "natural" just a marketing ploy to sell conventional-unhealthy, energy-intensive, and non-sustainable food and products at a premium price?

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/08/organic-monopoly-and-myth-of-natural-foods.aspx?e_cid=20111008_DNL_art_1

Your Action Plan

By educating the public about the risks of GM foods through a massive education campaign, and launching a ballot initiative in California for 2012 which will require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods and food ingredients, our plan is to generate a tipping point of consumer rejection to make GMOs a thing of the past. Several organizations, including Mercola.com, the Organic Consumers Association, the Institute for Responsible Technology, and even the Environmental Working Group (who produced the Dining in the Dark video above) are getting actively involved. But we do need your help. 

More Expensive than Organic Food - But it Poisons You.   Whatever way you can avoid consuming GMO foods will help you retain your health.  The science of how destructive they are is now conclusive.  And the lie that organic foods are more expensive has been refuted herein.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/08/organic-monopoly-and-myth-of-natural-foods.aspx?e_cid=20111008_DNL_art_1

Could this Spice Actually Help You Shed Pounds?

Could this Spice Actually Help You Shed Pounds?  One interesting observation of the Indian folks living in my community years ago were all slender.  Curry was part of their daily diet.  I wonder.  

"One of the simplest and most enjoyable ways to up the health ante of your meals is by adding herbs and spices, and in the realm of spices, turmeric and its active ingredient curcumin may be king.
If you're a fan of curry, you're probably also a fan of turmeric, as this is the yellow-orange spice that makes the foundation of many curry dishes. It's a great addition to your diet, but to get the full benefits curcumin has to offer, look for a turmeric extract that contains 100 percent certified organic ingredients and at least 95 percent curcuminoids.
Research is emerging showing that this potent spice may play a beneficial role in preventing and treating numerous chronic diseases, and may offer promise in helping people deal with obesity and obesity-related metabolic diseases." 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/22/could-this-spice-actually-help-weight-loss.aspx

 Does Curcumin Boost Weight Loss?

"Research in the European Journal of Nutrition suggests that curcumin may be useful for the treatment and prevention of obesity-related chronic diseases, as the interactions of curcumin with several signal transduction pathways -- the process by which biological functions are recognized -- also reverse insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and other inflammatory symptoms associated with obesity and metabolic disorders.
Curcumin is known for its potent anti-inflammatory properties, and chronic inflammation is the hallmark of most chronic disease, including diabetes, arthritis, and heart disease. But many people are not aware that obesity contributes to a state of low-grade, chronic inflammation in your body that can trigger metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Curcumin appears to modulate several cellular transduction pathways that contribute to this damaging process.

Weight Loss is Just the Icing on the Cake

The benefits of curcumin go way beyond weight loss. The compound has been shown to influence more than 700 genes, and it can inhibit both the activity and the synthesis of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) and 5-lipooxygenase (5-LOX), as well as other enzymes that have been implicated in inflammation.

Read balance of article at link below: 
 http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/22/could-this-spice-actually-help-weight-loss.aspx

Could this Spice Actually Help You Shed Pounds?  The research on this spice is in it's beginning stages at least in Western Medicine.   Because of the heat produced by tumeric/curcumin metabolism is boosted and can help in many ways.
Most particularly with inflammation, and potentially weight loss.

How to determine cancer in your body long before it is diagnosable

How to determine cancer in your body long before it is diagnosable.  Please, please read this article if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer.  The list of symptoms and causative factors below is almost mind-blowing.


"Typically, cancer is diagnosed only after it can be seen on an x-ray or felt or palpated. A cancerous tumour forms when tiny individual cells change from being oxygen-dependent to being sugar- and fermentation-dependent, and then they multiply and spread, often unnoticed for quite some time. But the body has reacted even before a tumour forms, as the underlying cancer-causing conditions affect the entire organism. In order to nip it in the bud it's important to recognise the very early symptoms and other pointers, contributing factors and habits. Here are some important ones, some of which might surprise you.

-Do you have a sweet tooth?
-Do you come down with colds and infections often?
-Do you get very tired?
-Do you have a craving for meat, eggs, dairy, fish?
-Do you exist on a typical western diet?
-Do you eat fried food?
-Do you eat your vegetables cooked instead of raw?
-Is there stress in your life?
-Have you lived through a trauma? Do you suffer from depression?
-Do you have late nights or sleepless nights often?
-Do you drink alcohol, coffee, tea rather than clean water and fresh juices?
-Are you overweight?
-Have you been exposed to numerous x-rays or radiation?
-Have you undergone hormonal treatment especially HRT?
-Do you use plastic wrapping or other materials with your food storage and preparation?
-Do you drink tap water, or bottled water from plastic bottles?
-Do you suffer from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, or allergies?
-Is your digestion often congested?
-Do you avoid exposure to sun (Vitamin D)?
-Do you take antibiotics and pharmaceutical products often or even regularly?
-Do you use regular shampoo, skin care products, deodorant, tooth paste?
-Are you a couch potato whose physical exercise consists only of trips to the fridge and back?
-Do you suffer from a persistent cough?
-Do you have blood in your stool or urine?
-Have you found a lump, or do you have swollen glands?
-Has a wart or mole changed?
-Do you have sores that don't heal?
-Do you experience pain that never goes away?
-etc etcLearn more:
http://www.naturalnews.com/033686_cancer_diagnosis.html


"What you need to do is:
-Stop making cancer and disease.
-Detox very thoroughly (physically and mentally-emotionally).
-Build your immune system to maximum strength through truly right nutrition.
-Maintain your newly found health continually in these natural ways.

So whether you use prevention or need to treat yourself instead, fully apply the natural self-healing ability of the body."

How to determine cancer in your body long before it is diagnosable.  If you are dealing with this condition, I understand how much you are suffering.  Cancer has hit our family and the anguish of watching a loved one endure chemotherapy is beyond description.