Ten Months on Diet - No supplements lot better.

November 8, 2008

I have not reported in for quite a while and the last episode was

when I did a few days of my " peaches and ice cream cure " to kick my

gut out of many weeks of abdominal pain. That was back around mid

August (you can do a search if want to see about that `unusual'

approach at the time).

Anyway the main news is that I am just a LOT better these days and it

has been consistent for the last two months. The diet had already

helped a number of things improve, but my sensitive gut was still

playing up a lot no matter what I did even after 8 months. However, I

consistently have had a hard time with supplements of nearly any

kind, both before the Diet and after, so just decided to drop them

for a while. All of them, even though Bee's list is pretty basic and

low key. (Incidentally, Bee was aware of this and in my case thought

it was a good idea due to my gut being so hyper-reactive to random

things).

My gut is a lot calmer but for sure not anywhere near a `cure'. My

thinking is much clearer and the dizzy, spacey, fatigue episodes are

as good as nonexistent. I took some Milk Thistle tincture for 7 days

last week just to see and it made no difference whatsoever.

Previously it had helped a lot to clear up my " head " stuff for some

weeks then wore off. Seemingly I do not now have anything in that

department to clear up I guess!

So, for those of you with very sensitive gut issues and are wondering

if you are possibly intolerant of supplements a cessation trial could

be worth doing. For me I had been battling meds, supplements, and

docs for years about whether " pills " were helping or hurting me. In

fact some caused permanent damage (to my hearing - antibiotics). I am

not convinced we all need supplements even in " medical " situations

though caution that this I think applies to very few people and

primarily those who have had GI infections or the like that may have

compromised function.

There is a lot more I could add to this but this is along enough post

for now.

Best to all… M.

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