diet and pain in shoulder blade and under ribcage

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a wrote

>What other things have you done apart from the flushes? That is what sort

of

>things are you eating, how much water are you drinking etc.?

Dear a,

Haven't tried much other tahn flushes. I have drastically changed my diet,

though not perfectly. I think what is happening is that I feel a bit better

and think I can eat fat or dairy again. So I am practicing very diligently.

I have had no fat since Sat. and that was the first fat in days. My

parents are visitng helping me with my son and I am realizing how MUCH SUGAR

and FAT they eat. I have done very well, but Sat. I gave in to mom's

Country Style Steak and Gravy! I really think it made the pain worse,

although I didn't actually have an attack.

I am drinking 1/2 gal to gal. of apple juice daily. Also drinking water

with fresh lemon juice as I remember, but probably not enough. (some days a

couple of litres, some days less). Tried fresh fruit juices (carrots,

beets, cucumber) only for a couple of days.

I worry about my changing my diet from normal food since I am still nursing

and therefore I do not stay with any dietary change for more than a few

days. For now I have stopped dairy and implemented calcium supplements.

As you can see, I am open to suggestions regarding my diet.

Thank you.

Lesa

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Lesa,

Original Message:

From: Lesa

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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:45 PM

Subject: diet and pain in shoulder blade and under ribcage

I am drinking 1/2 gal to gal. of apple juice daily.

Also drinking water with fresh lemon juice as I

remember, but probably not enough.

It may help you to sweeten it "to taste" as a means of making it both more appetizing

and more capable of buffering the acidity created by toxic discharge. Sweetening it

may help you consume more and accomplish more, with more comfort, even pass less

toxicity on through your milk, making your child more comfortable through this process,

as well.

>(some days a couple of litres, some days less). Tried fresh fruit

juices (carrots,beets, cucumber) only for a couple of days.

Carrot and beet are not "fruit" juices. Some folks consider them to be therapeutic for the liver;

others recommend avoiding all juices from starchy tubers. Problems with the liver often equate

to difficulty with the concentration of these, even juiced. If your liver problem is one that has

compromised your starch metabolism, then you would incur detriment from using them, that could

outweigh any benefit you might derive, so experiment only very carefully with them. I would not

use them, myself, and would stick, preferably to fruit juices, but, if I were to experiment with

them, then I would make certain to ingest them far apart from other foods/fruits/juices, so as

to enhance ability to assess their effects. Their use, spaced away from ingestion of other

substances, might reveal some information about the condition/tolerances of your liver, if

nothing else. Even the cucumber juice, while the fluid is valuable, may pose a problem due

to a, relatively, low sugar content, compared to other true, sweet, juicy fruits.

>I worry about my changing my diet from normal food since I am still nursing and therefore I do not stay with any dietary change for more than a few days. For now I have stopped dairy and implemented calcium supplements.

Take a check on the calcium supplements. If they're in unchelated, compound form, this may not be a good idea. The archives has information in it from both myself and Dale that provides information on superior forms of mineral supplementation (both organic chelates and ionic), or he and I can post to you the relevant websites if you can't find these references readily. I strongly support you in eliminating the dairy products.

I nursed my son for three years, and believe it is more important to get yourself healthy than fret about

toxic discharge contaminating your milk. The metabolites of poorly digested complex foods are more

of a detriment than most folks realize--and I doubt that anyone with liver and gallbladder problems is

efficiently catabolizing so as to be producing healthy-enough milk, meaning free of partially and improperly -degraded, toxic, metabolites and sufficiently laden with a full complement of nutrients from efficient degradation of complex, organic substances commonly referred to as "food". I'd rather opt for exposing the child to your milk as synthesized from a diet of the simplest foods and plenty of natural fluid (of course, I'm recommending true, sweet, juicy fruits, when I say this) because in that diet there is a ready source of sugars that your body can easily convert to glucose (very, very important!), plenty of fluid, phytonutrients, minerals, and all will help the liver remineralize and revitalize you, very quickly restoring you to an ability to pass the best of Nature on to the child. A toxic, discharge status, if that's what you're worried about, is a relatively slow, natural, easy process when done with fruits, providing the sugars status is ample, because sugars act as a buffering agent. The sugars are exceptionally important.

>As you can see, I am open to suggestions regarding my diet.

Glad of that! Your child's liver is probably in better shape than yours, so keep that in mind with regard to ability to handle the temporary effects of your dietary conversion. Best for all concerned to take care of yourself, the sooner, the better, in my opinion.