Gluten-free/SCD diet (was: RE: psoriasis)

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A gluten-free diet isn’t necessarily terribly  hard. Or

doesn’t have to be. If you know that such a diet – it’s not a

“diet” so much as a wholly different approach to eating –

makes you feel better, and going back to a previous way of eating causes pain,

or at least a lot of health problems, I’ve found that that knowledge makes

it fairly easy to stick with the new way of eating. Plus, there’s so

much good food that one can eat even though he or she is not eating wheat-

or other grain-based breads and all the other starches one normally eats. Eating

only meat, vegetables and fruit is not restrictive in any real sense. Oh, I

admit, there’s a period of adjustment, and I, too, thought initially that

this approach would just be too difficult. But I’ve found that it’s

not particularly difficult.  It does take time in the kitchen because it

requires making things from scratch, and I suppose if one doesn’t like to

cook (and bake) or never learned how properly that would be an issue. That isn’t

an issue for me, I admit.  

I say all this as a former bread, pastry and potato addict, and

as someone who has been on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet for a full six

months.  I found that being gluten-free alone didn’t help my Crohn’s

much (or my other auto-immune problems). But getting rid of all grains/starches

(including rice & potatoes) and sugar (except fruit and honey) has helped

tremendously (along with taking LDN).  I wouldn’t go back if I could. I

do intend, someday, when I feel no more gut symptoms at all to gradually

reintroduce a few foods I now can’t eat – the first one being

unsweetened natural cocoa! But I don’t sit around yearning for that day.

There’s just so much good stuff to eat that it all easily makes up for

the stuff that I eliminated because it was exacerbating by disease.

n

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DimethylSulfoxide-DMSO

[mailto:DimethylSulfoxide-DMSO ] On Behalf Of wildman350smom

Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 6:00 AM

To: DimethylSulfoxide-DMSO

Subject: Re: psoriasis

yes lena i was thinking of you when i was in

the waiting

room at dr bonnie's this week... i foget what the book

was called but it was all about gluten and the diseases

it's tied to... they had a whole section on eczma, psoriasis,

etc.... i agree gluten free (which is not easy...)

how did the emu oil psori cream and emu oil soap work for you?

carol

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> >> I've go psoriasis that causes my head to flake like a snow-globe,

> >> and have noticed that DMSO+CS seems to dry up the patches

> >> somewhat, but would like to make them go away, any way I can.

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> > My husband had this. It went away completely when he started a

> > gluten and dairy free diet.

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> > Mara

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