Nell and : Was: Viruses/diet

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Nell and ,

Thanks for sharing about this. My son's initial response to GFCF

was so wonderful that I thought he'd be just like Karyn Serrousi's

kid. Until he lost all of his gains (except he stopped the self-

injuring permanently, thank goodness).

Anyway, that experience and our experience with enzymes, and our

progress and regress cycles have never made any sense to me. No one

I've read has a good explanation.

I've been swamped lately and haven't been able to follow up on this,

but here are the two excerpts that got me thinking (both taken

from " Nourishing Traditions " by Sally Fallon):

" Scientists say they have the first direct evidence that viruses can

mutate and become deadly because of nutritional deficiencies in the

hosts they infect. In their experiments, researchers found that a

human virus normally harmless to mice mutated and became a heart-

damamging agent in mice suffering from a nutritional deficiency.

Once changed, they said, the virus was also able to infect and

damage the hearts of nutritionally well-balanced mice.

This is the first time that nutritional deficiency in a host has

been shown to alter viruses to make them permanently more virulent,

the scientists say in a report published in today's issue of the

journal Nature Medicine. " Warren E. Leary, NY Times News Service

" Candida albicans resides in the lower bowel of the intestinal tract

and consumes simple sugars and produces alcohol as one of its by-

products. While the yeast cells live off sugar and carbohydrates,

the HIV virus lives off proteins that are not completely broken down

in the stomach into their constituent amino acids. For harder to

digest proteins, like 'glutens' in certain grains like wheat

and 'casein' in most dairy products and other proteins like eggs and

meats cooked at high temperatures, the efficiency of protein

digestions could drop to 60% or less. The higher the temperature

the meat is cooked, teh more coagulated the protein becomes and the

harder it is for the digestive juices, like hydrochloric acid and

pancreatic enzymes, to break down the proteins into simple amino

acids. If 40% of the protein you ate passed through into the colon

undigested, the HIV virus could have a field day reproducing

itself. " Mark Konlee, Health Freedom News

Now, as I said, I've not been able to research this further, but it

does make me wonder if our children, who are known to be

nutritionally deficient (my son's ION panel, for example, just

showed that in spite of a diet that includes quite a bit of protein,

he was ALL LOW in essential amino acids) and suffering from viral

issues, aren't dealing with viruses that may have adapted somehow to

feed off the peptides that we remove by starting GFCF, or SCD, or

enzymes. Then, after a period of starvation and great progress for

our kids, the viruses adapt to find a new source of food and the

progress our kids have made starts to disappear again.

If this is the case, then it seems to me that it would be prudent to

start an antiviral program at the same time as using a new dietary

intervention (one known to remove peptides) that may starve the

viruses for a period of time. Kick them hard while they're weak and

have the antivirals in your system while the viruses are trying to

adapt to another food source.

This is all completely ignorant speculation (I like to state the

obvious HA!) but I thought I'd throw it out there. The only thing

I know for sure about viruses is that I hate the & *%$# things.

Anita

> >

> > >Anita,

> > This has been EXACTLY our experience with ALL gut interventions

> > (enzymes, SCD, etc).I think my baby is cured for a couple of

weeks &

> > then he starts to slip again.

>

> And not surprisingly, same with n. I'm moving towards LOD at

the

> moment, partly because it explains a possible reason why SCD

seemed to

> work at first and then yowza a disaster: in the beginning he was

> getting mostly meat and vegetables and some fruit. Then I started

> baking with almond flour, which is about as high in oxalates as you

> can get.

>

> But I'm interested in the peptide theory too. Not that I really

> understand what a peptide IS.

>

> Nell

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