Elimination diet to detect food sensitivity - brain fog etc

[trowelhead]

Mr Whippy said:

No, I was using milk to settle my stomach.

I’d often get heart burn and even took a glass of milk to bed with me in recent years

Then maybe 8 cups of tea a day.

Then maybe cereal etc.

The IgG response apparently triggers a stress response and adrenaline, so you can end up craving these foods too, so you get the adrenaline hit... seemingly.


I now just use koko milk for cereal and a single cuppa first thing and then that’s it for ‘milk’ pretty much.
Coconut oil replaced butter give or take.

I don’t really eat bread anymore either and don’t miss it as it’s just fat fluffy sheets of sugar really.


I’ll admit I still have cheat days. I’ve just had a calzone pizza chicken thing for a change from local restaurant take away.


Needless to say if I stick to whole foods and cook myself, and avoid milk, my gut is almost like it’s not there.
If I have naughty stuff it’s playing up within 30mins.

Interesting - did they say it was lactose or something else in there?

Reason i say is that if you like your pizzas etc - there is way less lactose in Mozerella than a small glass of milk
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/image?imageKey=P...

So some cheeses / greek yoghurt could be ok vs a tiny glass of milk or even milk powders in milk chocolate etc is bad.

P.S - do you plan a username change in light of this

[NorthDave]

trowelhead said:

Dairy or even the substitutes / oat / coconut?

The alternatives are fine but no animal dairy. I think it's the main protein I'm allergic to - Casein.

It is interesting as I used to drink pints of the stuff as a child and then slowly grew to dislike it as I aged. My Mum is the same, she used to water milk down for her cereal as she didn't like the raw milk taste (and her test showed the same). I've since read that it is quite common for people to develop an intolerance as they age which kind of makes sense when you think milk is really to raise babies.

[trowelhead]

NorthDave said:

The alternatives are fine but no animal dairy. I think it's the main protein I'm allergic to - Casein.

It is interesting as I used to drink pints of the stuff as a child and then slowly grew to dislike it as I aged. My Mum is the same, she used to water milk down for her cereal as she didn't like the raw milk taste (and her test showed the same). I've since read that it is quite common for people to develop an intolerance as they age which kind of makes sense when you think milk is really to raise babies.

Ah ok makes sense. I'm almost certain i've got an intolerance to either dairy or gluten, and my money is on dairy. Tempted by one of those york tests

[trowelhead]

Mr Whippy said:

Dr. Sten Ekberg
Top 10 Healthy Foods You Must Eat

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gDIshc-S0

Edited by Mr Whippy on Wednesday 30th June 14:08

Just watched this - really good thanks for posting

[ScotHill]

Okay I've been paying attention to what I've been eating over the last few months, including a detailed food diary for a week so far, and while I've not been strict on eliminating certain things (apart from dairy which I dropped but only for a week or so) I noticed I can quite happily eat pretty much anything without any immediate effects, i.e. it's not like I'm fine and then I have pasta with a cheese sauce and a glass of milk and then get symptoms in the next 24 hours.

But if I overeat, either portion sizes too big or eating too many complex meals/snacks (basically meat, dairy or wheat) over the space of a few days, it starts to kick in. So it may be that just balance and moderation is key for me, something which has been strongly lacking in my food life, especially now I'm working from home and no-one can see me eating tiramisu with a long spoon.

The food diary also showed that I snack A LOT, mostly healthy but some not; so I might need to factor in an extra reasonable sized meal into the day, rather than constantly returning to the kitchen for more and more snacks which inevitably snowball into overeating unhealthy stuff.

The three major things I noticed were that everything improved once I'd stopped work for a month (new baby) - so even low level stress or worry can knock my digestive system off balance; exercise helped greatly, an hour's cycling seemed to calm down my digestion a lot (had noticed that on all-day rides in the past too but always thought that was caution due to the lack of available toilets); and a bad night's sleep can knock me sideways for a couple of days, longer if I don't manage to get decent naps the next day, and I would get sleepy and sluggish again after every meal (which is what I originally thought might be caused by food sensitivity).

And if I did feel sluggish then missing breakfast and not eating until lunchtime was a great way to help get back on track, didn't miss breakfast at all on those days.

I'll explore the FODMAPs a bit more, but just easing off on everything is probably the way to go. At 44 and with a 3 week old baby and a 4 year old I can't afford to be off my game, so I might actually do something about it this time.

Edited by ScotHill on Saturday 21st August 20:02