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Failsafe Diet ... Anyone Heard Of/tried This?

Skylark

By Skylark
in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut

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A friend sent me this website and it's so interesting I had to share.

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"FAILSAFE stands for Free of Additives, Low in Salicylates, Amines and Flavour Enhancers and is Sue Dengate's term for the comprehensive low-chemical, low-reactive exclusion diet formulated by allergists at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Australia.

The failsafe diet is designed to treat intolerances or sensitivities to specific chemicals in foods. The diet is not designed to treat allergies. Reactions to food chemicals are pharmacological and dose-related rather than immune-system related, but they cause a number of symptoms that appear to be allergy-like. It is important to understand the difference between food allergy and food chemical sensitivity."

There is tons more info on the site, just click all the links on the top left to get to the different articles.

I'm going to try this diet in October after I return from a vacation to see if it helps my asthma, reactive hypoglycemia, remaining brain fog, and a rash that just won't go away.

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This is very interesting, Skylark. I was struck by this part:

The full list of symptoms that can be caused by food chemical sensitivity is very long. It reads like a list of "modern diseases of unknown causes", such as ADD/ADHD, autism, Asperger's syndrome, reactive hypoglycaemia, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, brain fog, irritability and emotional disorders like bipolar disorder, chronic back pain, migraines and sinus headaches, reflux and GI disorders, particularly IBS, ear ache and tinnitus, skin rashes, eczema and urticaria, restless legs syndrome, thyroid disorders, heart palpitations, sleep problems, and even epilepsy in some. Salicylates and amines have also been found to play a role in some instances of coeliac (celiac) disease.

I became aware of how powerful diet is after I radically altered my own in response to a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Within a few years, I was again living a completely healthy life, as long as I adhered to a somewhat restricted diet and got enough exercise. Yet the doctor who diagnosed me told me that I had no chance for recovery.

gf-soph Apprentice
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I am on the diet as we speak! I promised someone (sorry to whoever it is, i'm a bit foggy) that I would give some more detail about my experience, it will be a long one so I will set up a new post about my experience.

Short answer - I am 10 weeks in, and a couple of weeks ago I had 4 days in a row where I felt normal, healthy, totally myself. It was so amazing I had a happy cry about it, I was so relieved. So it's worked for me, and a couple of other people I know.

I'll put all the details in my post, which i hope to finish and put up tonight.

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I'll look forward to reading your post. At the moment, I am suspecting a yeast allergy so I'm going to try to track that down before I go to FAILSAFE.

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