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    Whilst I seem to be ok with the yogurt I didn't eat any dairy at all for the first year or so. I do have a bit now, 18 months on, but I keep it limited otherwise it gives me C. I would suggest hanging fire with the cheese for the moment. If you find that you are ok with the yogurt in the end you can always drip it to make Dry curd cheese which is good...
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    Hi Emily. This may well be a reaction between the 'goodies' and the 'baddies'! As things like Candida die they release toxins which can cause different symptoms. It might be worth seeing if you could hang in there for another few days and see if it settles down. It could be the dairy, but I doubt it somehow because most, if not all the lactose is...
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    Interesting. I was just reading in Bruce Fife's 'Coconut Cures' that according to research coconut oil in the diet makes nutrients much more available to the body (bioavailable), so nutrient deficiencies are less likely. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies like B12, magnesium and calcium are much less likely. That is why medium chain triglycerides from...
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    I just thought that it was interesting that Nina felt that they had been eating healthily for years with their wholegrains and home-made bread, etc., only to realise that actually it wasn't that healthy at all. Funny - you know, I always felt that our diet was pretty healthy when I was younger. I remember our 4 year-old son Steve coming back from visiting...
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    Open Original Shared Link I don't know why it wouldn't work - try it now? I really can't understand why there is so much panic about reducing carbs. The Inuit and those who live in similar circumstances live predominantly on fish, meat and fat and very, very little in the way of carbs (there ain't much that will grow there!) and yet they are fit, hale...
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    You know, I keep picking up on links to low-carb eating. Everyone who eats this way seems to benefit in one way or another. I know that it is beneficial for me and always has been although I have never been very good at implementing it until now. The biggest factor in my finally turning around and accepting the benefits and doing something about it...
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    I am sure that Candida plays a much bigger role in gut dysbiosis than people realise. It really is very insidious and a hard nut to crack. It not only releases a lot of toxins when alive, it also releases them when it dies too so the beggars get their own back on us. The use and in the past the over-use and often unnecessary use of antibiotics undoubtedly...
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    I find that too much dairy tends to 'bung me up' so I keep it to a minimum. I do wonder sometimes if raw milk and cheese would have the same effect but it is just impossible to get hold of any here so I have to limit the pasteurized stuff. Funny isn't it that when I was eating gluten and dairy 'normally' and had IBS it always veered towards D. I can...
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    Oh dear Liz. Funny how things happen in a chain reaction...... I took a chicken out of the roasting casserole the other day and put it on the upside-down lid to carve up. After dinner I got sidetracked and forgot to put it back in the dish. Along comes my husband and decides to put the base over the lid to protect the chicken. What he failed to notice...
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    I just learned two things from the 'Eat Fat, Lose Fat' book by Sally Fallon & Mary Enig. Apparently, adding a tablespoonful of whey to homemade mayonnaise helps it to keep a lot longer in the fridge. Two weeks without and 'several' months with. That surprised me. (Mary uses a blend of equal parts of coconut oil, expeller-pressed sesame oil and olive...
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    Anything you need to add moisture/water to. Of course the cooking would kill any bacteria and enzymes in it but there are likely to be vitamins and minerals in it. You can also add it to fruit and/or veggie smoothies/juices, use it as a starter for cabbage juice, drink it as is if you like it, or you can just throw it away! (denatured whey is touted...
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    Bea, don't worry about finding the Dry Curd cheese (DCC) as you can drip the yogurt to make as good a substitute - after all that is pretty much what the DCC is. Put some muslin into a sieve over a bowl, pour in the yogurt, cover and leave to drip for a few hours or overnight if wished in a cool place. You can use as DCC. The whey can be drunk or used...
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    Well, in theory maybe it ought to but in practice it doesn't necessarily seem to work like that. I have tried taking digestive enzymes in amongst the different things I have tried over the last 18 months and they made little or no difference. Quite why I have no idea. Perhaps it depends on how far the pancreatin gets into the digestive system before...
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    Jason, don't give up the diet. Ok, so it may not be an overnight success in terms of treating the bugs, but it does work in the long term. By changing your diet you are changing your gut environment and making it less hospitable for them. Yes it can take a while to dispense with the little darlings but it really is a far better way to go. Perhaps...
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    Oh Emily - I too have struggled with the chocolate thing , and I too tend to just confine it to a square of the darkest I can find (currently 85%) which I nibble very slowly (and although I don't drink tea or coffee I do sometimes indulge in a hot chocolate with coconut milk (slap) so I can quite understand where you are coming from - not that I condone...
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    Just out of interest for all I came across this very long-winded but extremely interesting link about Celiac and GI. It is quite an eye-opener and just reiterates the idea that everyone who is a gluten consumer is being damaged by it in some way or another. Open Original Shared Link
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    Liz, when you first start the diet it is not unusual to get all sorts of weird symptoms. After all you are changing the way your body is supplied with nutrients. It has come to rely on certain food sources and when these are removed it then has to adapt and that can take a little time. Not only that but the body then also has the opportunity - perhaps...
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    Hi Emily, welcome to the thread. It can take some time for symptoms to settle down. The night is typically the 'Liver Time' when your liver is processing and detoxing. Although you have now recognised that gluten appears to be a problem for you and have dropped it, your body is not going to recover immediately. Damage that is done over a period of...
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    Liz, you and your family may well find that you crave the 'goodies' for a while, even the gluten-free ones, because they are often loaded with sugar and are typically very carb dense - even more so than gluten foods, which turns to glucose in the body - sugar. What the body is craving is the sugar fix for energy. Glucose gives the body 'instant' energy...
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    Hi (ddery) Jan. Weight loss is an indication that the body quite obviously isn't working properly, but when people lose weight like that they fear that if they don't eat grains and starches they will get even thinner. Yes that can happen a little, but because the weight loss is due to malnutrition, by far the most important thing to do is ensure that...
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    We don't eat cake very often but this is another of my favourite recipes Almond Cake 6 oz (180g) butter, softened 4 tblsp honey 4 eggs, separated 1/2 tsp almond essence 8 oz (250g) ground almonds 2 tsp baking powder 15g flaked almonds (optional) for decorating Preheat the oven to 180c/170cfan/375f/gas 5. Grease a 8" x 2" deep (20cm x 5cm)...
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    Hiya. Sorry I didn't reply before, I tend to stay on the SCD thread these days - if you want any more info it would be easier to put it on the main thread, but here is a link to the pancake recipe - I have added it to the dedicated SCD recipe thread (As no one has posted on it for a while I had quite a job finding it!). It's a shame we don't have a...
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    I have been asked for the recipe for Blueberry Pancakes. As I haven't made them for a while I had to rack my brains (I couldn't find the recipe so probably made it up!) SCD Blueberry Pancakes 2 cups Almond meal 2 eggs honey to taste (I find a level tbsp is enough for my taste) 1 level tsp Baking Soda 2 tbsp oil or melted butter !/2 to...
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    I imagine that Elaine was probably going with what she knew at the time and erring on the side of caution. Personally I think that we all have to settle in to what we feel is right for our own body. Some people cope perfectly well with the 'legal' yogurt for instance, others don't. Some find that they need to completely eliminate honey for some time...
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    Hi All. I have been reading about the connection between Leptin levels and Insulin resistance and it is pretty interesting. Leptin is not something that most people, including Doctors are aware of simply because there is no pill for it! There has been quite a bit of research done on it however. Diabetics, particularly type II's appear to have not...
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