Vitamin D and Autoimmune Disease - Tex's Book

[BearcatRx]

Well, speaking of triggers. I think I may have found one. Eggs. I was good to go yesterday. Then today about eight hours after having eaten eggs for breakfast, I got hit pretty hard. Took 4mg of loperamide to stop it. This is in combination with Lialda. So whatever it was, it was strong enough to overpower the drugs.

[Gabes-Apg]

along the lines of what has been mentioned by the others - continuing to ingest gluten and dairy is very likely to make the reactions to things like Eggs 'strong and explosive'

long term, if you are not having gluten and dairy, you may be ok with eggs a couple of times a week.

it is the 'weirdness' of MC reactions. I cant give you a scientific basis, only the experience of a few hundred people here...

[BearcatRx]

I'm going to go ahead and begin to eliminate gluten. I've got some reading to do and I've just visited the grocery store and stocked up on tons of gluten. Time to clean house I guess.

[tex]

Great! Your recovery has begun!

Please be aware that gluten contains neuropeptides known as gliadorphins that are capable of activating opioid receptors in the brain, and that causes some individuals to actually experience withdrawal symptoms. Likewise, casein contains casomorphins that have similar capabilities. Not everyone feels a response, but that's why it can be so difficult for some people to give up those 2 foods — they can actually be addictive.

A few years ago, one member even had a small funeral ceremony for all her gluten and dairy products when she cleaned out her pantry.

I hope your recovery goes as smoothly as possible. Anytime you have any questions, or you feel a need for an ear to rant into, or just a shoulder to lean on, someone will be here.

Tex

[Zizzle]

Another interesting post from Dr Art Ayers.

Looks like Vit D deficiency is a vicious cycle!

Vitamin D is a Steroid Hormone Produced from Cholesterol in Skin by Sunlight
Most people know that sunlight striking skin produces vitamin D, but they still think that they can get a significant amount of vitamin D from their diet. The confusion comes from the fact that vitamin D is a major hormone that influences many body systems including bone production and immunity. So in the absence of skin production of vitamin D, the low amounts added to milk are sufficient to prevent deficiency/rickets. However, chronic inflammation can block solar production of vitamin D, so that even individuals near the equator and basking daily still remain deficient. Vitamin D deficiency may also, insidiously, be a major source of chronic inflammation. Thus, most individuals treated for deficiency with supplemental vitamin D3, do not reach high enough levels to suppress chronic inflammation and restart solar production, so they remain deficient. Chronic inflammation is a symptom of vitamin D deficiency.

http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com ... ns-no.html?

Also interesting:

Most Medicines Have Substantial Antibiotic Activity and Damage Gut Microbiota
It is not surprising that antibiotics damage the bacteria in the gut. What most people don’t realize is that most pharmaceuticals/medicines are developed from the natural antibiotics of plants, phytoalexins. Numerous recent studies have demonstrated most common medicines, e.g. statins, NSAID, antidepressants, etc. have substantial antibiotic activity and damage gut bacteria. Surgeons commonly suggest that patients eat yogurt to help repair their gut micro biomes after operations and antibiotics, but they don’t tell them how to fix their gut and immune system as they take medications for the rest of their lives. The permanently damaged gut just causes further deterioration of the immune system and health.

And we all know this, as evidence by the damage or remission caused by colonoscopy clean-outs:

Bowel Cleanses Damage Gut Microbiota
The bowels are a long tubelike conveyance and it takes food about a day to travel from table to toilet. In the colon, all of the plant polysaccharide fibers remaining after removal of sugar, starch, fat and protein, are digested by enzymes of the microbiota and converted into more bacteria and short chain fatty acids that feed the colon tissue. There is nothing toxic left behind in the colon. Protein from meat is readily digested in the stomach and the first part of the small intestines. Plant materials cannot be digested without the help of a complex array of hundreds of enzymes produced by gut bacteria. Food intolerances are caused by the loss of particular bacterial species needed for complete digestion of one type of plant fiber. The bacteria form the stools, and insufficient healthy bowel bacteria, normally fed by the fiber, is the cause of constipation. Clearly, flushing out bacteria with a "cleanse" is unhealthy and counterproductive. There is nothing in the colon but gut bacteria and fiber to feed the bacteria. Those bacteria are needed for vitamin production, normal development of the immune system and normal stools. A cleanse merely removes healthy gut bacteria and leads to constipation or replacement by pathogens.

[Zizzle]

He makes this comment later:

It is unlikely that a food "sensitivity" is immunological, since they are rare. Even if it is immunological, the cure is the same as for an intolerance. In both cases missing bacteria needed to be added back.

For kids, I think that it is easiest to repair the gut flora of the entire family and pets. It is unlikely that she alone has dysbiosis, unless she has had antibiotics. Look up my other posts on repair of gut microbiota. Eliminate processed foods, have mud fights, knock off the hyper hygiene, eat veggies from soil to mouth, make sure the dog is digging enough and not washed to much and make your own fermented veggies. If you don't make kraut, you don't really care enough. (That was just for emphasis, to show it is important.)

My view is that the food sensitivities just tell you that there is a problem with gut flora and prebiotic fiber. There is no point in searching out the details of what foods are causing problems, because they all will eventually. It is just easier to cure it with new bacteria and bacteria food/fiber.

This on the heels if Australian researchers "curing" peanut allergy with supplementation of Lactobacillus rhamnosus.