New Paleo Diet Book

MBombardier · Post by **MBombardier** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:19 am

I have been reading a new Paleo book, The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet by Robb Wolf. He is a student of Loren Cordain, and has deep respect for him. Cordain wrote the foreward to this book. I got it instead of Cordain's book because it had more and better reviews on Amazon. I really like it. Robb Wolf is quite humorous, easy to read and understand. He calls his readers "Buttercup" which is what the farmer father of a friend in junior high school called me because he thought I wasn't tough enough, but that I was delicate like a little buttercup flower. It's almost like the author is talking directly to me.

The apparent selective IgA deficiency (I will be asking my doctor to test this) rocked my world last week. Saturday, just to prove to myself that I am not imagining things, I challenged soy. Suffice it to say--I am not imagining things. So... spending time in the bathroom, brain foggy, fatigued, and in a lot of pain, I am Paleo as of today. For breakfast I am having bacon and green beans cooked in coconut oil. I am not sure yet what I will have for lunch.

This is so important that I have to take time over the next couple of days to plan this out, and be more proactive about things so that I can do a better job taking care of my health and my family. If you pray, please pray for me. This is pretty much totally new to me, and I can really use the encouragment.

harma · Post by **harma** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:42 am

Hello Marliss,

thanks for bringing up this new book about paleo diet. I already have far to much luggage, so for sure I will not order this book now. If you are going to try Paleo good luck, but be careful with green beans, it one of the veggie's I still can't tolerate.

Although I do believe Paleo is the best diet for almost any health condition and also the best diet for healthy people, as long as the gut is not healed it is not always easy to follow (at least 100%), because tolerating most of the vegetables and fruit seems to be a problem for quite a view of us. Same for nuts and seeds. What seems to work for a lot of us here is an alternated version of it, as much paleo as possible.

I will pray for you and I think you are doing great in finding your way in dealing with MC.

Foxnhound8 · Post by **Foxnhound8** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:13 pm

Green beans do me in as well as just about any other veggie except broccoli, but I can eat walnuts all day long...and I do. Weird. I just got back from my three month re-check appointment with my GI doc. We talked for a long time about food and MC. She listened, unlike the PA I had my 1st re-check with and unlike the GI doc who originally did my colonoscopy. We talked about non-celiac gluten sensitivity and MRT and Enterolab and Perskyfarms.com. We talked about why GI docs don't talk about food and why the heck they wouldn't have a nutritionist on staff at their big
"Center For Digestive Care" (a no-compete clause with the hospital, apparently). She has been practicing her profession for 20 years and said her experience has been that she puts the MC patient on Entocort until they heal, however long that takes, and then weans them. She said "most" of her patients get well after some time on Entocort and that's that. She also said she has not had patients who have noticed difficulty with any specific food while "healing" from their MC. Just sharing with you guys as I was surprised and happy to at least have someone in the medical profession listen for a change.

foxnhound

Post by **tex** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:47 pm

Marliss,

I don't know if you are aware of this, but Lyn, (Bifcus16), is not only severely IgA deficient, but she also cannot produce significant amounts of IgG. This condition is called Common Variable Immune Deficiency, (CVID). She hasn't posted much about this on the board, but perhaps you might be interested in reading some of the posts in which she has mentioned it, and I'm sure that she would be willing to offer additional insight, if you were to ask her:

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... light=cvid

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... light=cvid

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... deficiency

I'm certainly not suggesting that you have CVID, but IgA deficiency is definitely a part of it, and so while you are having those tests done, you might want to follow Lyn's suggestions about doing a full immunoglobulin test, and especially consider IgA, IgG, and IgM, at the very least.

Tex

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:29 pm

Hi Marliss,

You already have lots of good info, so I'll just send some prayers and positive thoughts your way. Good luck with the planning! We're here for you!

Love and a :bigbighug:

Polly

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:18 pm

Good luck, Marliss! I don't blame you for reeling from your Enterolab testing. I hope you can figure out a good plan for you and your family.

Gloria

MBombardier · Post by **MBombardier** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:23 pm

Aw, thanks, everybody.

And Harma--I'm with you on the green beans. I just can't talk my body into accepting fiber yet.

Tex, thanks for those links about Lyn's CVID. I have been wonderfully healthy (except for hypothyroidism) until the last two years. Last year I think that I actually had the flu, and this year I had a cold that just dragged on and on. I have wondered why. I think it is a very good idea to get the whole immunoglobin range checked, and also pancreatic enzymes, or whatever that test is that is related to the immunoglobin levels.