So I had the MRT test. I don't know if it is better or not than the ELISA test but it does test for a lot of additives which the ELISA doesn't test for.
So the results...
Basically you get varying degrees of intolerance
I am in the red zone for grapes and tyramine. Tyramine unfortunately is in a lot of things, like aged cheese and anything smoked. Grapes I don't eat a lot of unless they are washed and placed in front of me. Wine unfortunately is made of grapes.
In the yellow zone for the following, and the list is long:
American cheese, avocado, banana, cayennne, celery, cod, crab, fructose, ginger, honey, hops, lamb, lemon, lentil, maple, MSG, mustard, paprika, parsley, pear, potassium nitrate, salmon, soybean, sunflower and tea.
Now cos I am from Ireland and we drink a lot of tea usually, this makes me wonder. I grew up drinking tea morning, noon and night basically. Now I live in the US and drink tea once in a blue moon. So it won't be hard not drinking tea.
Hops made me think about all the beer I had consumed over all those weekends in my twenties early thirties. Maybe those bad hangover feelings weren't caused by the alcohol alone.
Anyways between the hops and the tea I probably did a lot to not help me ms wise.
On a positive note I quit eating bananas two weeks ago. I used to have one everyday. As someone who has suffered from pretty regular severe constipation, excuse the pun, I can say with great happiness that now I am regular as God originally intended.
I am starting a very basic diet on Monday under the supervision of a dietitian so I will update as I find out more.
Good luck to everyone
David
Hi Dave, I am experiencing
Hi Dave,
I am experiencing the same thing. After over three years of working with this diet ( I haven't perfected it yet! ) my left leg continues to deteriorate. How I handle stairs is to really grip the hand rail and I tell my brain to tell my leg to move at every stair. Somehow it works. But it looks and feels very awkward and I have to admit that I am very embarassed if anyone else is on the stairs because I move very slowly.
I live in a warm climate and I do find that it is easier to climb stairs if I have been sitting in air conditioning for a while first... I am not sure if it the rest from sitting or the cool air that helps ~ maybe a combination of both.
I just read Justme's posting about heavy metal detoxification and I am going to try that as well.
Good luck and IF you come up with any solutions, please share them.
Mary Beth
So my left leg has started
So my left leg has started locking in a straight position in the last day or so. I can't bend my knee. This makes it really hard to climb stairs. Anybody experience this sort of thing? I would appreciate any responses with anybody who may have had this and has found some way to tackle the problem.
Thanks
Dave
Week one on a very basic
Week one on a very basic diet of oatmeal, rye bread(from mannaorganic(free of wheat)), potatoes, broccoli, cucumber, leeks, onions, beef, shrimp, cashews, salt, pepper and olive oil. I wasn't allowed any fruit. I was feeling good until today when I went to a diner. I had ground beef, broccoli, onions and potatoes or so I thought. Within 20 mins of eating I felt like my body had been incased in lead. I could barely move without great effort. It wore off in an hour or two. But, wow! It really showed what happens when you limit your diet to unprocessed, natural foods and things that you have no problem with and clean out your system, then reintroduce something that you are intolerant to. The ill effects are magnified so much. So I can't eat out basically, but then I really knew that already. So my dietitian told me to stay in phase one of the diet and clean out whatever it was that I had. So Thursday I start phase two with the introduction of a new food.