So I am reading the book No Grain, No Pain by Dr. Peter Osborne. He says that grain causes inflammation in those with autoimmune diseases and that eliminating it from you diet can result in a massive decrease in the amount of pain people with autoimmune diseases have.
Well, we are giving it a try for a week and then hopefully for 30 days. It will be hard. Rice, corn, and bread are pretty woven in to my meal plans. It's not as hard for me as it will be for my daughter, since I only ate them at one meal a day anyway. I have plenty of base items that are gluten free anyway, like coconut aminos or fish sauce, so I can make my sauces for stir-fries without worrying. And we can eat riced cauliflower done up like stir-fried rice. I am still keeping pork and shellfish out of the diet as well, since those are not recommended for lupus.
There are a couple of vitamins I will have to get different brands of because they use corn oil. And while reading through the ingredients on all the bottles, I discovered polysorbate 80 in one of them, so I'll have to get a different brand of that as well. Hopefully I can find them without those ingredients. It's only 3 vitamins I need to replace. The other 6 have clean ingredients. So that won't get too expensive all at once. It is the gel capsules that are the problem.
No Grain, No Pain
May 3rd, 2017 at 11:08 pm
May 3rd, 2017 at 11:15 pm 1493853332
For what it's worth, I think you know I have an auto immune disease (MS) and I see no difference in my health whether or not I eat grains.
May 3rd, 2017 at 11:18 pm 1493853513
May 3rd, 2017 at 11:23 pm 1493853826
May 4th, 2017 at 01:20 am 1493860807
May 4th, 2017 at 01:26 am 1493861169
It's worth giving it a whirl for me and my daughter. It might help and going a week without grains won't hurt. I think we are so individual that while it might work for some, it won't work for others. Or there are other factors as well. I'm kind of hoping it doesn't work so I don't have to give up spaghetti and pizza, to be honest. But if it does, I'd rather be in less pain and have less swelling.
May 4th, 2017 at 11:04 am 1493895854
May 4th, 2017 at 09:51 pm 1493934697
May 5th, 2017 at 06:58 am 1493967522
There sure are a lot of us with autoimmune diseases. It never used to be so prevalent in the population. I wish we all knew what the underlying cause was. I have my suspicions, but not enough to back them up.