Wednesday, 28 January 2015

The future of functional medicine.



The future of functional medicine.



The Paelo diet is reaching a new level and becoming really fine tuned!
One of the things that makes every autoimmunity somewhat unique is the molecular mimicry. 

Molecular mimicry is also known as cross-reactivity. Every protein has an amino acid sequences. And if you have more than three amino acid sequences that are identical, then the antibody for one antigen can bind to another. So, for example, the part of the brain called the "cerebellum" has molecular mimicry with gluten. When a person makes antibodies to gluten, those gluten antibodies have structural similarity to bind to the actual cerebellum. Antibodies, when they bind to a tissue then signal immune cells like T cells to destroy them. So, you don’t really want antibodies binding to any of your own tissues of any kind because they’ve been turned on attacking in those specific tissues. So, foods and different antigens have been shown to cause molecular mimicry in autoimmune disease.
What they are now doing is bascially you find out which tissue antibody you have and then you find out which food cross-reacts with the tissue antibody.

In the near future, we’re going to have a very specific autoimmune Hashimoto’s diet and its beyond just gluten because many of the foods they found are within the Paleo diet, I only have a few bread crumbs to share..
Tuna cross-reacted, but only when raw, and when it’s cooked, it doesn’t cross-react. They found some foods that are high in iodine really cross-react with T3 and T4, but when they were cooked, there’s no cross-reactivity. Soy didn’t cross-react unless it was processed soy.

They also discovered latex was one of the most devastating exposures to Hashimoto’s people. 

After this a whole new type-1 diabetes diet will be coming out and this is going to blow away the glycemic index because most of the foods they found that cross-react with pancreatic islet cells are low in the glycemic index. 

The world of food and nutrition in autoimmunity has some great stuff coming in the next year.

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Dietary advice for Gout



Dietary advice for Gout



Gout is an inherited condition of abnormal purine metabolism. Purines are nitrogren containing compounds that are broken down in the body to uric acid. Normally uric acid is eliminated in the urine. In gout the blood uric acid is elevated and some of the uric acid is deposited as an insoluble salt in the big toe and sometimes knee causing severe pain.

Medications are effective in relieving pain and in increasing the excretion of uric acid. A high-fluid intake is desirable. A purine-restricted diet, by itself is of little value but is recommended by some physicians together with medication. Patients are usually advised to avoid alcohol and foods that are high in purines.Our Naturopaths can help you with a specific diet plan.

Avoid:

Alcohol; Organ meats; Anchovies; Shellfish; Cauliflower; Mushrooms; Wholegrain cereal; Red meat; Herring; Meat extracts; Asparagus; Peas; Sardines; Mackerel; Yeast extracts; Spinach; Legumes, tomatoes.

During an acute attack you should also avoid: Meat , Fish and Poultry…which are moderate sources of purines. When the acute attack has subsided, small servings of meat, fish and poultry are again introduced. Milk, cheese, eggs and legumes are good protein sources in the low purine diet.

Many patients with gout are obese. Weight loss increases the blood level of uric acid and may bring about an acute attack. If recommended, weight loss should be gradual. A low calorie diet should not be intiated during an acute attack because this could further aggravate the symptoms. Starvation regimens are prohibited.

Untreated gout could cause kidney damage and / or permanent disfiguring of joints.

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Water Cure




Water prevents and helps to cure heartburn.
Heartburn is a signal of water shortage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a major thirst signal of the human body. The use of antacids or tablet medications in the treatment of this pain does not correct dehydration, and the body continues to suffer as a result of its water shortage. Not recognizing heartburn as a sign of dehydration and treating it with antacids and pill medications will, in time, produce inflammation of the stomach and duodenum, hiatal hernia, ulceration, and eventually cancers in the gastrointestinal tract, including the liver and pancreas.

Water prevents and helps to cure arthritis.
Rheumatoid joint pain - arthritis - is a signal of water shortage in the painful joint. It can affect the young as well as the old. The use of pain-killers does not cure the problem, but exposes the person to further damage from pain medications. Intake of water and small amounts of salt will cure this problem.

Water prevents and helps to cure back pain.
Low back pain and ankylosing arthritis of the spine are signs of water shortage in the spinal column and discs - the water cushions that support the weight of the body. These conditions should be treated with increased water intake - not a commercial treatment, but a very effective one.

Not recognizing arthritis and low back pain as signs of dehydration in the joint cavities and treating them with pain-killers, manipulation, acupuncture, and eventually surgery will, in time, produce osteoarthritis when the cartilage cells in the joints have eventually all died. It will produce deformity of the spine. It will produce crippling deformities of the limbs. Pain medications have their own life-threatening complications.

Water prevents and helps to cure angina.
Heart pain - angina - is a sign of water shortage in the heart/lung axis. It should be treated with increased water intake until the patient is free of pain and independent of medications. Medical supervision is prudent. However, increased water intake is angina's cure.

Water prevents and helps to cure migraines.
Migraine headache is a sign of water need by the brain and the eyes. It will totally clear up if dehydration is prevented from establishing in the body. The type of dehydration that causes migraine might eventually cause inflammation of the back of the eye and possibly loss of eye sight.

Water prevents and helps to cure colitis.
Colitis pain is a signal of water shortage in the large gut. It is associated with constipation because the large intestine constricts to squeeze the last drop of water from the excrements - thus the lack of water lubrication.

Not recognizing colitis pain as a sign of dehydration will cause persistent constipation. Later in life, it will cause fecal impacting: it can cause diverticulitis, hemorrhoids and polyps, and appreciably increases the possibility of developing cancer of the colon and rectum.

Water and salt prevent and helps to cure asthma.
Asthma, which also affects 14 million children and kills several thousand of them every year, is a complication of dehydration in the body. It is caused by the drought management programs of the body. In asthma free passage of air is obstructed so that water does not leave the body in the form of vapor - the winter steam. Increased water intake will prevent asthma attacks. Asthmatics need also to take more salt to break the mucus plugs in the lungs that obstruct the free flow of air in and out of the air sacs.

Not recognizing asthma as the indicator of dehydration in the body of a growing child not only will sentence many thousands of children to die every year, but will permit irreversible genetic damage to establish in the remaining 14 million asthmatic children.

Water prevents and helps to cure high blood pressure.
Hypertension is a state of adaptation of the body to a generalized drought, when there is not enough water to fill all the blood vessels that diffuse water into vital cells. As part of the mechanism of reverse osmosis, when water from the blood serum is filtered and injected into important cells through minute holes in their membranes, extra pressure is needed for the "injection process." Just as we inject I.V. "water" in hospitals, so the body injects water into tens of trillions of cells all at the same time. Water and some salt intake will bring blood pressure back to normal!

Not recognizing hypertension as one of the major indicators of dehydration in the human body, and treating it with diuretics that further dehydrate the body will, in time, cause blockage by cholesterol of the heart arteries and the arteries that go to the brain. It will cause heart attacks and small or massive strokes that paralyze. It will eventually cause kidney disease. It will cause brain damage and neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.

Water prevents and helps to cure early adult-onset diabetes.
Adult-onset diabetes is another adaptive state to severe dehydration of the human body. To have adequate water in circulation and for the brain's priority water needs, the release of insulin is inhibited to prevent insulin from pushing water into all body cells. In diabetes, only some cells get survival rations of water. Water and some salt will reverse adult-onset diabetes in its early stages.

Not recognizing adult-onset diabetes as a complication of dehydration will, in time, cause massive damage to the blood vessels all over the body. It will cause eventual loss of the toes, feet and legs from gangrene. It will cause eye damage, even blindness.

Water lowers blood cholesterol.
High cholesterol levels are an indicator of early drought management by the body. Cholesterol is a clay-like material that is poured in the gaps of some cell membranes to safeguard them against losing their vital water content to the osmotically more powerful blood circulating in their vicinity. Cholesterol, apart from being used to manufacture nerve cell membranes and hormones, is also used as a "shield" against water taxation of other vital cells that would normally exchange water through their cell membranes.