Question for jdp

Jdp,

You have quite a bit of dietary knowledge and I was hoping you can make some suggestions. I want to go on a strict diet free of lectins/oxalates/gluten as well as heal leaky gut and fight candida. I'm finding that almost all foods fall into one of these categories. I was eating a lot of spinach (oxalate), brown rice (lechins) and berries (oxalate) so now those are all out now. A lot of fruit seems to be bad for candida. I need some suggestions. Any ideas?

Hey big mike,

The trick is to find out which foods you're sensitive to. I personally recommend to drop everything and only eat rice, meat and water ... no supplements for a couple days or a couple weeks and note if you feel better. If you feel better then "slowly" start adding foods back in.

Regarding rice, it's the least problematic food you can consume for most everyone. Most rice is low in oxalates. Keep in mind though that most white rice is vitamin enriched and meaning there is a wheat coating on the rice.

If you have a problem with oxalates, candida will come under control. If you consume a low oxalate diet for a week or so and feel like you're starving or feel ill you probably have an oxalate issue. If so, make sure you join the yahoo forum.

Also, regarding candida make sure you don't have heavy metal issues.

The list of problematic foods from a hair loss perspective would be:

gluten
oxalates
lectins
msg & sulfites (don't forget that most shampoo contains MSG causing itchy scalp via hydrolyzed X protein)
too much fruit (if you're ancesters didn't originate on fruit)

also would want to look at gout remedies and aldosterone as well such as lemon water or apple cider vinegar (i.e. potassium) and/or celery seed extract and making sure not magnesium deficient so you can retain potasssium as well as not being hypothyroid, etc..

For mental issues you'll additionally want to look at these:

phenols, amines salicylates
corn
wheat
soy
casein

I left out some minor things but this gives a good idea what to look for

Wow sorry to butt in but I like that idea of dropping down to a purely rice and meat diet for a short time to see how the body reacts, that's an incredibly clean and simple way to test for food sensitivities and analyze how your body reacts to things, I will have to remember that

Thanks for the great post JDP

JDP, you mentioned;
"Keep in mind though that most white rice is vitamin enriched and meaning there is a wheat coating on the rice. "

Is this saying that white rice is okay? (or better than brown?) I was always under the impression brown rice was much better than white and have been eating it pretty regularly recently.

Brown rice is better.

If going with white rice, you may want to go with a gluten free white rice.

JDP,

Are there any supplements that come in handy when ingesting gluten foods/ oxalate foods. Its really hard to just drop everything you know? I've removed most of it but here and there it happens.

regarding oxalates, the yahoo forum has a lot of information regarding this ... much too much for me to type here. In short though, taking calcium before a meal. B6 and magnesium deficiency also causes your body to make excess oxalates. Biotin supplementation is off due to oxalates so biotin supplementation helps some. When your body is dumping excess oxalates, some like arginine supplementation ... oxalates mess with an enzyme pathway there. Beta Alanine/Carnosine is also low for those with excess oxalates. VSL#3 (Probiotic) is said to work well ... some strains of probiotics eat oxalates so to speak.

Regarding Gluten ----> DPP IV enzyme may help a bit. So will Digest Gold. Digest Gold has a bunch of reviews on iherb about food sensitivities and gluten. In reality, the reviews that say that it helps but not a miracle are the ones accurate IME. Also, N Acetyl Glucosamine may help .... but I'm not a fan IME. Also, fighting lyme disease as well as lyme and a lot of cases of celiac/gluten sensitivity are connected.

Thanks for the info jdp

Does anyone know if the extra ingredients like rice flour in supps contain oxalates or lectins?

"If you have a problem with oxalates, candida will come under control. If you consume a low oxalate diet for a week or so and feel like you're starving or feel ill you probably have an oxalate issue. If so, make sure you join the yahoo forum. "

jdp - Why is it important to join the yahoo forum?

Because there is virtually zero information on the problems with oxalates outside of that yahoo forum. All websites and actually current understanding is oxalates in regards to kidney stones. However, that yahoo forum goes very in depth on problems it causes with health. Problem being is that the info is very spread out at the forum. Takes days to navigate that forum and why I posted some info here and there on this forum to help others and simplify things.

jdp - In a thread about diet you said:

"add a little non irradiated turmeric and coconut oil and a steak or fillet minon or chicken or hamburger with a little garlic and onion and avocodo on the side."

Arn't hamburgers bad because they are processed? Do I just aim for a 100% beef burger with no additives?

Learn to make your own hamburger patties or maybe he simply meant ground beef; grass fed of course.

For digesting gluten, this product will help.

http://tinyurl.com/6zu7fze

I should point out that in most cases, an allergy to wheat/gluten can be corrected with treatment of Candida albicans infection. This is a finding based on new research.

Turns out that Candida albicans makes hyphal wall protein 1. It does so to allow it to stick to the lining of the intestine so that it can remain after food digestion.

This is actually the very same protein in gliadin, which is in gluten. If someone takes an antibiotic or too many over a period, Candida overgrowth will often occur. With that, there is an immune response of T-cells targeting the Candida.

It's not just the Candida the T-cells are targeting, it's also hyphal wall protein 1. And since it appears to be the same protein to the body, ingesting wheat gluten also gets attacked, hence the inflammation response.