Btw, it seems omega-3 is the secret weapon. Might also be in conjunction with the Kombucha tea (and/or coconut meat) which I am "drinking like a sieve" (and eating daily), which is hopefully pumping good microflora into my gut.
When I eat raw tuna or fried fresh small tuna (no farm raised fish such as Norwegian salmon!), I instantly lose all stomach pain and my head plus energy level feels completely normal. After several hours, the stomach pain returns and so do the head effects. I have correlated this several times over the past few days
without fail nor deviation! (note nearly none of the head effects have been chronic fatigure since the fasting and radical change in diet)
I believe perhaps I've nailed down my recent decline over the months my gf lived with me and cooking in the home, being due to eating too much meat (other than fish) and omega-6 being an inflammatory toxin (especially for those with leaky guy a.k.a. intestinal permeability). Also noting that all the meat I was eating was perhaps fed grains (perhaps even GMO, and as opposed to grass fed), injected with hormones, and given antibiotics.
Note when I eat the tuna, I feel completely normal in every aspect of my body, except the cramping of my muscles in my feet gets much worse and acute. I have to be very careful where I step (such as on any non-flat surface, e.g. a pipe or rock) or move my feet, because they suddenly go into dystonia. This dystonia is not a spasm nor twitching, but rather the muscle contracts severely (very painful) and won't release (until I breathe slowly and do nothing for several seconds).
My (hopeful) interpretation is these more severe dystonias in the feet are unwinding effect of the disease, because these severe dystonias were the first symptom of my disease back in 2010 or 2011 (actually first symptoms were perhaps as early as 2008 with easily tired feet when standing). The severe dystonias had become much less frequent when the other symptoms of the disease worsened.
Any way, the major thing to share here is that avoiding omega-6 and promoting omega-3 from natural sources seems to be an INSTANT excelsior for M.S. (at least in my case since mine is so highly correlated to leaky gut).
I owe this discovery to Terry Whals and
http://gutcritters.comI also owe this success to the decision to start fasting and attempting radical diet change.
P.S. I am not entirely discounting the positive role of the vegetable diet and only sweet potato and plantains for carbohydrates, but the effect after eating tuna is so INSTANTANEOUSLY correlated to the alleviation of symptoms, that is is astounding.
http://gutcritters.com/dietary-opioid-peptides-antioxidant-status-and-dna-methylation/The ability to feel sensation from your gut ultimately depends on the enteric nervous system (ENS). This system, second only to your central nervous system (CNS) in the number of neurons it contains (estimated at between 200 to 600 million), relays sensory information from your gut to your brain via the vagus nerve.
The vagus also works bi-directionally to convey information from your brain to your gut. It explains the butterflies you feel in your stomach when engaging in activities outside your comfort zone.
80% to 90% of the neurons in the vagus are composed of afferent nerves. These nerves are designed to convey information from the gut to the brain. Exciting research is focusing on how gut bacteria, both beneficial and pathogenic, affect these neurons leading to changes in emotion and behavior in both animals and humans. (3) (4)]The ability to feel sensation from your gut ultimately depends on the enteric nervous system (ENS). This system, second only to your central nervous system (CNS) in the number of neurons it contains (estimated at between 200 to 600 million), relays sensory information from your gut to your brain via the vagus nerve.
The vagus also works bi-directionally to convey information from your brain to your gut. It explains the butterflies you feel in your stomach when engaging in activities outside your comfort zone.
80% to 90% of the neurons in the vagus are composed of afferent nerves. These nerves are designed to convey information from the gut to the brain. Exciting research is focusing on how gut bacteria, both beneficial and pathogenic, affect these neurons leading to changes in emotion and behavior in both animals and humans. (3) (4)
And the following is the reason I am going to test raw, unpasteurized, grass-fed goats milk (remember the upthread posts about A1 beta-casein milk being bad and goats are always A2 beta-casein whereas only certain breeds of cows), because the beneficial effects I am getting recently from omega-3 (eating tuna) might be anti-inflammatory only and not sure if it is curing the gut or just masking the inflammation. I'll probably ferment to yogurt and cheeses to avoid risk of bad bacterial contamination with it being raw, unpasteurized. Plus probiotics are even better apparently (although there might be some enzymes in raw milk that are lost by the fermenting process?).
http://gutcritters.com/to-dairy-or-not-to-dairy-that-is-the-question/I remember being told this once by a person of the “Paleo-diet” persuasion in-between sips of their cocktail. The lack of archeological evidence for vodka distilleries in the Paleolithic seemed to have escaped the notice of this modern-day alcohol-imbibing “caveman” warning against the “evils” of dairy.
Today I want to review two studies that found that dairy proteins, both whey and casein, strengthen gut-barrier function.
Before I begin, I need to mention that neither study was done in humans. The first was an in vitro study, meaning it used cultured human-epithelial cells and was conducted in a lab. The second was a study done in rats.
It should go without saying that what is true for an in vitro or rodent study is not always applicable to humans. Hopefully, this will soon change as more and more foods are tested for their effects on intestinal permeability in people. Nevertheless, both whey and casein proteins are found in human-breast milk and can be expected to have similar effects in us as they do in other mammals.
