Friday, November 17th, 2017
An article caught my
attention this morning. It’s about a 75 year old man who has had Parkinson’s
and recovered after going on a gluten free diet. I went on the Specific
Carbohydrate diet (SCD) after I was sick with U.C. for a few years. The diet improved
my symptoms dramatically. The whole ‘gluten’ thing had become a big fad around
that time with so many people saying that they were gluten intolerant. It
actually became cool to request a gluten free meal at a restaurant.
I believe that our
diet is very important to our health. I furthermore believe that our gut bacteria
(biome) is responsible for everything we are. Practically every condition could
be traced back to the biome. This man who is recovering from Parkinson’s
changed his diet, affecting the bacterial activity in his gut and now believes
it was gluten alone. I don’t think so Tim.
They have done tests
with rats where they take the fecal matter from a skinny fat rat and transplant
it into a fat rat and the fat rat gets skinny! How very interesting! Imagine
all the fat people who have struggled with weight loss all their lives getting
a fecal transplant and suddenly they can eat anything they want and not gain
weight! I think it’s totally possible! Call it metabolism if you want. All
metabolism is, is the way your system processes what you put into it. Gut
bacteria!
My point here is that
doctors are not looking in the right place. They are looking at the patient and
trying to find a reason for their issue with the assumption that the body’s
response to a problem is the problem. Diarrhea and bleeding are not the cause
of Ulcerative Colitis. That is the body’s response to the problem. That is the symptom
and how the body tells you to fix something. The problem is bacterial
imbalance!
