Hi this is looong I'm sorry I have highlighted the main gist in red.
Up until 18 months ago diet was working fine. I don't know what changed but I have been grumbling along since then. The final straw was iritis again after a 16 month gap at the beginning of May. I am off the drops but feel it still may flare up again.
I have picked myself up yet again and dusted myself off and am now on a crusade to heal my gut once and for all.
Possible faults are my sweet tooth: in the run up to iritis I was definitely overdoing the chocolate (sugar). As a general rule I have been yoyoing between being really good and then overdoing the starch free baked goods etc. I also think I have been eating too much at once and too many things, too many nuts and seeds and so on. Also not being so active: chicken and egg syndrome I ache therefore doing things that require sitting lets me forget about it. It is my neck that is causing me the most problems plus more 'arthritic' aches and pains and muscle weakness/pulls, not my Si or lower back.
I know food is definitely the link as if I fast for 24 hours the neck pains improve I find it difficult to fast for any longer currently as I have a family to cook and look after and I love my food
. I am currently trying my hardest to do a strict diet to see if I react to something I wasn't aware off.
My diet for the last two weeks has consisted of mostly chicken bone broth/stock soups of onions, garlic, green herbs, broccoli and celery also some spinach and kale with trials of avocado. I have also had some salad leaves and cucumber, fish, not much red meats. The only fruit blueberries, strawberries and raspberries but very limited.
No dairy, nightshades and nuts on top of grains starches etc.
I have also introduced wild fermented sauerkraut today.
Supplements I take Biokult 14 strains mainly biffidobacterium and lactobacillus. Green Pasture Blue ice Royal FCLO and Vitamin D3 haphazardly when I remember plus Borage/Starflower oil.
So my gut hasn't healed I am reading Terry Wahls Protocol book and The Gut Health Protocol trying to come up with a plan.
I have listened to many webinars on gut healing and autoimmune and the general opinion is that diet alone isn't enough and that a multi pronged approach is needed.
This involves killing any bad bacteria or candida using a biofilm distruptor to unmask the critters and kill supplements. Then a healing and maintenance phase to heal and repair the gut.
The most important being fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kimchi and kefir plus bone broths. In addition to this a bombardment of supplements.
I am very wary of supplements preferring eat my way to it but it does kind of make sense...
The table of supplements of which there are lots and at great expense is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14oT_qVwXtABV2V3wsHHBnDAY017_ycdS3RkOQJkwIrg/edit
The supplements I would be looking at are:
Biofilm disruptor such as Interphase plus
Kill such as Allibiotic CF candida and pathogenic bacteria
Possibly Saccharomyces bouladrdii for candida
Lactoferrin for biofilm and bad bugs which sounds promising as it is said to bind iron making it unavailable to pathenogenic bacteria but more available to you. I have had my iron tested recently it was 'satisfactory' whatever that means. I need to see my GP for the exact result. Anemia is something my mum was prone to.
Soil based organisms such as Prescript assist.
Digestive enzymes do I need them? How would I know I don't have undigested food in my stools. Though I have been intermittent in consistency.
Zinc Carnosine
Gut healing L'Glutamine, Colostrum
Oh and I have read that Uva ursi and berberine are good for knocking out Klebsiella
The webinars have also said that they have found most cases of leaky gut start with some sort of parasite or bacteriological infection. I could say all my problems kicked off with a severe tummy bug then accelerated with antibiotics years later and a couple more tummy bugs.
I can tick lots of boxes for Candida but not the main thrush, mouth infection ones I asked my GP about testing and she said they don't tend to as it gets passed back and forth between partners.
Any thoughts or experiences with any of these ideas and supplements and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Waste of money???
I am aware of the Roadback foundation and antibiotic protocol it is on my back burner but after that you would need a healing repopulating regime.
Thanks x
