Post by marylahree on Dec 12, 2007 20:28:29 GMT -5
I'm not yet familiar with IF. But I found post by Michael R. Eades, M. D. titled: 'Inflammation And Diet'. Interactive posts to his mentioned IF, which I gather the doctor advocates. The website is: www.proteinpower.com
It is only a guess that I have been taught something close to IF, so far as types of suggested foods go. Early in 2006 I was an experimental patient for the disease that I have (necrobiosis lipoidica or NL). The involved doctors, one of them a pharmaceutical scientist, believed in using various types of medicine, which included education about diet as a preventive and restorative measure. Specifically, the attempt was to restore as much health as possible to my damaged immune system in the hope (or expectation) that a healthier immune system would result in reversing, halting or at least lessening the disease progression. And there has been visible success, (some lesions vanishing), limited mostly, I believe, by my inconsistent willpower to maintain the prescribed diet changes.
In addition to diet changes, each day I was at the clinic (six days out of a week) I received supplements by IV through a surgically implanted PICC line. Vitamin C, for example, was administered in high doses.
Clearly I have seen the benefits of the diet and supplements, which were probably the largest part of my treatment, since the antibiotics I had been taking for several months were not completely effective against the resistant strand of infection that has "colonized" in ulcers on my legs. However, I have also come to the belief that it is possible to try to correct mechanics of the body too quickly - what is sometimes called "detoxifying". That, because I would become more sickly feeling as a result of having received the day's IV of supplements, and to the point of needing to sleep the remainder of my day away once I returned to the motel where I was staying during that six weeks. Also because, when I made diet changes at home, without the added IV supplements, I still found it necessary to sleep far more than I normally would have - and had been warned of that likeliness (by an independent medical professional who was knowledgeable about "alternative medicine").
Do such diet changes that reduce or omit harmful fats and oils, refined sugars, bleached flour, ect., "detoxify"? Do they lessen or halt "inflammation? Or both? Because NL is an inflammatory disease or condition, I suspect both. Yet I wonder if it is possible to try to correct the body too fast, maybe even to the point of causing a degree of shock.
It is only a guess that I have been taught something close to IF, so far as types of suggested foods go. Early in 2006 I was an experimental patient for the disease that I have (necrobiosis lipoidica or NL). The involved doctors, one of them a pharmaceutical scientist, believed in using various types of medicine, which included education about diet as a preventive and restorative measure. Specifically, the attempt was to restore as much health as possible to my damaged immune system in the hope (or expectation) that a healthier immune system would result in reversing, halting or at least lessening the disease progression. And there has been visible success, (some lesions vanishing), limited mostly, I believe, by my inconsistent willpower to maintain the prescribed diet changes.
In addition to diet changes, each day I was at the clinic (six days out of a week) I received supplements by IV through a surgically implanted PICC line. Vitamin C, for example, was administered in high doses.
Clearly I have seen the benefits of the diet and supplements, which were probably the largest part of my treatment, since the antibiotics I had been taking for several months were not completely effective against the resistant strand of infection that has "colonized" in ulcers on my legs. However, I have also come to the belief that it is possible to try to correct mechanics of the body too quickly - what is sometimes called "detoxifying". That, because I would become more sickly feeling as a result of having received the day's IV of supplements, and to the point of needing to sleep the remainder of my day away once I returned to the motel where I was staying during that six weeks. Also because, when I made diet changes at home, without the added IV supplements, I still found it necessary to sleep far more than I normally would have - and had been warned of that likeliness (by an independent medical professional who was knowledgeable about "alternative medicine").
Do such diet changes that reduce or omit harmful fats and oils, refined sugars, bleached flour, ect., "detoxify"? Do they lessen or halt "inflammation? Or both? Because NL is an inflammatory disease or condition, I suspect both. Yet I wonder if it is possible to try to correct the body too fast, maybe even to the point of causing a degree of shock.
