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Determine your own Paleo-Macrobiotic Diet
An updated version can be found below under page titled Allergies, Supplements, Food
My French Acupuncturist suggested today (February 1, 2013) that I be tested for
food intolerances (which are not the same as allergies - just as my San Francisco
Kinesiologist said) at a Parisian lab which takes a blood sample and tests
for at least 250 items. Since I have confidence in my Kinesiologist's very successful work, I would
do the blood work only to compare the two methods. But as the Doctor said, Kinesiology
is subjective and one can't be assured of the results. And let's face it, most people
want "material" proof. There are apparently 4 labs which perform the analysis in Paris. This would
appear the best road to follow for most people. I assume the work is available in the US as well, probably through
a Holistic Doctor or Naturopath.
First let’s think about all the reasons you might not want to be bothered by Diet. With a major health problem life is difficult enough without depriving yourself of the pleasure of eating. Food resonates with family, security, comfort, friendship, sharing. If you can’t eat how other’s eat, this becomes another factor of exclusion. Often people offer a treat as an act of generosity in order to give pleasure, how can you refuse that without offending? Children affirm their character by choosing what they want to eat, food becomes a central facet of one’s identity.
Now look at the map of MS incidence. Northern (Protestant?) Europe and North America are particularly afflicted. But the diets in these areas emphasize the“suspect” Neolithic diet of Wheat, Meat and Dairy. Southern Europe is less affected with it’s olive oil, vegetable, fish based diets. But it is especially Japan which gives the good example because their diet is founded on rice, fish, vegetables, and seaweed. Though they have a hard working, “Success Stress” culture, their diet protects them. Unfortunately the past 30 years the incidence of MS has increased dramatically in Japan, the age of onset younger. Why? An increasingly westernized, gluten based (and junk food) diet.
So I am going to propose what I'll call the "Paleo-Macrobiotic" Diet which contains the essentials of a program I followed with great success in the 1980's.
Give yourself a deadline. Keep a journal. Note carefully any changes, progress as well as set backs.
When I healed the first time beginning February 1984 it took me a year to recover lost function. I began to experience the pins and needles, numbness and pain of the early onset, but at the same time everything began to work again. This confirms a central observation in natural healing, one passes through the same symptoms in reverse of the original illness. But it took a good year for real results. So this time (January 2012) I decided to give myself a year. Then I thought I would make it 18 months, that is to say only one summer and the other months spring, fall and winter. So I’ll go at least as far as June 2013.
Now, depending on the results, I may well continue. But by giving yourself a time frame, it doesn’t feel like such an ordeal. It’s like being confined for a period of time, then afterwards you’ll be free. This past January I didn’t expect any “results” for at least a year, but after 2 months the muscles on the outside of my right leg began to cramp which meant that the nerves were working again. I can bend my knee while on my back by working the side of the thigh. Will there be any more improvement? I don’t know. My dream is that I retrieve more function in my right hand which will allow me to work the arm.
(Update January 2013. My right leg continues to strengthen. My Physical Therapist was impressed by the improvements after a 6 month absence. Recently I had no access to gluten free bread so I ate some bread for 3 days. Wheat doesn't apparently bother me, no evident "allergy" symptoms, once in a while won't kill me, but I noticed increasing insomnia, and in particular my bladder became so irritated I thought I had cystitis. Once off the glutens, I've recuperated my equilibrium and bladder strength. Other improvements, my head has "cleared" up and my intestines don't feel bloated. After I stimulate the blood circulation in the morning with the TENS acupressure, I'm no longer depressed. Not the spectacular improvements of 1984-85, but I'm nearly 30 years older and I some of the damage dates back nearly 20 years. Anyway, the improvements are important enough that I will continue the diet.)
I had been constipated since birth and know this is a trait inherited from my mother’s father (see Chapter One on Pages) In 1984 before I de-toxed I had the most repulsive smelly flatulence imaginable. My gut must have been really rotten. By September 1984 after 6 months on the diet I developed diahrrea. My Kinesiologist was delighted, saying this was a sign of detoxification. And then (with the help of my Chinese acupuncturist-herbalist) my intestines began to function normally for the first time in my life. About 5 months later my nervous system regained lost function. Question? Does MS cause the Constipation problem or does the C problem cause MS?
Expect to go through detoxification akin to withdrawal from a drug. It seems so unfair. There are those who are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, heroin and I’m addicted to WHEAT and COFFEE. The first time I withdrew from these very ordinary substances, I went through a bit of hell the first 2 or 3 days. Apparently it takes at least 5 days to free yourself from food intolerances. (These aren’t the same as blood tested “allergies.”) I can’t imagine going through a real drug withdrawal.
Those whose MS onset is fairly recent, who are young, can expect real recovery UNLESS they have a serious structural stenosis. (Even so whatever the situation, it’s worth a try.)
Make it easy. (In the late 1960’s I tried a Macrobiotic diet, but the recipes in the book I was using were unnecessarily complicated so I stopped. Too bad. I really believe I wouldn't have developed MS had I continued. ) When dieting butter looked like a repulsive yellow greasy blob.
So here is a basic diet. Some may have individual intolerances or allergies I can’t account for in a general diet. Consulting a Kinesiologist Naturopath might be a good idea.
Combine the essentials of Dr. Wahls’ diet found on You Tube at TEDxIowa City- Minding your Mitochondria, (now apparently called the PALEO DIET) and the Japanese Macrobiotic diet found on Wikipedia .
(Copy below). I can see now that "my" diet resembles the Paleolithic Diet developed by Roger MacDougall after he developed MS in 1953, also on Wikipedia. (Dr. Wahls has picked up the Paleo diet. I don't agree with her ban on grains.)
The Kinesiologist nutritionist Dr. Jimmy Scott worked up this personalized diet
for me through muscle testing on March 6, 1984 (see page.) I decided to follow it along with
taking mostly Standard Process supplements ( also determined through muscle testing)
with spectacular results. I detoxified and healed. I admit I was highly
skeptical at first, I feared Dr. Scott (a PhD in physiological psychology I
think?) was a quack, but since it couldn't harm me I decided to give it a try.
Well, you have to give the devil his due, after a year my intestines were
cleaned out and then the nerve damage healed, the results so spectacular that
my neurologist declared I couldn't possibly have healed like that if I had MS,
therefore I didn't have it. (Looking through my notes I realize the diet I show here was the first one.
Over time the diet evolved and became less rigorous, I was allowed eventually to use salt, the number of meals per day were reduced, etc.)
First Diet:
Servings per week:
Starchy vegetables 1 raw, 1 cooked
Lo starchy vegetables 8 raw, 3 cooked
Acid fruits 1 raw. Sub-acid fruits 1 raw, Sweet fruits 1 raw
Eggs 6 raw. 2 cooked
NO Dairy. NO Red meats. NO Organ meats.
Poultry 1 cooked (must eat with raw veggies)
Seafood 4 Raw (Sushi entered my life here)
Nuts 3 Raw
Grains 4 cooked (soak 8-12 hours first)
Seeds 2 Raw
Misc. 3 Cooked
Veggie Juice 12 Raw cups per week
Meals per day - 11
Max food per meal - 1 cup
Water per day 40-45 ozs
Salt per day - 0
Oil per day - 1/2 tsp
Avoid avocado
Eat Papaya;
Dr. Scott drew up a complicated chart about combining food correctly.
For instance melons combine only with acid or sub acid fruits and nothing else.
(I didn't pay too much attention to this. He was a perfectionist, very detailed.)
I made some compromises. For instance, I eat more fruit than suggested.
Nutritional Muscle testing forbade the following for me as being food intolerances.
Lactose (Even though Dairy was forbidden, I did and do eat lactose free dairy products - Yoghurt, brie, muenster, camembert cheeses, ghie, lactose free milk products)
No glutens which in my case means no wheat, rye, barley, oats.
OK grains are rice, millet, buckwheat, quinoa, corn
No "legumes" - peas, beans, peanuts, soy alfalfa, carob, licorice
No honey
No coffee, tea, sugar, artificial flavors, colors, preservatives,"foods" etc (I do drink tea. Coffee really does bother me.)
No margarine. Avoid safflower and corn oils.
Do use sesame, coconut and ghie
No olives
No pineapple, nutmeg, mace, chamomile, sarsparilla
This obviously looks draconian. My main focus now is to avoid glutens, emphasize fish and seafood
over red meat, make the veggie juice regularly, munch on seeds and nuts if I
need to munch. I'm not eating 11 one cup meals a day, I do use salt. I just
found this diet in my papers so I'm going to try to adjust my current eating
accordingly. (I tend towards constipation, so someone tending towards diarrhea
may not be able to tolerate all the raw veggies and raw veggie juice. Needs testing.)
The supplements were important in the detox process,
also to remove intestinal parasites (which actually is easy, using vacuum dried
fruits like papaya or Zymex II which dissolve the beasties coat. Most people do have
intestinal parasites.)
Kinesiology muscle testing for food intolerances does work, but it is very unorthodox and you need to find a competent Kinesiologist OR find a Holistic Doctor who can order a blood test for food intolerances.
Buy a powerful juicer, the more powerful it is the easier the extraction. (I’m using a Phillips purchased in France). One caution. Those subject to diarrhea may not be able to tolerate 2 cups a day. Adjust as needed.
Buy Gluten free bread. Rice or Corn cakes: Japanese rice Mochi cakes are excellent, pop in the oven they puff up to become hot and chewy,delicious. Try with almond butter.
For protein emphasize wild Fish: Raw fish in Sushi is excellent (avoid raw Salmon) but cooked fish is better than meat because the latter has saturated fat. One animal protein a day. I know the vegans won’t like this, but I can’t survive without one serving a day and I have an intolerance for soybeans.
Farm raised poultry and eggs. If you eat red meat always eat a raw vegetable with it.
Avoid or greatly limit saturated Fat (found in red meats, butter etc.) No Pork , too fat. Also avoid nitrites in treated meats such as sausages, bacon. Avoid chemical food additives and processed food in general. No aspartame.
Organ meat once a week.
Seeds and Nuts. Walnuts are an outstanding source of Omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids. Almond nut butter, nut butters in general. (I am forbidden peanut butter.)
Seaweed
And of course no coffee, no alcohol (My brain must lack the myelin insulation because wine penetrates directly into the nervous system from the blood. On the other hand so does the veggie juice – for the better.) I do drink tea.
For sweets try dried fruit, or fruit in general, bananas.
To correct Dr. Wahls' PALEO DIET I would reduce the red meat intake to no more than once a week and once a week organ food. Always eat a raw vegetable when you eat the meat. Fish is the best protein, and barnyard raised chicken. I would add non gluten grains, nuts and seeds, and the veggie juice to her suggested diet.
The following Japanese macrobiotic diet was copied from Wikipedia. (As you can see I eat more animal protein than is
suggested.)
"Well chewed whole cereal grains, especially brown rice: 40-60%
Vegetables: 20-30%
Beans and legumes: 5-10%
Miso soup: 5%
Sea vegetables: 5%
Traditionally or naturally processed foods: 5-10%
Fish and seafood, seeds and nuts, seed
and nut butters, seasonings, sweeteners, fruits and beverages may be enjoyed
occasionally, 2-3 times per week. Other naturally raised animal products may be
included if needed during dietary transition or according to individual needs."
One added comment: Refer to the page on muscle testing to understand
that when the body is balanced energetically through Chinese
medicine-derived energy therapies, the muscles are strengthened. A stressed
organism loses muscle strength. Optimal diet therefore reduces stress on the
vascular system preventing blood reflux into the brain, it can heal damaged
tissue, and by preventing an "unbalanced" electromagnetic energy field in the
body it can actually strengthen the muscles.
An updated version can be found below under page titled Allergies, Supplements, Food
My French Acupuncturist suggested today (February 1, 2013) that I be tested for
food intolerances (which are not the same as allergies - just as my San Francisco
Kinesiologist said) at a Parisian lab which takes a blood sample and tests
for at least 250 items. Since I have confidence in my Kinesiologist's very successful work, I would
do the blood work only to compare the two methods. But as the Doctor said, Kinesiology
is subjective and one can't be assured of the results. And let's face it, most people
want "material" proof. There are apparently 4 labs which perform the analysis in Paris. This would
appear the best road to follow for most people. I assume the work is available in the US as well, probably through
a Holistic Doctor or Naturopath.
First let’s think about all the reasons you might not want to be bothered by Diet. With a major health problem life is difficult enough without depriving yourself of the pleasure of eating. Food resonates with family, security, comfort, friendship, sharing. If you can’t eat how other’s eat, this becomes another factor of exclusion. Often people offer a treat as an act of generosity in order to give pleasure, how can you refuse that without offending? Children affirm their character by choosing what they want to eat, food becomes a central facet of one’s identity.
Now look at the map of MS incidence. Northern (Protestant?) Europe and North America are particularly afflicted. But the diets in these areas emphasize the“suspect” Neolithic diet of Wheat, Meat and Dairy. Southern Europe is less affected with it’s olive oil, vegetable, fish based diets. But it is especially Japan which gives the good example because their diet is founded on rice, fish, vegetables, and seaweed. Though they have a hard working, “Success Stress” culture, their diet protects them. Unfortunately the past 30 years the incidence of MS has increased dramatically in Japan, the age of onset younger. Why? An increasingly westernized, gluten based (and junk food) diet.
So I am going to propose what I'll call the "Paleo-Macrobiotic" Diet which contains the essentials of a program I followed with great success in the 1980's.
Give yourself a deadline. Keep a journal. Note carefully any changes, progress as well as set backs.
When I healed the first time beginning February 1984 it took me a year to recover lost function. I began to experience the pins and needles, numbness and pain of the early onset, but at the same time everything began to work again. This confirms a central observation in natural healing, one passes through the same symptoms in reverse of the original illness. But it took a good year for real results. So this time (January 2012) I decided to give myself a year. Then I thought I would make it 18 months, that is to say only one summer and the other months spring, fall and winter. So I’ll go at least as far as June 2013.
Now, depending on the results, I may well continue. But by giving yourself a time frame, it doesn’t feel like such an ordeal. It’s like being confined for a period of time, then afterwards you’ll be free. This past January I didn’t expect any “results” for at least a year, but after 2 months the muscles on the outside of my right leg began to cramp which meant that the nerves were working again. I can bend my knee while on my back by working the side of the thigh. Will there be any more improvement? I don’t know. My dream is that I retrieve more function in my right hand which will allow me to work the arm.
(Update January 2013. My right leg continues to strengthen. My Physical Therapist was impressed by the improvements after a 6 month absence. Recently I had no access to gluten free bread so I ate some bread for 3 days. Wheat doesn't apparently bother me, no evident "allergy" symptoms, once in a while won't kill me, but I noticed increasing insomnia, and in particular my bladder became so irritated I thought I had cystitis. Once off the glutens, I've recuperated my equilibrium and bladder strength. Other improvements, my head has "cleared" up and my intestines don't feel bloated. After I stimulate the blood circulation in the morning with the TENS acupressure, I'm no longer depressed. Not the spectacular improvements of 1984-85, but I'm nearly 30 years older and I some of the damage dates back nearly 20 years. Anyway, the improvements are important enough that I will continue the diet.)
I had been constipated since birth and know this is a trait inherited from my mother’s father (see Chapter One on Pages) In 1984 before I de-toxed I had the most repulsive smelly flatulence imaginable. My gut must have been really rotten. By September 1984 after 6 months on the diet I developed diahrrea. My Kinesiologist was delighted, saying this was a sign of detoxification. And then (with the help of my Chinese acupuncturist-herbalist) my intestines began to function normally for the first time in my life. About 5 months later my nervous system regained lost function. Question? Does MS cause the Constipation problem or does the C problem cause MS?
Expect to go through detoxification akin to withdrawal from a drug. It seems so unfair. There are those who are addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, heroin and I’m addicted to WHEAT and COFFEE. The first time I withdrew from these very ordinary substances, I went through a bit of hell the first 2 or 3 days. Apparently it takes at least 5 days to free yourself from food intolerances. (These aren’t the same as blood tested “allergies.”) I can’t imagine going through a real drug withdrawal.
Those whose MS onset is fairly recent, who are young, can expect real recovery UNLESS they have a serious structural stenosis. (Even so whatever the situation, it’s worth a try.)
Make it easy. (In the late 1960’s I tried a Macrobiotic diet, but the recipes in the book I was using were unnecessarily complicated so I stopped. Too bad. I really believe I wouldn't have developed MS had I continued. ) When dieting butter looked like a repulsive yellow greasy blob.
So here is a basic diet. Some may have individual intolerances or allergies I can’t account for in a general diet. Consulting a Kinesiologist Naturopath might be a good idea.
Combine the essentials of Dr. Wahls’ diet found on You Tube at TEDxIowa City- Minding your Mitochondria, (now apparently called the PALEO DIET) and the Japanese Macrobiotic diet found on Wikipedia .
(Copy below). I can see now that "my" diet resembles the Paleolithic Diet developed by Roger MacDougall after he developed MS in 1953, also on Wikipedia. (Dr. Wahls has picked up the Paleo diet. I don't agree with her ban on grains.)
The Kinesiologist nutritionist Dr. Jimmy Scott worked up this personalized diet
for me through muscle testing on March 6, 1984 (see page.) I decided to follow it along with
taking mostly Standard Process supplements ( also determined through muscle testing)
with spectacular results. I detoxified and healed. I admit I was highly
skeptical at first, I feared Dr. Scott (a PhD in physiological psychology I
think?) was a quack, but since it couldn't harm me I decided to give it a try.
Well, you have to give the devil his due, after a year my intestines were
cleaned out and then the nerve damage healed, the results so spectacular that
my neurologist declared I couldn't possibly have healed like that if I had MS,
therefore I didn't have it. (Looking through my notes I realize the diet I show here was the first one.
Over time the diet evolved and became less rigorous, I was allowed eventually to use salt, the number of meals per day were reduced, etc.)
First Diet:
Servings per week:
Starchy vegetables 1 raw, 1 cooked
Lo starchy vegetables 8 raw, 3 cooked
Acid fruits 1 raw. Sub-acid fruits 1 raw, Sweet fruits 1 raw
Eggs 6 raw. 2 cooked
NO Dairy. NO Red meats. NO Organ meats.
Poultry 1 cooked (must eat with raw veggies)
Seafood 4 Raw (Sushi entered my life here)
Nuts 3 Raw
Grains 4 cooked (soak 8-12 hours first)
Seeds 2 Raw
Misc. 3 Cooked
Veggie Juice 12 Raw cups per week
Meals per day - 11
Max food per meal - 1 cup
Water per day 40-45 ozs
Salt per day - 0
Oil per day - 1/2 tsp
Avoid avocado
Eat Papaya;
Dr. Scott drew up a complicated chart about combining food correctly.
For instance melons combine only with acid or sub acid fruits and nothing else.
(I didn't pay too much attention to this. He was a perfectionist, very detailed.)
I made some compromises. For instance, I eat more fruit than suggested.
Nutritional Muscle testing forbade the following for me as being food intolerances.
Lactose (Even though Dairy was forbidden, I did and do eat lactose free dairy products - Yoghurt, brie, muenster, camembert cheeses, ghie, lactose free milk products)
No glutens which in my case means no wheat, rye, barley, oats.
OK grains are rice, millet, buckwheat, quinoa, corn
No "legumes" - peas, beans, peanuts, soy alfalfa, carob, licorice
No honey
No coffee, tea, sugar, artificial flavors, colors, preservatives,"foods" etc (I do drink tea. Coffee really does bother me.)
No margarine. Avoid safflower and corn oils.
Do use sesame, coconut and ghie
No olives
No pineapple, nutmeg, mace, chamomile, sarsparilla
This obviously looks draconian. My main focus now is to avoid glutens, emphasize fish and seafood
over red meat, make the veggie juice regularly, munch on seeds and nuts if I
need to munch. I'm not eating 11 one cup meals a day, I do use salt. I just
found this diet in my papers so I'm going to try to adjust my current eating
accordingly. (I tend towards constipation, so someone tending towards diarrhea
may not be able to tolerate all the raw veggies and raw veggie juice. Needs testing.)
The supplements were important in the detox process,
also to remove intestinal parasites (which actually is easy, using vacuum dried
fruits like papaya or Zymex II which dissolve the beasties coat. Most people do have
intestinal parasites.)
Kinesiology muscle testing for food intolerances does work, but it is very unorthodox and you need to find a competent Kinesiologist OR find a Holistic Doctor who can order a blood test for food intolerances.
Buy a powerful juicer, the more powerful it is the easier the extraction. (I’m using a Phillips purchased in France). One caution. Those subject to diarrhea may not be able to tolerate 2 cups a day. Adjust as needed.
Buy Gluten free bread. Rice or Corn cakes: Japanese rice Mochi cakes are excellent, pop in the oven they puff up to become hot and chewy,delicious. Try with almond butter.
For protein emphasize wild Fish: Raw fish in Sushi is excellent (avoid raw Salmon) but cooked fish is better than meat because the latter has saturated fat. One animal protein a day. I know the vegans won’t like this, but I can’t survive without one serving a day and I have an intolerance for soybeans.
Farm raised poultry and eggs. If you eat red meat always eat a raw vegetable with it.
Avoid or greatly limit saturated Fat (found in red meats, butter etc.) No Pork , too fat. Also avoid nitrites in treated meats such as sausages, bacon. Avoid chemical food additives and processed food in general. No aspartame.
Organ meat once a week.
Seeds and Nuts. Walnuts are an outstanding source of Omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids. Almond nut butter, nut butters in general. (I am forbidden peanut butter.)
Seaweed
And of course no coffee, no alcohol (My brain must lack the myelin insulation because wine penetrates directly into the nervous system from the blood. On the other hand so does the veggie juice – for the better.) I do drink tea.
For sweets try dried fruit, or fruit in general, bananas.
To correct Dr. Wahls' PALEO DIET I would reduce the red meat intake to no more than once a week and once a week organ food. Always eat a raw vegetable when you eat the meat. Fish is the best protein, and barnyard raised chicken. I would add non gluten grains, nuts and seeds, and the veggie juice to her suggested diet.
The following Japanese macrobiotic diet was copied from Wikipedia. (As you can see I eat more animal protein than is
suggested.)
"Well chewed whole cereal grains, especially brown rice: 40-60%
Vegetables: 20-30%
Beans and legumes: 5-10%
Miso soup: 5%
Sea vegetables: 5%
Traditionally or naturally processed foods: 5-10%
Fish and seafood, seeds and nuts, seed
and nut butters, seasonings, sweeteners, fruits and beverages may be enjoyed
occasionally, 2-3 times per week. Other naturally raised animal products may be
included if needed during dietary transition or according to individual needs."
One added comment: Refer to the page on muscle testing to understand
that when the body is balanced energetically through Chinese
medicine-derived energy therapies, the muscles are strengthened. A stressed
organism loses muscle strength. Optimal diet therefore reduces stress on the
vascular system preventing blood reflux into the brain, it can heal damaged
tissue, and by preventing an "unbalanced" electromagnetic energy field in the
body it can actually strengthen the muscles.