The research on the amount of salicylate in different foods shows different amounts even in the same food. Why are they the most emphasized suspect natural food chemical? Why can’t salicylate amounts in food be neat like tables of lactose in food? Doctor Feingold, the early researcher who made the connection between salicylates, and additive […]
Birds and bees are fussy too!
At talks to the Society for Growing Australian Plant meetings I have listened to speakers talk about animals, birds and insects being attracted to particular plants, even to some plants in one area but not to the same plant in a nearby area. What attracts them? Or, even more interestingly, what caused them to not […]
Mood the role of diet
Talk given to psychiatrists group We are all familiar with people feeling like picking a fight, dancing on the table, or crying into a drink, as being due to alcohol. What I propose is that there is an equally wide range of mood changes which result from a different group of substances in food – […]
Mood: the role of diet
We are all familiar with people feeling like picking a fight, dancing on the table, or crying into a drink, as being due to alcohol. What I propose is that there is an equally wide range of mood changes which result from a different group of substances in food – in a particular, that is, […]
Tyramine and high BP
Comment from Patty Woods I too have discovered over the last two years or so that I have become intolerant to tyramine. I am a 60 year old female. It all seemed to start very suddenly, but I have for the last 15 years or so had other food sensitivities. I really suspect my over-use […]
You are a foodie when investigating diet
In fact being a foodie helps you manage your diet! Yes, you have your lists of allowed foods but even in those lists there are words such as “fresh” or “mild” or “just ripe”. How do you decide what they mean? I have listened to food sensitive people describe how they feel about food for […]
High BP with perfumes
Each food-sensitive person is unusual, but some are very unusual! Shalu’s blood pressure rises with exposure to perfumes! She writes “So it’s not me alone, who is battling this blood pressure problem. Doctors say it’s just your stress which raises BP suddenly. But having BP of 118/70 with medicines, and spiking to level 190/100, only because of […]