I have been placed on a keto diet for reactive hypoglycaemia due to stress and probable serotonin deficiency. Eating low carb diet has been fine but have been eating lots of healthy fats which have been high in tyramine which I had never heard of before. I had hypertensive crisis last week and have stopped eating the tyramine foods. My question is that I take 5 htp and have been for about a month and is that safe with tyramine foods? Any advice would be great. Dear Anette, You have complex, … [Read more...]
Yummy Commercial Foods to try
Are you looking for some yummy new commercial foods for the low chemical diet? Have you found the Danone Ultimate yoghurt? It is plain nicely sweetened yoghurt with no added flavour. What about the Menz Caramel Honeycomb? It is like the old Violet Crumble but has no chocolate covering! It does have a little natural colour and flavour and 322, but I am suggesting no more than one each day. Store in the fridge for extra chilled delight. What about the Mini Meringue drops from WW Select? They have … [Read more...]
High Blood Pressure & Diet
Question: There is so much I wish to share about the food sensitivities my mother has. But what I want to share is her escalating issues with blood pressure problems after certain chemical exposures, mostly fragrance related, but also the anestia propofol. She becomes incoherent, she gets tremors and her blood pressure shoots to well over 200. She has been hospitalized a dozen times over the past year and a half. She gave the prescribed BP medications a chance for nearly a year, but they … [Read more...]
How long before an elimination diet helps symptoms?
People often wonder just how long they should stay on an elimination diet to see if it is any help. Some good research has shown that time to symptom improvement is almost always by four weeks, with only 2 in 100 taking eight weeks. Parents can feel supported by this research too. Why is this research important? It stops people expecting results after two or even one week, and so missing out on an improvement that may happen, or supporting those who think diets may take months to show … [Read more...]
Managing diet better as your New Year’s resolution
Have your symptoms been bothering you? Do you have a plan to really control them better? Here are some easy ways to achieve what you want. Have you cut out some foods, and then a few more, but not had good enough results? This might be the time to take yourself through the diet detective process. You can add information about food reactions you know in yourself, and reactions in your family, to the Baseline Diet in my book: Are You Food Sensitive? You can use the Easy Elimination Diet, … [Read more...]
Managing your diet at Christmas
Christmas time produces choices for food sensitive people. Will you eat all of your usual favourite Christmas food and just put up with your symptoms, or just have small amounts of all of them and note how strong your symptoms are? Will you decide to test just one favourite food such as ham off the bone, or Christmas pudding or cake? Every January I listened to stories of my patients. Some were fairly careful, and were even surprised they had very few symptoms. Others said they “would never do … [Read more...]
Freeze-dried peeled pear: the perfect snack
Have you found Crispy Fruits Pure Pear from Think Products. It is even peeled so as low as you can go in pear salicylate! It is the perfect snack to store in your car so you always have something. And it is also the best pear for the Sago plum pudding. Enjoy! Joan … [Read more...]