05/04/2024
"I know it sounds harsh, but people would rather change their bed, pillow, socks, medicine, doctor, mattress, house, spouse, country, religion than to deviate from mainstream nutrition advice. There is one food you are allergic to. Dairy is the most common. Once the damage to your gut is accomplished, that one food multiplies to many different foods and you become allergic to almost anything, plus your nutrient absorption deteriorates. You should find what it is and eliminate it from the diet. For a few weeks/months you should be strict. For very severe cases, a few weeks of mono-diet might be the best route, until you are able to diversify. After the pain is gone (few weeks/months) and the cartilage starts healing, you can eat anything including your initial allergen, but with moderation and pain calibration. I would personally stay away from the initial allergen for 3-5 years, but everything else is open season, including sugar and junk food in moderation. The pillow or any drugs shouldn't matter. It shouldn’t. If your mattress style or pillow type matter, you are doing it wrong. For over a decade I couldn't stand, sit or sleep for long. Climbing stairs was an exercise of popping, cracking and pain stabs, even pushing the clutch pedal hurt all the way to the groin. I ended up with my right leg skinnier than my left from not using it and switching the weight to the left one. Back, neck, shoulders, hips, knees were all on the menu. In my desperation I tried variations for years, even a 42 days water fast. Now I can build retaining walls, I can load and unload a truck of bricks in a day alone, or clean all the street of snow. I don't have a back anymore (it means I don't feel any pain or sensitivity regardless of the level of mechanical stress). Try to describe children what back pain is, and they won't even be able to understand the concept. That's where I am now, without any drugs or medical intervention, just SOME adjustments in diet, some raw food added, some consistency without being too strict, teas and powders, aerobic exercise daily, stretches (yoga or Pilates), cold showers, sun exposure and a few nutrients such as iodine, borax, magnesium, potassium. Check out DMSO for arthritis too.
I openly posted an outline of my solution here, and I was ridiculed by people who seemed too smug, smart and educated to accept that there is no unique patient and no accepted solution. It’s up to you to figure it out. Some home self-tests should be done and a neutral food found to begin healing. You'll step through a gate and every week/month you'll find a food that you can eat now, but you were allergic to before. Money cannot buy health so stop thinking in terms of $$$. (hint: the character building arthritis experience usually starts with dairy eaten a bit too much after the age of 12-13 (yogurt is dairy too, same with Greek yogurt – still dairy)) Excess protein can also be debilitating for health. Excess fat and meat too. Gym people successfully take whey protein to build muscles. That's made out of milk, but it's worse than dairy, it's an industrial hazardous material, illegal to dispose in the sewer." George Lungu
