TriciaHealth and Fakhoury

All the answers about my regimen are on this thread.

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I read through your diet and you say you have 3 pieces of fruit in the morning, but from what I hear MS is closely related to candida, wont the fruits feed candida?

Unless you have candida, fruit is fine. It will give you energy in the morning that one would normally get from coffee.

What I do is eat fruit with kefir or plain yogurt (with live and active bacteria). That will prevent candida.

Do NOT juice fruits or drink store bought juice. Those are recipes for candida.

Isn't kefir and yogurt bad since they are dairy? Also as far as fish goes, do you have some type of fish everyday? What about the exposure to mercury?

Fermented dairy products, such as yogurt and kefir are fine because they are predigested and, therefore, more easily metabolized. It's pasteurized dairy that's the problem.

Remember that there's a difference between "living" and "dead" foods. The microbes in most fermented foods are destroyed by pasteurization or processing.

Fermentation increases the medicinal value and nutrition of foods, helping to maintain a healthy population of micro-flora in the gut, which is important because there are so many external pollutants, allopathic medicines, and low nutrient foods that destroy life support gut bacteria.

The flora in living cultured foods form a "living shield" that covers the small intestine's inner lining and helps inhibit pathogenic organisms including unhealthy overgrowth of candida.

I eat mainly sardines and sockeye salmon. Stay away from tuna, sea bass, grouper, mackeral etc because they are high in mercury.

Yes I eat salmon, have never had sardines, do you eat fish everyday?

4-5 times per week I eat fish sometimes more. I also get extra protein from vegan protein powder. I'm pretty fit so I am sure I'm getting enough. I lost five 5 lbs initially though. That's normal.

What vegan protein powder do you recommend?

You'll find vegan protein powder in the health food stores. Just make sure that the brand you is all natural, non GMO, hypo-allergic and it has at least 20g of protein.

Ive been lookinh for vegan protein online but none of them have 20g of protein or the other requirements u listed. Which vegan protein do you use?

Genuine Health and InterActive Nutrition.

I went through this thread, do I have to be o00$ raw? Can I have fish or chicken? Also do how are you with your protein needs? Do you ever feel hungry? Have you ever been tested for food sensiivities?

Start with a 3-10 green juice fast with only small salad at night. That will detox your body and some or all of symptoms should go away.

See my sample diet and supplements. You'll see I get lots of protein. No red or chicken meat period! Just fish, preferably oily fish. This is very important. Your diet has to be alkaline. Meat, poultry and dairy are too acidic for us. However, plain yogurt and kefir are fine. As long as 75-90% of your diet is raw, you should be fine. (You can have sprouted bread. I forgot to mention that on the other thread.)I am always hungry, so I'm constantly eatting.

I have not been tested for food sensitivities. It's the chemicals and preservatives that's causing our immune system to "over react". Just remove all of them from your diet and eat whole foods.

Also, make sure that your skincare products and cleaning products are all natural too.

If all this info is too much, find a naturopatic doctor who specializes in MS to guide you.

Hey, thanks I will do the 10 day juice fast soon, I have started juicing and eating more veggies, I feel better already

Do you have symptoms? And do you have RRMS?

My symptoms are fatigue, frequency to urinate, balance issues, weak legs and optic nueritis. I have RRMS. I do feel better after cleaning up my diet.

Your symptoms are relatively mild. (That's good!) I had all of them and more. On top of cleaning up your diet, be sure to take the supplements I mentioned on the other thread (i.e. B12, fish oil, b-complex) and get plenty of rest and exercise. This will eliminate ALL the symptoms. You may need to take iron. Check to see if it is low. That and/or caffeine could be causing the fatigue.

I do not have caffeine so I will look into iron levels, I hope I can eliminate all of em! ^_^

You'll eliminate all of the symptoms. Start the juice feast ASAP. It was after completely detoxing that my body really started to heal.

If you send me a PM with your email address, I'll send you my plan. It's a 10 page document.