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Is most of vitamin A removed through breath and urine, not bile?
This is what is recommended to kidney patients: A renal diet is one that is low in sodium, phosphorous, and protein.
Is that false? His diet had lots of protein and phosphorus. Which goes against the rice diet for kidney disease.
Quote from Janelle525 on August 24, 2024, 8:26 amThis is what is recommended to kidney patients: A renal diet is one that is low in sodium, phosphorous, and protein.
Is that false?
It's what is recommended by government supported medicine. The protein and sodium part are certainly false. Don't know about phosphorus.
Government supported medicine says when you have pre-diabetes, you should eat plenty of whole grains, fruit and veggies. One doctor believed that and tried it out. Result: all his numbers got worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ZddXkeGFw .
He decided to do the exact opposite of what his doctor told him and that's how he finally improved.
There are countless such examples.
One thing to keep in mind before following government medicine is that the government owes you social security. So, it's in their interest that you do NOT live a long life.
@jessica2
What type of dairy do you eat? Low or high fat?
Grant's diet was low phosphorus (just at top of recommended range for chronic kidney patients). Slightly over 1,000 mgs a day if I remember my calculations correctly. This is based on the low calories he was eating so phosphorus works out lowish.
And I don't think we really know to what extent his kidneys were failing as he didn't mention it until later on. His blog post in 2014 said this:
"Moreover, I have absolutely reached this State of Sub-clinical toxicity to Vitamin A on a mostly normal diet. I am not near death. I was functioning reasonably well too; other than I had developed eczema."
This was his recommendation in that post:
"My safe food diet:
- Water
- Beef ( steak, roast, not cooked with butter) – , no hamburger due to added egg, no spices, no sauces, no ketchup etc.!
- Rice ( not cooked with butter, salt and black pepper is OK )
- Egg Whites ( not cooked with butter )
- Olive Oil ( 1 tablespoon / day, NOT optional, light and not EVOO)
- Occasional Vitamin C, and B supplements as you want.
- Cashews / Walnuts 5-10/day
- Coffee ( obviously optional)"
"I am 54 years old. I had my first encounter with Eczema this year. I have no history with skin conditions, allergies, or asthma. There is no history of eczema in my family, etc."
"That just does not make sense to me. How can I all of a sudden develop intolerance to all these different foods, exactly at the same time? That is just not logical.
Unless I am experiencing some major organ failure, or have some other horrible disease? Yet, I’ am conveniently ruling out that possibility, because so many young people are getting eczema too, and I hope they are not all experiencing some form of organ failure, or other disease. My hypothesis explains this new condition of my favorite foods now, all of a sudden, being toxic to me."
"Then again, this new mini flare up may not have anything to do with Vitamin A at all? Maybe it is just the milk, or some other mystery ingredient? Either way, a year ago I could have literally eaten a gallon of ice cream, and only ended up with maybe a sugar buzz. What the heck has happened to me? Now a mere few ounces are toxic! Still, it could also be that a the few micrograms of vitamin A in there are toxic too? Or maybe, my body is messing with me, and randomly cycling my skin between healing and peeling? There is simply not enough evidence at this time to say."
"these other minimal Vitamin A containing foods turned my skin in the wrong direction. Here’s a list of them (from memory)
- Chicken ( ½ breast / 4 legs)
- Green Peas (maybe 10 of them in a samosa )
- Orange juice (12oz)
- Ice Cream (6 spoons)
- Cheerios ( 1 bowl dry)
- Butter Croissant (2)
- White bun (1)
- Strawberries ½ cup ??? I am only ~ 70% sure the strawberries should be in this list ???
- Raisins ( 1/4 cup for several days)
- Guar Gum in coconut milk ( maybe no vitamin A, but possibly blocking the olive oil???)
Amazingly, I think each and every one of these foods, and at these volumes, caused my skin to start peeling again. It happened within 2-4 hours of digestion so the timing correlation is like 100%."
"Some really key ones for me are mouth ulcers (canker sores), fatigue, and blurred vision.
I had these symptoms well before any sign of my eczema conditions. I had mouth ulcers (just small blisters on the insides of my cheeks) occurring off and on in the year or so before my first incidence with eczema. I had no idea what was causing them. They were not painful at all. Since I’ve been on my vitamin A elimination diet, I have not had a single recurrence, not one. They are completely gone."
"I experienced severe fatigue too in the year leading up to my first eczema symptoms. I was needing 12 hours of sleep a day. Strangely, even that amount of sleep was not very helpful. I was still just barely dragging through the day. It was chronic; almost unrelenting fatigue that lasted close to a full year. I was also trying to get mid afternoon naps. Three weeks after adopting a very low vitamin A diet; all of the fatigue completely vanished. I am not talking about just a significant improvement. It was more like a 100% improvement."
" I was experiencing some significant joint pain, and body stiffness leading up to my eczema symptoms. This actually started back about 10 years earlier. It was very, very slowly getting worse."
"my thinking clarity has vastly improved too. In the 2-3 months leading up to my eczema skin condition; I found my ability to think clearly, and to focus was very limited."
"vision
Vastly improved; no longer blurry or dull."
"For a year or more I was experiencing some significant sweating at nights; mostly around my neck and head. That is now completely; totally gone. "
Also we can't forget his experiment with fluorescence:
"I’ve personally reproduced the Koebner Phenomenon on myself multiple times, and have caused my eczema to spread. I am able to spread out my autoimmune disease area as if it were an infection. Of course, I am not spreading an infection. I am spreading a toxin with its corresponding complicated chain reaction.
The facts we know with certainty are:
- We know from Accutane that the body is going to move retinoic acid laden lipids into the sebaceous glands in the skin.
- We know from the Japanese and Brazilian researchers that retinoic acid applied to the skin does cause the Eczema rash, and rapid skin cell growth.
- We know from the global observations that eczema and psoriasis worsen, or flare-up, in dry weather. This is clearly happening when the skin is absorbing the oils from the sebaceous glands.
Therefore, I think the Koebner Phenomenon offers a huge and immediate opportunity to reveal the root cause of these diseases. It is a toxin sitting within the lipids in the sebaceous glands. We know the exact toxin we are looking for too; it is retinol, and / or retinoic acid. I suspect the retinol mostly; due to its fluorescence."
Quote from Andrew B on August 24, 2024, 9:22 amGrant's diet was low phosphorus (just at top of recommended range for chronic kidney patients). Slightly over 1,000 mgs a day if I remember my calculations correctly. This is based on the low calories he was eating so phosphorus works out lowish.
Is that based on the above diet I just listed out or his diet now? He said he ate 3 meals of beef and rice per day along with the egg whites, cashews, and coffee. I can't remember when he stopped the egg whites, nuts, and olive oil and added in the red kidney beans.
Egg whites are on trigger lists and yet they were fine for him. Nuts are on my trigger list yet they were fine for him. Should we all just do an elimination diet and see what foods we react to on an individual basis?
It was based on what he said he was eating now and his given amounts. I think he was eating slightly more as your post suggested in the beginning. I think beans lower the phosphorus. Beef raises it a bit. So he was a bit more strictly speaking at the beginning. Still quite moderate I'd guess 1,200 mgs per the above diet.
An elimination diet or simplified (without processed food) is what I suggest to everybody at the start. Keep a food diary and figure out which foods you are reacting to. Each person with a food intolerance is going through a battle if they have one and wasting away nutrients.
Quote from Jessica2 on August 24, 2024, 11:01 amIt makes sense he would not react to egg whites or nuts if the root allergy was dairy.
It can take a while to diagnose chronic nephritis. A clue could have been the stiff joints he was experiencing 10 years before eczema came on. This is actually a common side effect of dairy and those who report to be sensitive to dairy.
Once you have eczema it can seem everything sets it off and multiple sensitivities can appear.
I agree we really don't know the extent of his kidney issues and I really wish he had seen another specialist or gotten further tests. That would really enlighten us further as to Grants recovery. However I do sympathize with Grant and the difficulty it seems to be to move through the Canadian Healthcare System with things like this.
My question still remains: what caused him to develop the food intolerance? He said he was living life fine never any allergies or skin problems. Usually with dairy intolerance you'd notice skin problems throughout life to dairy. And even then many people who reacted to dairy as children can consume it fine later on in life. Why is this?
An intolerance can be from poor nutrition. It often occurs when you overdo a food like drinking loads of milk or having wheat 7 times a day. You use up digestive enzymes and nutrients by overdoing it.
Quote from Andrew B on August 24, 2024, 11:52 amAn intolerance can be from poor nutrition. It often occurs when you overdo a food like drinking loads of milk or having wheat 7 times a day. You use up digestive enzymes and nutrients by overdoing it.
Why would enzymes and nutrients get used up by dairy and wheat and not meat and rice?