Another thing that hasn't helped any is eating tons of yogurt, kefir, raw milk cheese, and taking calcium supps. I was really trying to build bone but I'd bet it was too much Ca and it created less absorption of Mg and probably Zinc as well. Been overdoing it with dairy for sure. I ate 3 cups of whole milk yogurt this morning. I seem to tolerate it but that's too much calcium to eat very often.

The following substances and conditions reduce total body magnesium

    Alcohol- all forms cause significant losses
    Amphetamines/Cocaine
    Burns- with large surface area
    Calcium- high levels block magnesium absorption
    Carbohydrates- especially white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, white flour
    Chronic pain- any cause
    Coffee- significant losses
    Cyclosporin- extra magnesium can protect from side-effects
    Diabetes- magnesium spills with sugar in the urine
    Diarrhea- any cause
    Dieting- stress plus lowered intake
    Diuretics- even potassium sparing diuretics do not spare magnesium
    Insulin- whether from using insulin or from hyperinsulinemia
    Over-training- extreme athletic physical conditioning/training
    Phentermine / Fenfluramine
    Sodas- especially cola type sodas, both diet and regular
    Sodium- high salt intake
    Stress- physical and mental- anything that gets your fight or flight reaction
    Surgery
    Sweat

http://www.krispin.com/magnes.html#Losses

Oh ok, thanks.  I've searched the rpd forum but can find no posts relating to Bee Wilder so I guess it will remain a mystery.

I've been reading on her site a lot lately. A lot of what she says makes good sense but some of it I do not agree with. For one thing I disagree with, she says we should all drink tap water, filtered by a Brita or Pur water filter. She says "don't worry about fluoride in tap water". This is the first time I've ever seen anyone recommended filtered tap water over RO water.

The salmon smells like onions and mustard. The sea salt and onion seem to preserve it. Yes, it had been frozen for weeks before I thawed it out.

I seem to do quite good with fats. I recently consulted with a nutritionist in MT [metabolic typing]. It cost me $250 and I kind of feel like I was sucked into that deal in a way. I mean, I learned some things from him that could do me a lot of good but $250 seems kind of like a hard pill to swallow. He makes a lot of sense on many things but I wouldn't say he's the last word on some things, no one is, or, only we are of our own bodies.

Anyway, I'm a mixed type and MT recommends I eat 35% protein, 45% carbs, and 20% fats, for what that's worth. It also recommends that people fine tune their personal diets to get the perfect ratio of macro nutrients.

Hi,

I was depressed last night and not feeling well.  Since last July I've struggled with trying to correct the mess that a vegan diet did tom my GI tract. I've been in denial in a way. What I've needed to do is go back to low carb vegs and animal proteins only and quit the nuts, seeds, grains, legumes, at least for a while. Broccoli, cabbage, and onions inhibit bacteria. So do turnips and rutabaga but they're higher carb.

I noticed as of late that I don't tolerate things like Betaine HCl, distilled vinegar, and even calcium lactate any more. Betaine gives me palpitations, and taking 5-7 caps with each meal depleted my magnesium. Vinegar to acidify my GI tract does not feel like it's the right thing to do. Raw ACV made me quite sick.

I had the idea that my pH was too alkaline. It's weird but I seem to be able to tolerate acid producing foods OK, foods like meat, eggs, rice, tomato, corn, Ezekiel bread, and olives, but the eczema on my head didn't improve, and if I kept eating all these carbs, I don't know if it would ever improve, or would take a long time if it did. If I was too alkaline, I could taste it and feel it. I've been that way before and it can make me so tired that I can hardly get off of the sofa. I don't think I've been too alkaline in a good 10 years or so.

Not sure what made me sick yesterday, well, actually, I am. I was going to try the 2 or 3 day VCO cleanse, and I did OK with it while taking my home made pasteurized organic milk kefir, but when I took pasteurized organic store yogurt, I got sick and had bloating, fatigue, head fog, and all that awful stuff. I just need to be real careful what I eat at this time. I hate to admit it but I need to go back to square one, the square I haven't been at in 15 or 20 years. It seems so unreal to walk into stores and not be able to buy the foods I've been buying for years but I need to eat to live at this time.

For the second time I found calcium supps to sedate me. I broke my ankle last Summer after I collided with a car on my bicycle and was taking calcium tinctures to help mend the bone, and they used to make me feel groggy, sedated, and sleepy. I tried Calcium Lactate for a week or so and it seems to do about the same thing. Not a good feeling at all. You sleep like a log but you feel kind of subdued and depressed in the daytime, and, it isn't worth it. I was told that thyroid hormone is needed to build bone, among other things like Ca and Mg.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do but this makes more sense than the raw vegan or even cooked vegan diets. I'm going to have to educate myself on this RPD more. I'm kind of tired of changing the way I eat, reading health books, etc. Low carb is really the WTG tho. If grains prevent me from healing my GI tract at this time, this will most likely subtract from my well being when I feel my GI tract is healthy. My stubbornness to quit grain may be a big part of the reason why I have poor muscle tone and eczema. I have to start at square one in order to get to square 2, 3, and 4. You can't skip any steps.

Not sure if I'd devote to this way of eating. If cooked paleo improves your health some, and raw does even more, than I may try it myself. I have no social life, so from that POV, I could do it.

Hi,

I changed my mind about that 2 or 3 day VCO cleanse. It doesn't seem like a balanced cleanse. All that yogurt is high in sodium, plus the rock salt he recommends taking with it. What I probably need to do, is cut way back on carbs and quit grain either for now or for good. It's been a long time since I was not well enough to be able to eat raw nuts. Someone said Bee's site has a lot of interesting info, and I agree that it does.

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/index.php

PS - I don't consider myself old at age 60. I've taken enzymes for years and have eaten mostly organic foods, have exercised, done several dry heat saunas per week, used tons of coconut oil, and I don't know but I might do quite well on this raw diet, maybe more than the typical person of age 60 would do.

I kind of wish I hadn't mentioned my age at all. I'm kind of shocked and insulted that you called me an old person. That was quite rude, in my opinion, or insensitive to say the least..

Glad to hear of this VCO cleanse. I have lots of VCO here right now.

I'm doing it without lemon juice though. Other things that could be substituted for lemon juice are GSE and cayenne, which are both effective against tons of pathogens, probably even more than Lemon. The reason I say this is because I've had trouble with lemon juice lately and I feel I need to expel the bad stuff before I can take even things like lemon.