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disappeared. This should encourage you. However – and this is important –
I do not recommend that you try food tests for at least a month. Try instead
to continue on the elimination step for that length of time, eat well and
stay well. The risk in testing foods is that you inadvertently trip a craving
reaction and you are driven back to the bottle. So soon off it, you may find
this too much to handle. It is better to improve your general condition with
safe eating, rest and vitamins for as long as you can stand it. Some people have
been on the Stone Age diet for years, so it isn’t impossible – it only seems
that way at first!
Alcoholics attending my office were surprised (and
delighted) I did not make coming off a condition of
treatment. In fact the opposite: I tried to ensure the
patient was ready for the big step first. I would get him to
eat well and take plenty of nutrients, to repair some of the
damage. Then, using office test procedures, I established
the main allergens and then banned those one by one.
If you want to do something similar, you could
arrange a cytotoxic food allergy test, which can be done
by sending away blood. The method is not 100% accurate,
by any means, but is better than no information at all.
The Internet is a rich resource for finding laboratories
that supply this service (ignore the laughable and bigoted
website called Quack Watch that comes up on Google).Diabetics
Many cases of diabetes turn out to be due to food allergies. It is even possible
in some cases to conquer the disease so fully that insulin injections may be
dispensed with. The dietary type, managed with hypoglycemic drugs such
as glibenclamide (Diabeta®, Glynase® and Micronase®), should certainly
respond well. Nevertheless, it is important to take care when approaching
this condition with alterations in diet. If you suddenly remove a lot of
carbohydrate food from your eating (which, in effect, the elimination diet
does) you could find yourself in difficulties: in other words, suffering from
hypoglycemia attacks in which you could fall unconscious. This is especially
true of patients taking insulin, unless the dose is reduced in accordance with
the drop in carbohydrate intake.