Dotty1

So, since going grain-free, my food sensitivities began disappearing. I can now eat certain nuts without breaking out but ---- best of all ---- I ate lentils yesterday and my skin is perfect today. Usually, I should be awakening with 15 huge infections that ooz for days and my skin should start filling with blackheads. But none of this happened. My skin is fine.

I removed all legumes from my diet for 9 months to allow my immune system to calm down. According to doctors, it takes about 6 months for our bodies to desensitize itself from a food once it i removed from our diets. Indeed, my body did desensitize itself -- I don't have one pimple.

HOWEVER, 24 hours after eating plenty of lentils, I had lentil-diarrhea and cramping and gas. I'm wondering, do I possibly have an INTOLERANCE to legumes? It wouldn't surprise me one bit since I am also intolerant to grains and nightshade vegetables.

Supposedly, a food allergy or sensitivity vanishes after eliminating it for 6 months -- but a food intolerance becomes more pronounced once it is removed from the diet for 6 months and then re-introduced.

Opinions on legume intolerances vs. legume allergies?

I ate a pot full of lentils yesterday for the first time in 3 years.  Usually, any protein gives me about 15 cystic acne infections within 12 hours and -- to make matters worse -- my lips will also become so chapped within hours that they break open and bleed.  The acne on my face usually swells HUGE, oozes liquid, is swollen and sore with pus and 3,000 blackheads appear within 2 days.

After being grain-free for about 3 months now, I decided to try lentils again.   The result:   My lips have not dried up, my skin has not become inflamed and full of pus.   My skin is not red and itchy and infected.

I'm shocked at the dramatic change!

So, after going grain-free, my random food sensitivities are disappearing.

Note:  Going grain-free in general did not help me skin at all --- it was only when I removed every single TRACE of grain from my diet that I saw DRAMATIC improvement within 3 weeks.  

I must avoid:
Citric acid (corn)
Ascorbic acid (corn)
Tooth paste (glycerin, etc. = Corn)
All vitamins and supplements (they all have soy, dairy or corn in them)

I also cannot have any animal products or animal bi-products because they are fed corn and soy.  "Grass-fed" meats usually have a diet of 20% corn/soy.   There are a few sites on the Internet that sell 100% grass-fed meat, but I am a vegetarian and prefer not to eat meat.  

EGGS = I cannot eat any eggs because 98% of all chickens are fed or supplemented with a diet of corn/soy.  I tried to eat 2 eggs the other day and I had a gluten-like reaction (to the corn) in the egg.  Interestingly, I can eat my friend's eggs (she is raising them grain-free) and I am fine.

So, for me --- solving my acne was about eliminating the TINY TRACES of grain from my diet.

PS -- My skin isn't 100% clean --- its about 90% clear. 90% = There are no new active infections.  Just some clogged pores.  There is obviously something else in my diet I need to eliminate -- but for now being 90% clear due to eliminating grains is a HUGE step and I wanted to share it .

Most people who clear themselves on this forum naturally do it by removing all grains, legumes and dairy from their diet. Some find the need to eliminate all sugars too.

Coincidently, these are the four same foods that gluten-sensitive individuals must eliminate to be 100% healthy over on the Celiac forums. If they just remove wheat, barley and rye, they deal with symptoms of depression, food sensitivities and a hundred other health problems.

I just read a blog by someone who REVERSED DIABETES TYPE 1 (considered incurable) by removing grains and legumes from their diet. I don't think this is a coincidence --- nature never intended humans to eat grains and legumes and dairy and sugar in such vast quantities.

Read blog here: http://michellestype...n-free-cow.html

Here on the acne forums, we are fighting leaky gut syndrome.

In 2009, researchers discovered the protein zonulin which is responsible for intestinal permeability. Now they know that Gliadin (found in wheat) actually regulates the protein zonulin which controls intestinal permeability. Zonulin is now thought to be a protein that plays a large role in a number of autoimmune disorders.
Source: http://www.medkb.com...-and-solanacous



"Lectins and increased gut permeability

Lectins are a family of glycoproteins (a complex protein containing a
carbohydrate combined with a simple protein) found in the plant
kingdom, including grains, legumes and solanacous plants (tomatoes,
potatoes, eggplants and peppers)."
Source: http://www.medkb.com...-and-solanacous



"Gliadin up regulates zonulin (a protein expressed in gut tissue), thereby increasing gut permeability (not only in celiac patients, but also in non-Celaic patients�), which is a very important factor underlying T1D2.

Other factors that increase intestinal permeability: "This includes lectins (present in legumes and grains), saponins (found in legumes, potatoes, peppers, alfalfa sprouts, root beer, quinoa and amaranth), and alcohol."

I am being spammed by a new member who is offering to show me pictures of herself and asking me to contact her via email.   She has never made any posts on this forum before and it is obvious she is not interested in acne.  I couldn't find a "flag" button or a "report" button.

Their name is:
jenna dabor

All my life, I lost about 60-100 hairs each time I washed my hair (about every two days).  I also had terrible acne.

I am now losing about 2 hairs a day when I wash my hair (not counting how many I lose when I brush or dry my hair -- which is about 12).  It went from about 60 hairs to 2 hairs when I removed all TRACES of grains and other foods that didn't agree with my body.

This change occurred within a few weeks of cutting out my food intolerances, and staying on a strict grain-free, soy-free, legume-free, chocolate-free, sugar-free, nightshade-free diet.

I did add rice back into my diet a month ago and the next day I began losing 100 hairs again.  Another time I tried taking a vitamin with corn in it and lost 120 hairs in the shower the next day.   Two weeks ago I ate some raw cocoa (a common cross-reactor for those who are gluten sensitive) and I lost about 60 hairs in the shower.

Now that I have been VERY strict on this diet for 1 month now, my skin also has improved by 80% -- each day I awaken to notice more improvement.

I actually now USE MY HAIR LOSS as a indicator about whether or not a new food agrees with my body.  I lose a lot of hair when even TRACE amounts of grains are in my diet -- such as vitamins with starch from grains.  

So those of you with long or medium hair, take a rough count of your hair loss every day in the shower.  When you get all the unhealthy foods out of your diet, you will notice a dramatic reduction in hair loss.


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Interesting things I have learned:
The Gluten-Free Society says that about 45% of Celiacs are completely grain-intolerant (there is gluten in all grains).

Quite a few researchers believe that 10% (or more!) of the population maybe sensitive or intolerant to the gluten in grain.

People with Celiac Disease frequently are intolerant to soy, corn, dairy, and chocolate and nightshade vegetables and don't know it.  You must remove these foods from your diet for 3 months and then retest them.