Oddbean new post about login | logout i'm always flirting with problems with this allergy i have mostly i get away with it but then on occasions i get the rash and on rarer occasions i get this many-days-long bronchoconstriction salbutamol and salmeterol both open up the tubes but the first remedy i found when it hit me hard in prison in 2014 was caffeine that's all i have around me right now i think cannabis can help, at least some varieties, but others not so much the escalation of this issue was part of the reason why i stopped smoking a little over a year ago finally permanently my hostility towards the medical/food industrial complex is rooted in this allergy, and it predates this severe problem i have now, as i on and off had mild issues for a long time note that i spent a couple of years homeless, and during the sometimes several month long periods that i was completely without support and scraping for food and eventually started begging, my health was better... even though a lot of the time i was eating bread, the most common thing for me to find left out to feed people like me the thing was i didn't eat very much, i was some days starving most of the day but for a few bites anyway, writing this because i'm drinking an espresso to calm this down and standing up is less suffocating feeling than laying down trying to sleep
Going carnivore has eliminated all my rashes, allergies, asthma symptoms, hypothyroidism symptoms, and other issues I didn't even know were issues until they were resolved through this WOE. I can't recommend the carnivore WOE highly enough.
yeah... this is why i want to get out of europe, it's really hard to find any place where you can get actual beef, or any other meat products that aren't laced with nitrites and preservatives and wheat and miscellaneous toxic bullshit... and fed on grain itself... i can smell it on most of the meat that it's being fed on wheat or corn or whatever grass fed is so much different taste, like real fucking food that's how i keep on falling down on this, and why i don't plan to be here in 6 months time, hell if someone said "i have a place you can stay and work right now and get raw milk and beef" i'd be like "tomorrow or the next day?"
Argentina?
i wouldn't say no if someone was offering but no, i have midwest in mind... colorado/wyoming/montana reminds me, that argentina finally has someone who is actually dialing back government, that's a plus also, on top of it being beef country
one of my colleagues at my job with dusk.network was from there and it sounded pretty awful 2 years ago
There are limited grass-fed options here, true, but grain-fed is still good. Find a local butcher if you can, and go for it. Grass fed is like the ultimate superfood. Grain fed is lagging behind (though it can have nice marbling), but both are well ahead of anything else you can have in terms of nutrition and health.
you are from former yugoslavia country right? there is a lot more actual beef there than anywhere else on the continent... you can also find it in the UK, but outside of yugoslavia, basically if EU then VEAL the butcher in the supermarket in Sarajevo had mainly beef... yes, probably because muslim, one of the benefits of islam lol veal... and on top, grain fed, feedlot. is worse than typical pork... the only form of beef available to me is frozen hamburger patties, and supposedly over the other side of the island, which is hard to get to, 40 euros each way by taxi, there is one or two butchers that actually have proper 18 month+ beef... i have never actually seen it anywhere in my year here so far yeah, i'm going where i can easily find beef, preferably to beef country in fact, preferably somewhere that people actually understand the difference it's literally such a destruction of my quality of life to not be able to eat proper meat, this is the situation for most euro-peons at this point there's lots of other things going on but the ruling class of europe seems to be most intent of all the things it is doing , aside from raising taxes even further, is starving people of actual beef and mutton
That's a rough situation. I'd try doing poultry, fish, oysters, and butter. And pork's good if you don't follow those religious traditions. Some places might even have goat and lamb, those are also good, but sometimes a bit too lean for my taste. Same with wild animals. While beef is always best, other meats are OK in its absence, then eggs, cheeses, milk. All of these are much better than other supermarket foods, and absolutely superior to salbutamol and salmeterol, as well as cannabis - and I believe limiting your meals to whatever animal sourced foods you can get will likely resolve your symptoms. And you're correct, I'm from Croatia. We have solid beef here. We even have grass fed, but I'd have to travel to Zagreb to get it. The butcher there says there's plenty demand, but very few producers. I imagine they're being taxed into oblivion at the behest of the EU overlords and unelected bodies that would have us eat crickets instead.
yeah, oof man i hate those misanthropic massmurdering sumbiches ... that's my point, they are doing it to have people suffer and die also i've never really been to croatia, passed through a few times going to Bosnia but that was it, always had a bad impression about it... i think it's the most "conformant" for EU standards? you see the odd bit of EU bullshit around bosnia and serbia but they don't really seem to have control of the people so much or the favour of these gods
Most conformant of the Balkan nations, yes. I disliked the EU from the outset as well, even voted against joining. But in a democracy you get only what the majority wants, so here I am making the best I can to separate myself and my family from that crap.
the thing is the EU isn't embargoing them like they are with everyone else except bulgaria and slovenia "too corrupt" is the cover story. lol more like the people in the government won't even comply
I have no doubt they are corrupt in their own way, but when the EU says it it usually means they won't bend over. Our government is all too happy to do that so the EU doesn't mind turning a blind eye to the corruption, I guess. At least on occasion.
the EU is far more corrupt than any of yugoslavia was even at its worst some might say "but Tito had his enemies assassinated, something something ethnic cleansing, Milosevic" but how many people are dying or living hellish lives even just due to the one thing of EU food regulations and additive approvals... or how unified they were in pushing Phizer et al's poison i think the corruption is worse because it's less obvious
Man, I really feel for you. 🫂
I have had allergies to mould, dust mite and grass for years. For a long time I thought it was wheat and dairy, but those things seem to just exasperate rather than be the cause. If you can afford it I recommend desensitisation treatment. It had reduced my symptoms significantly. Interesting to hear about the fasting (starving in your case) this is something I need to look into.
i'd be almost certain that you actually have a food allergy but like me, normally it seems like you can get away with it but then when these other allergens get bad the whole immune system goes into panic mode and the anaphylaxis and inflammation kicks in mine is celiac but there are other specific allergies, egg, milk, salicylates (tomatoes, capsicum) i think brassicas can cause allergies too i know mine is celiac because i also get dermatitis herpeteformis, which is a rash i get around my elbows, hands and sometimes feet, that resembles toad skin or herpes, even when it's scratched, which you do because it's itchy as hell, and no, calamine doesn't calm it down, it also leaks yellow mucus when you bust up the skin, it is something to do with the pores... i only just realised that this skin problem was actually a symptom of celiac like last month... what happens is when the primary allergy flares up from too much intake of the allergen, this triggers autoimmune reactions of other kinds as well, like when i first got the severe bronchoconstriction from the celiac back in 2014, i also had additional reactions to especially brown rice (not so bad to rice), to cucumber, watermelon, onion, garlic, tomatoes, capsicum, and even milk, but normally i tolerate all of those things well... and yes, dust and pollens also contribute, and i think maybe that what might normally not trigger the food reaction, when in combination with several others, like lesser allergens, egg, milk, pollen, etc it is basically impossible to identify exactly what it is without doing elimination and i did that back then and found that the only things that didn't trigger it were meat and potatoes, and sausages, which are meat and potatoes anyhow, fasting is the number one thing to do to get it to go away... once the gut clears after 3 days, it also resets your metabolism and the immune system settles down with nothing continuing to irritate it stuff we eat hangs around in our bodies for about this long typically, in the mouth, in the throat, in the intestines, if it sticks to or gets lodged in cracks and crannies it will continue to irritate until it's mostly eaten by bacteria or washed away
Have you been tested for celiac? That's an auto immune disease.
i get dermatitis herpeteformis, and i have chronic diarrhea, a diet high in bread for 7 months while in prison led to the development of chronic bronchoconstriction (basically anaphylaxis) I get about half of these uncommon symptoms as well: However, more than half the adults with celiac disease have symptoms that are not related to the digestive system, including: Anemia, usually from iron deficiency due to decreased iron absorption. Loss of bone density, called osteoporosis, or softening of bones, called osteomalacia. Itchy, blistery skin rash, called dermatitis herpetiformis. Mouth ulcers. Headaches and fatigue. Nervous system injury, including numbness and tingling in the feet and hands, possible problems with balance, and cognitive impairment. Joint pain. Reduced functioning of the spleen, known as hyposplenism. Elevated liver enzymes. i know my bones are weaker than normal, i get joint pain, the dermatitis, fatigue, numbness and tingling in the hands and feet, balance problems, i was tested by an impulse response test while i was in New Zealand that said i had severe impulse control and attention deficit, i also got tested at a sleep lab, overnight test, and a day test, and when i saw the neurologist he was ready to prescribe me ritalin or dexamphetamine, both of which i'd tried previously and were causing severe side effects i'm 48 now and several of the secondary problems that can come from this not being properly treated also... the numbness and tingling are actually part of a complex of issues related to sugar metabolism as well, and i now get cramps in my lower legs and hands i sure as fuck would like to get it treated but literally that means eating grass fed beef and raw milk and living in the country lol... can be tricky to organise, i'm working on it
After about 25 years longer than you with almost all the symptoms you mention, I came to realize that the base issue is inflammation and that it works like a chain reaction with feedback. Food, infection, etc can start inflammation anywhere then inflammatory agents spread everywhere increasing the likelihood that other areas enter the inflammatory state. The feedback occurs because the overall inflammatory state of the whole system increases the inflammation of the original trigger as well. Nasty stuff. Its a self-perpetuating cycle, difficult to stop by eating better etc. After years of it I found the best way is to clamp down hard on it with antiinflammatories for a few days, then ease up slowly (for your kidneys' sake). Years ago I started with steroids and I was amazed how effective they were but long-term use was advised against. Recently I found etoricoxib (90mg/day until the inflammation levels reset - its very noticeable, then slow down until early symptoms appear again (mine are usually the joint pains). I'm down to 90mg every month on average to stop that chain reaction starting as needed. Do you have gastric reflux too? I was surprised when the antiinflammatories helped there too. Are you discussing this somewhere? I'm thinking the toe tingling, numbness and calf cramps are real damage beyond the inflammatory cause - its not getting worse now, but other than that it doesn't seem to be improved by antiinflammatories Specialists over 30 years or so have been quite useless in my case.
yeah, it's celiac though, the list of symptoms matches up perfectly secondary problems have developed due to the inflammation and digestion problems, especially potassium deficiency and magnesium deficiency i get ZERO benefit from any kind of steroids, the only thing that stops the asthma is stopping the allergens, that's mainly wheat, but i guess this particular kind of eggs here are now in the same basket several of these problems diminished a lot when i was on a milk diet, but the neuropathy started to get worse and i put on a lot of weight i only get reflux from eating certain kinds of foods... which are probably gluten or seed oil containing in most cases in any case, once a gain 🤦♂️ yes the eggs, i already figured this one out like 4 months ago and here i am again, forgotten again fasting and beef and no wheat or eggs all will probably help... cannabis helps stop the cramps but i was only taking CBD/HHC stuff, which was sorta half working for a few days and then stopped wolking so much
Etoricoxib is a non-steroidal antiinflammatory. Worth a try at least. I guess my basic thesis is that you won't easily stop this feedback cycle so easily by reducing the triggers and you really need to clamp down on it to get a new base to work on.
well, that's why i want to go for the raw milk/grass fed beef this has just reminded me yet again that i can't tolerate standard EU regulated eggs, has to be legit free range or nothing i'm cooking regularly with beef tallow now, and i am sure it is helping, and as for inflammation, i'm taking MSM and also spraying 60% DMSO with magnesium chloride in it they both are reducing the cramping problem... it was just the eggs, it crept up on me, takes about 1-2 weeks of daily eating these eggs before it starts probably if i would actually cut out seed oil fried potato chips that would help a lot, Jack Kruse specifically says that carb foods cooked in canola/sunflower shit have acrylamide in them which contributes to peripheral neuropathy he also mentions in one text i got about it that the standard treatments are antinflammatories and painkillers and both long term are making you sicker than eliminating these things nah, i'm making some progress, really, the MSM is definitely a step forward, i've got more energy now and everything, it's a natural antiinflammatory, and the DMSO is both opening up the peripheral circulation and putting magnesium there in the muscles that are having problems depolarising, which is partly due to the nerves but partly due to low potassium and magnesium levels just have to keep the eggs out of the diet, i'm too nervous about it at this point to even try, if i can even find them, free range, i just don't trust these EU farmers at all, they keep on pandering to brussells and the amount of sickness it is causing just keeps getting worse every year
eat liver vitamin A probably. it's an anti inflammatory vitamin, and liver has the good kind your body can process well and a bunch of other useful things. allergies are cured by exposure to the allergen but your body doesn't have high inflammation vitamin a will reduce inflammation vitamin d also reduces inflammation (sunlight) selenium helps your immune system recycle it's immune cells faster, and liver has a lot of that as well (among b vitamins and even some antioxidants, proteins you might be lacking)
the most strange thing about the reaction i'm having at the moment is different than normal the bronchoconstriction is not really bad, like, if my first time at it in 2014 with the severe reaction from wheat/celiac, was 10, then this is like 6 but what is really irritating is my eyes, i feel like i've been touching a cat and then touched my eyes... which i actually did do a bit in recent weeks, even 3 days ago, but it's like it's just hanging around and isn't dissipating... my eyes feel like salty sandpaper it may have something to do with the DMSO i have been using... perhaps it has exacerbated the problem with stuff going deeper into my skin and in this case my eyeballs nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqnyqqft6tz9g9pyaqjvp0s4a4tvcfvj6gkke7mddvmj86w68uwe0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzamhxue69uhk6mr9dd6jumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqyz8cdyveajlamxmar3uxn4ufk6jamqtgf7a0dcy5s6562wecp2klzsu8c9w
yeah, fasting and sunshine really are two helpful things but sunshine - too much reduces immune function, as does too much exercise... i've probably also added to my problem with my outing the day before yesterday, was outside for like 4 hours, walking and riding a bike