Breakfast of Supplements

I had a great deal of hope for the McDougall diet, and as well as I was able to follow it, it worked like a charm.  I lost weight. the GERD was diminished and I felt great. The only problem was the flatulence.  In great quantity.  Magnificently putrid. It would keep my wife awake at night, and when I didn't eat, it would diminish. I realized that I had a problem.

I only know what drugs do to me, and for a while I was on Meloxicam, a powerful NSAID, for my continuing neck pain, and Pilosec for GERD. The Meloxicam caused food to taste funny, and eventually caused stomach pain.  The Pilosec cause similar problems with a great deal of intestinal pain.  I had to stop taking them. In a fit of understandable frustration and in search of some panacea, I came across Dr. McDougal MD on YouTube.  The basic idea is to eat a starchy, all vegetable diet, and although I'm a diabetic, and half of my rational mind was telling me it was all BS, I was frustrated with GERD, so I went ahead and eliminated 98% of the fats in my diet and started eating whole grains and things such as sweet potatoes.  I tried, and eventually failed, to stay away from modern wheat because of its bad reputation.   At least initially, I stuck to traditional grains such as barley and short grain brown rice, because I like the way it makes my stomach feel aft...

I've had diabetes for the last 22 years, and it's a bit hard to remember all the drugs I have been on, but I have finally rid myself of them. In 2009 I developed cancer, and the drugs that I took for the pain from the complications of the cancer almost killed me.  If you have drugs that suppress the mid-brain,  you will perhaps not breathe while you sleep and have further complications.  I had some weight issues that probably helped the sleep apnea, but the drugs were the primary problem. I was taking Zonisamide at 400 mg per evening, and enough Gabapentin to kill a horse.  Both work on the mid-brain to help you sleep. Or kill you, whichever comes first. One of my many tumors was in my neck, and caused headaches.  It had also eaten into my C2 vertebra and almost made it into my spinal canal. In which case I would have been long gone by now. The long muscle at the back of my neck bowed out, and my doctor mis-diagnosed the problem which is both why I w...