Breakfast of Supplements

It is so difficult to remove starch and sugar from my diet.  I did manage to remove enough so the hives don't itch so much, but I still see the blossoming red markers. Today I decided to make my special green goo:  I used reverse osmosis water (I'm taking an MSM pill and MSM combines with chlorine); I add about 35 grams of protein and a couple of grams of spirulina; some spices which change based on my mood, tomato paste, garlic paste and just a bit of coconut oil. I have to be careful of coconut oil, since if I take too much over several weeks, my blood pressure will go up. So I had a minor flair up today, but I only noticed it this afternoon because I took a shower and looked in the mirror.   Besides, I don't know how much was leftover from yesterday. Twice, I had the green goo, and then when I made dinner, I put some vegetables (spinach, onion and green onion, mushrooms and green & red peppers) in water and boiled it before adding protein, spirulina, s...

In an effort to rid myself of hives , I've changed my diet from a starch heavy, protein light diet to a protein heavy starch light diet.  At first it wasn't easy, since I wasn't used to it.  Starting the day with a protein smoothie, I would later have some oatmeal. I had been eating oatmeal (with dates or maple syrup), crackers throughout the day, later in the day some crackers with blackberry preserves and more recently bread. Initially, I stopped putting sweet stuff on my oatmeal, and just added salt.  Then I started adding protein powder to my soups. I was surprised at how good the protein made me feel.  I thought, from watching medical people discuss protein on You Tube that I was getting enough, and I was wrong because I could feel it. I had to order more protein and it took a while to arrive, so I purchased some at Whole Foods. It took a week to go through my first pound, I ordered more from Nuts.com because they have relatively inexpensive organic pe...

I've had great success with clearing my arteries with my version of the Esselstyn diet.  But I developed a terrible condition of hives.  Bright red welts would show up and sometimes they would be painful. I noticed a relationship with eating starches and the welts, the welts followed my meals, although sometimes the welts wouldn't be gone by the next morning. I hypothesized that some little microorganism in my gut was producing something that I was allergic to a few hours after I ate.  This seemed especially problematic when Mary and I were on trips and we would eat in restaurants. On our trip to Wrightsville Beach it became painful. What to do? Initially, I tried intermittent fasting, and that helped a little, but my diet was basically whole grain starches, potatoes and a variety of vegetables mixed in.  I would start the day with oatmeal and then had one or more bowls of soup prepared fresh with it's mixture of potatoes, grains and beans mixed with spina...