Tenfifty,
Rather you would react depends on if you are sensitive or allergic to milk proteins or just the lactose and all that jazz – I don’t understand that stuff too well. But it in SCD book, a few of them had trouble with yogurt and just ate a few spoonfuls at first and worked up from there. I had no problem at all, when I ate the yogurt, it was a relief! My stomach loved it from the start.
In the past, I lived without milk products for long periods. As soon as I used a bit of milk, I'd start burping or get the hiccups like mad, then I'd begin to itch all over. For most of my life I was itchy every few seconds- somewhere on my body. It was maddening.
The first time I tried the scd yogurt I didn't have these symptoms at all, which surprised me. After a few weeks, the itching went away and my eczema went away too - except for on my hands. One day I threw away dish soap and got some dr bronners soap instead, and that went away too. I had chronic lung and sinus congestion too that came and went for years, but that also went away.
I went on the SCD diet with a bud of mine who has ulcerative colitis. We tried lots of other gimmicks before this to see what worked. Regular yogurt, the probiotic pills, coconut oil...and we compared how we felt.
On the SCD, he felt 80% healed in a few months, but he cheated like mad. I was surprised in spite of me cheating every few days on SCD, my eczema went away. So I started reading more because I figured the SCD people were onto something. Both of us recently stopped using honey and milk in coffee. (honey is allowed on scd) Before the SCD I could only use nondairy creamers.
When I started on atkins, after a few days my stomach felt all ulcer like again and I looked into why. Seems lots of people have trouble digesting the food because they don’t have the right stuff in their gut (mostly due to anti-biotic use and the like and never replenishing the good stuff) Made me wonder if this is the reason atkins really works - because people stop digesting and lose weight from it? Anyway, at that point I looked up the scd yogurt and these almond flour muffins I had lived on before and they were LC anyway- so I added them back and the symptoms went away.
And we both started taking HCL acid because of low stomach acid (seems the yogurt was like a temporary fix – it helped but it didn’t fix everything) The HCL is really helping. I'd say for the last 10 years or so my stomach felt funny a lot of the time- I blamed coffee, but found out it was the antibiotics I had taken that started the whole stomach thing; lots of my friends told me it was classic signs of an ulcer.
I believe, for me and my friend, that the SCD yogurt, almond flour muffins, HCL acid, and the coconut oil have the greatest effects. We both mulled it over, and decided we didn’t want to be part of the ‘magic pill’ generation – as he had taken fish oils and many vitamins and the like for years to no avail. We settled with finding foods that contained the things we needed – what a concept! Anyway, the only pills we both take are HCL acid and biotin.
I do not recall where I got this stuff from, but some of the things I discovered, I saved to here:
http://www.geocities.com/old_man_mosey3/bacteria1.html
I studied the bacteria for a long time before I gave up and just ate the SCD yogurt. I’m glad I gave up now, those pills were expensive and the yogurt is cheap.
Good luck Tenfifty. Don’t give up looking and experimenting and you will find what works for you.
Happy Trails!
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I just checked out the water kefir, it looks good. I check the site "ask Dr Stoll" every month or so. The people in that forum never seem to get any better, they use kefir and probiotics mostly and Dr Stoll has never read the SCD book, even tho its been suggested to him time and time again. I think that is very interesting. Of course, he has his own line of books to promote:lol
http://askwaltstollmd.com/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
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