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How to End an Elimination Diet Correctly

 First of all, congratulation to all who were brave and persistent enough to keep the elimination diet based on FoodPrint  intolerance  test (more accurately - IgG allergy test).

Some of you experienced results almost immediately, and it was easier to keep the diet if health improvements were evident. Many needed to combine it with other type of "diets", eliminating both food and non-food personal „kryptonites“. Maybe some had no visible improvement. As a consequence, it is harder to believe that food is connected to a specific health problem. If the latter is the case, please remember that IgG allergy is only one piece of puzzle. It is only one part of complex and highly individual gut-healing Protocol 4R (or 5R).

In all cases, whether improvement has been noticed or not, keeping this test-based elimination diet has had a positive influence on health. Giving a long-needed break to overloaded immunity - by lowering overall inflammation mechanisms - it created more space for healing. Rather than being occupied by daily fights with incoming allergens, the immune system could use the spare energy for regeneration and repair. For many people, this could mean lowering general pain and discomfort.

The recommended time for an elimination diet is 3-4 months but what’s going to happen next - coming off the diet - is no less important.

Many make the crucial mistake of jumping off the diet suddenly and „treating“ themselves to a good portion of „forbidden“ food. Be it a whole slice of (wheat) bread, cake or a pot of ice cream. If this is how you ended the diet, it is possible it was, unfortunately, a waste of time. By the sudden introduction of your „kryptonite“ food, and before making sure the gut is healed and sealed, you’re risking not only a bad reaction to given food but also continuing inflammation and/or leaky gut syndrome.

Please do not waste your time and £££ testing for IgG allergy if you’re not going to do it right. Bad rep to these diets and lab tests often come from people who treat this diet as a simple black&white list. Always try to find practitioners who can take you through the complete functional medicine „Protocol 4R“. This protocol may take several months or even years, depending on your situation and the level of ill health. Be patient. Quick fixes by a straightforward elimination diet may work fine for those reasonably healthy, but symptoms may creep back slowly.

Coming off the diet

 

1. Do not stop the diet abruptly. Do not eat a whole portion of previously eliminated food. Go slowly.

2. Make sure the gut is healed and sealed, ready to take on the allergen. You can test this directly by a special test for gut permeability or indirectly - by repeating the FoodPrint (or another IgG test), to show the level of improvement.

3. Forget the first three foods on the list, which scored the highest, at least for another couple of months. This is often very difficult for many people as it involves wheat and/or gluten, soy, egg and dairy. Unfortunately, 90% of the cheapest and most accessible foods contain one of these four ingredients. Read the labels.

4. Start with the least reactive foods on the list (orange colour and lowest in red). Introduce them in small amounts, no more than 1-2x per week. Do it as if you were introducing new foods to a baby - no more than a small bite or one leveled teaspoon.

5. Rotate. Do not eat any of the listed food daily. For example, if you had oats (porridge, oatcakes etc.) on Monday and Tuesday, avoid them for 3-4 days.

Considering our genetics (how our ancestors lived), eating simple meals, ideally up to 10 ingredients daily and rotating them over time is what a varied diet should look like. Our ancestors did not have a massive variety over a day or week but changed diets with seasons. Possibly the only exception were days of feasts, only a few times per year.

Introducing the most problematic foods

When your health or symptoms improve enough, after a year or even two, you may wish to re-introduce the most common and potent allergens:  gluten, eggs, dairy, nuts and soy.

Think about why they are the worst offenders and if, in your case, it is worth eating them at all. Double check the IgG test, coeliac panel Cyrex Array3 or true IgE allergy.

Moreover, gluten is a thyrotoxin and tissue mimicker, causing problems even if none of these tests show any positives. Too much soy interferes with thyroid function, a well-known goitrogen, and most of it is GMO.

Gluten and grains - make a homemade bone broth soup into which you add some grains as pasta. Do not eat pasta at first when having this soup. Small amounts of gluten protein will be released into the liquid. Bone broth helps to heal your intestinal lining. The effect of re-introduced gluten will hopefully be dampened down. Another way is to start buying porridge oats that are not gluten-free certified and, are usually contaminated with few grains of wheat or barley. Choose organic if you can.

Dairy – a good way to start is with butter (goat or cow) and fermented dairy products. Try organic homemade sour whey, quark (soft cheese) or a teaspoon of coconut-dairy culture mixed yogurt. Hard cheeses only as few strands of grated cheese at first, no more! Probably the best way of introducing dairy protein is in the form of colostrum supplement, which can seal your gut very quickly. It's the original function of colostrum to do just that in newborns!

Egg – split the white and yolk, depending on your needs. If you tested for both, introduce both but in tiny amounts. Start introducing an egg that is not highly denatured (such as happens after baking). Try soft-boiled or a scrambled egg made for another family member. Have only 1-2 teaspoons at first and only once per week.

How to prevent new food sensitivities

Eat a varied diet (see above what I mean by it) by rotating all foods weekly or seasonally, specifically those previously tested positive.

Do not eat the same foods and food ingredients every day, all day.

The biggest concern is the presence of highly reactive and pro-inflammatory gluten, wheat & other grains, denatured powdered egg, dairy and soy. Most of these can be hidden, including „health foods“. This includes vegan or vegetarian meat imitations, some made of pure gluten, some of pure soy, or Fusarium mold. Frightful! Cheap processed meat can also be filled with wheat and soy flour, as well as ready-made meals, cakes, bars, non-dairy replacements and sauces. Another bad example is snacking on a whole bag of nuts at once.

 

Troubleshooting

Remember that your immune-based sensitivity to food (by forming IgG antibodies) is only one type of body reaction to food.

If you test IgG positive, then correctly proceed through the elimination diet, and if nothing improves, you have to dig deeper. There can be several other reasons:

1.True allergy to foods - shows as an increase of IgE (not IgG) antibodies.

2.Environmental reactions. Both IgE and IgG can develop towards chemicals hidden in food, every-day cosmetics, cleaning products or even environmental dust (biotoxins - pollen, mites, molds and their mycotoxins – this is sometimes called the sick building syndrome). 

3.Enzymatic insufficiency-based intolerance to foods (such as lactose or histamine). This deficit of enzymes can be natural, such as losing tolerance to milk sugar lactose in adulthood. Another example is dysbiosis-induced fructose malabsorption (or wider FODMAP malabsorption).

4.Reactions to lectins such as WGA, solanin, salicylates or other plant-protecting phytochemicals.

5.Cross-reactions. Both IgE and IgG-tested foods/items can have several other cross-reacting pals. For example, if you don’t eat buckwheat but tested positive for all other grains, you are likely to react to buckwheat, too (even if test does not show it). Cross-reactions must be taken more seriously when dealing with autoimmunity, and this stricter version of an elimination diet is called AIP = autoimmune protocol.

The Allergic Epidemic (Biocare)

https://www.biocare.co.uk/news/the-allergic-epidemic.html?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Allergy%20blog

How to make better (food) choices

This is not just about food. We have to make tens or hundreds tiny choices daily and only some of them directly relate to our food.

Yet in larger context, the food is the driving force behind the way we live.

What do we listen to when asking internal questions? Is it our logic or knowledge (our mind)? Is it our heart or our emotion (ego?), craving? Is it our experience? Traditions? Or we call our friend? Do we ask questions at all? Or do we just run an automatic pre-recorded “tape” of our life?

My clients are clever and intelligent people and already understand what good food means today. After 3 months of coaching they have even better understanding and motivation. Do they always choose good food? No.

Do I always choose to eat well? No.

Sometimes it’s a choice between ‘eating bad’ or ‘not eating’. The ‘not eating’ part is becoming popular through movement of Paleo and intermittent fasting. The ‘not eating’ part has always been embedded in our culture and is practised to some extent in nations who take fasting periods of year seriously. It takes time to re-learn this ‘not eating’ part… or should I say 'un-learn' the way we eat today? There are several stages to grow through, before fasting becomes easy, natural and won’t cause more harm than good. Please always seek advice from sources you trust.

What makes us to choose wrong food is not completely up to us. Many times we just don’t know what’s inside that meal. If the packaging says "healthy", "natural" or "good for you" it means absolutely nothing! If it has NO packaging, there is a better chance this food is fine. Much like some houses – they have attractive front cover, layer of new paint, or solid entrance gate, but rooms can be uninviting, cold and full of toxic air and mould.

Much too often we end up hungry in places or situations we have no choice. We cannot always carry a suitcase of food with us.  Do not stress if there is no choice.

Frustration can weaken digestion and make it all even worse. Look at the situation as an experiment, if you are really hungry and have no allergies, try again your old fast food. Observe your reactions and feelings of well-being days after.  Do you feel slightly unwell, crampy, forgetful or irritated...? It might be a good sign your body is clean enough to sense what's bad for it! Next time, be better prepared, seek different solutions.

If we do have various choices (as we mostly do), it should be a huge celebration and reason for happiness and feelings of resource abundance. By the way - did you know that feelings of 'resource abundance' is one of the mechanisms to increase gut serotonin, hence the gut motility to prevent constipation?

Embrace the situation when the choice is wide and do the best you can.

Why choose food wrapped up in plastic if we can have it without? Less waste, less estrogenic plasticisers, less wrong kind of bacteria. Why choose drinks in plastic PET bottle if we can filter tap water and add lemon, put it into glass or steel bottle, or even drink directly from the spring. Why choose boxes of industrially made flavoured snacks, if the aisles (or markets) are full of fresh vegetables, fruit, whole nuts, some of it organic and some even local and seasonal. Why to spray our home with toxic “air fresheners” and our bodies with toxic perfumes if we can open window or use few drops of pure essential oils diluted in suitable base, for whatever use we need.

Celebrate your freedom of choice, and uniqueness of your ideal diet and lifestyle.

We all have slightly different needs and we should be proud and free to ask for it. If the people around do not understand yet, we have an opportunity (and calling) to become creative and have our small mission in this world. We can show others a different way of life, be an example, or try to explain, if they care... Or we can learn to ignore the situation or even leave such place if it becomes too detrimental and people are just not ready. This may be very hard decision at first but the good side of any crisis is that it can bring us to those who vibrate on similar frequency. Such move can change our life and make us happier and healthier.

ME/CFS - What helped my fatigue

 
For the latest RESOURCES on ME/CFS please look here


This is an updated blog (Dec. 2015, Jan. 2016)  from January 2015.

An article published in October 2014 in Stanford Medicine News Center talks about the research which claims that the brains of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have white matter abnormalities in the right hemisphere of their brain, comparing to healthy people or people without CFS.

“CFS is one of the greatest scientific and medical challenges of our time,” said the study’s senior author, Jose Montoya, MD, professor of infectious diseases and geographic medicine.

“Its symptoms often include not only overwhelming fatigue but also joint and muscle pain, incapacitating headaches, food intolerance, sore throat, enlargement of the lymph nodes, gastrointestinal problems, abnormal blood-pressure and heart-rate events, and hypersensitivity to light, noise or other sensations.”

The combination of symptoms can devastate a patient’s life for 10, 20 or even 30 years, said Montoya, who has been following 200 CFS patients for several years in an effort to identify the syndrome’s underlying mechanisms. He hopes to accelerate the development of more-effective treatments than exist now.

Read the full article here and please come back to this blog to learn about the other interesting, newly found specific biomarker for CFS ↓ ↓ ↓ 

There is another new, well referenced article on Medscape (free registration needed to view) called ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Wrong Name, Real Illness’. In the article, the author Miriam E. Tucker briefly mentions details about CFS/ME definition, problematic process of the diagnoses and the still poor acceptance of CFS as a real illness, meaning with no underlying psychological or psychosomatic problem as primary reason for CFS development.

Open Medicine Institute founder and director Andreas M. Kogelnik, MD, told Medscape Medical News:

"In medicine, we tend to like the one-answer solutions.

We're great at diagnosing things that have one problem, like a clogged artery.

What we're really bad at are complex diseases that have a systemic issue going wrong.

With ME/CFS it's the whole system that's broken down, so there may not be one pill to cure everybody.

It's more a matter of figuring out the imbalance in the system. We're not good at thinking that way in medicine. I think that's something that we need to change, particularly around this disease."

"People do think it's a spectrum of disease. We've settled on that it's an immune-related disorder, and there is potentially a subset that's autoimmune, a subset that's viraly triggered, a chronic viral infection, and perhaps other triggers or stressors... People are still kicking around whether it's autoimmune or chronic low-grade infection."

 
I was diagnosed in 2009 and offered next to no help from the medical profession. I had no other choice than to embrace what was happening to me and face it with tools I had. Not to fight it, as many like to call the process of healing. There was NO energy to fight anything. There was only stillness, peace and falling to the bottom in order to rebound up again. This has repeated several times but with less and less intensity until I was finally able to leave my bedroom...

I wish there was at least the knowledge available, we have today - please refer to my latest resources (in case you read this in far future :) or directly to the article based on  Dr. Robert Naviaux research and elegantly written by Veronique Mead, MD.


Early on in my journey during the "dark ages" I was, however,  intrigued to read a study comparing biological markers of CFS and non-CFS groups after exercise.

CFS group had clearly shown POST-EXERTIONAL FATIGUE (fatigue after exercise). 

This is a very objective marker and may be the only marker easily measured or observed, especially in those patients, who’re already managing other symptoms of CFS - often "the part under initials ME",  mainly involving muscle pain.
 
The common picture of CFS person is healthy on the outside and according to commonly provided blood tests. There is no visible disability, while the truth is, unfortunately, very different on the inside.

Here is a list of markers tested positive in high number of CSF patients, not found to be common in non-CFS people (references included in the original article) :


1. DIFFERENT RESPONSE TO EXERCISE

a) Significantly reduced oxygen consumption in CFS after a treadmill test

b) Altered gene expression following moderate exercise


2. BILATERAL WHITE MATTER ATROPHY IN BRAIN

a) Significant decrease in NK-cell cytotoxic activity & increased level of pro-inflammatory cytokines

b) Significant elevation of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (linked to Epstein-Barr virus) among patients 66 – 99 years old

c) High positivity of CFS patients for enterovirus viral capsid protein 1.




PLEASE NOTE - IMPORTANT

I AM GOING TO SHARE WHAT HELPED IN MY CASE BUT REMEMBER WE ARE ALL SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT AND THERE IS NO SAME PROTOCOL FOR TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
I WILL BE HAPPY TO MAKE YOUR INDIVIDUAL PLAN DURING THE COACHING AND THIS CAN BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO WHAT IS WRITTEN NEXT!!

BACKGROUNG OF MY TYPE ME/CFS:  
direct post-viral onset
chronic stress-induced
including chemical stress (exposure to carpet glue, long term daily to naphtalenes, terphenyls and ACH)
including noise stress @ work
living in several mold-damaged houses
many tick bites over years but negative Borrelia test
amalgam fillings 
sensitive to artificial light (and EMF?) from childhood
suspect and family history of Aspergers

After researching the subject of EMF sensitivity and HSP (hyper-sensitive person syndrome), this could be caused by:

1) heavy metal burden (such as mercury amalgam in teeth & wearing metal spectacles - giving pain around jaws & ears)

2) over-reaction of brain & nervous system to certain combination of outside stressors, i.e EMF + noise + artificial light + air pollution + toxins (palpitations)

3) feeling of overwhelm due to low hormones such as adrenaline (difficulty to sit/stand upright) due to "exhausted" or inflamed adrenals (please see UPDATE ON CDR in ATP)


4) environmental burden on detoxification pathways (fume exhausts, mycotoxins and GMO as the most likely causes) increasing demand on immune system

Obviously, trying to sort out my problem, I’ve done some interesting reading over the past years in the field of nutrition, functional medicine, quantum medicine and traditional medicine such as Chinese. This became the primary focus of my life, my adventure, hobby and my profession. I always knew there was something else going on. Some specialists suspected a virus or bacteria hidden in the deep tissues, some blamed heavy metal burden from the industry or dental work, autoimmune condition destroying our mitochondria or adrenals, causing inflammation in the brain. Many blamed adrenal exhaustion (correctly HPA dysfunction) as a cause of CFS but why this happened in the first place was always a bit of mystery.

On my journey I’ve done numerous experiments with foods, supplements, balneotherapy, altitude therapy and other treatments. Here is the list of things which worked for me and made a VISIBLE STEPS FORWARD in overcoming fatigue and "giving" more energy:

1) Nutrition

Very early on my journey, clearing my diet from junk, sugar, dairy, gluten, synthetic chemicals & adding "tons" of minerals, vitamins and phytonutrients, helped with better focus, clearer thinking, better concentration, all sorts of pains, occupational & sport induced Carpal tunnel, digestive problems & constipation, sleep, hay fever, dealing with stress, bringing more calm, quality of skin & hair.

2) Royal jelly and Seagreens

Fresh royal jelly from my home country and clean sea vegetables from UK company Seagreens were first ‘remedies’ to give me a visible long lasting ‘energy kick’.

3) Raw home-made cheeses, whey soup & bone broth

After many years of being nearly vegetarian and vegan (wrong!?), I introduced dairy foods, trying to find as clean and organic sources as possible. These helped to raise my hormones and feel much more energetic and alive!  I had to watch the amount first, as it happens after a period of eating dairy & meat, there may be increase in symptoms of oestrogen dominance, inflammation, sinus congestion and histamine intolerance (cheese!). Some pains can creep slowly back, with more animal or allergenic foods introduced, so the BALANCE is the answer.

Savoury whey soup (unfortunately only available to make from the fresh, raw milk), brings up feelings of calm even during extremely stressful occasions (such as travel) and also helps, not surprisingly, with digestive issues.  This can be literally instant! I have not found any replacement so far, in form of any supplement for this "fresh savoury" whey liquid, we get in large amounts as a by-product when making  traditional quark in Slovak households. Most of it goes to animals, cats, pigs or even down the drain...!

Bone broth  - the more often I have it, the better I feel, it is also our traditional soup.  Surprise surprise. It was amazing to watch how, during the last decade, this food was "discovered" by health community here in western countries.

4) Limcomin (more rest & less stress)

This is a supplement from hair mineral analysis testing company ARL. It has a very specific combination of chelated minerals and vitamins. In my experience it helps to calm down over-stressed body and therefore give it a much-needed space to recover. My sleep is more peaceful using this supplement and it also seem to keep my immunity in better condition if I take it regularly.  High manganese level in this supplements helps not only with joint pain but also supports the heath of hypothalamus and pituitary glands and the whole HPA axis.

5) Taoist and adaptogenic herbs

The effect of true ADAPTOGENS is mild and increases with their time of use. Unlike herbal stimulants such as various ginsengs, maca, tribulus, chocolate, coffee, guarana, cola, royal jelly etc. it is safe to take adaptogenic herbs long term without side effects.  Be aware of their diuretic action and only take as part of wider plan including correcting electrolytes and mineral deficiencies.

I created Nutriwellness Magic Mix drink, consisting of herbs such as turmeric, reishi, coriander, cinnamon, pepper, chicory, cordyceps or schizandra, taken with a spoon of ghee or butter, which can be adjusted to individual needs and tastes.
 

Some of my 'life saving' remedies: REISHI, CORDYCEPS, Acerola vit. C powder, Himalayan salt, Coconut oil... 


6) Avoiding all forms of stimulants

In the worst stages of HPA dysfunction or "adrenal exhaustion", any small amount of dark chocolate, coffee, tea, alcohol or even ginseng, rhodiola and B-vitamins, would cause me a big set back. The following day after ingestion I would crash to the depths of exhaustion nightmare. I became so exhausted I had to make myself to breathe consciously. I am not kidding. My body was not able to breathe without me concentrating on it. My breath would be very shallow and even stopped for 10-15 seconds at times.


7) Progesterone cream

This was one of my promising experiments in the never-ending search for normal life and daily energy.  I made mistake to use dosage written on the box by manufacturer. It took me one year to realise MY PERSONAL DOSAGE was only 1/12 of the recommended amount. If you have CFS or "adrenal exhaustion", watch the dosage on all supplements, especially stimulating ones, never use dosages recommended for otherwise healthy people.

8) Dehumidifier / air purifier  

After learning about chronic mold exposure (also called CIRS) and its ability to switch on CDR response in 2017, I decided to invest in various dehumidifiers/purifiers. I realised that all the houses and flats I have ever lived since 1998, were seriously water damaged, with remaining sources of black mold. The air purification would not directly made too much difference in my energy levels, but helped to solve returning sinus problems. It helps me to breathe better and have better sleep, shortening the needed average sleep time from 11 hours to 10.


I will finish this blog with the words of Dr. Komaroff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, who has been studying the condition since the 1980s.

"I think the most important thing for physicians to know is that while we don't have a diagnostic test or a proven treatment, there is now abundant evidence that in these patients there is an underlying biological process. Their symptoms are linked to problems of their biology and not imagined."

Dr. R Naviaux research in V. Mead article (2018)

Linkto CFS resources from Stanford School of Medicine.

Other helpful resources:

Dr. Sarah Myhill

Dr. Michael Lam

Taoist Health & Fitness

RESOURCES / gluten, brain health, vaccines

GLUTEN RESOURCES

 

BASICS ABOUT GLUTEN AND ITS SOURCES - BLOG

2.03 min video
Untreated Celiac Disease Dims the Brain, Can Lead to Underachievement!

0.44 min
Celiac disease and Alzheimer’s

1.13 min
A Large Forehead Can Be a Sign of Celiac Disease 

4.58 min
Dr. Tom O'Bryan - Identifying & Conquering Gluten Sensitivity 

4.31 min
The Difference Between Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity 

1.33 min
Diagnosing the Early Stages of Celiac Disease: Biopsy No Longer a Gold Standard 

1.20 min
Celiac Disease and Related Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders 

0.48 min
Family History of ANY Autoimmune Disease? Consider a Gluten-Related Disorder 

11.51 min
Top 5 Things You Didn't Know about Gluten!

4.40 min
Gluten Free Diet Mistake #1 

1 hour
Alessio Fasano, MD
Spectrum of Gluten-Related Disorders: PEOPLE SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE


E-CONFERENCE  GLUTEN SUMMIT

BRAIN HEALTH

 

9.43 min
Top 5 Foods for Brain Health!

49 min
Dr. Russell Blaylock: How Nutrition Affects Our Brain and Behaviour

1 hour
Dr. Jeff Senechal - An advanced lecture on brain health

VACCINES

 

25 min.
Dr. Suzanne Humphries talks about problems with vaccines safety and the integrity of medical system. She is a highly educated medical doctor practising internal medicine and nephrology.


2 hour
The Exploding Autoimmune Epidemic lecture goes through the less-known history of vaccination and connection to autoimmune diseases and other health problems, from Dr. R Tent.

OTHER

Dr. R. Tent Lectures:
Memorable Patient Cases 2
America’s Mineral Crisis

Cancer and 'bad luck' in news and media

 

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If more cancers are caused by bad luck, why are we getting less lucky?

At the start of 2015 the press carried claims from scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US, that the majority of cancers are NOT linked to environment or lifestyle. These findings conflict with many other findings. If most cancers are caused by bad luck, why, according to World Health Organisation reports in 2014, is the number of cancer cases worldwide on target to increase by 70% over the next two decades? This includes the spread into less developed countries where a Western lifestyle is being adopted.

Read full article by Hermann Keppler, Founder and Principal of CNM (College of Naturopathic Medicine). CNM offers Diploma training courses in Naturopathic Nutrition, and other natural therapies.
January 2015

 So is cancer mostly 'bad luck' or not?

Headline-writers and news bulletin editors around the world just couldn't get enough of a new study of cancer published on 2 January. "Two thirds of cancers are due to bad luck" reported one typical news story - and most other media outlets had similar headlines.
But there's been criticism of the way this statistic was reported, some of it directed at journalists, and some at the researchers themselves.
...
The researchers weren't looking at what determines why some people get cancer and others don't. They were instead asking why some types of cancer are common and some are rare.
...
The researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the US reported they had found a correlation between the number of cell divisions that take place in a given tissue and the likelihood that it would become cancerous. They looked at 31 tissue types (two common cancers, prostate and breast cancer, were not considered).
...
The researchers say they've calculated that two thirds (65%) of "the differences in cancer risk among different tissues" is down to cell division gone wrong - "bad luck". Now many media reports have simply concluded that this means that two thirds of cancer cases are just the result of random haywire cell division. That's not correct.

Read full article by Ruth Alexander on BBC News.

 

Are most cancers down to bad luck?

This study estimates around two-thirds (65%) of cancer risk is down to chance, based on the number of times stem cells divide in different body tissues. Other factors, including environmental factors and genetics, account for the remaining risk.
However, the estimate was quite variable, with 95% confidence intervals ranging from 39% to 81%. So only 4 out of 10 cancers may be a result of bad luck, or, alternatively, as many as 8 out of 10.
The wide estimate reduces our confidence in its accuracy. Its reliability would be increased if other research groups arrived at similar numbers by a variety of different means.

Read full article on NHS website.

PLASTIC NATURAL fun for kids?

BPA or "BPA-FREE" plastic worse than previously thought

read an article by Sayer Ji

http://sltn.co.uk/2012/04/15/barr-bids-to-make-fruit-fun-for-kids/

Try alternatives

- hand-made well smoothed wooden spoons made to size
- thick glass cups and bowls
- wooden bowls
- glass baby-bottles or even better: breastfeeding
- child-safe round shaped stainless steel utensils
- not using plastic for hot/warm or acidic foods and drinks
- quality glass kettles
- stainless steel flasks

Wooden spoons by: g.hutchison@hotmail.com

Wooden spoons by: g.hutchison@hotmail.com

http://www.fefpeb.org/wood-food/properties-of-wood/antibacterial-effect