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Hi, I've been posting a lot - I'm sorry. I finally scheduled to go see a LLMD this Friday. & I know that I have to make a lot of lifestyle changes especially involving my diet.
I've had lyme for about 3 months now, if I make a full recovery am I ever able to eat junk again? Obviously not everyday but if I have a slice of pizza will it all come raging back? Has everyone stuck to the diet they were on while getting treatment?
What about wine? Can I ever have that again? Or is alcohol forbidden forever.
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The Paleo Approach to Autoimmune says to stay steady on the diet for at least a year.
Our son, if he had beer (before the diet), it really swelled his liver up so he gave it up and he feels so good he does not miss it. I hear you though, a glass of wine sure is nice sometimes.
Your body will let you know what you can and cannot do. I think if he had not ruined his gut with antibiotics it could have been a different story.
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I'm already on wine for a long time again!!!
No worry, when you get better, it's because your gut has gone better too, at least partially.
I am taking many things again (long time no more lyme), but I do feel better if I avoid gluten (and even casein, I may say)...
Eating junk is your option.
Many people here treating chronic lyme still take stuff like carbonated sodas, with sugar or even worse, aspartame.
They still use all chemical products home to disinfect their house, permetrin, chemical tick repellents, or chemical products on their bodies, daily, in make up, cosmetics, air refreshing artificial perfumes...
If I did that, I would be just dead.
As simple as that.
If you feel you're strong enough, and that it doesn't affect your health, why stopping anything?
It's really a free world, in that sense.
In my case, a single sip on those carbonated drinks or alcohol during lyme sent me so down, that I didn't really FEEL like taking them.
Really, my carvings for toxic things went really down, fast: it was them or me!!
Now I do take carbonated drinks about 2x year or so. Maybe 2 glasses a year,in total. It's not something I enjoy, I just take it to be polite socially, sometimes.
But wine, about a couple of times a month, but sometimes more.
Wine doesn't make any bad effect today, on the contrary, I feel even better after a glass of GOOD red wine!
Beer, some types of beers have amazing healing properties. Buhner has a book only dedicated to healing beers!!!
If I test beer energetically today, some come as good. I guess due to silica content.
I also take some beer, sometimes, and do feel good after. Not during lyme though.
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Once you get rid of lyme, you can go back to eating and drinking whatever you like. However, I advise not drinking alcohol for about 6 months after your treatment is ended.
This is as a precaution.
I also advise not smoking.
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Once lyme gets chronic, it affects the GI tract, as Borrelia damages the gut mucosa.
After lyme was gone, many food allergies disappeared, as fast as they had come, so I could eat them again.
But during the years I was lyme-free, I still had candida to solve (that was pre-lyme). Candida, like lyme, damages the gut lining too.
So slowly, with the years, I started AGAIN having more food allergies / intolerance.
It happened the SAME to my daughter, but she's even more allergic than I am, also previous to lyme.
She had only once candida though, so in her case, there was still slow damage to her gut AFTER lyme was gone. I suspect that most of her gut damage comes from heavy metals I had (mother).
Lyme didn't help our guts. It helped damaging it.
After lyme, our allergies had been going in ups and downs, but the end curve was clearly down (I mean, we were down, as we got more and more allergies).
To the point we could barely eat any fruits, many veggies, etc, about 6 years after lyme was gone.
So we had been still on trying diets, added kimchi (nothing worked better than that, for us), gluten free, now casein free, minerals... and it is finally paying back.
The amount of allergies are clearly going down.
If your gut is in very good condition, no food allergies, no candida, I guess you could even take a fully junky diet daily, without collapsing.
It all depends on the level of gut damage. And of course, how strong your immune system is (as it is mainly there that immunity sits).
As toxins are present overall, in water, cosmetics, food, clothes, air your breathe, etc, your cells are not in peak performance, with or without lyme. My opinion.
Specially with age, there is toxin accumulation, and decrease of cell performance, so organs work less well, so do hormones.
Good diet is only one more way to try to counter act toxin ill effects, pathogens, aging. A way to strengthen your body and immune system.
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