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Old May 12th, 2013 #1
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Any of you tried this? Any results to report?

At least one study has been made of wheat grass used to treat ulcerative colitis, and the conclusion was that it was effective in reducing symptoms.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11989836
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs...55202317316088

Wheat grass doesn't have side effects, unlike prescription medicine. The guy who invented wheat grass, back in the forties, advanced a lot of claims for it that have not been scientifically verified.

Someone sent me a jar of this stuff years ago. I drink a cup or two of wheat-grass water daily. I find it has a modestly soothing effect. Doesn't hurt. Might help.

Would be interested in hearing if any of you have experience with wheat grass.

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Old May 12th, 2013 #2
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Any of you tried this? Any results to report.

At least one study has been made of wheat grass used to treat ulcerative colitis, and the conclusion was that it was effective in reducing symptoms.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11989836
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs...55202317316088

Wheat grass doesn't have side effects, unlike prescription medicine. The guy who invented wheat grass, back in the forties, advanced a lot of claims for it that have not been scientifically verified.

Someone sent me a jar of this stuff years ago. I drink a cup or two of wheat-grass water daily. I find it has a modestly soothing effect. Doesn't hurt. Might help.

Would be interested in hearing if any of you have experience with wheat grass.
I've consumed it to and from in the past. I'm slightly positively inclined to it, though the fantastic claims spouting it as some sort of magical drink is obviously bs.

I think a lot of the perceived benefits comes from its mineral content. Most don't realize this, but jugging a lot of only pure water can be quite a major stressor to the system. Juiced vegetables, juiced fruits and juiced green roughage can be quite soothing for this reason alone if you're accustomed to only pure water. Hehe, it sounds kind of ridiculous to agitate against pure water, but that is really the case in my experience and from my reading and understanding of it. Minerals+easily digestible fruit/veg-sugars lowers adrenaline/cortisol.

Honeyed up tea and just plain fresh squeezed orange juice might be something to dabble with too and see if it elicits a positive response, because if I've understood it correctly you're currently eating a pretty LC-diet that generaly tends to exclude all sugars and fruit juices.
 
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Have you tried eating lots of bananas? http://www.experienceproject.com/sto...Disease/911446
 
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Yeah they do that with every health food. Doesn't mean it's bad stuff. Probably won't give you a whiter smile and a bigger pecker but young wheat is still good to eat. I was surprised at how sweet it was. Almost too much.

I sprouted wheat for a few months and lived off that, to see how it worked. I was reading Kurt Saxon books as a kid and trying to test myself out. Didn't have any negative side effects but that stuff was so sweet it almost tasted artificial to me. This was hard red winter wheat. I understood why the cattle go nuts for fresh young grass and stick their heads through the barbed wires to nip a little green grass.

When you compare the nutrients of grain to sprouts, it's truly amazing how much you can get out of a little sun and water. It's the difference between eating an egg, and eating a whole chicken, and then some.
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Have you tried eating lots of bananas? http://www.experienceproject.com/sto...Disease/911446
Early on I found a guy who claimed his raw fruits/vegs diet cured his UC, but he weighed 140 and ate nothing but bananas and lettuce. That's just bullshit. I eat bananas if I have them, always liked them. Don't notice any particular effect from them. Everything I have done attests to the mainstream view that UC is not caused by diet. It is good to eat a good diet because it keeps you in the best shape, and gives you most the energy. Not because it cures this or that disease.

I am firmly of the Atkins school - that the basic reason for obseity and attendant problems is excessive sugar consumption. I avoid breads and pastries, and most candy. Not entirely, but more than I used to, and I was never into them that much. Basically, I try to eat meat. The part that's hard for me is eating the deep green stuff Atkins recommends, since I really dislike lettuce and salad. What I have learned to do is steam broccoli and cauliflower. Steaming supposedly keeps the vitamin value, which is supposed to be lost if you boil vegetables.
 
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heheh

Yeah they do that with every health food.
Hence my use of invented. Wheat grass as god's creation is one thing; wheat grass as miracle cure is human invention.

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Doesn't mean it's bad stuff. Probably won't give you a whiter smile and a bigger pecker but young wheat is still good to eat. I was surprised at how sweet it was. Almost too much.
I just have it in powered form. It's mildly unpleasant tasting, not sweet at all. Doesn't bother me though. Does have a sort of soothing effect, I would say. Maybe it's all in my head. These things are hard to tell.

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I sprouted wheat for a few months and lived off that, to see how it worked. I was reading Kurt Saxon books as a kid and trying to test myself out. Didn't have any negative side effects but that stuff was so sweet it almost tasted artificial to me. This was hard red winter wheat. I understood why the cattle go nuts for fresh young grass and stick their heads through the barbed wires to nip a little green grass.

When you compare the nutrients of grain to sprouts, it's truly amazing how much you can get out of a little sun and water. It's the difference between eating an egg, and eating a whole chicken, and then some.
Interesting.
 
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heheh

Yeah they do that with every health food. Doesn't mean it's bad stuff. Probably won't give you a whiter smile and a bigger pecker but young wheat is still good to eat. I was surprised at how sweet it was. Almost too much.

I sprouted wheat for a few months and lived off that, to see how it worked. I was reading Kurt Saxon books as a kid and trying to test myself out. Didn't have any negative side effects but that stuff was so sweet it almost tasted artificial to me. This was hard red winter wheat. I understood why the cattle go nuts for fresh young grass and stick their heads through the barbed wires to nip a little green grass.

When you compare the nutrients of grain to sprouts, it's truly amazing how much you can get out of a little sun and water. It's the difference between eating an egg, and eating a whole chicken, and then some.
Can you describe how one sprouts wheat? Is this actual wheat grass?
 
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The part that's hard for me is eating the deep green stuff Atkins recommends, since I really dislike lettuce and salad.
Yes, but you can toss kale (strip the stems) into a blender with some water and get lots of goodies quickly.

I'm not trying to say Solskeniskyn isn't a fruit cake or anything like that, but if you were to follow my suggestion it would also act as a test of his latest, weird-ass theory.

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Hehe, it sounds kind of ridiculous to agitate against pure water, but that is really the case in my experience and from my reading and understanding of it. Minerals+easily digestible fruit/veg-sugars lowers adrenaline/cortisol.
 
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Yes, but you can toss kale (strip the stems) into a blender with some water and get lots of goodies quickly.

I'm not trying to say Solskeniskyn isn't a fruit cake or anything like that, but if you were to follow my suggestion it would also act as a test of his latest, weird-ass theory.
Also feel free to add Basic Elixer to the above. It cures everything from cancer to arthritis.


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Yes, but you can toss kale (strip the stems) into a blender with some water and get lots of goodies quickly.

I'm not trying to say Solskeniskyn isn't a fruit cake or anything like that, but if you were to follow my suggestion it would also act as a test of his latest, weird-ass theory.
Never tried kale.
 
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Also feel free to add Basic Elixer to the above. It cures everything from cancer to arthritis.

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I got no idea if you're joking. I do eat lots of garlic. Fun to cook with.

All I know is I've gone outside 13.7x, and so far no hummingbirds have tried to drink my eyes, so it's a good late spring.
 
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Yes, but you can toss kale (strip the stems) into a blender with some water and get lots of goodies quickly.

I'm not trying to say Solskeniskyn isn't a fruit cake or anything like that, but if you were to follow my suggestion it would also act as a test of his latest, weird-ass theory.
Fruit cake you say? That can be done: just add gelatin to the juice and let it sit.

On a serious note, I actually recommend that, it's the same amino acids that you find in a soothing bone broth (sans all the work).
 
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It tastes good and I liked it, but I habitually eat a lot of green leafy vegetables anyway, and I noticed no additional effect on top of that.

I'm a big believer in spinach and mustard greens as a regular feature of one's diet. I hear kale and kohl rabi are supposed to be good, but I've never personally eaten either.

It's interesting to note that nutritionally speaking, the only advantage that wheatgrass has over spinach is a large amount more of vitamin E and a tiny amount of vitamin B12, protein and phosphorus.

It's not a bad thing and it can't hurt, like you said. But it's not the Gaulish druid's magic potion or anything.
 
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We have enemy aliens who do hate us that are running our ship.


This is about Vitamin C. I did not want to start a new thread etc.

If this is true, oh the horror then.


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Fromm is an excellent food, but I wanted to comment on the ingredients from China. It is my understanding that all the worlds production of vitamine C comes from China. The vitamine C in human supplements is also from China. The last North American manufacturer of vitamine C shut down in 2009 (?) dont quote me on the year…. If the rest of the world is getting it’s supply from China I would presume that Fromm is too.

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Any of you tried this? Any results to report?

At least one study has been made of wheat grass used to treat ulcerative colitis, and the conclusion was that it was effective in reducing symptoms.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11989836
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs...55202317316088

Wheat grass doesn't have side effects, unlike prescription medicine. The guy who invented wheat grass, back in the forties, advanced a lot of claims for it that have not been scientifically verified.

Someone sent me a jar of this stuff years ago. I drink a cup or two of wheat-grass water daily. I find it has a modestly soothing effect. Doesn't hurt. Might help.

Would be interested in hearing if any of you have experience with wheat grass.
prilosec will cure ulcerative colitis
 
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Inflammatory bowel diseases occur almost exclusively in parts of the world where the diet is high in meat and dairy foods, and are rare in countries where people still consume starch based, almost entirely vegetarian meals. Severe “allergic-type” reactions to some of those rich foods have been suspected as being the causes of these conditions.
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Leaf spinach is a great substitute for lettuce in salads. I don't like lettuce, either: good on most sandwiches, but that's all.
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I saw a good video explaining how gall stones are really responsible for most ulcerative colitis. Basically bile is what neutralizes your stomach acid. If you have gall stones blocking your bile your stomach acid just burns all the way through your intestines, wrecks them. Drinking a big cupful of oil can sometimes purge gallstones, 6 tablespoons of oil is about 700 calories you can handle it ok. The idea is to fast for 7 or 8 hours before, so the gall bladder is full of bile so it can push the gallstones out.

Gall stones are very very common, especially if you are over 40. Just they don't always cause problems or you don't feel them unless one gets lodged in bile ducts. You also get intrahepatic stones that reduce liver function.

no fat diet or low fat diet can be deadly. Backed up, unused bile turns into gall stones.
 
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