Dear Bizi
yes removing milk products would be very hard for me, because there isn't a single one i don't like!
Dear Mari
this is interesting.
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Originally Posted by Mari
I stopped eating dairy, eggs, and all obvious animal products for about five weeks two summers ago. Around week two I felt a little yucky and went through sort of a detox.
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i was thinking of removing dairy in the sense of milk products (not eggs) for two weeks as you suggested, as an allergy check. yuckiness at the two-week mark could be a little confusing because that is when i would be introducing them. it might be hard to tell if it were a latent "detox" effect or an allergic response to the reindroduction. so it might be better to remove them for longer.
but then, a few years back i was consuming WAY more milk products than in recent times. when i lived on my own i often drank close to a liter of milk a day, and i was not having these problems then. very recently i started having at most half a liter, i.e., more than the period immediately before, but not by any means the most i've had. so perhaps that is already a good indication that milk products aren't the problem.
perhaps if i work on building up my immune system, eg with the B vitamins, it will help reduce my allergies, regardless of the cause. i have to get labs drawn before i can restart supplements though. i forgot today! i think i have to fast, too, which sucks because i am up all night - and that's when i get most HUNGRY!
i wonder if i can knock myself out cold somehow... somebody come whack me over the head with a 2 x 4?
~ waves ~