Diet and Supplements
 

This is my basic diet. I just started with the supplement.


First Meal

1. ½ cup of oats
2. 16 oz Ultimate Meal Smoothie
3. Yogurt

Later Throughout the Day

• 4 cups broth based soup, chicken or beef, with various dried herbs and spices.
• 1 cup ground salads (meat grinder): chicken, tuna, beef, dressed with spices and olive oil.
• ¾ cup humus
• ½ cup salsa
• dab of Philadelphia Cheese
• Odwalla Smoothie

I sometimes swap out the humus for avocado salad.


Supplements

• Ultimate Meal dietary supplement (taken for last 2 years)
• Calcium
• Vitamin D3
• Ginger Root
• Omega 3-6-9: Flax, Fish & Borage Oils

Is there anything else I should consider?

-Mark-

I would add in 2-3 oz of unsalted almonds... to bring your magnesium level, --mostly from the hummus to the RDA, to 350mg.

Hummus:
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/...roducts/4403/2

Nutrition data is a wonderful site to check the content of foods for nutrients you wish to provide thru food/diet. Make sure you check the serving size mentioned as often it can be either too high or low for a particular person.

Salmon has more omega-3's than tuna. It is available in handy pouches now, by Chicken of the Sea.

I cannot find the ingredients to the Ultimate products...so you need to check the labels for nutrients yourself. (magnesium oxide is not absorbed, so if it has that in it, you cannot rely upon it to provide magnesium to you in the safe RDA amounts.)
Nuts and beans provide magnesium in good quantities.

Otherwise your list looks pretty good.

Hello Mark,
Almonds may be taken in the form of almond powder, it should be cheaper...
I already mentioned one banana a day.
I wonder whether you get enough proteins, eggs could provide them also.
With Pred, you should cut salt and sugar.
Maurice.

Where are the greens? I'd suggest some FRESH green juices or smoothies.

I posted a thread earlier:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread200162.html

-Mark-

Okay... thanks for that, Mark.

I see that this has D2 in it. So you cannot count on that form to
work for you. It has been found that D2 does not work in humans.

You may want to use D3 instead, or up your D supplement to be
D3 if anything else has D2. Manufacturers are slowly making that replacement now... milk for example switched a couple of years ago to D3.

The magnesium in this will work.

The problem is that the 64 ounce blender pitcher fills fast. I may start making two different batches, and blend then together before going into the Thermos bottles. In this way I can get the greens into the mix.

I wonder how long this mixture will last in the refrigerator in Thermos bottles?

-Mark-

Morning Smoothie
 

This is the ingredients of my morning smoothie. I make a weekly batch:

• White grape juice
• 2 1/2 cups of the Ultimate Meal (weekly batch)
• White grapes
• 2 bananas
• lemon juice
• Frozen strawberries
• Calcium and Vitamin D3

I just started taking Calcium and Vitamin D3. The pills are liquid filled and absorrable. They are also disagreeable. I decided to add a 7 days worth of the Calcium and D3, and blended them in with this week's smoothies. It worked great.

I used to make my own almond milk with the Vitamix, but it is a lot of work to squeeze the milk out of the nut bag. Much easier to buy it in the market. I will look into the other forms of almonds that you mentioned. I can make almond butter with the Green Star juicer.

I also read somewhere that apricot juice is good.


Before the severe MG event in September, I would once a week have 3 poached eggs on toast. The night before I would go to the Urgent Care facility because of a MG crisis, I could not eat even soft poached on toast. I have had poached eggs only a few times since then. With the preds I will be able to eat a few more substantial things, at least for right now.


I do not add salt to anything, but I do not get the low sodium versions of the chicken stock I buy. Do low sodium versions really make that much difference?

I sometimes add brown sugar to things I make in the Vitamix, but not much. I also use dried dates for sweetener in some smoothies. I also add brown sugar with the oats. Are there better choices?

Mark,

I also have a juicer and Vitamix. I've been doing a juice thing since New Year where I substitute one meal a day for a quart of fresh juice. Stuff I juice: apples, oranges or tangerines, honeydew, cucumber, carrots, celery, spinach, kale, lettuce, beet, pineapple, kiwi, papaya. I do all sorts of combos, and sometimes add a wedge of lime or slice of fresh ginger. I think I'm beginning to feel better and my jeans aren't as tight, either! I find I don't use the Vitamix now as much as I do in the summer. Making smoothies with homemade raw milk kefir and fresh fruit with cashews or hemp seeds thrown in are really tasty when it's hot outside and I don't feel like cooking.

I like to go to Costco and literally fill my cart with produce. It doesn't take long to go through it with the juicer!