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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

I noticed a big change when I eliminated nightshades for a few months and then slowly reintroduced them. It seems like my insides healed up a bit and can now handle things again, at least in smaller doses.

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Danni Macfarland's avatar

Yes me too. I removed them because they affected my skin/rosacea. But now I can have them in small amounts with now issues.

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Lior Sadeh's avatar

Capsicum is a pain reliever I use it topically and internally in small dosage with other herbs for pain.

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Danni Macfarland's avatar

Yes some plant chemistry has some great uses when we isolate them from the other parts that don’t.

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Lior Sadeh's avatar

Actually the cool part of herbalism is not isolating what mainstream medicine consider the active part. Herbalism is holistic in a couple of ways one of them is the use of whole plants with the understanding that plant developed a combination of chemical to balance each other.

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Christina Heiser's avatar

Thanks for sharing, Danni! I noticed that I experience heartburn when I eat tomatoes and peppers specifically. It's so interesting to learn the science behind these foods and how they affect people differently.

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Danni Macfarland's avatar

Our food is interesting. We are not all one size fits all and sometimes food that on paper should be healthy for us is not always the case in real life.

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Build Up Dietitians Newsletter's avatar

"leaky gut" is not a real condition or diagnosis

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Danni Macfarland's avatar

There are many medical doctors who disagree. And thanks for blocking me from subscribing.

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

That's an interesting thing to say, since so many doctors discuss it as if it WERE a real diagnosis( Dr. Steven Gundry, Dr. David Perlmutter, many others). Also, Harvard Medical School writes about it online herehttps://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/leaky-gut-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-for-you-2017092212451

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