THIS is how I've been treating myself w/ miraculous results.

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I suspect some of your claims are real sweetie as I know from my own experience I have had singificant improvements from changing my diet. I too am now watching my reaction to salicylates as I know I am sensitive to aspirin etc (it induces wheezing, nausea and projectile vomiting..so much they will not give me ibruprofen or aspirin etc if I am admitted to hospital...it saves me vomiting all over the administering nurse. They put me on other painkillers instead after I had a very bad reaction to anti inflammitaries in front of the staff the last time I was given such drugs). Such issues can be found in people with salicylate sensitivity.

For that reason I am playing around with that as the final alteration to my diet (I don't want to use supplements if I can help it or potions).

For the last few weeks i have taken salicylates out with some improvement in my brain fog/migraines/headaches...now I am going to put them back in to see what happens. I'll keep doing that (taking things in and out) until I can spot any relevant patterns as I don't want to remove something if I don't have to.

Gluten is a definite no no for me.

What I can also conclude today is that cows diary ice cream gives me stomach ache. 4 times in a row now (and that is only in the last month...i came off it for several months then put it back) I have had gut ache, diarrhea and flatulence after eating ice cream. I may well have to take that out too despite my resistance. its so bad tonight I don't want to be in the room with me!

PN i do not mind some of the dietary changes as growing up in a house with celiacs, IBS, diabetes and having a mother who was older generation and cooked with fresh foods rather than processed means I am pretty much used to the food I eat now as it is basically the diet I grew up on (give or take).

What with the celiacs watching their gluten and the diabetics watching their processed sugars and the IBSers watching everying and my mum making her own stuff...well...

Dinner time was fun when I was a kid. <<<<sarcasm!

And that is ignoring the prevalence of stomach cancers...or Oesphageal cancer in regards to my dad (my mums dad died from the stomach cancer).

Basically:

Mums dad: stomach cancer
My dad died from oesphageal cancer
Mum: diabetes type 2 and IBS
Brother steven: Celiac disease
Brother Andrew: Diabetes type 2
Great grandmother on mums side: rheumatoid arthritis (autoimmune disorder).

Ok.. so you have absolutely no scientific basis with which to refute my claims. If you did, you'd share it - and I would respectfully read it.

So other things didn't work for you so that means this/something else won't ?? That's the worst kind of defeatist attitude there is.

I didn't say one would have to do it for 6 months to determine whether it's effective for them or not. I've repeatedly stated that I experienced significant benefits within the first few weeks and knew that it was something I could stick to in order to heal this and realize permanent benefits vs. quit doing it and have the infection thrive again.

what's better than a study is personal experience. Trying the basic diet doesn't really take that much effort and you'd know within 2-3 weeks if you were experiencing significant benefits from it. Although, granted, my symptoms were getting extreme so I noticed huge changes in the first few weeks. If your symptoms are mild (anxiety/audio sensory overload especially - as those were the two that were most noticeably improved in the beginning) then improvements may be more difficult to notice. That's just a guess, though, as I'm not you or anyone else - only me - so you'd have to give it a shot and see for yourself if it does you any good.

1) Yes, we do absorb chemicals through our skin. Skin is not impermeable. There are many toxins that can poison you by being in contact with your skin. There are also many medicines that are applied topically, because skin is permeable & we do absorb things through our skin.

2) Detox as in detoxification, as in removing toxins. It's not rocket surgery stuff here... there are numerous toxins within yeast that are released when they're killed off, and so there are herbs/vitamins/minerals etc to assist the body in clearing them out ie via the liver. Hence the milk thistle & turmeric - although turmeric also has many other benefits, as it's also antifungal as well as anti-inflammatory and is said do reduce brain inflammation.

A friend of mine who's taken his first couple semesters of medical school flat out said medical school is a training ground for pharmaceutical salesmen. He has student loans as well. Big pharma pays to develop the course material they're taught, they don't pay tuition bills and sponsor individual students. (unless perhaps via scholarships or bursaries ??)

"Alternative practitioners," is what you call anyone without an MD? He's a doctor. An ND; Naturopathic Doctor. Your post makes you sound like you have a massive ego, fuelled by big $$ dreams sold to you by Big Pharma who you're willing to go multiple six figures into debt for in order to have a chance at selling their products because they've convinced you that having MD after your name is among the highest status levels of achievement a man can have. I have very little respect for MD's who are simply in it for the money vs. actually interested in healing and curing people. Granted, you have not said you're in it for the money - but it does sound like you're in it for ego reasons at least.

On that note, according to my med student friend, about half of med students are in it for the money, about half are there because their parents made them, and about 1% truly want to be doctors in order to heal others. Apparently those are the ones who truly make it in their careers - and they should be. Hopefully I'm incorrect about your reasons for pursuing a medical education and you're more interested in healing & curing people than having a fancy title and a big bank account.

If you read what I wrote then you'd know I said that it's mainly the Glyphosate, aka Roundup, used on GMO crops that can cause Leaky Gut.

Thank you, Bumble. They're very real.

As for what you've posted here.. gluten intolerance, your reactions to dairy, salicylate sensitivity, IBS etc etc.. all are possible signs of candidiasis. It's possible that you suffer from the same thing I did, and that just like your sinuses that it's an infection causing all of this. Check out the links about Iridology & see if you can spot any telltale signs of leaky gut in your own irises. Also, considering the number of similar (identical) symptoms you have to me, if I were you and wanted a more definitive western medical answer as to whether or not candidiasis is the culprit I'd request from your GP that a stool sample be cultured to determine if it does indeed grow any specific strains of candida yeast. Yours & your family's medical histories mirror mine and my family's.. right down to the autoimmune diseases such as diabetes - which some naturopaths believe can be caused by candidiasis. For me it's alopecia areata barbae, for others in my family it's diabetes, others have other autoimmune disorders.

Anyways, it's entirely your call of course, but I'd explore this further if I were you as it may turn out to be the root cause of damned near everything that ails you as it has been for me and knowing and dealing with it may just make your life that much better. Feel free to pm me any questions if you like.

From one of the links that YOU provided - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23851019
"Proponents claim that barrier restoration will cure underlying disease, but this has not been demonstrated in clinical trials."



I literally have been unable to find any hard science to back up your assertions. No clinical trials. No blind or double blind trials. No long term studies. No science.

Lots of naturopathic resources, but no actual scientific proof.

The NHS in the UK say "There is little evidence to support this theory, and no evidence that so-called 'treatments' for 'leaky gut syndrome', such as nutritional supplements and a gluten-free diet, have any beneficial effect for most of the conditions they are claimed to help."

Here: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/leaky-gut-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx

You think iridology is actual science.

"In conclusion, few controlled studies with masked evaluation of diagnostic validity have been published. None have found any benefit from iridology. As iridology has the potential for causing personal and economic harm, patients and therapists should be discouraged from using it."
http://archopht.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=412789

With no scientific studies to back it up, and plenty of personal experience with similar pseudo-scientific claims (not just the ones I mentioned), I have nothing to go on but your personal assertions of a miraculous cure, and that just ain't enough.

You want me to take you seriously? Show me the science. Actual scientific studies that back up your claims that "leaky gut syndrome".

Finally, let me make this crystal clear. I have no doubt that whatever you've done has had a positive impact on your life. Good for you.

I really need to leave this alone, because I put way too much time today into giving you the benefit of the doubt and trying to find some hard science to back up YOUR claims.

Skin is not impermeable (I was careful to qualify my statement), but it is very good at keeping stuff out. Many of the "toxins that poison you by being in contact with your skin" do so by basically destroying your skin, rather than passing through it. You need to do weird things to your skin, such as exposing it to large doses of UV radiation, to make it permeable to inorganic salts.

The effects of turmeric in humans have not been confirmed. They do seem to have some benefit on some conditions, such as IBS and eye inflammation.

You are right that tumeric appears to have some anti-fungal properties. However, yeast is not inhibited by it: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8824742

Generally, it is the renal system that "clears out toxins", whilst the liver will break substances down. It does not need much help at doing this. Simply eating a healthy diet will do. Vitamin deficiency is rare in the developed world because you only need low levels.

Milk thistle is widely touted as a cure for liver disease (though again, it is the kidneys that are most relevant). However, there is no evidence to support this.


Maybe that's the case in some American schools. I know it isn't the case here.

Calling yourself a doctor doesn't make you a doctor.


I am sorry if I confused you. I am not training to be a doctor. I am training to become a scientist. I have friends who are training to be doctors. As entrance to a medicine course requires excelling at interview as well as in your application, it would be very difficult to get in if you were insincere. Additionally, it isn't that well paid, compared to dentistry or veterinary science.

Donors do not have the power to set university curricula, at least in this country.

Good attempt to distract from the topic at hand- your claims which are not supported by science- using subtle ad hominem. Please, avoid changing the subject, and if you do then at least attack me for what I am.

why search for someone else' proof when it would take you less time, energy, and effort to go to the grocery store and buy a few basic ingredients and give it a trial run for 2-3 weeks and see for yourself if it has any benefit for you or not?

Again, it'll cost you less time & energy to go to a grocery store and buy some basic ingredients and give this a shot for a few weeks to see it it begins having positive results for yourself as it has me. There would be your evidence via experience - either it works or it doesn't. So absurd that a so called "scientist," wouldn't choose to observe an experiment themselves vs. attempt to scour the internet for someone else' observations.

I want to note that although I initially thought celiac symptoms were induced by a leaky gut, the study I linked previously that finds that non-celiac gluten intolerant patients do not have a leaky gut made me fully realize that celiac disease is an auto-immune disease. Gut problems seem secondary (even thought that's the only way it get diagnosed), the real problem is that you have your own antibodies attacking different parts of your body. 3 different T cell types (to my knowledge) have been implicated in 3 different areas of the body. I forget which ones are which, but only the 1 type of T cell is active in your mucosal lining, while another one is active in attacking your nervous system, and yet a third is active in the skin. Unfortunately I've yet to encounter a medical practitioner that even knows this. Well, I feel fortunate enough to have access to research so that I know it at least!
http://integrativehealthconnection.com/ ... brain1.pdf

However, the increase in prevalence of autoimmune disorders and other diseases compounded by inflammation could be being induced by systemic fungal infections due to our use of antibiotics and most people's diets that are full of foods that yeast live off of. I would not be surprised in the least if autism were found to be caused by an autoimmune condition. SOMETHING as yet unknown to medical science is causing the increase in autism, IBS and, well, all auto-immune disorders. It makes sense to be looking for a common factor just from the parallel increases in these conditions over the past 50 years.

After earlier being very critical of Goldfish I have stayed away from posting further as I do not have much nutritional knowledge to make any kind of comment about the diet itself.

Yes he did say it was a rough draft so attacking him for the presentation looking like a rough draft is unfair.

The choice is presented as continuing the same bad status quo or try the diet and see if it improves things. The way Goldfish sees it there is nothing to lose by trying it. What I do not understand is how Goldfish fails to understand there could be a bad outcome. The diet may worsen bad symptoms, create new bad symptoms or negate good traits. If you are what you eat and you eat food that while good for another is bad for you the outcome could be very negative indeed. We re being asked to be guinea pigs. It is a very rational choice to let others be the guinea pigs. That said one is always taking a chance. Even the best medically approved treatments may work for 95% of the people and be bad for you. Goldfish is yelling experience, experience, experience but what is wrong to wanting to lesson the chance of a bad outcome by choosing a treatment where most people have had a good experience preferably in a scientific setting over a treatment that 1 or 2 people on the internet claim produce miraculous results.

In his presentation Goldfish noted that there were times he thought he had gotten it right only to crash. This time he has gone longer with good results but it is logical to wonder if he will crash again.

As so many have mentioned apparent autistic traits remain in the way this is continues to be presented so why should people believe that a cure or even a masking treatment has been presented?

Any particular university may or may not be funded by big pharma or big ag, but many universities are. To cite just two examples, here in the U.S., Harvard medical school got a failing grade from a group who rates medical schools' ties with the pharma industry, and Stanford's ties to makers of GMO-related products were questioned after the university released a controversial "study" touting conventional produce. And often it's not just the university itself, many professors will lecture on behalf of the industry during the summer, or pair up with industry to do studies.

Also, doctors must get continuing medical education credits throughout their careers. It is extremely common for these classes to be funded by the pharmaceutical industry. This doesn't make them bad, of course - you really want your surgeon to be familiar with the best surgical technologies available, you want your cancer doctor to know the latest successful treatments, etc., and the companies that make those technologies and treatments fund the education classes. But it also means that the medical profession is getting a lot of education from Big Pharma.

And there is the simple fact that we live in a capitalistic world. Companies generally cannot or will not do things that are not profitable. What's profitable is finding a new drug to counteract high cholesterol, finding a new treatment for indigestion, making a better replacement joint for ones that have broken down, making new surgical tools, etc. In other words, there is money to be made in treating symptoms in sick people and fixing existing health problems, which is big pharma's job. They make a lot of money at it, and a lot of money means the ability to do more research. What are they going to research? Not how to keep people healthy and make them not have to buy pharmaceuticals -- that is not big pharma's job. This isn't bad or wrong or selfish, it's just not the business they are in.

For example, some studies show that magnesium supplements might help restless leg syndrome. Magnesium is cheap, readily available, and cannot be patented so that no one company is going to make a ton of money off magnesium sales. Is a company going to do long-term, double-blind clinical studies into whether magnesium is an effective treatment? No. Maybe someone at a university could get a research grant for that kind of thing and take the chance that the funding might get cut off somewhere during the study. But the pharma company is going to research a medication it can sell for a profit. When they find one that works and put it on the market, that treatment will be taught to medical students and doctors as an effective treatment for restless leg syndrome. Magnesium may not make it into the curriculum because it hasn't been "proven" by proper clinical trials.

This highlights an issue with many health claims involving supplements and dietary changes. People (contributors here, medical literature, etc.) may say "___ hasn't been proven by science" or "there is no study that proves ___." Many times no such study exists, which doesn't mean the remedy doesn't work of course, it just means that no one has found it profitable or otherwise beneficial to fund a study.

So I think it is fair to say to say that medical education is significantly funded by the pharma industry. The funding is not only direct in the form of payments to the schools, but also in that "medical knowledge" is shaped by the ones with the funding to do studies regarding particular remedies.

There are people out there who swear blind that water has cured several diseases they've suffered. There are people out there who swear blind that sticking needles in certain spots in one's back has cured many different conditions, and people who say that needles in those spots do nothing, you have to choose different spots. There are people who believe you can cure ear ache by sticking "special candles" in your ears, people who believe their insomnia was cured by overdosing on vitamins, people who believe they have been healed by asking a mysterious being to help them, and people who believe their encounter with a unicorn cured their social anxiety.

"Your own experience" is clearly not reliable, because those people are wrong.

There are two important things to consider here:

1) Regression to the mean- when things are at their worst, they tend to get better; when things are at their best, they tend to get worse.
You mention being at a low point in your life. You made some weird dietary changes, started exercising more, and got better. Then you got worse. You made some drastic, totally bizarre dietary changes at the suggestion of some unqualified quacks (the very people I just described) and got better. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Autism is a condition where you have good spells and bad spells. This is particularly true if you have a whole bunch of co-morbids, as you do.
If I tried your crazy diet, I would probably do worse. One, I would be unhappy because I would be living on a crazy diet, and two, I am at a good point in my life right now and it is inevitable that I will get worse at some point.

2) The placebo effect
This is where quacks do really well. They pay attention to the patient, allowing them to talk about their stresses and so forth, which has a therapeutic quality. Then, they make the patient feel special, and give them a treatment that is "specially tailored to your needs". As placebos go, they are amongst the most powerful.

Science does two things:
1) It allows for statistical analysis, so we can tell that something isn't just due to chance (as your miracle cure almost certainly is)
2) It allows for comparison against the placebo effect

You have to understand that many other people have made extraordinary claims about making convoluted adjustments to your diet before. Like you, they often make their claims sound sciencey ("tumeric is an anti-fungal so can fight yeast") but don't actually check if they are supported by science. Like you, they often hate on things which have been shown to not be harmful, such as vaccinations and GM crops. Like you, they show little understanding of basic scientific concepts, instead talking in vague, unfalsiable terms about things like "detox". They are all ultimately shown to be wrong. Look up Gillian McKeith or Patrick Holford as high profile examples who have been exposed as fraudsters.

I'm not saying "this didn't help you"... I'm saying "this probably won't reliably help other people, and you would probably have got better anyway if you had essentially done the same thing but eaten completely different foods".

Well done on the yeast thing, that's a great discovery that might get to the roots of some of your health problems, but you won't cure it by eating tumeric.

It would depend on the cause of their symptoms.

To a celiac removing gluten would be beneficial, to someone who does not have celiac disease it would not make much difference.

As someone with celiac disease in the family and whom has benefited from dietary changes I do feel that dietary measures can make a difference and are not all placebo effect.

Candida, if the problem even exists (I am dubious as it seems to be an in thing right now along with this leaky gut stuff) would be most benefited by the removal of sugars in the diet as such infections do love all things sugar related. Those are most likely the changes that made the difference if candida was a major player.

I'd personally vote for issues with gluten, casein, soya or excess sugar in the system (perhaps the early stages of insulin resistance for example but not enough to warrant a full blown diagnosis of diabetes).

Problems with gluten however are very real for some people and dietary changes can make a huge difference. So don't belittle dietary changes for people with certain physical symptoms.

As for autism..I doubt it. I think goldfish continues to display symptoms of either autism or perhaps mania or OCD of some kind. His posting style indicates that not everything has been cured.

All the same his theory is not without any value at all in other ways. Don't be so quick to completely ignore all of it.

PN I am not convinced that autism is caused by digestive issues as such. It may be that autistic people display common digestive problems but this does not by default mean that their problem is caused by such. Only that they share certain similarities.

I still feel that neurological differences might be involved. It may be that certain foods affect them differently to the normal population because of said neurological differences...who knows. But I don't agree that autism is curable with diet alone.

Besides, why cure it? Can't we learn to respect it as a difference?