Going Vegan / Macrobiotic......

WEll as I said - just before Christmas I ended up going into hospital. I was having incredible pain attacks. I had thought it was food poisoning and marvelled how it kept coming back after a lifetime if never getting food poisoning suddenly I was getting it every couple of weeks. Hmmm..... Anyway eventually whilst in Korea on Christmas Holiday it struck again 3 times in 10 days so I went into the ER and the next thing I knew I was on my way to a hospital in Seoul being whizzed to this hospital and that for CAT scans, Ultra sounds and ERCP procedures and talking to a surgeon about getting my gall bladder removed.

I spoke to my Mum who is big on dietary matters having healed her self of a liver related problem in the past and as the gallbladder is part of the liver's system I wanted to pick her brains. She sent me some information on detoxing your liver. The diet she suggested meant cutting out various food groups for a period of time and then re-introducing them group by group in small increments, allowing your liver to jump start itself and heal somewhat. The book my Mum recommended to help with this Detox is called "The Liver Detox Plan: The Revolutionary Way to Cleanse and Revive Your Body - By Xandria Williams



The Dr told me I also had the onset of pancreatitis brought on by the ERCP I had in Korean Hospital this complicated matters further and cut out more food types, so with a bit of research and moderation my new diet emerged for the time being at least.... Meat Free, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Nut and Seed Free and cutting out a number of vegetable families: No Brassicas, No Legumes (pulses), No Nightshades (potato/tomato/pepper family) and no raw vegetables so really hardly anything I could eat!!! But amazingly the diet seems to be working wonders no more pain, no more attacks and my pancreas seems to be functioning normally again now.

Time will tell how long I can keep it up!