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Re:Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered ne... by glenngillen on Sunday September 23, 2018 @04:08AM (#18049997)
My wife suffered the same. She consulted a nutritionist who after hearing her symptoms suggested, with much suspicion from me, that she try the elimination diet from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital’s allergy unit: https://www.slhd.nsw.gov.au/rpa/allergy/resources/foodintol/...

And now we know that she can’t ingest a high level of saicilates without complications. I still struggle to reason about what foods prepared in what ways meet the criteria (the book at the URL above maps it all out, I’ve just been unable to build a mental model/pattern match in the same way I can on carbs vs proteins) but I no longer have any doubt that these are the triggers.

Hopefully the same process helps you out too.

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Re:Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered ne... by wavegeek on Sunday September 23, 2018 @05:56AM (#18050316)
The RPAH clinic was life changing for several people I know. including me. I think food/additive intolerances are a vastly underrated problem.

A lot of people think they cannot tolerate "gluten" or some other thing when, often but not always, it is the additives in foods that are the problem.

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Re:Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered ne... by m_fayer on Sunday September 23, 2018 @06:27AM (#18050396)
Or complex sugars (FODMAPs), a good overview here: https://gut.bmj.com/content/65/1/169
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