The No Meat Diet Results

I had a visit with the naturopath this morning. I really like her and wish I could see her for all my medical needs.

I’m sure you all know already that I have alpha-gal from a tick bite and have had it for 20+ years. In the beginning, the only ground beef I could eat was the leanest I could find and then I had to cook it and drain it on paper towels til as much of the grease as possible was gone. Even then, I would only eat it once every 2 or 3 weeks. Eating it twice within a few days would cause a reaction but I can’t think of any time I had a reaction so long as I waited a couple of weeks between ground beef meals. When I cook a roast, I will cook it a day ahead, leave it in the fridge overnight so all the fat hardens and can be removed.

I am very lucky because some people have reactions if they simply walk into a room where any mammal meat is being prepared. Many people cannot eat butter, ice cream, milk or any product containing anything made using a mammal product. Some cannot eat regular sugar because of of that is filtered through bone char. It is crazy to see how severely allergic some people are so . . I’m lucky.

For me, these days I can even eat a greasy hamburger from a good hamburger restaurant but I take Benadryl before I eat and I always keep an epi-pen with me.

My naturopath said that they’ve now found that alpha-gal may cause joint pain. The way I understand it, and I have no medical training . . allergic reactions can raise the levels of eosinophils and all that can result in or indication a higher level of inflammation and inflammation can cause joint pain. Again . . I’m trying to remember how she explained it all to me.

She felt there might be some correlation between the mammal product allergy and my joint pain so for one month, I had no milk, ice cream, cheese, no beef, no pork, I read labels on everything and, as far as I know, I followed all the rules.

The blood work showed that the eosinophil levels did not come down but the inflammation was less. She does not feel that there is a problem with eating beef and pork, just so I stay within some limits so as not to trigger a reaction. She’s given me some other things to try and I’ll have more blood tests in March.