So here was my hypothesis
Some of the experiments pulled all the major allergens but left in all veggies. I knew from my own research that there were several veggies that were high in salicylates.
Some of the experiments which showed great response left in gluten or did not insist on gluten free or left in some dairy (dairy has no salicylates) buy pulled every salicylate known.
The level of reaction improvement seemed (eyeballing it) to be related to how many of these foods were pulled from the diet. The more foods pulled the better the result.
So what if, in most cases, the kids were having an autoimmune reaction of some sort that was poorly defined and hard to test? Well, if I pulled the top ten allergens (gluten, dairy, corn, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, citrus, eggs, fish and shellfish) and put the child on a low salicylate additive and preservative free diet using only organic food then if that hypothesis was true, I should, theoretically see a big improvemen more than 60% of the time. Also I should see a sudden relapse when an offending food was re-introduced.
I would love to say that I carefully crafted the experiment, but I did not. I pull the top 12 all the time to design recipes for this blog. I then pulled salicylates in addition. What was left was purchased organic.
The result, oddly, was a diet that reminded me of what I ate as a child in the 1970s. Fruit meant bananas, mangoes, pears, and red delicious apples with some pomegranite and passion fruit juices working as a punch. Vegetables meant salad, peas, celery, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, and leeKs or green onions. Meat meant grass fed and healthy and bread was made from rice, tapioca, arrowroot, millet and sorghum.
No tomatoes, no broccoli, no dark leafy greens and no spices.
So not exciting.
Now to be perfectly honest I wasn’t expecting this to work all that well or quickly. Sure, I had seen the FedUp! site but still, what were the odds that my kid would go into remission within two weeks…I mean really…if that were to happen repeatedly then it would mean that the cure for most of what we call severe ADD is actually just food and that we could cure most kids by feeding them like it was 1973 and a snowstorm (no bread and milk…why do people buy bread and milk during blizzards?).
I mean, it was so simple, it couldn’t really be the answer
Could it?
