fishgutzy
Senior Member
One of my wife's oldest friends, she is 81, shared an interesting experience that has us seriously considering going wheat free. (Not gluten free, though they are linked).
Her friend was on many different medications including high blood pressure meds. That one in particular was 20mg twice a day.
Last year she start feeling more sluggish. Couldn't walk as far and had difficulty finishing her 1 mile swims.
Having earned two master degrees in chemistry, she knows how to do research. So she researched her symptoms and came across studies linking all of them to wheat.
She eliminated all wheat and wheat products from her diet.
Longer story short, she is down to one 5mg pill of her blood pressure medicine PER WEEK. She is back to exercising 45 minute as soon as she wakes up, she swims 1 mile 3 time a week and walks several miles a day.
Her 95 year old partner had been to weak to walk much at all and most days he could just get to the sofa. So she tried this diet change with him 3 months ago. Now he can walk several miles again, and they enjoy their walks to the cafe for coffee in the morning again. He too has been able to start reducing his meds.
It seems that all the regulation of agri-business has change the wheat in a manner that is not healthy for a segment of the population. It adversely impacts the autoimmune system which controls so much that go on in our bodies.
My wife 4 different autoimmune disorders. I have one, eczema. So we are going to try this.
If we are successful, I'll report back results.
Her friend was on many different medications including high blood pressure meds. That one in particular was 20mg twice a day.
Last year she start feeling more sluggish. Couldn't walk as far and had difficulty finishing her 1 mile swims.
Having earned two master degrees in chemistry, she knows how to do research. So she researched her symptoms and came across studies linking all of them to wheat.
She eliminated all wheat and wheat products from her diet.
Longer story short, she is down to one 5mg pill of her blood pressure medicine PER WEEK. She is back to exercising 45 minute as soon as she wakes up, she swims 1 mile 3 time a week and walks several miles a day.
Her 95 year old partner had been to weak to walk much at all and most days he could just get to the sofa. So she tried this diet change with him 3 months ago. Now he can walk several miles again, and they enjoy their walks to the cafe for coffee in the morning again. He too has been able to start reducing his meds.
It seems that all the regulation of agri-business has change the wheat in a manner that is not healthy for a segment of the population. It adversely impacts the autoimmune system which controls so much that go on in our bodies.
My wife 4 different autoimmune disorders. I have one, eczema. So we are going to try this.
If we are successful, I'll report back results.