So, I clued you in that I have started a serious road to gut recovery. Quite frankly, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am in no way, shape, or form recommending, endorsing, or being paid by anyone to tell you these things. I just want to share my experience on the interwebs so that maybe someday some poor thing with a seemingly incurable skin disease can find some insight from my frustrations.
A) I started the
Celiact supplement Sunday, Feb 3rd by taking one pill before dinner.
2) Since then, I have taken one pill in the morning after a workout and then one again before dinner
C) That is, until today. Today I took two pills both in the morning and at dinner. I have heard it's best to ease your body into supplement regimens. Tossing six pills into your system out of the blue might make a few things angry.
So...what
is this stuff? First off, it contains dairy, so if you're lactose intolerant don't go order it. They've placed a warning label nicely on the lid (THANK YOU!) so you don't miss any fine print and pay for it later on. It's basically a mix of vitamins, proteins that your gut uses to repair itself, and probiotics that can be found in yogurt...it's all conveniently rolled into one. Pretty cool, huh?
Since Sunday, I have successfully accidentally unknowingly contaminated myself every single day. Yes, despite my best efforts, there is wheat in nearly everything in this country. Sunday was the Superbowl and I wasn't about to turn down Dad's chili after he especially changed his recipe so I could eat it. (A lot of canned chili beans contain wheat y'all) Who knows what I reacted to, but it was something. Monday was great, actually, until I popped a gluten free waffle into our toaster that my husband mainly uses. My husband does not have food intolerances. 'Nuff said...yet another lesson in cross-contamination. Tuesday I managed to stay away from gluten COMPLETELY, but it turns out I'm one of the many who also reacts to a preservative called BHT. BHT can be found in things like cereal and gum. Don't just accept the gluten free label, folks, turn the package over and do some reading. The BHT reaction is fast and furious. I popped a piece of gum in my mouth in the morning and just a few chomps in.....
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| I hope you can see the red splotches on your screen. It was crazy. |
So, yeah,
BHT.
Wednesday I grabbed my old faithful chewable vitamin C and took one in an effort to keep avoiding the crud.....oops. turns out the brand of chewable Vitamin C I've taken for years is NOT gluten free. I'll say this, the gum producers and the vitamin manufacture both made it VERY easy to find nutrition information on their websites, and didn't claim to be gluten free anywhere on the package...but there were also no ingredients that looked harmful. Which leads me to my point (finally) that we're just better off eating real food. If it doesn't need a label, i.e. spinach and oranges and carrots, it's probably safe to eat! (seeing as how we don't grab handfuls of wheat and chew on them like animals, don't even try that argument with me)
By now reverting back to my "eat real food" know how, I hope to make some serious progress with healing my gut and my body. I've noticed an increase in energy, and can tell that I need to take the supplement with food or else my belly starts feeling pretty eleven o'clockish. So there you have it, 4 days of Celiact and I've only managed to not screw myself up on one of those days.
