Not so sure there is such as thing as a healthy Pizza! I am chronically ill myself. What has helped however is a more whole food/unprocessed diet. I avoid simple sugars e.g chocolate/sweets, alcohol, wheat yeast. However everyone is unique so your needs will vary from mine but yeast, sugar are normally prime suspects.
I also cut out chemicals from my diet, make my own skincare products and use eco cleaning products. Might sound drastic but has proved beneficial in my case, - I look younger, my skin is much better e.g. no more acne and unlike many people with the conditions I suffer from I am not bed ridden.
I take supplements but, as I am not a professional would be wary in advising in this area. However a good multivitamin - maybe with extra vitamin c and zinc as these are the bodies healers could be beneficial - check it out with a professional though! At least eat foods with high contents of these vitamins and minerals in . Raw garlic is good as it contains high levels of zinc and allicin (a bacteria buster!)
It may not be a complete cure but has certainly helped me.
I know it sounds like a drastic diet but processed food is full of hidden junk - MSG/sugar/hydrogenated fats.
I hope this helps!
Kate

hi sportd,
thanks for posting. Im not going to go into a great deal on here, as I dont think its prudent to, however my opinion is, try a good quality systemic enzyme, not just digestive enzymes. If you would like me to point you in the right direction just PM me if you are able (not sure if you are new member).

A good quality one doesnt come cheap, but since introducing them to my clinic last year, on a recommendation, and having used them myself after similar things to you re allergic reactions to food and lots of intolerances, im amazed....I feel like my body now works properly and isnt having to constantly go on the attack whenever I eat something!

Im not saying they are a cure all, but after a good course of them your body may be able to deal with things properly.

Most common deficiency, in fact almost universal in the UK, affecting the immune system, is vitamin D. Get a blood test to confirm, and google Mercola, Vitamin D Council, Credence, or Sunlight Robbery for more information. There is a lot of evidence that the standard medical information for what you need to take, and the sensible blood levels, is way out of line with our true needs.

Search other threads on HP about this. Good luck:045:

Thank you for your replies.

About that pizza. It was made out of whole grains and had low spices on it. That's why i thought its better than the other simple ones.

Also currently for about 2 weeks I dont eat yeast, sugar, wheat, chocolate/sweets, and i avoid alcohol, but I can not see any difference in my organism. I only feel less energized. And it takes weeks for my pimples to disappear, and furthermore not completely disappear. I couldn't count the pimples that didn't disappear completely. Maybe its called scars? I don't know but its bad.

Also i tried using natural cosmetics but didn't really find something as effective. Also today had a roast pork. Mom used a little egg on it. (by the way I can eat pork to obtain amino acids, i don't eat chicken, beef, turkey, because my doctor said it's more prone to an allergic reaction). I know strongly that I'm allergic to egg protein. But now i don't eat anything with eggs, so i should see a better result, but i strongly feel that every foods gives an impact on my allergy. It's like immune system can't deal with it, but vitamin c didn't helped as well. The vitamins I'm taking has 60mg of vitamin c and 12mg of zinc.

And I forgot to mention in my story that during summer I tried drinking cocktails with eggs, mixed ~2 egg with no yolk, added milk, few spoons of sour cream, and sugar. Because a friend said its a good protein shake. Well first ones were delicious. So i continued to make them. Had like 5-6 first week, and i continiously increesed the content of egg with no yolk. And when i increased it to about ~4. My face got all itchy and red spots appeared (like after mosquito bite). Then my mom told me to emidiatly find a pharmacy and get me pills from allergy. Had to run and find a store at midnight when only on call pharmacies were working.

+ my diet has like only 5% of processed foods - like sausages. But I buy ones where the package says no preservatives.

Okay, I will add that the tendency for high-protein diets in sport is completely unnecessary. It makes a lot of money for manufacturers of sports supplements, but also makes a lot of work for your digestive system and liver to process those complex chemicals. You really do not need a particularly large amount of protein in adulthood.

What most athletes are lacking is the millions of different living nutrients such as enzymes and vitamins that can only be got from uncooked fresh food. Thes nutrients are what allow you to really extract every last bit of energy from your food. Cooking kills food.

Too much protein and carbs tends to cause a tendency towards acidity. So moderation in these areas, especially the protein. Remember that sport generates lactic acid, so if you are already leaning in an acidic direction, you are effectively starting your training half-way exhausted. Alkali foods (fresh fruit, veg, especially greens) should be taken in abundance.

So moderating the protein might make a big difference, but don't miss it out altogether (60g-80g a day should be plenty, even if for resistance training).

Avoidance of fat is a bad idea, but certain kinds of fat are very harmful and should be avoided (eg margarine, fried fat etc). Don't cook with olive oil because it is too unstable at heat, use it raw.

The one vitamin you can't get enough of from diet alone is D. It may not be the whole story, but I usually start there with cases like this. So get in the sun, or onto a sunbed, or take some D3 capsules and get that blood test. It's only the start, but take it from there.

As an afterthought, best get fluoride-free toothpaste and if you have metal fillings get them checked and consider a sensible programme for removal.

I do sports a lot. 3 times a weak karate, 3 times a weak basketball. Bit at home - abs, rope jump. Therefore I try what i've heard. For breakfast I eat porridge (barley, oat) to get carbohydrates for energy. At lunch i eat a roast pork with rice or a pork ham with black bread to get some protein because i also want to add at least few centimeters to my height. Because of these allergies i didn't grow at all for a year. And this year i had stretched (in karate training) and played basketball more than any year in my life, and didn't add anything to my height. That's absurd. I'm the smallest in my class. And before bed i eat some greens like cucumbers, spring onions.

I'm willing to eat anything in order to get rid off these allergies, to get back my energy, and to grow a bit.

By the way I don't know if it has anything to do with allergies, but its few days now and i got a stuffy nose, and my nose receptors are not working properly.

AND THE VITAMINS I TAKE FOR IMMUNE SYSTEM (Imuno Spektrum) HAS 5µg of vitamin d3.

At the moment feeling really itchy after the lunch I told i had

Hi Sportd
5µg is 200IU (international units), which is not enough. The RDA for adults is 600IU.

But in fact this is also inadequate, we use approx 4000IU of vitamin D every day, this is what we must take just to stop our blood levels backsilding. If we are low (approx 90% of us are right now), then we need much more, sometimes massively more, to bring our levels of reserve back up.

Normally we arrive at autumn with a good reserve of D we have made in the summer, by spring it is thoroughly exhausted. In these modern times we go into winter already depleted, and it only gets worse from there.

Put in context, a white person sunbathing in the middle of the day in June can make the equivalent of around 20,000IU in about 30 minutes - a thousand times what you are taking (but please don't take that much, it is not the saem in a tablet). Afro-Carribean skin NEEDS more sun exposure for health.

I see no reason why gorging on meat for lunch will make you taller (can any of the nutritionalists comment on this please?), unless it is loaded with growth hormones, and if that was the effect there would be other health consequences. In any case, huge amounts of meat will give you health problems sooner or later.

You may also be overtraining. Bear in mind that you don't get fitter while you train, but while you rest afterwards. If you don't get enough recovery time then you won't progress, and you could get run down.

This is all general information, I cannot offer specific advice here. I don't know your age, or other circumstances, but all of these points could need adjusting to your exact situation.

Okay, i believe that i need more vitamin D because, all autumn we got no sun here.

But Is that the only problem? Can vitamin D help me with my eczema, pimples and food allergies??

And about the growing thing. Meat is one of the protein sources i believe. During this summer, i got a friend (also allergic to foods and he got eczema rashes to) who tried out protein powder from sports club. During that time he managed to grow like 5 cm.

kvdp I am very thankful for you help and i will use your advises well. Maybe you have more advice how i could change my lifestyle to maintain the health i once had?

What I am looking at is sources of stress, deficiency, and toxicity.

This is more complicated than adding a bit of vitamin D I'm afraid, but that's a start. If that were the only matter then all of us would have your same symptoms. So I repeat my advice to take further readin on vitamin D, and to work directly with a practitioner. For example, a good nutritionalist and osteopath could give you an advantage in your game as well as helping you overcome these glitches.

I will also add that pimples on the face can relate to digestive disturbance, as can generalised eczema. Large amounts of meat do not necessarily become easily absorbed. As mentioned this is very hard work for your digestion, and it can tend to collect and putrify in your gut, which could have a great deal to do with your situation. It will also affect your sport. So you need to address this to progress.

A colonic might help for a while and give an indication if this is a problem of a gut full of toxins and rotting meat, but the answer isn't to keep on having colonics while leaving the essential problem unaddressed.

Pimples can also relate to excess adrenaline, which indicates again that you may not be allowing enough recovery time.

I know even less about your friend's situation than I do about yours, however, protein mixes are often filled with hormone substitues and other artificial stimulants to growth, so the actual protein may have little to do with this. I would not advise using these if you are concerned about your health, especially long-term. What I am trying to say is that an excess of protein is not helpful, it just makes work for your body. If you are still growing anyway, then that's another story, so you need tailored advice.

However, your friend clearly has health problems also, so perhaps consider doing something differently.

It is vital to realise that your body is not a tank that just fills with anything you put in: it has limited capacity to do its various tasks, and it cannot put 100% into every function at the same time, it has to prioritise its workload. Digesting hard and training hard at the same time causes a great deal of stress for your body, and ultimately wastes a lot of energy.

The sportspeople I meet who go the route of large amounts of crude high energy and high protein food and products tend to end up with problems, from bad breath and uncontrolled weight-gain to far worse. Even if they get a big burst of performance initially, they are not the ones who are at the top of their game into their 30s, 40s and 50s.

However, if you take a bit of this and that off the internet, you may get mixed results, and that could reflect badly on the quality of advice you receive. You certainly don't need a different product, what you need is different habits, built from the ground up with the right advice.

So these may be useful pointers, but I would repeat that navigating any health situation takes professional contact and direct guidance with the necessary practitioners.

Hope that helps, good luck and best wishes
K

kvdp thank you for the information. I also would liek to ask you - do you think if i took amino acids from pharmacy, could it help me to get back my energy and attention?

While surfing the internet, i went to my problem of energy. It lead to food allergies. Then I read that amino acids are useful and all of what they provide is exactly what i'm looking for. I read that those amino acids which our body can not make, are mainly obtained from foods. And I read about all those amino acids. Lizin is needed for bone growth, Leucin - source of energy, Metionin - vitaly important amino acid for our cells. There's more to read about them.

And I'm looking for the answer so bad, 18 years old means Youth, and while i was ~8-17 i was so Healthy! I'm desperate that nobody can help me and I'm willing to try anything..

Hi sportd

It is really frustrating when your health is below par and you want to get on with life! Looking at your posts, several things come to mind. Not just vitamin D shortage and other issues covered by kvdp.

One of the best things that helped my allergies was vitamin C - not 60mg, which is almost worse than useless. I had 2-3 x 1000mg daily, and my allergies reduced enormously. It needs to be balanced by a full range of quality vitamins and minerals, as none works in isolation.

It seems allergies are also tied up with imbalanced gut bacteria, and having had antibiotics, especially in childhood, I would suspect you need to take some probiotics. I personally would spend my money on a good probiotic with some 20-80 billion bacteria from the [DLMURL="http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=2519&prodid=2782"]chiller cabinet[/DLMURL] in a healthfood shop rather than on protein supplements.

Eczema and pimples are also tied up with gut dysbiosis (overgrowth of wrong bacteria) - probably due to undigested protein. If one asks why the protein is not being digested, then the answer is digestive enzyme shortage. Why shortage of digestive enzymes? - stress? lack of zinc? Why lack of zinc? Probably you are not absorbing it properly, or using up too much with stress (high exercise, upset at personal appearance/lack of progress, etc.) And low zinc levels is very much tied up with pimples.

So how much zinc? Well, I'd suggest you may need considerably more than what you were taking. A therapeutic dose in a situation like yours (depending on other indicators) might be 30-70mg daily.

I'd also suggest you are short of omega-3 essential oils which come mostly from cold-water oily fish. It would help to eat at least 3 protions of these fish (sardines, mackerel, herring or deep water salmon) each week, and to begin with take a fishoil supplement. I know it seems daft to take oil when one has spots, but this is an Essential oil that cannot be manufactured by the body, so must be eaten. It is essential for every cell in the body and would help to heal your skin from the inside out.

That's for starters - you also need to look at things like liver support. You might look at the Cave Man diet.

This is only an outline of what a registered Nutritional Therapist - [url]find one here [/url]- will cover and help you with. The aim of Nutritional Therapy is to optimise an individual's health and vitality by combining science (biochemistry and nutrition) with naturopathy (natural, drug-free treatment) focusing on diet, lifestyle and supplements to support the body's natural healing processes. The programme will be designed specifically for you and I'm sure you will be amazed at the results - as I often am!

What I see is a lot of random inputs and hopeful changes without giving your body a chance to sort things out. That takes time, and space, and the occasional pause for thought. It really helps if those inputs have some kind of coordinated theme also, for which I repeat you need the personal oversight of a practitioner, a chat on the web will be a poor substitute.

What CarolineN has put is as usual very sound. I would reiterate that one other cause of incomplete protein digestion is eating more protein than your digestion can handle and then working hard while trying to absorb.

Regarding essential amino acids, you get them all from eating animal and fish protein. Similarly, digestive enzymes are produced by your body.

So while there is a place for all these things as seperate products, if you are not absorbing amino acids, or not producing the right digestive enzymes, then as my colleague has rightly pointed out, you have to start asking why, and she may have hit the nail on the head with stress. But really, from a distance we can only guess.

One other factor not mentioned is constipation, so, frankly, if you are not having good bowel movements, preferably 2 or 3 a day, then you need to sort that out also. I'll leave it to you to figure if this is relevant or not in your case.

It can be tough enough being 18 anyway, and if you are overdoing it, that won't help. So before adding more factors, I would start by clearing the decks - have a break, a 2 day fast, a few days' holiday from work/training etc - and reboot. Create some space in your life somewhere - anywhere you can. You may find that suddenly some of these problems begin to solve themselves and the path comes clear.

I forgot to mention dehydration. Are you drinking enough water? Not sports drinks, coke etc but water?

It's easy to be unaware of dehydration, not least because we can mistake thirst signals for hunger signals. That could certainly make you itch.

Why not start each day with a pint of water then have another 2-4 pints at least during the day and see what happens. Give it a couple of weeks for your body to adjust to this.

Agreed - water is vital. Also to stop smoking and reduce alcohol intake. But one could go on ... and on! One needs to see you in person really to give the best advice sportd.

Hello again,

With all the advices now, I am currently waiting for my monthly money to get me some vitamins, c/d and zinc. I don't Think i get much zinc in my life, 12mg in my vitamins i take, - and I didn't mention i take these 2 times a day. Before bed and in the morning. And now that i read about it, i found that it supports smell and taste sensitivity. I feel a very weak smell sensitivity. Taste sensitivity is maybe good.

About fish in my life. When i was ~8-15 i ate these sprats. I think I didn't take any other fish because of my earlier allergies and also I didn't take fish as a delicious food. When i was 15-18 i only had fish fingers. Now for about 4 months i don't take any of those. Before 2 or 1 and a half month i tried taking peter mollers fish oil. But as my eczema was going worse and worse, and one forum said I should try cutting out the fish oil, because it is prone to an allergic reaction. So 1.5-2 month no fish oil no fish fingers, sprats.

And my latest healthy year had a really small circle of foods i took. All i ate was pasta/rice + sausages. Mom boils the pasta/rice, then cooks it with sausages. My main lunch. For breakfast i took hot sandwiches with sausages, used garlic,tomato sauce and also i ate pancakes, cereal with milk. For my meat, it was mainly sausages, rarely pork,chicken. AFTER MY CHILDHOOD ALLERGIES DISAPPEARED AND I WAS ABLE TO DRINK MILK, WITH EVERY MEAL, I TOOK GLASS OF MILK. But there was a break for milk when I was ~16-17 years old, then i was drinking lemonade. And during my healthy time i think i didn't even drink much water, maybe only after basketball trainings a bottle. But I ate apples, black currants, salads, cucumbers, strawberries and other fruits to.

About alcohol and drugs. Don't use any drugs, don't smoke and rarely if going party with friends instead of beer i rather take vodka.

I drink a lot of water. Tea. Sometimes mineral water, - not many. No other drinks. Don't drink coffee at all, hate the smell/taste.

I don't know is eating pate good for me in my situation.

About my pimples. They act really strange. It usually appears, hurts if i touch and feels like it's growing. Then pops out and going to scar phase, or sometimes not. But now the pimple appears, it hurts a bit when i touch it, and feels that it's growing. But after some time the pimple stops heating, hurting, growing and stays there for a looonger time. It's like it becomes inactive, but also for it to disappear i need to wait like 10 times longer. And recently they started to appear at the sides of my face. It would only appear around my beard and on the sides of nose.

And when started my investigations, my first conclusion was the toxicity of liver. Because i took natural, lean yogurt with bifidobacteria for my gut. And i eat the yogurt till now. 2-3 of them a week.

My training - Tuesday, Thursday, and sometimes Friday karate training. 75 minutes of intense work. Really useful sport for health, growing, strength, awareness, stamina etc. And i play basketball at school during a lesson for 35-40 minutes on Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday. So I'm able to rest at Friday, Saturday.

And I have Russian vitamin C pills with 50mg of vitamin c in each peas. But not long ago my doctor said I shouldn't take them as well as I shouldn't drink calendula tea because they are orange.

About my metabolism. I never had any problems to digest anything. Nether I do now. Everything with my metabolism is looking good. When i was 14-18 i often ate meals before bed on like 23:00 pm if I wanted to. And I think it is normal that, - if i take a glass of water or two i go to the bathroom in like 15 minutes after I drink.

And for using steroids u mentioned. I had a severe Bronchial Asthma during my early childhood. Food allergies wasn't the only thing bugging me. I couldn't go near dust. A bit of dust and I'm at the hospital taking inhalers. but i got out of this after i turned ~10 years old. But i used many inhalers, preparations and pills back then.

During this summer I mentioned i took a lot of cottage cheese when going to sports club. I took it like 1-2 times a day. for ~2-3 weeks only. Sometimes 3-4 a week. But most importantly i took it with sour cream and a looooot of cokoa. Till it gets DARK brown.

I understand that all of these substances i provide about me, may be the cause of my current life.

Currently I'm eating barley, oat, rice porridge for breakfast. Sandwiches with pork ham on dark bread for breakfast. Some green salads, cucumbers, spring onions for dinner. And i got an avocado, probably will take it any time tomorrow.

And i tried drinking a loot of alo vera natural juice. Drinked it for ~2 weeks and used it a lot. But didn't see much results.

Each day before bed i drink Aceterin pills doctor perscribed me to avoid each day of running nose. And it helps. But if don't drink it before sleep, in the morning IF i take a shower, after the shower i always get runny nose, and I sneeze like a 10-30 times. Ican't go to a pool with my friend because After the pool, next morning - really strong runny nose. Chlorine allergy. But Water in our flat is not chlorinated.

And I know any detail i give about my self is useful to follow and find the cause of the allergies, so last one would be that my lips get drie alot, also before bed i always use Vaseline, and most of the times before school.

Looking at what you say here please read my first post again - if you go through each point I made and follow that advice then you may well improve.

Zinc - From reading your post I would suggest you need at least 50mg daily for the next 2 months.

Probiotics - L. acidophillus and Bifidobacteria - at least 20 billion bacteria daily - your body being under stress needs that, especially of your taste and smell are limited. What you get in bio-yoghurts is not enough to supply this. The steroids and antibiotics will have caused havoc with your gut flora.

Omega oils (3 and 6) from oily fish and nuts and seeds. If you can't eat or get the right fish, then FISH OIL (from fish muscle, not liver) is best. The fish liver oil is likely to be contaminated with mercury, PCBs and dioxins. These may be what caused you to react to them. Dry lips may be shortage of omega oils.

From the description of the foods you are eating at the moment I would suggest you are consuming a considerable number of chemical preservatives and additives - any of which could be causing you reactions - as in sausages, ketchup, ham. Continue eating apples, black currants, salads, cucumbers, strawberries and other fruits too. These are very good for you.

I would suspect you are still reacting to milk (or anything else). To test this avoid all dairy products for 2 weeks then eat/drink a whole lot at once (glass of milk, lump of cheese/cottage cheese, plain yoghurt). Before you do the 'eat test' take your pulse when you have been sitting down quietly for 15 minutes, then eat/drink the food, then take your pulse every 10 minutes for the next hour (staying quietly the whole time) and note any changes to the speed of your pulse. If it goes up 10 beats or more per minute then there is a reaction to what you have consumed, also note any other changes that may happen. I would then avoid these foods completely for 6 months and redo the test. if you still react then you may have to avoid them for anything up to 2 years. If then there is no reaction then the foods can be re-introduced in small quantities occasionally - but not every day.

I still suggest you need up to 3000mg of vitamin C to help deal with any pathogens, lower your histamine levels and to boost your immune system. Also a multivitamin/multimineral with some vitamin E and a full range of B vitamins.

I have no problem with you drinking calendula tea - it is very soothing. Maybe you could use calendula cream on your skin?

Even these changes should make a considerable difference over time.

Thank you for your posts very much! I wrote down everything, and starting my journey, but my condition is bad and i don't want to make it worse, so i need to ask you a question.

--- I bought the vitamin C, zinc, ant the good bacteria (probiotic complex). I didn't find the needed amount you told me, anywhere. So i got it in lower quantities. Got 1000mg vitamin C (in 1 pill), Zinc 15mg (in 1 pill), and for probiotics it says: lactobacillus acidophillus 500 million, bifidobacterium bifidum 300 million, enteroccus faecum 200 million.

And on each of these supplements there's a recommended daily take, which would be like 1pill per day to every of these (probiotic complex 1-2 times per day). And on the box of the pills it is said that "do not exceed the recommended daily intake".

So should i drink 3 pills of vitamin C per day and 3-4 Zinc pills per day?

(Still looking for other supplements(fish oil in here is made mostly everywhere from liver not muscles))