I too have these racing heartbeats. I am on NO ASPERTAME diet and while my fibromyalgia pain is lessened and my eyes feel better...my heart still races. I have been avoiding msg for a long time but it sneaks in under different names and forget about your health if you eat out. And you won't believe that Walmart is adding msg to its "fresh meats" now. Soon you won't be able to buy processed or fresh meat in my country without msg. But the beef cattle are being feed almost exclusively GM CORN as a TOTAL diet so it's best to go NO BEEF!
Most all animals for food in my country are fed antibiotics, hormones and GM foods so it's best to go veggie and grow your own.
I an a reiki healer and a budding psychic so I can't have signals coming from my body to interfere with the signals that I am trying to receive.
I am making a lemon/lime drink with stevia and real fruit that I squeeze. I buy bulk bags of veggies and fruit (frozen) from wholesale big box stores. There is nothing in there but the vegetables or fruit. Nothing! It's making for a strange diet but I am trying to get to health. I am allowing myself butter and cheese (over the veggies). But will eliminate that if I need to. What ever it takes to get to full funtion.
I use filtered water and have air purifiers in my home. I want to be as unaffected by my environment as possible so I can do what I was meant to do.
Sound paranoid? Oh well. So be it. My environment is being manipulated without my concent. It's my only option as I see it.
Well, thanks to your suggestion CarolineN, I did go and see a registered nutritionist in 11/2012.
It seems like most if not all of the mystery of the symptoms I was experiencing has now been cleared up and I've since been able to work out the following:
Soya - causes really bad anxiety for me. Without it, I don't feel any at all. Any products containing Soya (e.g. the famous meat alternative which sounds a bit like 'Corn') and alternative cheeses etc. Takes about 5/6 months of exclusion for it to completely go would you believe. I know this because I excluded it for 6 months, tried it, got really bad anxiety again and then excluded it for a further 5 months before the symptoms disappear.
Tea / Coffee / Chocolate etc. (Caffeine) - even in small quantities like one ordinary cup of tea causes the missed heartbeats / racing heart albeit not until at least the day after consuming it. I've switched to caffeine-free and don't get the issue. I also get a headache after just one regular coffee and have done for years albeit I hardly drank it but didn't realise it was caffeine. Can now drink caffeine-free more often without issue.
Chocolate / Cheese / Other Dairy (Tyramine / Casein / Whey) - causes headaches / mild (in terms of pain) migraines if consumed to much (with chocolate, the limit is not much at all, cheese the limit is quite a bit more but gets me in the end - the stronger the cheese, the less I can eat although I only like mild cheddar anyway). Also causes other strange clinical symptoms which only happen after eating too much. I now don't have dairy regularly at all and only eat the occasional dairy product such as cheese every so often which I can get away with. I use Alpro UHT Almond Milk (daily instead of regular milk) and avoid casually eating anything that contains dairy.
Pork Sausages - causes a grumbling appendix. I don't eat them now.
The other benefits I've also noticed after all this I can think more clearly, my memory works better, I'm less concerned about stuff which you shouldn't be concerned about anyway etc.
There may be other things I've forgotten but these are key ones.
I basically now follow 'everything in moderation' which seems to work well.
So the suggestion to see a registered nutritional therapist was and is much appreciated and hopefully my post can hope others trying to work out what is causing their issues - albeit not necessarily the same causes as mine.
Hi there Jec911
That is excellent news! I am simply delighted you have sorted your problem out with Nutritional Therapy. How I wish the medics learned it too - the NHS would be in profit because of the lack of sales for pharmaceuticals!!!
It was well worth trying this system of healing. Knowing what your body can tolerate makes SUCH a difference.
Fantastic - and thanks for letting us know.
Hi there Jec911
That is excellent news! I am simply delighted you have sorted your problem out with Nutritional Therapy. How I wish the medics learned it too - the NHS would be in profit because of the lack of sales for pharmaceuticals!!!
It was well worth trying this system of healing. Knowing what your body can tolerate makes SUCH a difference.
Fantastic - and thanks for letting us know.
The NHS will NEVER be in profit. But sadly drugs are very cost effective,. I got very irate a few years ago over the routine prescribing of drugs to prevent cardiovascular events. Basically we are giving people drugs when actually all they need to do is make lifestyle changes. It was pointed out to me in no uncertain terms that it was more cost effective to prescribe the drugs because if people can't/won't make the lifestyle changes dealing with their strokes and heart attacks costs MUCH more than giving the drugs in the first place.
Sadly some people are happier taking drugs than eating healthy food....
A case in point - I was prescribed Propranolol for my anxiety in 11/2013 but I really didn't want to take it and am too stubborn to give in to it!
Having now managed to work out the cause of my anxiety - I didn't need it anyway...!
I've also since had a bit of irritation at the top of my stomach and I know the '...prazoles' give me a headache or react with me so I am now on a Cinnamon-based supplement instead - no headaches and the pain is going.
I hate to think what my prescribed '...prazoles' plus Propranolol drugs have and would cost the NHS for me alone let alone what else is prescribed because people won't make a few, what I consider, simple changes. I love food and bad food like anyone else, but you can still eat small amounts in moderation - but you also appreciate it more.
As a bonus, I'd already dropped from 19st8 in 2007 to around 18st4 in 2012 but couldn't drop any more. Since 11/2012, I am not running at 16st10 and feel much better for it.
Also started cycling again in the Summer since 2009 and I'm finding my general fitness has improved enormously!
I remember thinking 10 years or more ago that I could never lead a healthier lifestyle if I tried but I find it really easy now and can't recommend it enough.