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If you have access to an Indian grocery store get some Fenugreek leaves, soak them in water and rub the water in your hair.i also heard about fenugreek leaves which are bitter testing and good for hair. also indian lentils are good after soaking them overnight. i see that good RPD can reduce the dandruff problem dramatically. Well, if you every have this dandruff, just massage a raw lemon and than wash the head with clean water or use the raw eggs and wheatgrass juice for more dramatic result.
Whatever you do avoid shampoos. I blame the use of Head n Sholders shampoo for my hair loss. A friend of my mother's suggested it for dandruff.
Raw-al, why not the wheat grass? I grow this all the time for my son, who takes shower with the grass juice. Also it prevent my hair of being gray. Both of my parents get gray hair in their early thirties. Wheat grass is a great detergent. You can use them as tooth paste too. I use my common sense to use wheat grass. Personally I don't know anyone who is doing that.I wouldn't say it's common sense to use wheat grass as toothpaste, as wheatgrass is "the cotyledons of the common wheat plant," according to Wikipedia, which means it's non-Paleo and promotion of oral use, even toothpaste, should probably be discussed in the hot topics thread.
from: chad
sent: wednesday, july 18, 2007 12:56 pm
to: info@thepaleodiet.com
subject: re: dietary cure for acne - wheatgrass juices, flax seeds, psyllium ok???
hi doctor my girlfriend and i have started your diet and are thrilled after a nightmarish 6-month immersion in vegetarianism that only exacerbated my acne symptoms. however, there were a few items i was introduced to in this time – namely organic, high-end kamut and barley grass powdered juice blends – that i supplement with regularly for their nutrition content, enzymes and alkalizing properties. since they are grasses, however, does this make them no-no’s in accordance to your plan? i’m very confused… also, in your books and guide, you make no mention whatsoever about flax seeds, which are incredibly high in omega 3’s. i eat a few tablespoons of organic, cold-pressed milled flaxseeds every day for this benefit and their fiber, but are these to be lumped in with all the other nuts and seeds that are high in omega 6’s? i’m not sure why you didn’t discuss them even though you praise the omega 3 content of flaxseed oils… lastly, since i’ve had to cut out most of the fiber drinks i take b/c they are from cereal grains and fibers, could you propose a good alternative??? ....
from: wiley long
sent: thursday, july 19, 2007 9:58 pm
to: chad collins
subject: re: dietary cure for acne - wheatgrass juices, flax seeds, psyllium ok???
hi chad, this was dr. cordain’s reply. we may run this question in a future newsletter as well.
hi, the blades of wheat grass contain wga, an antinutrient that may potentially have adverse health effects. fresh fruits and vegetables would be better choices for their nutrient content and net alkalizing effects. flaxseeds certainly can be included in a paleo diet and represent a good source of alpha linolenic acid (18:3n3), however remember that virtually all of the beneficial health effects of omega 3 fatty acids come from the long chan versions (epa or 20:5n3, dha or 22:6n3 ) of these fatty acids. the conversion of 18:3n3 to 20:5n3 and 22:6n3 is extremely inefficient in the liver & less than 2-4% of 18:3n3 is converted to the more healthful longer n-3 fatty acids. thus, fish or fish oil is important to include in your diet. psyllium powder is a good supplement to help bowel regularity and lower blood cholesterol concentrations. however try to use it every second or third day or as needed because it's high fiber content can increase bile acid elimination which also depletes the body's vitamin d pool. it also binds most divalent minerals (iron, zinc, magnesium, calcium etc) and should therefore be consumed separate from meals. cordially, loren cordain, ph.d.
from: chad sent: friday, july 20, 2007 3:46 pm
to: wiley long subject:
re: dietary cure for acne - wheatgrass juices, flax seeds, psyllium ok???
this is great wiley, and a big help! i’ll certainly cut back on wheatgrass juice powders, as i usually consume about 3 tablespoons of premium supplements per day! hopefully, the algaes (spirulina, chlorella) are ok to consume though.
Subject: the email in question from Dr Loren Cordain
re: wheatgrass & acne...
Username: ccollins32
Date: 10/3/2007 2:45:13 PM
yes, i believe those would be a much better choice. many people drink wheat grass juice, feel sick, and think it is the “detox” that is causing that, but it may in fact be the lectins. best regards, wiley long, m.s. nutrition business director paleo diet enterprises, llc www.thepaleodiet.com
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1013175
Elevated levels of serum antibodies to the lectin wheat germ agglutinin in celiac children lend support to the gluten-lectin theory of celiac disease, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1399-3038.1995.tb00267.x/abstract
If wheat is Paleo then every plant in nature is.
yeah, wheatgrass is a grass,Of course--for wheat is a grass and wheatgrass is just a young stage of wheat: "Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a grass, originally from the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East...." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat). Did you not know that? It's a special kind of grass called a cereal.
Seems to be the same issue I was expressing in the 'noodle' thread, foods being label 'not-paleo' because they arn't part of an accepted ZC or omnivorous diet that is commonly practiced here. ...It's much more than that. Wheatgrass is a scam, in my view. As Dr. Harris would argue, it wasn't just not a staple of the Paleolithic, it's not part of our "metabolic milieu."
It may help if I explain that wheat for me is the worst of all foods and increasingly made my life a living hell before a physician helped me discover that I was intolerant of it and it's what led me to discover the Paleo diet, which was touted as being wheat-free and as providing an explanation for why millions of people are highly sensitive to wheat. After I experienced miraculous benefits by eliminating wheat and some other foods from my diet, I dedicated the rest of my life in part to helping those I care about benefit from what I learned, with eliminating wheat being priority #1. So far over a dozen people have benefited greatly by eliminating or greatly reducing wheat and other non-Paleo foods from their diets. So you will never convince me or any of them that wheat is truly Paleo or good food or anything remotely like that. We are living proof to the contrary.
Dr. Cordain and Dr. Kurt Harris and Dr. William Davis have written extensively on the dangers of wheat and collected an enormous amount of info on it. Davis regards it as public enemy #1 and Harris regards it as public enemy #3. Cordain and Harris have both written on why it is not truly "Paleo." They have probably said it much better than I could and there's no sense in reinventing the wheel, so I refer you to their writings.
Plus, according to the official definition of raw Paleo of this forum, NO grain at any stage of maturation is considered Paleo, not just wheat:
"What exactly is a Raw, Palaeolithic Diet? ...a raw, palaeolithic diet is really more defined by what it doesn’t allow than what it permits. So, an RPD(Raw Palaeolithic Diet) forbids the consumption of Neolithic foods such as legumes,dairy or grains, whether raw or cooked. It also forbids the consumption of all cooked or processed foods." http://www.rawpaleodiet.com/what-exactly-is-a-raw-palaeolithic-diet/
Pieces of milk and wheat proteins (peptides) can act like the body's own narcotics, the endorphins, and were described by Zioudro, Streaty and Klee as "exorphins" in 1979. Other food proteins, such as gluten, results in the production of substances having opiate- (narcotic) like activity. These substances have been termed "exorphins." Hydrolyzed wheat gluten, for example, was found to prolong intestinal transit time and this effect was reversed by concomitant administration of naloxone, a narcotic-blocking drug. Digests of milk proteins also are opioid peptides. The brain effects of exorphins may contribute to the mental disturbances and appetite disorders which routinely accompany food-related illness. The possibility that exorphins are addictive in some people is a fascinating lead which needs further exploration.
Milk and wheat proteins have been studied and shown to yield active peptides. These substances may be numerous in the digestive tract after a meal and several effects could occur in sequence. The absorption of larger peptides may be irregular, with variation in symptom production after meals, making the interpretation of milk and wheat disease difficult. Other foods are likely to yield similar peptides.
Prompted by a possible link between diet and mental illness, several researchers in the late 1970s began investigating the occurrence of drug-like substances in some common foodstuffs.(Reading the whole article is a must.)
Dohan (1966, 1984) and Dohan et al. (1973, 1983) found that symptoms of schizophrenia were relieved somewhat when patients were fed a diet free of cereals and milk. He also found that people with coeliac disease -- those who are unable to eat wheat gluten because of higher than normal permeability of the gut -- were statistically likely to suffer also from schizophrenia. Research in some Pacific communities showed that schizophrenia became prevalent in these populations only after they became 'partially westernised and consumed wheat, barley beer, and rice' (Dohan 1984).
Groups led by Zioudrou (1979) and Brantl (1979) found opioid activity in wheat, maize and barley (exorphins), and bovine and human milk (casomorphin), as well as stimulatory activity in these proteins, and in oats, rye and soy. Cereal exorphin is much stronger than bovine casomorphin, which in turn is stronger than human casomorphin. Mycroft et al. (1982, 1987) found an analogue of MIF-1, a naturally occurring dopaminergic peptide, in wheat and milk. It occurs in no other exogenous protein. (In subsequent sections we use the term exorphin to cover exorphins, casomorphin, and the MIF-1 analogue. Though opioid and dopaminergic substances work in different ways, they are both 'rewarding', and thus more or less equivalent for our purposes.)
Since then, researchers have measured the potency of exorphins, showing them to be comparable to morphine and enkephalin (Heubner et al. 1984), determined their amino acid sequences (Fukudome &Yoshikawa 1992), and shown that they are absorbed from the intestine (Svedburg et al.1985) and can produce effects such as analgesia and reduction of anxiety which are usually associated with poppy-derived opioids (Greksch et al.1981, Panksepp et al.1984). Mycroft et al. estimated that 150 mg of the MIF-1 analogue could be produced by normal daily intake of cereals and milk, noting that such quantities are orally active, and half this amount 'has induced mood alterations in clinically depressed subjects' (Mycroft et al. 1982:895). (For detailed reviews see Gardner 1985 and Paroli 1988.)
This topics has been moved to the hot topics forum as wheatgrass is non-palaeo.
Unsurprisingly, given my own experience, I quite agree with PP. I did not do well on wheatgrass. Not only did I find the taste truly appalling but I felt somewhat worse, afterwards. Nothing major but it was clear that I was not benefitting from the stuff given symptoms. Also, from what I read, wheatgrass has a pretty bad rep among those who've tried it.
Re non-palaeo foods mention:- It wasn't Natural Hygiene, but Aajonus and various Primal Dieters who insisted that my issues with raw dairy were solely due to detox. I had 6 months of pure hell as a result of blindly trusting in these peoples' false assurances re pretending that allergies to raw dairy were impossible etc.. If I had had at least some warning re raw dairy, I would have gotten healthier much quicker. I do believe in genuine detox, but I am also aware, given past experience, that many people who claim to be detoxing, especially those reporting frequent violent detoxes after eating certain specific foods, are usually deluding themselves and are in some way allergic or whatever.
I am sure that some people, most of whom are already pretty healthy, may do seemingly fine on raw dairy or wheatgrass or similiar non-palaeo or non-raw foods; but most who end up doing rawpalaeodiets usually have severely compromised immune-systems etc. as a result of decades on SAD diets, and therefore some of those weakened people will have extra allergies/sensitivities to certain foods that they may not have had in a big way before they became ill. So, it makes sense to provide a warning before recommending such foods.
Home cultivated WG has a lot of mold on it and Mycotoxins. I got sick every time I ate some.That's very true. Personally I never like home grown wheat grass juice and wild grass is much better than all. But I don't consume any green juice for the past one yr now and I'm on strictly on RPD. I use wheat grass to clean the city water and put my child to bath. I'm sure I can use other plants to do that too.
This august I picked some very tall wild growing grass and juiced it. Felt pleasant wellbeing every time I drunk it.
Home cultivated WG has a lot of mold on it and Mycotoxins. I got sick every time I ate some.Your post reminded me that LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) was originally formulated or synthesized from ergot that typically grows on rye. Not sure if it related to, or can have a form of it derived from wheat.
This august I picked some very tall wild growing grass and juiced it. Felt pleasant wellbeing every time I drunk it.