Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Common Food Sources of Mold

In the never ending battle with this depression I have come across some of the strangest things that were effecting me. In researching mold and it's sources here is a list that will slap you between the eyes. Because, well, these are the foods that I have had constantly until rather recently. The list is taken from WebMD.


Common food sources of mold include:
• Cheese
• Mushrooms
• Vinegar and foods containing vinegar, such as salad dressing, catsup, and pickles, I love pickles
• Sour cream, sour milk, and buttermilk
• Meat or fish more than 24 hours old, unless I am there when the meat was killed, well how can I avoid       this?
• Breads and other food made with yeast, I made my own yeast bread and craved it daily!
• Sauerkraut, duh, I am of German heritage
• Pickled and smoked meats and fish
• Dried fruits such as dates, prunes, figs, and raisins
• Soy sauce, love sushi
• Hot dogs, sausages
• Canned juices

So one can see that eating can bring on depression. Not just what is normally considered "bad" foods (bad fats sugars etc), but what most of us were brought up on.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Went off cholesterol medicine

The last time I had my cholesterol checked I was really doing well with it. This was in September sometime. I then read that statins prohibits the absorbtion of CoQ10. CoQ10 is good for the heart and the brain. So I went off the statin drug simvastatin and started taking CoQ10. In about two weeks, maybe 2.5 weeks, depression set back in. Cholesterol medicine lowers inflammation in the body. Inflammation causes depression. I did not know this about how the cholesterol medication worked until a couple of days ago. Apparently I am still loaded with inflammation. I will continue to work on this through change of diet. And going back on the cholesterol med.
Tumeric, Zyflamend and Bromelain, for supplements
I have been eating small ammounts of cheese as well and mayo. I am allergic to both. Also I probably have metal toxicity. This alone would cause a high level of inflammation.
I also stopped taking the probiotic and digestive enzyemes that I had been taking. I am on them again. These probiotics and enzyems help digestion and lower inflammation.
Now for food I will use tumeric to put into foods. I will continue to research this.