high carbs, wheat, and mental health

[Roger B]

Dear Y'all,

I have been a hot-head pretty much my whole life. We even have a report card from my 2nd grade (1952) teacher where she writes something like "Roger is learning to get a handle on his anger", which is teacherese for "Roger is a hot head". Since my serious conversion to a God-centered life in 1968, I have done everything in my power to get better. It is a long story of failure, so I won't bore you with details, but suffice it to say that nothing worked, not EFT, will power, meditation, prayer, flower remedies, homeopathy, exercise, (etc. etc. etc.)^3. The degree of irritability would go from bad to worse back to bad, but never to good. Lack of sleep would make it worse.

This is an irritable person: I might drop a fork while working in the kitchen, and I would cuss a blue streak at the fork for having the temerity to fall to the floor. Yes, that is VERY stupid, but it is not the result of a lack of intelligence. It is the result of inflamed nerves.

Early in my marriage, my wife and I were with an orthopedic surgeon because I was complaining about my "funny bones" being excessively sensitive. He concluded that I was very sensitive. Little did he know that I had a low-level nerve inflammation.

About 5 months ago, in order to avoid the symptoms of diabetes, I went hardcore low-carb and zero wheat, and I started taking inflammation reducing herbs like turmeric/curcumin. My irritability disappeared and has remained gone since. I have concluded that my irritability or emotional heat was the result of my physical inflammation. I have been poisoned by high carbs and/or wheat since childhood, perhaps since before birth. It is actually quite silly how we modern folks separate out the physical from the mental. If you are inflamed, even if it is "sub-clinical" (a fancy word for the doctor not being able to detect it), then your nerves and your brain will have a low level of inflammation.

You can find more about this at: http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/ Emily Deans is a paleo oriented psychiatrist who writes about this a lot. Is this why Americans are so angry, with the high carbs, wheat, and hot-spicy foods like buffalo wings?

Of course, I fall off the no-wheat and low-carb wagon every now and then, just like anyone else, and these events confirm to me that I am right about bodily inflammation making me an irritable person.
Sincerely,
Roger Bird

[Ginny Wilken]

Brilliant and valuable, Roger!

ginny, grain-free for years

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Ginny Wilken

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[Sheri Nakken]

thanks for sharing Roger - good work
Sheri, who is grain-free, except when traveling........alas

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[Maria Bohle]

That is a wonderful insight. Thanks for posting.

[healthinfo6]

Deans is a treasure trove of valuable interesting research and ideas.
Great find!
Of course I like that she's pro-ketogenic.
On inflammation, she wrote on blog and in Psychology Today on trace lithium 2mg/day reduces inflammation
To summarize the results - lithium decreases arachidonic acid in the brain and increases the concentration of an antiinflammatory metabolite of DHA (yes! Fish oil!). 17-OH DHA inhibits all sorts of other inflammatory proteins in the brain, like TNF-alpha. (For the biochemistry nuts - LiCl seems to intervene at the level of cPLA2 and sPLA2 and COX). Famous inflammatory modulator aspirin has been postulated to help lithium work better in bipolar disorder (5 )

Interestingly enough, lithium has been shown to be the only effective drug (at least to slow the progression down) in another inflammatory, progressive, and invariably fatal neurotoxic disease, ALS (6 ), and is being studied in HIV dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot. ... ation.html
and how lithium in water supplies can reduce suicide, crime, studies done in Japan and elsewhere
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evo ... deficiency
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evo ... psychiatry
Available OTC as lithium orotate.
Susan