Hi, I would like to know if anyone has any insight regarding lupus and 80/10/10. There is someone in my life that needs some encouragement with her struggle and I would like to point her here for support because I believe this may help her, but have no real experience.

Thanks very much!

Lupus is among the autoimmune diseases triggered by consuming heated proteins. Dr. Doug and Prof. Rozi explain the physiological process within the body that connects eating cooked protein with lupus within the Raw Nutritional Science DVDs. You may want to give her a copy of the lecture series.
80/10/10rv includes no sources of heated proteins; just high-quality amino acids from fruits and vegetables, with sparing nuts and seeds.

Hi.
I recommend she reads THE HEALTH REVOLUTION by Ross HORNE. In CHAPTER 21 OTHER DEGENERATIVE DISEASES he states “Lupus, still considered incurable (like all the others), quickly responds (like all the others) to correct dietary procedures.” It is free to the public at http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyg ... 21toc.html

In another book of his “IMPROVING ON PRITIKIN”, in the “CHAPTER 8 Doctor Max Gerson” he writes “..a further story about lupus from Germany, taken from the autobiography of Dr Ferdinand Sauerbruch the master surgeon who pioneered thoracic surgery and was the first to operate successfully on the human heart.” In the end of it Dr Sauerbruch relates: "...In this experiment involving 450 patients, only four could not be cured by Dr Gerson’ saltless diet".”

And in the end of the chapter: “The great Dr Albert Schweitzer, concert organist, humanitarian, and physician, the recipient of two Nobel Prizes, was himself freed of diabetes under Dr Gerson's care and his wife 'cured' of tuberculosis in the days when these diseases were considered incurable and fatal. After Dr Gerson's death Dr Schweitzer said of him: "I see in him one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine.(…)"”

The story is amazing I would recommend to everybody to read it, and both whole books are even more complex and amazing and really worth reading. The second Horne’s book is also free, at http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyg ... itikin.pdf.

Hope this will motivate her enough. Gerson diet is based on fruit and vegetables.. With 811rv it must be easy, I think. So the results with Gerson diet described in the book should be great "encouragement with struggle", her or anybody else, with either the same diet or, even better, on 811rv.

I was diagnosed with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome about a year before I started on this 80/10/10 journey. Many people with lupus also have this autoimmune issue and vice versa, but officially they're not related. I however tend to think that antiphopholipid antibody syndrome is a sort of pre-lupus condition, which is not always diagnosed in lupus patients and doesn't always develop to the stage where it's called lupus. This is just my own theory though, and I'm no health expert or professional.

All of my symptoms have either disappeared or improved to the point where they are not noticeable anymore ... except when I stray for a bit on eating more than 10% fat for too long. Then I get hints of the symptoms I used to get which reminds me to straighten out my diet and lifestyle again, hehe.

Anyway, my story is in the back of The 80/10/10 Diet (up 'till the time of publishing) and is like a mini-book in itself, describing the results in my symptoms and benefits I've experienced many of which relate to the autoimmune condition as well as other aspects of my health and happiness.

So I highly recommend that book as well.

Hope that helps!

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-Janie

wow, thanks, this is great! my dad loves "albert"...i have heard of him all my life, but didn't know this! will have to check these out, as i too have someone in my life with lupus.
tash