Diet. Useful repetition of things to eat.

Evolution in thinking is a critical ongoing process, that all of us should seek to do. My original focus on Gadolinium Deposition Disease (and the other Gd toxicities) has evolved from Gd to other heavy metals to all other toxins to all immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID).... to everything in health.

With everything in life it is critical to start with addressing the root causes. With all the symptoms and diseases processes of serious GDD it starts with avoidance of future GBCAs and removal of existing Gd by the best means possible (the combination of the most effective available chelator by stability constant, combined with the critical observation it actually works by 24 hr urines pre- and post-chelation). This applies to gd, but also other other heavy metals and undesirable metal: stability constant between chelator and metal, and in vivo demonstration that it works.

But this blog is not about that. This is about addressing the root cause of everything in health, and that is the focus on a healthy diet. I have found it interesting, maybe even a little dark humor funny, that many recommendations for vastly different disease processes, is eat a healthy diet. I had pointed this out in an earlier blog regarding new Covid variants, and most recently the American Stroke Association published a revised recommendation regarding stroke prevention, and this highlighted an inclusion on diet. So to prevent everything we should focus on what we eat.

So to start with we know what we shouldn't eat (but most of us find it difficult to avoid entirely:

food that contains high refined sugar and highly processed foods. We should limit as best we can food items, when you read the ingredients there are more than 5 of them, and a number seem to be chemicals made in a second yr university chemistry lab.

Some version of the Mediterranean Diet seems the most logical, and it is also logical to modify it to fruits and vegetables that are more locally grown to where you live. Here are a list of a number of foods to add to your list.

A few words are important to know to start with:

Keep your stress as low as you can - this includes what you eat. Stressing over trying to always eat the right foods may be nearly as damaging as eating only a reasonably healthy diet. So the first rule:

1. CALM DOWN:

I think much more important then getting the perfect healthy food from some exotic location:

2. Eat healthy foods that are accessible to you and affordable on your budget.

The third point, is that diversity is very important in foods, as it is in probably everything else. Some foods that have been extremely healthy, are now not, because of pollution, not health (kale) so by eating a diversity of foods, allows for the possibility something that is supposed to be health is no longer, and also diversity increases the likelihood that something will contain a rare mineral or nutrient that seems to be important for our body to function (eg: selenium).

3. Eat a diverse array of foods

So the below list are representative of foods that one should consider including in a diverse Mediterranean style diet, but not only these foods.

So here is a partial list:

broccoli, walnuts, blueberries, pineapple, apples, citrus fruits, peaches, apricots, ginger, avocadoes, tomatoes, beans, lentils, salmon, whole grain bread and cereal (bran a good example), oatmeal, green tea, black tea, coffee, dark chocolate, Many adults do not consume enough water so water (alkaline water may be helpful for IMIDs, so sometimes this type).

also it is critical for GDD sufferers, but also for everyone, pay attention to how your body seems to respond in eating different foods, for example tomatoes are an excellent nutrient rich food but uncommonly some people's digestive tract are intolerant to lectins.... But make all assessments in a calm state.

I was prompted to write this blog, because of a number of recent emails to me have been from individuals who just recently feel they have developed GDD and want to know what to do. One of the critical things to do, is to focus on eating healthy food, and if by 2.5 months after GBCA injection your symptoms have improved and you feel you are close to normal, then you may need only to apply rule 1 for toxic metals (and everything else) avoidance. Don't get another MRI with GBCA again... even if I tell you to get it.

Richard Semelka, MD