Making a Commitment

I finished the book and determined that I wanted to try out what the book calls “the Six-Week Basic Brain-Boosting Program”. Which consists of the following:
1. A healthy eating plan designed to help you heal and optimize your brain.
2. Basic supplements you need to take to balance and enhance your brain chemistry.
3. Lifestyle changes including exercise, relaxation, sleep, and “brain” or mental exercises.
4. Living clean and green to reduce your exposure to environmental toxins and support a sustainable future for us all. (See pg 289, The Ultra Mind Solution, Mark Hyman, M.D.)

Back to the Book

So, while all of this is going on with my heartburn and my tingly fingers I am reading the UltraMind Solution. In the book, Dr. Hyman has a whole section entitled, “The Dangers of Acid-Blocking Drugs”. He mentions Prevacid by name. He discusses the potential of these drugs to prevent proper food digestion, vitamin and mineral deficiencies and irritable bowel syndrome. He specifically mentions vitamin B-12 deficiencies. At the same time I did a google search on Vitamin B and found that Vitamin B deficiencies can lead to neurological problems, such as tingly hands and feet. It was all coming together and I didn’t like what I was seeing. I immediately quit taking the Prevacid. I have been off the Prevacid for 3 weeks and the tingly feelings in my hands and arms have nearly gone away.

The UltraMind Solution

About a month and a half ago, my husband was watching a program on PBS by Dr. Mark Hyman. He was talking about Autism. One of my son’s has been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, or High Functioning Autism. The doctor talked a lot about diet and nutrition and how many of our modern day problems are because of our modern day eating styles. We have seen a huge difference in our son since he began a Gluten Free diet last July. His mood seems to be more stable so we see much fewer of his rage cycle than we did before. He had felt much better and had fewer instances of bowel troubles. We had personally seen what a change in diet can do for a person. What he said was so intriguing we immediately ordered his book.

The book arrived about a week later and I began to consume it. It reads much like my old Zoology textbooks from college in some places. I enjoyed that. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Zoology, but following graduation have done little with my degree as I have chosen to be a SAHM. Many of the things he says in the book “rang true” to me.

The Set up ...

I have decided to undertake a program called The UltraMind Solution, based on a book of the same name by Dr. Mark Hyman. It’s a six week program dealing with diet, nutrition, supplementation, stress management, and more.

First a little history:
Approximately 6 years ago, maybe more, I began developing extreme food allergies. Swelling lips and tongue, canker sores, itchy throat, difficulty breathing, sinus infections, migraine headaches, etc seemed to come on unexpectedly. I went to the allergist and had the normal skin tests and reacted to about 61 different items. At one time I was eating nothing but rice for a 3-4 week period. I finally narrowed the allergies down to most raw fruits and vegetables. From a medical perspective they call it Oral Allergy Syndrome and it seems to be a reaction to the pollens that the fruits and vegies cross-pollinate with of trees of which I have always been allergic to.

The miserable thing is that I can eat a candy bar and feel great and eat cherries and end up sick in bed. It seems a little mixed up to me.