Vomiting, gut pain, headaches, severe tiredness, skin problems, and depression. These sound very much like the symptoms of those who suffer from the modern day syndromes such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue or any one of a number of syndromes of unknown origin that exists.
So, are these symptoms of a complicated illness that requires multiple medications and visits to physicians who sub-specialize in the corresponding body parts? Or are they symptoms of something so simple that it is entirely overlooked? Who would have thought Darwin, the father of evolution, was plagued by these very symptoms! Read how Darwin cured himself, as written by authors Campbell and Matthews.
“After returning from the Beagle in 1836, Charles Darwin suffered for over 40 years from long bouts of vomiting, gut pain, headaches, severe tiredness, skin problems, and depression. Twenty doctors failed to treat him. Many books and papers have explained Darwin’s mystery illness as organic or psychosomatic, including arsenic poisoning, Chagas’ disease, multiple allergy, hypochondria, or bereavement syndrome. None stand up to full scrutiny. His medical history shows he had an organic problem, exacerbated by depression. Here we show that all Darwin’s symptoms match systemic lactose intolerance. Vomiting and gut problems showed up two to three hours after a meal, the time it takes for lactose to reach the large intestine. His family history shows a major inherited component, as with genetically predisposed hypolactasia. Darwin only got better when, by chance, he stopped taking milk and cream. Darwin’s illness highlights something else he missed–the importance of lactose in mammalian and human evolution1.”
Because physicians often look for more serious disease, something as simple as a food intolerance is often overlooked. The sufferer often wanders from physician to physician searching for answers to their health issues, but end up powerless, over-medicated, and hopeless.
Maybe we should look at our diet first when we become sick or depressed. Maybe it is that simple, if so, we could save ourselves a lot of angst and money.
Postgrad Med J. 2005 Apr;81(954):248-51.
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And if he were alive today and suffering from similar complaints I would add that if not lactose also and or corn product intolerance. Corn intolerance, as opposed to Ige allergy, shows itself primarily as a gastrointestional disorder, with all very similar signs as lactose intolerance. The one difference being that signs of corn intolerance show up any time from soon after ingestion to up to three days later.
Duncan, you raise a good point but are differentiating between non-genetically modified corn (GMO) and GMO corn?
Greater than 50% of the corn in our food supply comes from the GMO variety.
In an article published last year by Katherine Goldstein for the Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html, shows a link between GMO corn and kidney and liver toxicity (hepatorenal toxicity) in rats.
The article sites researchers publishing in the International Journal of Biological Sciences who are very concerned about the toxic effects of the corn. Here is what they said…
” “Effects were mostly concentrated in kidney and liver function, the two major diet detoxification organs, but in detail differed with each GM type. In addition, some effects on heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells were also frequently noted. As there normally exists sex differences in liver and kidney metabolism, the highly statistically significant disturbances in the function of these organs, seen between male and female rats, cannot be dismissed as biologically insignificant as has been proposed by others. We therefore conclude that our data strongly suggests that these GM maize varieties induce a state of hepatorenal toxicity….These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown.”
Is it possible that even small amounts of GMO corn could be responsible for “dietary intolerances” in some people?
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