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There is wrong info in the archives about the Republic of Tea teabags
having gluten -- i asked them and they said they use a heat sealing
process that's FDA approved, no glue.

Somebody emailed me a suggestion i'm going to try -- get oral allergy
drops to take at home rather than injecting myself.  I get sick for days
after allergy shots, the allergist said it was probably the mold in them.
Allergy shots don't work very well for mold anyway.  The allergy drops are
said to work better for mold and maybe pet dander.  Allergy drops are
mainstream medicine in Europe and i found an allergist an hour's drive
away to get them from.  Once one is past the initial testing etc. one only
has to see the doctor once a year.  They'll mail the drops to me.  And
the allergy drops hopefully won't make me sick like the shots did, you
take them every day I think.  I was
incensed when i found my current allergist was giving me all of my 24
allergens *at the same concentration*, so i was getting 1/10,000 of *all*
of them.  A cookbook method for them.  My previous allergist had worked me
up to full concentrate on some allergens.  So my allergy shots were
probably ineffective on a lot of my allergens.

I have been using fructose instead of sugar since I was 20, it supplies
glucose slowly.  It cured binge eating problems i had as a teenager.

But, i've heard that fructose causes diabetes in rats; it makes one *more*
sensitive to sugar -- if i eat so much as an orange now, i get immediately
a jittery feeling.  And that it causes insulin resistance.

And the fructose probably has trace gluten, i think barley enzymes are
used in the maltodextrin it's made from.  And it has trace corn.  i didn't
think that trace amounts of corn were anything to worry about, because the
fructose is separated out chromatographically  -- but i'm less skeptical
about that since i reacted to pretty tiny amounts of corn.

i am hoping that since i'm taking care of my food intolerances now, that
my problems with carbohydrates (irritability, fatigue, spaciness after
too much sugar) with go away.  i have heard people say their sugar
tolerance problems go away after taking care of their (protein)
intolerances.

So i am slowly withdrawing from the fructose, i will see if it starts to
give me reactions once i can eat it only once every 4 days.  i'm addicted
to it, my metabolism has adjusted to it.  i would love to have a normal
metabolism so i can eat a higher carbohydrate lower fat diet.

Laura

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