In a message dated 99-01-06 15:17:50 EST, you write:

<< >(Thanks to Adele for pointing out that I should have known better and
 >should not have been using butter. Not only non-paleo, but I am very
 >dairy allergic and somehow thought that becuase it has very little
 >"foreign protein" I would get away with it. So I am going to be cooking
 >a lot with animal fat from now on.)

 If you use clarified butter (aka "ghee"), it has no protein whatsoever, and
thus
 I think it should be chemically equivalent to animal fat.
  >>

Well, before you would really know whether or not butter is Richard's culprit,
he would need to completely eliminate butter for about a month and make sure
his symptoms are cleared.  THEN he could challenge with a huge amount of
clarified butter to see if it provoked a response.  But butter is non-paleo,
clarified or not, so it really should be looked at as different than animal
fat.

I could never get away with it.

Adele