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For the past few months, I've felt a little bloated, and was starting to have some mild pain in my lower stomach. I thought it might have been the effects of the antibiotics, oral steroids or decongestant (which gave me an allergic reaction) from back in February. I didn't connect it to the severe headache I had Memorial Day weekend. I've also had occasional sinus pain, which I haven't had since I quit wheat over two years ago. I thought that was from allergies.
Since Sunday morning, I haven't had any almond milk or other products with carrageenan. I've been taking 10,000 IU of vitamin D because of its anti-inflammatory value. Result: no more stomach pain or bloating. My stomach is still a little delicate. There's no more stuffed feeling after meals.
Coincidentally, the Cornucopia Institute came out with a carrageenan-free shopping guide just a few weeks ago. Like reader Suzie_B, biologist Ray Peat of Oregon noticed that carrageenan was listed as an ingredient in cream. He avoids carrageenan as well, since he's had serious allergic symptoms from it. He adds:
Carrageenan enters even the intact, uninflamed gut, and damages both chemical defenses and immunological defenses. When it has produced inflammatory bowel damage, the amount absorbed will be greater, as will the absorption of bacterial endotoxin. Carrageenan and endotoxin synergize in many ways, including their effects on nitric oxide, prostaglandins, toxic free radicals, and the defensive enzyme systems.(1)
Even if you think that food-grade (undegraded) carrageenan is fine and there's no way it could harm you, it may be contaminated with degraded carrageenan. (See table 5 on page 11.) The link is to a paper by JoAnne Tobacman, a physician-scientist who has researched carrageenan for almost 20 years. In a nutshell, ample evidence shows that carrageenan causes or is associated with cancer, inflammation, and ulcerative colitis. (2)
I'm not one to get excited about food additives and I'm not neurotic about eating. But even if you don't have any immediate reaction to carrageenan, it looks like something well worth avoiding.
Sources:
1. "Food-junk and some mystery ailments: Fatigue, Alzheimer's, Colitis, Immunodeficiency" by Ray Peat, accessed June 26, 2012. http://raypeat.com/articles/nutrition/carrageenan.shtml
2. "Review of Harmful Gastrointestinal Effects of Carrageenan in Animal Experiments by Joanne K. Tobacman," Environmental Health Perspectives, October 2001, p. 983. http://www.cornucopia.org/DrTobacmanComment_toNOSB.pdf
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Good luck to you.
Someone should start a class action law suit towards all companies still using in their foods!
this ends today!!!! since i found out yesterday at 5 i have been researching over 10 hours!!!! this additive could lead to cancer and autism in kids and depression in our whole society!!! if we are sick then we need meds!!! that make millions!! i have suffered since i was a baby and I'm afraid to have a kid cause I'm so sick!!!!. they have changed my diet and given me every restrictions and told me I'm crazy. in high school i could gain five pounds in a day, in college fall asleep in class, a few years back i had to pull over while driving and i feel sick all day every day. I've been told not to eat processed but today found out its in vitamins as fillers, shots, steroid injections, shampoo, toothpaste!!! Fellow suffers i have just read that anything saying algae and seaweed is no good for us!!
and i found out they inject these fillers or additive into meats!! specifically chicken and red meat to keep them moist and weigh more!!! and to keep the red meat from turning brown> I'm calling a local ranch today and many ship in freezers to your door I'm finding in some research. its the chain makes that inject to not lose $$$$
and in your vitiatamins!! only in my RAW company does it say non fillers, additives!! cause its in the gel capsules for some things!!!
in my Chai tea i think too!! looking to see! yes its in ALLL BEER AND ALCOHOL cause they don't have to specify because its in beverages too!! wondering if even the chamomile tea is washed with chems and thats why i feel so dry. my mouth, eyes and lips are dry all the time.
looking to see if charcoal can be taken after u eat to help get the toxins out fast!!!
also go to a local organic farm i found is the best way to ensure that they don't wash fruits and veggies with citric acid(not lemons its a additive/preservative). i looked and it shows in each farm website what kinds of fertilizers they use!!!
be aware and I'm just gonna make my food my priority!!! now i see why everyone is growing their own produce so u see whats going in your body!!
in the UK all this is banned and thats why all those times i went to travel there i could eat and i thought it was just vacation miracles!!!
now I'm also considering looking up markets who will ship to me or near me that sell products that ban this carcinogenic substance!! this is the new MSG!!! just another way to put it in our food and just mask that its seaweed!!!
as i go i will add my research and findings
as of now it says 24-30 hours to get out of your system. just ate choc with soy lecithin which is the same thing!! so I'm on my sweat attack, cramping, cold and hot, feverish, heart palpitations rollercoaster!!
today eggs!! and fruit from my garden till i find out what in every single package i have!!!! or i will be susie homemaker and make everything from scratch and freeze so i know there is not a sliver of toxin in me and no lobbyist can $$$ to sweep the truth under the door!!
be your own advocate and do your research!!!! after 10hours i found out its hidden in more than just foods that is listen on the Cornicopia list