Linda Lazarides' Diet for Asthma

PHASE I: (weeks 1-4) Diagnostic diet and anti-microbial treatment
Foods to eat	Foods to avoid	Therapeutic items*	Supplements (daily dose)*
Eat liberally: Fresh or frozen vegetables, especially dark green leafy varieties; Fresh salad vegetables, especially beets (beetroot) raw radishes, onions and chives; Fresh fruit, especially blue, purple and dark red berries; Olive oil; Legumes (pulses) especially if sprouted; Tofu; Fish and seafood; Organic white meat; Nuts; Sunflower & sesame seeds. Eat a wide variety of all these foods. If you are underweight, add more olive oil to make up for reducing carbohydrates. Consume sparingly: (why?) Honey; Rice and rice flour; Oats, millet, buckwheat and their flours; Potatoes; Japanese foods: miso and tamari sauce to flavour food.	Any foods which you already know worsen your asthma; Plus any foods containing wheat, milk or milk protein (casein), egg or yeast, including bread, yoghurt, ice cream, butter, stock cubes. You must avoid even trace amounts of these items (why?); Artificial food additives: colourings, flavourings, preservatives, sweeteners; Avoid convenience foods in general as these often have hidden ingredients; Red meat (why?); Sugar, foods and drinks with added sugar (why?); Dried fruit, especially with preservatives; Use salt very sparingly, it raises histamine; Tea, coffee, alcohol (why?); Become an avid reader of labels on all food packets.	Psyllium husks (preferably whole, not powdered) 1 tbsp mixed in 400 ml/¾ pint water twice daily. Castor oil (why?) 1 tbsp at bed-time (not near mealtimes or if you have diarrhoea). Raw garlic cut into small cubes, 1 teaspoon-ful at bed-time swallowed with water. Raw garlic will not cause odour if you do not chew it. Add any of the following anti-microbial spices to the psyllium husks and also use them in cookery: ginger, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, cayenne, asafetida (ferula). Drink peppermint tea and dandelion coffee to aid bile flow (why?). Strong chamomile tea is a natural relaxant for your lungs. It is also a good sleep aid.	Basic multinutrient formula plus Magnesium 200-400 mg (anti-spasmodic); Vitamin B6 50 mg (aids magnesium assimilation); Selenium 100 mcg and Lycopene 30 mg (as per anti-asthma research); Citrus seed extract (anti-microbial) and Oregano oil (anti-fungal): doses as per label. Twice a day take Vitamin C 1,000 mg plus methionine 500 mg (the best natural anti-histamines). Other natural anti-histamines include pycnogenol and bilberry extract. IMPORTANT If food causes discomfort or gas in your stomach or intestines, you may need HCl pepsin and/or bromelain to improve food absorption. Observe the cautions on product labels.
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PHASE II: (weeks 5-8) Food intolerance testing and bacterial repopulation
Foods to eat		Therapeutic items*	Supplements (daily dose)*
Week 5: In addition to the Diagnostic Diet (above), also consume egg-free wheat pasta, wheat flour or plain wheat crackers every day for 5 days, then stop. If you get any unpleasant reactions, such as aggravated wheezing, sinus congestion, headache or drowsiness, or if your weight quickly rises, make a note of them and stop eating the wheat. It is very likely that you have a wheat intolerance. Whether or not you experience a reaction, stop the wheat after 5 days, and follow the Diagnostic Diet alone for the next two days. Week 6: Repeat what you did in Week 5, consuming cow's milk products daily instead of wheat, particularly fresh milk, cheese and yoghurt. The procedure is exactly the same as for Week 5. Week 7: Repeat what you did in Week 5, consuming eggs daily instead of wheat. If you do not want to eat a whole egg every day, make a 2-egg omelette with plain egg and water, cook it very thinly, and eat a small strip each day for the test period. Week 8: Repeat what you did in Week 5, consuming yeast daily instead of wheat. Buy a small jar of low-sodium yeast extract from a health food shop, and make it into a hot drink with boiling water. Drink this each day for the test period.		Continue twice daily psyllium husks: 1 tablespoon mixed in 400 ml/¾ pint of water or luke-warm herbal tea. Use chamomile tea, peppermint tea, dandelion coffee. Consume ginger frequently in cooking. Ginger helps to stimulate the digestion.	To repopulate good bacteria, take Acidophilus/bifidus as per product label. Use a brand guaranteed to survive digestion. (Yoghurt cannot be relied on for this.) Continue with basic multinutrient formula plus Magnesium 200-400 mg, Vitamin B6 50 mg, Selenium 100 mcg, Lycopene 30 mg. Twice daily, take Vitamin C 1,000 mg and methionine 500 mg. To raise glutathione and aid your liver cells, take Lipoic acid 100 mg/day and silymarin (dose as per label). (This is more effective than taking glutathione supplements). To help you make your own cortisol, take Tyrosine 500 mg twice daily. If needed to aid your digestion (see above) continue with HCl pepsin and bromelain (dosage and instructions as per label).

PHASE III: (week 9 onwards) Maintenance regime
Foods to eat	Foods to avoid		Therapeutic items & supplements*
You may resume eating all foods which tested negative, but try not to eat them more than once a day since these four foods do seem to turn into problem foods very easily. Try to make your routine diet 90 per cent fresh natural foods: fresh fruit and vegetables, white meat, fish, legumes (pulses), olive oil, whole-grains, rice and potatoes - all organic whenever possible.	Avoid the foods which tested positive. Nothing else is a complete no-no as long as your asthma continues to improve. Be extremely frugal with sugary, starchy foods and drinks. Toxin-producing bacteria can never be completely eradicated from your intestines - only controlled by depriving them of undigested starch and sugar. Avoid artificial additives - asthmatics are often sensitive to them. Alcohol damages your intestinal lining and is turned into toxic acetaldehyde by bacteria in your intestines. Tea and coffee stress your adrenal glands.		Continue as in Phase II for a further 4 months, then experiment with reducing the supplements one at a time. If your asthma begins to worsen after a few weeks, resume taking the product which you discontinued.
*All doses are for adults. Children's doses are in proportion to their body weight. So a child who is half the weight of a small adult should be given half the adult dose, and so on.
Common mistakes: Underestimating the power of all these therapeutic measures used together. Each item in this program is important. Do not cut corners. Additional advice: Do not rush into this program. Wait until you are properly organized and mentally prepared. You will then be more likely to cope with it on the required long-term basis and see its benefits. When eating, do not overload your stomach; this puts a strain on your digestion. Food which you have not completely digested ends up feeding toxin-producing bacteria in your intestines. Don't dilute your digestive juices: drink liquids before meals, not during or soon after.
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