PREPARING FOR THE ELIMINATION DIET: SMOKING AND THE PILL
If you smoke, now is the moment to give it up! There is not much point in trying to sort out your health problems while continuing to bombard your body with highly toxic smoke.
The Pill is a more difficult issue, for it is, without doubt, the most effective and convenient form of contraception, and giving it up may not be easy. But it can easily contribute to migraine, headaches, fatigue, and a variety of other symptoms that are also attributed to food intolerance. Some doctors believe that it has more general ill-effects on our health, and that everyone with suspected food sensitivity or Candida infection should come off the Pill, regardless of what type of symptoms they have.
You may feel perfectly happy with the Pill, because you had no problems when you first began taking it – but as the case-history, this can be quite misleading. Even if you have had short periods (up to six months) off the Pill before, without noting any improvement, it may still be contributing to your symptoms. Nobody knows why the Pill should have these rather odd, insidious effects on some women, but they have been observed often enough to merit being taken seriously.
In general, it makes sense for any woman who is thinking about trying an elimination diet to come off the Pill first, and if migraines are among her symptoms the arguments for it are even stronger. Ideally, she should give the Pill up for a trial period of three months before starting the diet, to see what effect this has, and to regain some sort of equilibrium. For anyone with severe symptoms, waiting three months to begin the elimination diet may not be a very appealing prospect, however. So if you have tried coming off the Pill before, without any obvious benefits, then you could just wait for two or three weeks before starting Stage 1.
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