A more general theory behind the diet I used - the idea of accumulated buildups

DISCLAIMER:  I am not a doctor or medical professional of any kind, and nothing here is medical advice.  

A more general theory behind the diet I used - the idea of accumulated buildups:

I recently made a long post (with a couple long replies adding to it) about the vegan diet I used to solve this problem for myself about 20 years ago. I wanted to make a post about the basic theory behind it that would apply to any diet to deal with this condition, beyond simply vegan ones.

The basic idea is that if the body can't properly process something it can either immediately get rid of it anyway it can, through the sweat and breath, or it can allow it to build up in the system. The body only uses sweat/breath to eliminate things as a last resort. The body and brain have enough intelligence to know this will cause a person a lot of trouble. So the body will allow something it can't process correctly to build up until there is no more room, and only then will it start getting rid of it anyway it can, through sweat, breath, or other means. The body wants to slowly get rid of these things that have built up, without being forced to resort to drastic measures, like sweating everything out.

Based on my own experience, this is what happened, at least for me. I had pretty clear verbal reactions from people from before I started the diet until it worked, when the verbal reactions became positive in nature. It took 4-5 months for the diet to work for me and the reactions to change. I often read about people looking for foods that cause symptoms to go up, but if your body is dealing with this issue in the same way that mine did, than you will need some number of months to get rid of the accumulated buildup before you see results.

A simplified model would say that if you stop eating a problem food for a day, then your body will shift to using its capacity to eliminate things to eliminating some of your accumulated buildup instead, and your symptoms will therefore remain the same. The real result might be the symptoms actually increasing in this case though - this is a simplified model. In my case, when I stopped eating meat my symptoms didn't change for months because my body used its capacity to eliminate things to deal with some of my accumulated buildup (of carnitine or whatever the problem was) instead of having to eliminate new problem foods coming in.

A couple years after finishing the initial, all vegan phase of my diet, I did not do enough vegan days, and had to go back to a largely vegan diet for a while. This is because my body was allowing things to accumulate until it could store no more, before it started using my sweat to eliminate them. If my body was immediately eliminating things it could not handle, this would not have happened.

It is not certain or guaranteed that the idea of things that your body can not handle being built up as much as possible before sweat/breath are used to eliminate them applies to everyone. I am hopeful that this is universal though.

The point of a highly restrictive diet, rather than simply removing foods that cause major problems, is so that all the capacity of the body to eliminate things will go into dealing with the accumulated buildup. Otherwise, the diet could potentially take forever to work. There is a good chance that the body will be too burdened by new foods coming in to even try dealing with the accumulated buildup.

I have stressed in my main post about the diet I used that 3 day water fasts should dramatically speed up the elimination process, by forcing your body to very quickly break things down to provide it with energy when no food is coming in. Remember to break the fast properly, with something like soup and not a large meal to avoid getting sick. Take electrolytes designed specifically for fasting (no calories) to avoid feeling faint or unwell.

So the point is that if your body is handling things in the same way mine does, than no dietary changes will show major results, until you have done some number of months of a very restrictive diet. This is to get rid of the accumulated buildup you have of whatever it is that is causing the problem in the first place. In my case the vegan diet was the restrictive detox diet, followed by a partly vegan diet (maybe a couple days a week) after that, long term. If you see the page for the MEBO (metabolic body odor) organization, they talk about this same basic idea that a diet may need a good deal of time to work.