Hi. If a naturopath on here could please answer these questions, I'd be grateful. And even if you're not a naturopath, but you've got some advice, I'm all ears.
I took the nutritional typing test awhile back, and I don't have any records of what the meal plans or anything were (I wasn't prepared for such a radical change in diet at the time, and I don't know where all that stuff went now). My question is: How do I recall the information given to me after I completed the test via the website? I don't want to take the damn test all over again.
The next question is this: I've had problems with gallstones for nearly two years now (no major attacks in the last year and a half). I want to know how likely it is that I'd have to get surgery to remove the gallbladder? Can it really be habilitated if it's filled with multiple small stones (or at least it was a year ago)? It still gives me pain if I eat too much or don't eat good food, or I'm overtired and dehydrated all at once. I know that should never happen, but it's easy to do if I only get 5 hours of sleep, then drink coffee to keep me "awake", then eat not-so-great food during the day.
Plus, how do I find out if I actually have a gluten sensitivity? I'm pretty sure I'm not a celiac: I can eat bread or pasta without feeling bloated or gassy, but Chinese food (prob. the MSGs) always gives me problems. The thing is, I can't tell if it's the fat or sugar consumed with the gluten-containing grains that causes my frequent post-dinner indigestion.
I am seeing a naturopath, but he's got me on a very different program. I'm on this "detox diet" right now for a month, and then an adrenal-rebuilding diet to restore my sleep-waking cycle. My current detox diet consists of fruit with eggs and sausages or bacon in the morning (although I normally cut out the sausage b/c it gives me gas), then a snack of fruit, then a wrap with a piece of fruit for lunch, then another fruit snack, and then dinner is chicken or fish with a little bit of rice and some salad. Also, I'm taking a prescribed dosage of liver pills ? (the brand name escapes me) and acidophilus pills. So far, I've had mixed success with staying on this diet, and I'm having issues with all the damn fruit I'm supposed to eat. I think he's trying to keep my blood sugar from plummeting, but I'm going to have to talk with him and try to work in more veggies and meat. This diet only has one or two servings of meat per day, and maybe two or three servings of veggies. I don't think that's enough, do you? I'm starting to think that seeing this naturopath wasn't such a great idea, although he's really nice and seems like he knows what he's doing. He's much more accepting of "regular food" than Dr. Mercola is, and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
My issue with the "protein type" diet is that it requires ingesting a lot of fat (which irritates my gallbladder). I love fat, but I'd like to save my gallbladder if I can. Removing it might only make it harder for me to ingest fats, since fat emulsification is (as I understand it) the primary function of the gallbladder.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!