Everything on this question I can find seems diabetic related. I'm curious however if eating too much sugar -in 1 form, or any form- can increase seizures in epilepsy. I was just looking at a sight (mainly talking about low blood sugar again in diabetics) but it did mention how excess sugar can excite neurons. (Uhhh, HELLO! possible light go on again that no doctor has ever mentioned.) I've read dozens, if not hundreds, of articles saying how people today in general eat WAY more sugar than our grandparents' generation 100 or 120 years ago did -let along THEIR parents and grandparents before that. Has anyone out there ever made any connection or possible connection between too much sugar & increased seizures?
The other thing I've been thinking in depth about that may be causing more of them in me is; I've gone so far as to write down everything I can't pronounce without a pharmacy degree in food I've eaten for a few weeks. Then I went on-line and looked up all these things, and many of them almost scared me given what I read about these chemical preservatives! How the heck can the Fraud and Death....uhhh.....Food and Drug, administration allow these things in food??!!
The main reason I'm SO dug into this is that my pediatrician took me off everything when I was 10. I went all the way up until I was a Jr. in H.S. without any seizures. Looking back, the only thing that I changed during that time was when we moved off the farm and started eating much more out of cans & boxes instead of our own garden and farm raised meat. Along with the fact that I started eating at fast "food" places everyday in H.S. Then suddenly I started having them again and was shoved back on drugs for the next 30 years. The last few years, my seizures have gotten more numerous (granted, long story short, I haven't been on any drugs the last 2 or 3 years). The thing is, again, long story short, I don't believe anything happens for no reason out of the blue. There's ALWAYS a root cause for things that go wrong in our bodies. I'm wondering if there aren't MANY more preservatives, etc. used in food today than there was 30 or 40 years ago....? If so, can may of the new ones be more dangerous to our health than 'they' want everyone to know? As I think I asked once before: How in the world can we get neurologists to think about things like this today? Isn't it worth doing so (or perhaps even morally required according to their Hippocratic oath) for them to think outside the box (or get the proper authority to let them do so again) if it means the betterment of people's health -especially if the drug route doesn't work? Is there anything I could say to my neurologist, or anyone else to see/talk to that could address my concerns?
The other thing I've been thinking in depth about that may be causing more of them in me is; I've gone so far as to write down everything I can't pronounce without a pharmacy degree in food I've eaten for a few weeks. Then I went on-line and looked up all these things, and many of them almost scared me given what I read about these chemical preservatives! How the heck can the Fraud and Death....uhhh.....Food and Drug, administration allow these things in food??!!
The main reason I'm SO dug into this is that my pediatrician took me off everything when I was 10. I went all the way up until I was a Jr. in H.S. without any seizures. Looking back, the only thing that I changed during that time was when we moved off the farm and started eating much more out of cans & boxes instead of our own garden and farm raised meat. Along with the fact that I started eating at fast "food" places everyday in H.S. Then suddenly I started having them again and was shoved back on drugs for the next 30 years. The last few years, my seizures have gotten more numerous (granted, long story short, I haven't been on any drugs the last 2 or 3 years). The thing is, again, long story short, I don't believe anything happens for no reason out of the blue. There's ALWAYS a root cause for things that go wrong in our bodies. I'm wondering if there aren't MANY more preservatives, etc. used in food today than there was 30 or 40 years ago....? If so, can may of the new ones be more dangerous to our health than 'they' want everyone to know? As I think I asked once before: How in the world can we get neurologists to think about things like this today? Isn't it worth doing so (or perhaps even morally required according to their Hippocratic oath) for them to think outside the box (or get the proper authority to let them do so again) if it means the betterment of people's health -especially if the drug route doesn't work? Is there anything I could say to my neurologist, or anyone else to see/talk to that could address my concerns?