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You advice to shop the outside of the market is a good easy one to remember. But I am curious why no dairy? I have bad oestroposis and cannot take any of the meds due to problems I had when I tried them. So for now, I am trying to add a lot of dairy to my diet. Boy, it hard when I have to make a decision...eat for my oestro or eat for my seizures!
RobinN did an excellent job of answering your question. Here's some more information from Dr. Robert Fried:
I hold milk products to be absolute poison for anyone with a neurological disorder. Not only is milk not the good source of calcium everybody holds it to be, it actually depletes calcium because the calcium in the milk is used up in the acid-base balance caused by metabolic acidosis from milk consumption. Acidosis [reduced alkalinity of the blood] is a calamity for seizure sufferers because the kidneys can do only about 35 percent of acid-base balance correction, and the lungs do the rest. And that means hyperventilation-just what we taught you with biofeedback not to do.
In the presence of metabolic acidosis you have to hyperventilate to restore the balance of hydrogen ions in the blood; this is caught up in the pulmonary carbon dioxide expulsion cycle. Hyperventilation, however, causes significant blood-vessel constriction in the body and brain, and thus it jeopardizes oxygen delivery to the brain, which is more sensitive to it than the rest of the body. That is why it is used in neurological examinations to produce theta EEG seizure patterns-because it (dairy) can trigger seizures.
I don't consume dairy products or take supplements. I get my calcium from dark leafy greens and veggies. Spinach is an excellent source of calcium.