Sores Gone*
The sores on the corners of my mouth have heeled up some time during my exclusion diet. Over the last couple of weeks I have supplemented friendly bacteria, even over the last few days, going so far as to make fermented cabbage juice which I have read contains beneficial bacteria. This is cabbage liquidised up with filtered or distilled water and left for a few days for the bacteria naturally present in the cabbage leaves to proliferate. It makes for pretty bad breath, and noticeably cabbagey farts but apparently does some good. I don’t know whether this, with my supplementation of caprylic acid every day has made a difference - I did once supplement with this for a period about six months ago and did experience both the “die-off reactions” that some writers speak about, and also soe benefits, so this may be connected. Whatever it is, it does demonstrate yet again that my problems must be linked to some nutritional deficiencies. My pharmacist in the village down the road from Black Herd Mews - who has apparently upped and left overnight since - told me that these sores were evidence of a lack of vitamin B. I bought some from him which I never then took because it did not say it did not contain yeast, but supplementation of vitamin B on its own never made a difference, something that would not surprise Patrick Halford and others at the Institute of Optimum Nutrition who highlight the interdependency of all vitamin systems, and the necessity of looking at any such deficits as a whole rather than singularly, but only now can I see how true it is that some of us may have imbalances which demonstrate an impaired ability to take on certain vitamins.
