Re: needing help bad!!!!!!!

Hi again,

Well, I'm not sure how much I can help. You definitely do sound like you have TMAU, but there are other odor conditions I know very little about; so here is what I know about TMAU in the hopes that it can help!

OK, well firstly I don't live in the US, and I only know one TMAU doctor in your whole country. However, I'm sure he can help. His name is doctor Preti, and his website is here:
http://www.monell.org/tmau_h.htm


Basically, you pay about $300 (not bad for what I remember of American medical fees) and he sends you a urine kit in the post that you have to fill up and send back. I don't know if it comes with instructions, but my advice would be to eat loads of high choline food in the 24 hour period before you do the test, and especially about an hour or so before. Eat chocolate, nuts, soy, fish, broccoli, etc - think of it as an excuse to put back on the weight you've lost - and don't take any charcoal or other gut absorbers when you do it.

I'm sure that if you get a positive test back his office will be able to advise you if there are any specialists or dieticians in your area who can help you get a more nutritionally balanced diet, because it sounds like you could become malnourished if you carry on eating the way you are.

In the meantime, off the top of my head:-

"Bad" vegetables are:-
broccoli
yellow corn
green beans and pulses (e.g. lentils, chick peas etc)
yellow squash
peas
cabbage (SERIOUSLY - don't eat that!!)
high quantities of potato, although you can eat a little sweet potato
asparagus
kale

"Good" vegetables are:
cucumber
zucchini
bell peppers
carrots
lettuce - as far as I know all lettuce is fine, but I think iceburg and romaine are the best. Not sure, but you might find the answer here: http://homepage2.nifty.com/hiroshi_yamazaki/choline1.pdf
-there is a more up-do-date version published circa 2008, but I can't find it at the mo. Don't put too much faith in that, incidentally, as it doesn't show the lecithin, tma or torula yeast content of foods.

I also avoid onion and garlic because of the sulphur content.

Bad fruits are:
melon
banana
avocado

Good fruits are:
tomatoes (tinned and fresh)
apples
berries (e.g. blueberries, raspberries, strawberries etc)
mangoes
...most things, actually. And you can also cook with low fat coconut milk provided it doesn't have any additives.

The general advice is to eat fresh foods you have prepared yourself, and not rely on foods from tins and jars.

At the end of the day, even if you do have TMAU, not everybody benefits from the diet. The most important thing is to stay healthy, and I would definitely include different kinds of rice, cornflakes with rice milk (check ingredients!) and turkey to give you all of your carbs and proteins. I would also try multivitamins such as Centrum. Incidentally, you may want to try the charcoal and chlorophyllin again - I find they only help when I do the diet properly.

Some people find that rotating probiotics and Antibiotics also helps, but again I would DEFINITELY wait for a medical diagnosis before you do anything as radical as that! I'm going to try a series of colonics once I'm well enough to go back to work and earn money...

Please don't feel ashamed because of this - it's not your fault, and anybody who says otherwise is just being narrow-minded! Please do persevere with trying to get a diagnosis, even if it turns out not to be TMAU.

Best of luck!

TM

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