06/03/2025
From Health Matters Desk: Do you dare to take this personal challenge?
Do you have chronic pain? Maybe a shoulder that won't heal or constant neck pain? How about arthritis pain that just goes on and on...?
Or Fibromyalgia? The chronic pain from Fibromyalgia is so debilitating, and seems so random.
What if you could shut off the pain forever, with absolutely no cost involved? All these health issues could have one thing in common!!
Solanine poisoning!! What did you say??? What is Solanine poisoning?
This poison is found in many of the meals Americans eat today, in fact it is hard to find a single meal served anywhere in America that doesn’t have one or more of these poisonous vegetables in it.
We are talking mostly about the nightshade family of vegetables that contain solanine. Some non-night-shade plants also contain solanine, like cape gooseberries. Interesting to note that almost none of the nightshades vegetables were consumed by humans before the 1800's. Many of them had been classified in books, like Herbal 1597, as 'poisonous as the deadly nightshade belladonna’. The tomato was sometimes even called the ‘poison fruit’.
By the late 1800’s however, tomatoes had become popular in Europe, due mostly to the recent invention of pizza. Here in America, there’s some evidence that in the southern states people were beginning to use tomatoes.
But not in New York City. I remember reading about the tomato’s introduction to New York City. A man, (it might have been Mr. Campbell), was trying to get his canned tomatoes on the store shelves, but no one wanted to die from eating tomatoes. So, he took a full page ad out in the newspapers that told everyone he was going to consume large amounts of tomatoes and everyone could come watch him die of the poisoning. He had a huge crowd of people who brought their picnic lunches with them to watch the entertainment. Of course, he didn’t die, and you know the rest of the story-every supermarket in America has canned tomatoes on their shelves.
Or is it the rest of the story…..
The average American daily dose of solanine is 13 mg. We can only excrete out 5% of that the first day, and 1-2% each day after. The rest is stored in our bodies and accumulates. One of the places it accumulates is the thyroid, disturbing its ability to function. There are other places as well. Lethal doses of solanine is 3-6 mg TGA/kg.
Each of us are individuals and what may be easy to process for some may be near impossible for others. From the first day’s dose it takes 1-2 months to remove from your body. (1) Research shows that 74-90% of people with arthritis or fibromyalgia showed increased pain after consuming foods with solanine. (2)
Solanine is a glycoalkaloid poison, technically called a-solanine. It is produced by the plants to protect themselves from pests, insects and fungus. It is truly a spectacular thing that these plants can produce this themselves. A-solanine is very similar in molecular structure and action to pesticides and fungicides. In our bodies it causes inflammation, which then causes pain.
The challenge is to remove solanine from your diet for two weeks and see how you feel. Maybe all the pain will go away.
http://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/nightshades/
1. http://www.michaellebowitzdc.com/html/Solanine.html
2. http://fibromyalgiatreatmentgroup.com/…/foods-to-avoid-with…
https://www.goodrx.com/well-being/diet-nutrition/nightshade-vegetables
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/solanine #:~:text=Solanine%20is%20a%20bitter%2Dtasting,capsicum%2C%20tobacco%2C%20and%20eggplant.&text=However%2C%20the%20most%20widely%20ingested,naturally%20high%20in%20this%20saponin.
https://www.jebms.org/full-text/177
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