I culled all packaged food at the end of last year to help with my aggressive behaviour, suicidal thoughts, weight gain, tantrums, verbal abuse and chronic 24/7 pain. None of the items I culled had any additives or anything weird in their ingredients. I am now pain free after thirteen years. The aggression and other symptoms have also diminished. It is unbelievable how that secret five percent (labelling loophole) in packaged foods caused me excruciating pain to the point I couldn’t walk nor ...

It still blows my mind how many medical issues for me have resolved themselves since being failsafe – Sarah I've found my diet usually fixes most of my problems but doctors insist it has nothing to do with diet, yet they offer weirdo side options. ߤ䰟鄰 – Kristine Your food intolerance information turned our whole family sunny-side up decades ago and it is a gift that keeps on giving, thank you – Tom

My six-year-old has just been diagnosed with ADHD and we are doing the diet. Just wondering if anyone else has children with ADHD and if this has been helpful thank you – Donna Yes very early into our ASD and ADHD diagnosis, the elimination diet certainly helped clean up a lot of food intolerance symptoms. I think looking back sleep was a number one area of improvement and then behaviour followed. Stay on track with an experienced dietician or OT who also works with food. It’s a super importa...

Hoping our experience may help others ߘবt;/p> We started our failsafe journey almost 6 years ago (initially for our son and then later our younger daughter). For us, discovering our children’s intolerance(s) and learning how to manage them has had a hugely positive impact on their lives (and ours). Most people we know are incredibly supportive and go out of their way to support us in helping us provide our children with the right foods/environment. However *understandably* not everyone always...

I have been a long-term meditator and recently had a recurrence of a symptom that I had bothered me years ago: sudden, brief involuntary twitching or jerking of a muscle or group of muscles in my upper body and neck as I settled, often repetitive. I found these were called myoclonus or myoclonic jerks and they went away entirely years ago when our family went failsafe (I am sensitive to salicylates and increasingly to amines). Now they were back because I had chosen to eat high salicylate foo...

I fell pregnant naturally with my first son on the RPAH elimination diet and I had tested up to amines. My chances were extremely low given my limited follicle count. I am wondering if there is any evidence of failsafe and positive fertility outcomes? We're doing IVF to try and have another and have one embryo left. I am considering going back on the diet prior to see if it helps my chances. Followup 20 months later: Well it didn't work for that last embryo. We had another retrieval using don...

I had a heart attack last July and was put on prasugrel (blood thinner) and daily low dose aspirin. By the end of September, I was having stomach issues which continued to worsen. By end of October, I started questioning the aspirin, as I knew it could be hard on the stomach, but my cardiologist said I had to have it. By November, I had a CT scan that showed diverticulitis. I also had an eczema outbreak at the same time. I had IBS-D for years, but never did it go into diverticulitis. I tried...

When I removed anything to start on low chemicals - I was sick for about 10 days! Just detoxing and lots of fatigue - but after that I hadn’t felt better for years! - Rachael You all have helped me understand what’s going on with my child and for that, I am eternally grateful – Amber Thanks for the shared resource! THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! – from Africa My hat goes off to families with food sensitive individuals. It really is a struggle and painful at times, but having the whole family feeli...

Q: Members report vision changing when off-diet, perhaps due to too many salicylates. Noticeable even with an eye test where prescriptions done with and without salicylates are different. What might cause it? Answers: I have trouble with blurry and foggy vision when I'm not careful with my food. I suspect the main culprit for me is gluten but also Sals. It can make waking up difficult too – Debbie My friend’s daughter’s eye prescription changed for the better on commencement of the diet ...

Q: Has anyone had tinnitus improve on the failsafe diet? - Sue Answers: Reducing salicylates made a huge difference for me – Susan Yes by reducing histamines. I started with elimination diet FODMAPS, then RPAH/fail safe and finally SIGHI low histamine diet. All with a dietician and so we were able to specifically target high histamine foods and foods that liberate histamine - Linda Yes it’s completely gone - Melissa Salicylates for my daughter - Sara Mine was totally cured on failsafe d...