Wine
Avoid Wine
alcoholic beverage
fermented grapes
The French paradox, is it the wine connection? The largest bio dynamic farm in all of North America—Grgich Hills Vineyard. All wine, alcohol, beer, ale is to be avoided with liver cysts. Even concentrated sugars are to be avoided. This conversion within the body to an alcohol gives one many deep liver aches, liver growth and headaches.
Rice Wine
Rice wine or sake is made by fermenting sugar and white rice which is harmful for cystic organs. Rice also contains levels of arsenic. Rice should be diminished in the diet. The alcohol contained in rice wine is especially detrimental to a liver.
Wine Contains Nitrites
Sometimes nitrates are formed in wine as a preservative. Nitrates are used as a food preservative, but their main use is in fertilizers. They can be found in our water from the runoff. Nitrites are often found in processed meats, where they retard bacterial growth and keep meat looking red. Meat cooked over high heat can form nitrosamines, potentially harmful substances that causes cancer in animals.
Sulfites is an inclusive term for sulfur dioxide (SO2). SO2 is a preservative and widely used in winemaking, because of its antioxidant and antibacterial properties. SO2 plays a very important role in preventing oxidization and maintaining a wine's freshness. Headache culprits might be histamine and tyramine, other chemical substances that are naturally present in wine. One can purchase sulfite free wine.
Dr Viirre stressed that they have found only a correlation and can't make the leap to say that these mouth bacteria are the actual cause of headaches. Many other factors are associated with migraine, including genetic factors and hormonal factors, and all kinds of other things. So unfortunately, we can't draw a straight path between what these bacteria process and the actual activation of the headaches. Dr Viirre and his colleagues are keen to do a prospective study to regularly track the incidence of headaches among patients as well as their bacterial flora. The key advance here is the capability to do these broad quantitative analyses of bacteria at relatively low cost; this is the genome project kind of spinoff.
