The information on turkey finally rang a bell I see.........
JP>WHOA!!!!.    What about turkey and tryptophan.  Are you saying that
JP>your son has an alergy like reaction to turkey.   My son seems to go
JP>up and down and we have always thought that it might be diet but we
JP>have never been able to tag anything specifically.  We know that at
JP>certain times his ears turn bright red (this is not necessarily
JP>accompanied by changes in his hyperactivity) and we are sure that he
JP>has an alergy to something.  Really no asthmatic reactions though.
Congratulations.  You have finally caught up to those who were working
with alcoholics some 50+ years ago.  One Dr. Silkworth wrote two letters
that are printed in every copy of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
and in one of them he stated on page xxvi of the third edition:
  "We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of
  alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy;
  that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never
  occurs in the average temperate drinker.  These allergic types can
  never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed
  the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their
  self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile
  up on them and they become astonishingly difficult to solve."
The first edition of that book came out in 1939.  The letter from the
good doctor was enough to convince thousands of drunks that alcohol, a
sedative-hypnotic drug, is not the answer to their problems.  And to
begin to look for other answers.
The research done by Kenneth Blum and his associates, the many papers
written since, are all testimony to the fact that a chronic drunk is
better at helping another chronic drunk than all of the pills to be
found in the average drug store, or all of the pontification of those
who are looking in from the outside.
The first step in solving the problem is to own it, to admit it exists.
The second one is to communicate openly with others who have it and
attempt to exchange ideas.
Not to cling stubbornly to something that does not work for everyone.
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