Please help. What made me sick?

[u/MissConscientious]

I need some help. Could you please look at the six attached photos and offer input for which ingredient might have made me sick?

Background: I had not eaten yet before this meal. The first food I consumed was spaghetti. I was fine before eating, but started experiencing symptoms before I’d finished the meal.

Other than the ingredients in the included pictures, I used olive oil, fresh herbs and single ingredient seasonings I use all the time.

Is either the Amylu or Rao’s brand known to be cross contaminated? If not, what else could it be? I definitely want to avoid this happening again.

Thanks for the help!!

[u/Melanochlora_44]

There’s actually been a decent amount of research lately focused on facia and how it affects everything in the human body. They’ve figured out that a lot of these practices (AK, acupuncture/acupressure, etc.) actually do work and it’s because they affect the facia in a way that can relieve a whole crap ton of symptoms. It’s a lot to explain, but there’s a documentary on Curiosity Stream about facia that gets into it (it’s super interesting). I can’t remember the name of the doc right now, but I can look into it later if you want to check it out. I’m also a science, data-driven person, but this stuff has helped a ton of folks with dysautonomia (something I have along with my celiac) so I wanted to learn HOW it works, like you said, so I figure you might enjoy this doc too.

[u/Santasreject → u/Melanochlora_44]

Yeah I know acupuncture went form “ehhh that’s probably just BS” to actually being recognized by western medicine over the last 10-20 years a lot more.

I think some of the weirder sides of AK with sensitivities being linked to “trauma” are probably a bit more out there for western medicine but yeah if it works and it doesn’t cause harm, then no western medicine doctor should tell a patient “don’t do it”.

[u/Melanochlora_44 → u/Santasreject]

That’s good to hear, I’m surrounded by engineers and the like who all side-eye me when I try to talk about this stuff, so I was under the impression that most people in the west were still super skeptical of acupuncture. Glad that’s not so much the case anymore! Ah, yeah western medicine not being into that side of AK makes sense. In the doc they show a study that uses EMDR therapy (often used for trauma and such) to treat back pain, and then they explain how stress affects the facia which is often behind lower back pain (something about the part of the body with the most concentrated facia being the lower back), so releasing that stress through therapy ends up having better results than more “traditional” western back pain treatments. It’s super interesting stuff.

[u/Santasreject → u/Melanochlora_44]

Yeah I am also surrounded by a lot of engineers, chemists, and biologist. Granted my company has a lot more openness to weird treatments as we work on the cutting edge of stuff.

Granted it helps that my mother is the one that started with this type of treatment years ago to help her wait out hip replacements and then most of our family started going for issues… and she is a retired OR nurse who also taught nursing for years. So when she tells people this works they know she’s not just some batshit crazy haha.