mcb
The Living Force
Re: Ketogenic Diet - Path To Transformation?
I don't know about the protein aspect of it, but what you describe here can be caused by something like Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), although symptoms alone are not enough to tell. I don't know yet what to do about SIBO, but at least that's something for you to search for. Carbs can feed critters, and the Specific Carbohydrate Diet might or might not help, but it can give you a starting point for determining which carbs are OK for you and which are not.
You don't actually need to buy the book, though it contains useful background information. The website contains the list of "legal" and "illegal" carb sources. If you do have a microbial overgrowth problem, it may be necessary to eliminate every last item from the "illegal" list before seeing improvement; hence the legalistic terminology. (And sometimes that isn't enough!) But if your symptoms are mild (as opposed to acute inflammatory bowel disease, which is not mild) then it's not as critical and it may not even help. For me, a combination of SCD, digestive enzymes, and betaine HCL has helped my brain (and head) but not, so far, my gut. But you are having some "head symptoms."
Whatever it is, these kinds of symptoms (as usual) tend to point to "heal the gut. I am, after two years, absolutely sick of lonely pieces of meat sitting in liquid fat. It still tastes good -- it's not that -- but I want to feel better, and not have to be so extremely restrictive. SIBO is one possible cause, but there are others that I do not yet understand. Chris Kresser keeps talking about biofilms that can coat the inside of your GI tract and keep it from working right, and about botanicals that he uses for treatment. But I'm still perhaps a year out on his wait list, which is not open to more people at this time. So I work with the materials at scdlifestyle.com, and I may start consulting with them as well for help with lab testing to try to identify pathogens or other possible causes. Otherwise, what do you do?
Oxajil said:...I've done a bit of experimenting with carbs, like having a tiny sweet potato, but my head just gets all cloudy and it's hard to concentrate after that. I also experimented with sauerkraut, but I didn't notice any improvement whatsoever in the long term. It seems that the best thing that works for me is what you wrote: lonely piece of meat with liquid fat floating around. I do wonder though what green leaf you eat? I wish I could have something vegginess that is yummy too and doesn't cause inflammation, just to have some kind of variation.
I don't know about the protein aspect of it, but what you describe here can be caused by something like Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), although symptoms alone are not enough to tell. I don't know yet what to do about SIBO, but at least that's something for you to search for. Carbs can feed critters, and the Specific Carbohydrate Diet might or might not help, but it can give you a starting point for determining which carbs are OK for you and which are not.
You don't actually need to buy the book, though it contains useful background information. The website contains the list of "legal" and "illegal" carb sources. If you do have a microbial overgrowth problem, it may be necessary to eliminate every last item from the "illegal" list before seeing improvement; hence the legalistic terminology. (And sometimes that isn't enough!) But if your symptoms are mild (as opposed to acute inflammatory bowel disease, which is not mild) then it's not as critical and it may not even help. For me, a combination of SCD, digestive enzymes, and betaine HCL has helped my brain (and head) but not, so far, my gut. But you are having some "head symptoms."
Whatever it is, these kinds of symptoms (as usual) tend to point to "heal the gut. I am, after two years, absolutely sick of lonely pieces of meat sitting in liquid fat. It still tastes good -- it's not that -- but I want to feel better, and not have to be so extremely restrictive. SIBO is one possible cause, but there are others that I do not yet understand. Chris Kresser keeps talking about biofilms that can coat the inside of your GI tract and keep it from working right, and about botanicals that he uses for treatment. But I'm still perhaps a year out on his wait list, which is not open to more people at this time. So I work with the materials at scdlifestyle.com, and I may start consulting with them as well for help with lab testing to try to identify pathogens or other possible causes. Otherwise, what do you do?