Comments on: Another gut episode, and sick afterwards http://shreela.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/another-gut-episode-and-sick-afterwards/ ...causes bottlenecks Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: naomi http://shreela.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/another-gut-episode-and-sick-afterwards/#comment-53 naomi Wed, 07 May 2008 08:04:40 +0000 http://shreela.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-53 Your gut may be damaged from eating a gluten filled diet and will take a while to repair itself. During this period, you can find you are sensitive to lots of different foods due to the way your gut protects itself from inflammation. The enzymes you use to digest fats and carbohydrates can be lacking and therefore you should eat easily digested carbs and not too much fat in any one sitting. Difficult carbs include, peas, beans, peanuts, cabbage family, corn, flours made from grasses (buckwheat, amaranth, sorghum), chestnut flour and highly fibrous foods like coconut, flax, chia seeds and other seeds (sunflower, pumpkin). Try simplifying your diet until things calm down, eat some protein at every meal, don't eat too much raw veg - steam or roast it, stick to yoghurt if you want to have dairy, as it's predigested, only eat nuts ground or as nut butter and avoid the difficult to digest grains. When your gut has healed itself you can start introducing things and see how you get on. The reason you are losing weight is most likely to do with malabsorption. A little adjustment is fine, but not if you get underweight. Hope that helps? x x x Your gut may be damaged from eating a gluten filled diet and will take a while to repair itself. During this period, you can find you are sensitive to lots of different foods due to the way your gut protects itself from inflammation. The enzymes you use to digest fats and carbohydrates can be lacking and therefore you should eat easily digested carbs and not too much fat in any one sitting.

Difficult carbs include, peas, beans, peanuts, cabbage family, corn, flours made from grasses (buckwheat, amaranth, sorghum), chestnut flour and highly fibrous foods like coconut, flax, chia seeds and other seeds (sunflower, pumpkin).

Try simplifying your diet until things calm down, eat some protein at every meal, don’t eat too much raw veg – steam or roast it, stick to yoghurt if you want to have dairy, as it’s predigested, only eat nuts ground or as nut butter and avoid the difficult to digest grains. When your gut has healed itself you can start introducing things and see how you get on.

The reason you are losing weight is most likely to do with malabsorption. A little adjustment is fine, but not if you get underweight.

Hope that helps?

x x x

]]> By: shreela http://shreela.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/another-gut-episode-and-sick-afterwards/#comment-50 shreela Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:10:39 +0000 http://shreela.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-50 Good idea Melinda, even if Bix hasn't heard about something herself, she's really good at digging up stuff, and so are her readers. Thanks! Good idea Melinda, even if Bix hasn’t heard about something herself, she’s really good at digging up stuff, and so are her readers. Thanks!

]]> By: Melinda http://shreela.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/another-gut-episode-and-sick-afterwards/#comment-49 Melinda Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:16:33 +0000 http://shreela.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-49 Hi "Other Sherri"! That is very weird about peas. You should ask Bix about it, see if anyone else has had a similar experience. Hi “Other Sherri”! That is very weird about peas. You should ask Bix about it, see if anyone else has had a similar experience.

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