Gut issues but I can’t go to doctor
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@peatyourheartout Can you please suggest a daily diet plan for gut healing?
I have exactly the same problems... sleep issues, histamine… and I can’t stabilize my blood sugar…
I think that the dysbiosis in my gut is causing the blood sugar instability…cause i have cravings (and sugar cravings) after a main meal...
Also, do you think NDT would help? I’m hesitant to take it because of the severe instability I mentioned above. -
@peatyourheartout Thanks for sharing man.
I’d never heard you need energy to fuel your recovery but that makes sense. -
Lots of good ideas on here. I'd recommend the GAPS diet by Dr. McBride. Ray spoke highly of her and her website has lots of free information to get you started.
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@mm33 I believe the GAPS diet could be very helpful, especially for those of us with significant gut issues... but isn't it contrary to Ray's principles, since it heavily restricts carbs?
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@Ilias-Ant You could definitely be correct as I could be confusing her with someone else but I bought her book in 2021 I believe and I'd been reading/listening to Ray's interviews for a year or two before that and seem to remember him speaking highly of her. Her main diet doesn't restrict carbs but she does have a keto specific GAPS as well as no-plant and more-plant diets.
I've attached a link to her intro diet which shows what she recommends:
https://www.gapsdiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Introduction-Diet.pdf
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there is no one size fits all approach, but i recommend experimenting with different things to identify a few staple metabolically supportive foods that you can tolerate and build your diet around those for the first few months while you recover. things that worked for me:
- corn tortillas with good ingredients (basically just corn and lime/calcium - no gums/fillers)
- parmigiano reggiano cheese (traditionally prepared cheese that is well tolerated by almost everyone. high in calcium and protein).
- bone broth (gentle on stomach and good source of collagen protein to balance muscle meat. this is another option in addition to the gelatin i recommended in the first post)
- orange juice (if you can tolerate it, this is one of the most nutritious source of sugar. a superfood).
- honey (i would just add this to almost everything i ate. kind of insane, but it was a source of carbohydrate that is very easy to digest so i just went with it).
- lean meat (steak, chicken breast, lean fish, scallops, shrimp): for good protein. i always found meat felt good in my stomach.
just be sure to include adequate calcium in the diet when eating a lot of meat, because the meat is high in phosphorous which must be balanced by calcium. i think this actually contribute to a lot of inflammatory/digestive issues, in addition to vitamin d deficiency which is related. if you care to get into the details of this issue, this interview with ray peat is a masterclass and was revelatory to me:
one staple dish i basically ate all the time when i was down bad with digestive issues was this:
i would make a lot of tacos with corn tortillas and chicken breast (i would shred the chicken breast, heat it up in a pan with some coconut oil and add some salt, and add some some shredded parmigian cheese on top. sometimes i would add honey on top... it sounds crazy but it was delicious and nutritious and always well tolerated by my gut.
if you can tolerate it, goes well with a cup of sugared coffee as well.
cheers to you, i believe in you and have walked the same path as you and come out the other side.
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@peatyourheartout Thank you for sharing your experiences... unfortunately lately i can't tolerate sugar... even if it is from good sources such as honey etc... same as with dairy.... i suspect candida overgrowth because I have mild histamine intolerance at this time... and if I take raw garlic... instantly i feel better and calmer... can you please tell me your opinion about this?
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What symptoms do you get from eating sugar? What does your current diet look like on an average day?
Ray Peat has written specifically about how it is not good to cut out sugar with a candida infection as this can make things worse. Ray recommended flowers of sulfur for candida, something like 100mg for 2 or 3 days.
As for the histamine intolerance, I do not view this as a distinct problem but rather a symptom of generally poor metabolism. Cyproheptadine and famotidine (both antihistamines) at night can help with this, especially with just restoring quality sleep if this is an issue.
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With sugar,
I get a feeling of being unwell, often anxiety, and also extreme hunger, sometimes even ten minutes after a main meal...
Since I now observe and understand everything about myself... I’m sure it’s from the gut, 100%, because my temperatures are now very good...
I mostly eat eggs, meat, soups, dairy (I try to stick to A2), and fruit juices, fruit gels, and sometimes — not every day — a bit of ripe banana, which is very tolerable and doesn’t bother me...
Also, what you say makes sense, that’s why garlic helps me a lot, because it has a very high amount of sulfur... -
Do you take any type of thyroid supplement? I can’t say for sure what’s going on, but if you are unable to tolerate sugar it is unlikely that your metabolism is thriving. Whatever kind of infection you have is likely impairing your metabolism, while also being a symptom of low metabolism. Someone with a high metabolic rate is not very susceptible to bacterial or fungal infection.
In addition to thyroid supplementation, eating the carrot salad daily would probably beneficial.