do you need to get sterile small intestine first before going on raypeat?
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hopping onto raypeat without having done this prior causes bacteria overgrowth? how should normie transition to this diet after prior lifestyle/diet whilst preserving large intestine bacteria as i believe losing that could cause lactose, carb intolerance/malabsorption. ibd seems common tenet of ppl who took antibiotics
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@the-MOUSE depends on what you mean hopping on ray peat. If you mean completely switching over to a gallon of milk and lots of orange juice I wouldn't be surprised if you run into problems. I do better with a mix of starches like potatoes and rice and some fruits than either of them alone, and don't do well with lots of fruit juice either. I also recently found tremendous benefit from aspirin+caffeine effervescent tablets where I've had problems with regular aspirin tablets before. Also do really well with lots of calcium from bone meal as I don't do well with dairy. I think finding what works for you is a trial and error process and can also change over time. If you eat according to a "ray peat paradigm" and are perceptive of your own circumstances I don't see why bacterial overgrowth would be an issue.
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A round of decent antibiotics, (the classes Peat recommends) can’t hurt, but ultimately if your thyroid function is bad you won’t maintain the results of the cleaner gut, and probably just slide back into bacterial issues.
Peat has said it so many times, and it took me personally years to fully comprehend it, but without good thyroid function as a baseline, any other therapeutic approaches will be temporary at best.
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SIBO can always cause unforeseen issues, but "transitioning" should be smooth. A good healthy diet wouldn't be that much different from a so called "normie diet." The biggest differences are what you're not eating.
Processed foods for the most part. But more importantly seed oils, thickeners like guar gum, gellan gum, bean gum, arabic gum, xanthan gum, carrageenan, added phosphates like dicalcium phosphate, sodium phosphate, trisodium phosphate, phosphoric acid, etc. For many people citric acid will be a no go as well, also iron fortification. Vitamin fortification may cause issues with some people who are sensitive. Some people can tolerate whole milk but not low-fat milk (which is fortified).
That's literally 95% of the work right there. Anything else is minuscule at best. And would more or less be "fine tuning" to your specific tolerances. Like, for example, some people don't respond to starch well, or grains. Some people can't handle dairy. Some do better with starch than fruit, etc.
