Reintegrating Starches (Peat Success Story)
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I just wanted to report some thoughts on reintegrating starches, which I feel as though I've successfully accomplished.
At the beginning of this year, I would get super bloated when trying to eat rice, potatoes, and most grains and tubers, so I leaned heavily on fruit, fruit juices, milk and sugar to get my carbs up; however, I still felt like my diet was missing something.
I decided that it must be the starches, but I was still reacting badly to them. Through experimentation, I discovered that I did best with cassava and secondarily sourdough bread, so I incorporated that little by little on a regular basis.
But that was difficult to keep up with sometimes, since I would purchase cassava flour and use it with other ingredients to make pancakes which added a bit more complexity to breakfast. With sourdough, I struggled to eat it in time before it went bad even if I chose to refrigerate it.
After a while, I decided that my digestion of starches wasn't going to get better until I made myself eat them consistently, so I came up with a modified milk powder pancake recipe where half was milk powder and the other half was commercial organic pancake mix (wheat-based). This combo was better than nothing and easy because the recipe is 1:1 of both and then mix with skim milk until the right, pancake-y consistency.
Anyway, I started eating that almost everyday, and at first, my digestion wasn't perfect but it slowly improved.
Recently, after doing that for several months straight (3 to 4), I decided to try potatoes and white (short-grain) rice again, and it turned out that I didn't bloat at all and digested them with no problem and no bloating or over-full feeling.
Anyway, you don't have to do things this way, but if you are struggling with starches my advice is to make sure you're eating a little everyday; otherwise, I don't see a situation where it gets better. I now don't think twice about having rice or potatoes with a meal because I know my body can handle it.
I will mention that I was taking various sups throughout this period on-and-off, but really, the only one that I could see would make a difference in helping was that I've been taking thyroid since the beginning of this year as well.
Anyway, sometimes I see posts here, and I feel like people aren't prepared to go on a months to years long journey to see themselves heal, so they jump from sup to sup as I was when, in reality, it was really just consistently eating small amounts for several months that seemed to make the biggest difference. I have been peating for over a year now (July 2023), but I didn't start consistently eating starches until about 4 months back with some inconsistent eating of them 2 to 3 months prior to that.
I'm only taking thyroid and progesterone now btw.
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@secondkelping said in Reintegrating Starches (Peat Success Story):
Anyway, I started eating that almost everyday, and at first, my digestion wasn't perfect but it slowly improved.
Was it bloating, with gas (stools) or "simply" long digestion?
Details are needed on the symptoms if you want an clear advice: time, way, amplitude, where symptoms, description. -
I went through something similar where I cut out starches. I tried to eat as much fruit as I could, but it wasn’t cutting it. I had many hypothyroid symptoms as a result. Starches were the only thing that fixed it.
Cassava is fairly calorie dense, so I would agree that it’s a good choice for someone trying to reintegrate starches after a struggle with them. I would advise, though, to attempt to find it organic, as it is the GMO crop most widely sold for human consumption (that’s what I have read at least.) Anyone with gut/digestion issues probably doesn’t want to be ingesting glyphosate.
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Withe knowing little about the science (which is much much better than thinking you know if you keep reading garbage articles and research from mainstream sources ang pharma ghost writers and having that false confidence of medically scientific righteousness), you figured a way out of your situation by simply thinking like a cave man would using basic trial and error and keeping on acting on your observations, you got a lot lot closer to getting out of your previous poor state, towards a better state of digesting and assimilating starch.
Congratulations!
What you just did was you found a way to manage your body's poor absorption and metabolism of blood sugar by incorporating protein with starch. I think what you just did was that by mixing milk powder with the starch, you used a large amount of protein to accompany your starch intake. Because protein takes a longer time to digest and to assimilate, it also slowed down the speed at which the starch is converted into blood sugar going I to your blood stream. You turned a sudden flash flood of glucose into managed trickles of it that flows into your blood for s muxh longer duration. This ensures your glucose does not quickly run out. Also you keep the glucose your flooding and you don't reach high blood sugar levels, keeping insulin production at a minimum, this avoiding the conversion of blood sugar into fat by the liver. This further ensures you don't excessively convert blood sugar into fat, which can turn into low blood sugar or hypoglycemia, which is very stressful.
You can also do a similar thing when you eat starch with a large portion of steak. You can eat brown rice with the steak instead of white, as the fiber in brown rice slows down the conversion of starch into glucose.
As you are able to make blood sugar stable by tweaking your blend of macros, you're able to put yourself on a path of recovery into becoming closer to eventually becoming better tuned to produce energy from simple sugar in an optimal manner, via mitochondrial respiration.
Taking supps like thyroid would help. Dealing with internal issues that rob energy would help direct energy towards healing from a low energy and hypothyroid state. Making sure you don't suffer from any deficiency further brings along your healing. And making your mind less polluted with wrong medical ideas that detracts from your healing also help, such as false notions that vitamin A is toxic but in reality anything in excess is not healthful.
