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In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

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Re: In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

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Post by gareth_untether »

_gz wrote: post #100
QuibbleQuota wrote: post #95

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Oranges and bananas are out for me too, because of histamine intolerance, which correlates heavily with gut issues. Sharing to help others since I wish I had known sooner!

Got any suggested reads on this? I have annoying sporadic rhinitis flare ups and I've always suspected a link with food. Would love to see if there's a way to determine what foods may be an issue!

Look up elimination diet.

Helped me find out I too have a histamine intolerance. No avocados or spinach!

Re: In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

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Post by leobg »

theshrike79 wrote: post #71
Euphorbium wrote: post #56

I’ve recently moved to a meat heavy diet, and that pretty much fixed my ibs completely. I still get flare ups if I eat too many oranges or bananas, but eating meat on every meal is absolutely essential.

I'm the opposite, leaving out red meat made my gut feel a lot better. I do still eat the occasional beef burger, but mostly it's either vegan or fish/chicken. This is the thing that's tripping up health professionals about gut health, people's guts are really different and there's no official accepted way of testing what kind of diet works for who. Except for long-term experimentation and elimination and that's not "…

Dr. Condor, in Stefan Zweig's novel "Beware of Pity":

""" Don’t you know the medical tricks we play? When we don’t know what to do ourselves, we play for time, we keep patients occupied with chatter and little activities so that they won’t notice how baffled we are. Luckily for us, an invalid’s own nature is usually our ally.

Of course she feels better!

Any kind of treatment, eating lemons or drinking milk, cold-water treatment or hot-water treatment, will bring about an initial change in the organism and provide a stimulus that the ever-optimistic patient takes for improvement. That kind of auto-suggestion is our best assistant; it even helps the biggest fools among us doctors.

But there’s a snag—as soon as the charm of novelty has worn off, reaction will set in, and then you have to switch your approach in a hurry, pretend there’s a new treatment, and so we doctors manipulate our approach in really severe cases until perhaps the real, right method of treatment is found. """

Re: In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

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Post by _puk »

_gz wrote: post #100
QuibbleQuota wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oranges and bananas are out for me too, because of histamine intolerance, which correlates heavily with gut issues. Sharing to help others since I wish I had known sooner!

Got any suggested reads on this? I have annoying sporadic rhinitis flare ups and I've always suspected a link with food. Would love to see if there's a way to determine what foods may be an issue!

A generally recommended elimination diet is the FODMAP diet (originally out of studies by the Australian Monash University).

It's primarily for IBS and identification of trigger foods, but the elimination and reintroduction steps may well help you with identifying your triggers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP

https://www.monashfodmap.com/

They've also got a basic, but handy app.

It's done me well over the years.

Re: In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

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Post by QuibbleQuota »

_gz wrote: post #100
QuibbleQuota wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oranges and bananas are out for me too, because of histamine intolerance, which correlates heavily with gut issues. Sharing to help others since I wish I had known sooner!

Got any suggested reads on this? I have annoying sporadic rhinitis flare ups and I've always suspected a link with food. Would love to see if there's a way to determine what foods may be an issue!

Oh definitely. I did (and am still refining) a full elimination diet to get good clean data. I cut salicylates, amines (e.g histAMINE), and glutamates. Fedup.com.au is a clunky decades old resource, but the content is no-bs and so valuable.

I have rhinitis flare ups too - I’m not sure I’ve pinpointed exactly what flares mine up, but I most suspect guar gum / xanthan gum. Either as a trigger, or just causing thickening of mucus, which spirals into blocked noses and sinus infection issues and further rhinitis.

What really helps me is lymphatic drainage massage. There’s videos on YouTube showing you how to gently directionally massage the drainage channels to keep your sinuses clear.

Re: In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

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Post by QuibbleQuota »

QuibbleQuota wrote: post #105
_gz wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got any suggested reads on this? I have annoying sporadic rhinitis flare ups and I've always suspected a link with food. Would love to see if there's a way to determine what foods may be an issue!

Oh definitely. I did (and am still refining) a full elimination diet to get good clean data. I cut salicylates, amines (e.g histAMINE), and glutamates. Fedup.com.au is a clunky decades old resource, but the content is no-bs and so valuable. I have rhinitis flare ups too - I’m not sure I’ve pinpointed exactly what flares mine up, but I most suspect guar gum / xanthan gum. Either as a trigger, or just causing thickenin…

http://www.failsafediet.com/the-rpah-elimination-diet-failsa...

This site is a pretty tight digested summary of the same elimination diet that fedup.com.au recommends

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Post by idontknoworcare »

_gz wrote: post #100
QuibbleQuota wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oranges and bananas are out for me too, because of histamine intolerance, which correlates heavily with gut issues. Sharing to help others since I wish I had known sooner!

Got any suggested reads on this? I have annoying sporadic rhinitis flare ups and I've always suspected a link with food. Would love to see if there's a way to determine what foods may be an issue!

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Re: In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

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Post by Octabrain »

freilanzer wrote: post #99
Modified3019 wrote: post #73

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*[Notice: diarrhea warning]* For those that don't know, if you aren't used to creatine then taking more than a few grams has a good possibility of giving you the shits (or sometimes even strong abdominal discomfort). This will (mostly) go away fairly quickly and varies drastically from person to person, but you've been warned. Best to take it on a weekend or something, and slowly build up to your max dose. The effect…

I take 3 grams in juice on an empty stomach and have never had any problems. Maybe the juice is key.

I usually take it with just water on a empty stomach and never had any issue.

Re: In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge

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Post by Eupolemos »

theshrike79 wrote: post #83
Eupolemos wrote: post #76

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Hi - this sounds exactly like what my GF is figthing with bloating, really cold hands and feet and anxiety attacks. She used to have a severe reflux issue. Can I ask you, what medicine do you take to relax the esophageal sphincter? When it comes to food, have you found a pattern in what to avoid or do just stick to some basic kinds to avoid?

Metamizole[0] is the one I take, it's _really_ sketchy and actually banned in some. Looks like it's banned for human use in the US :D But hey, it works and I usually need like 0,5-1 tablets a year so I'm not personally worried about any adverse effects. As for foods, during the worst reflux times I ate pretty much just unseasoned chicken and rice and drank only water just to let my stomach and esophagus time to heal…

Thank you <3
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