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Re: Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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Post by jack_pp »

blackjack_ wrote: post #118
jack_pp wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well if your solution is to eat beans with 3/4 meals and I STILL need to social distance for a few months while I acclimate then that's not really the best solution now is it?

Yeah, you don’t run a marathon on your first run. You ramp up the intake slowly as your body adapts, like anything. If you are unlucky, this takes a long time or never happens because you rolled a bad microbiome. But for most people, this works fine.

In my case or a lot of people's cases.. I eat beans to save money and if I have to save money now.. months of adaptation isn't gonna cut it

Re: Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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Post by MrDresden »

dsego wrote: post #53

Not related to beans, but I had serious issues with bloating, gas and bad smell comparable to sewage. It went on for years until I had a short massage to adjust my stomach, the lady was pushing and shifting things around. This was a few months ago. Ever since I haven't had that type of gas, and I burp now which I haven't for years. I didn't change my diet at all.

Not my field, but I wonder if this could have been a case of a bezoar of some kind, perhaps Phytobezoar[0], that got loosened by the massage?

After seeing reports[1] a few years back about the use of Coke as a non invasive way to clean these out, I now drink the stuff when my stomach is upset. With n=1 I can report it has a real effect on me.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytobezoar

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3292399/

Re: Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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Post by adrian_b »

ctoa wrote: post #108

About 50% of people just don't get gassy from beans to begin with, and 70% of those who do adapt within weeks, according to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51819295_Perception... My casual observation is that people's perception of bean's gas causing properties is way out of line with what they do for most people and strongly influenced by people who have unusually high intolerance, who are the minority. A p…

When I was young, I never got gassy, regardless of what I was eating and how much I was eating.

But at one time I was forced to take antibiotics orally for a rather long time.

After that, eating anything like beans resulted in copious amounts of gas, so it was obvious that the composition of the bacteria community in my guts had been changed.

After many years, the reactions to beans and the like have diminished, but I have never reverted to the condition from before that exposure to antibiotics.

Re: Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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Post by globular-toast »

howlin wrote: post #34

I'm a vegan so experienced bean eater. There are a couple things I found that help, but they do come at a cost of flavor or texture: Soak and rinse, but the soak water should be boiling when the dry beans go in. Alkaline. Sodium Carbonate (baking soda) or calcium hydroxide (lime) work. Throw away the cooking water. This has to be done carefully, as too much of either can give the food a mineral taste and/or dissolve…

Why would having the soak water boiling help? And why would it reduce flavour or texture?

Re: Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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Post by globular-toast »

I've eaten lots of things in my life. I'm vegetarian now and I'm often eating 30+ different plants in a day. My experience is any "new" food or a big change in ratios/quantity of a food has the potential for flatulence. The worst gas I got was when I upped my protein to ridiculous quantities for the bodybuilding hobby. I eat beans all the time and they don't cause me any problems at all. But occasionally some vegetable will cause me excessive flatulence. It's part of vegetarian life really. Stick around any herbivores long enough and you'll know about their farts.

Re: Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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Post by cassianoleal »

azinman2 wrote: post #6
tmoertel wrote: post #4

I was surprised they didn't try sprouting the beans before cooking. When a bean germinates, it converts sugars in storage forms to more usable forms. Given that the author seems to understand that gassiness is caused by being unable to digest FODMAPs, sprouting to reduce gassiness seems like an obvious hypothesis to test.

How does one do that? Does it change the flavor / texture?

IME, at least with black beans, overnight is enough. You don’t need to see the actual sprouts, you just need to kickstart the process.

It doesn’t change the taste, and you can control the texture by how long you cook them. Soaking also means it takes less time to cook.

Source: Brazilian who grew up eating black beans several times a week because it’s the number 1 staple there. Usually served in a creamy bean sauce and white rice for the full range of BCAAs - not that I understood that then, it was just delicious.

Re: Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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Post by aziaziazi »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #113
dsego wrote: post #53

Not related to beans, but I had serious issues with bloating, gas and bad smell comparable to sewage. It went on for years until I had a short massage to adjust my stomach, the lady was pushing and shifting things around. This was a few months ago. Ever since I haven't had that type of gas, and I burp now which I haven't for years. I didn't change my diet at all.

There are yoga poses that can be done solo, that have the effect of massaging internal organs. This can also be helpful for the lymphatic system, in which lymph circulates passively, encouraged by movement of the relevant body parts.

Do you know the name of those poses by chance?

Re: Can you stop beans from making you gassy?

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Post by thisislife2 »

xeromal wrote: post #90
thisislife2 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was this a normal body massage, where they also worked on your stomach or specifically a massage for the stomach promising a cure for your specific issues?

Sounds like the massage moved his intestines around

I understood that. Just wanted to know if the masseuse specifically pitched the idea to OP, after hearing his complaint or whether it was just a happy co-incidence.
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