Tried changing my boring diet a little more towards keto, felt good, then hit the yield point

Some of the regulars here may remember I’ve really finally tuned my diet for the last five years. Before that everything goes wrong with my gut.

Even a decade ago I could not tolerate repeated high fat meat meals. I almost forgot about that. Gut gas , gurgling noises , bloating, very stinky exhaust lol you get the picture. Well leaning towards keto (The last month ) is just that and my body still does not tolerate it. I was wondering what these symptoms were that I got the last week, it was a little different than candida of the past, I think it’s my repeated fat intolerance. TMI – after reading what fat intolerance does your stools and other symptoms and convinced this is what it is. I’m hoping that’s what it is and then I can get my gut back to normal again.
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The other part- (and some venting);

adding to partial keto...the summer barbecue days are the equivalent in the snowy north to the inside winter holidays as far as food and social gatherings go; Indulging in food that everyone’s eating.

I am grateful to have my major lyme days behind me, but that said -it sucks to have a limited diet in the world where food is a big social thing and other people did just not understand it.

I’m really starting to get pissed off when people socially try to push food on me that I tell them that I cannot tolerate. I think they also do not believe me because although most of them are overweight and/or don’t seem to care about their health - I obviously do. I think that bothers them. It’s kind of similar to when some people tell skinny people to fatten up. A normal or fit body is now considered skinny by The unhealthy majority, that is really screwed up.

It’s probably a good thing I’m an introvert, I can only deal with so many social gatherings. One shocker about being in my 50s; some 50 year olds are starting to die ; who apparently had no diseases. Just bad health in general.

yep - i take my own food with me if i go anywhere for a social

the conversations typically go

me "no thanks - i'm on a restrictive diet for health reasons - i dont eat carbs"

them " can you eat natcho's"

me "no - they are all starch"

them " what about chick peas - can you eat those"

me "nope - i don't eat any legumes or pulses - i just eat meat, eggs and non starchy veg really "

them " what about curry - do you eat curry, i've got some ..."

and so it goes on

its really quite simple - but seems to be so alien to most people that they just cant compute

my 80 year old mum was here yesterday and as she had not eaten for a while - i made her a smaller version of what i would eat for lunch cold meats, some romaine lettuce, olives and steamed veg she said it was delicious.

Garzie yes I think there might be a thyroid connection too with low acid (again). Years ago when I had Gerd and reflux that was the problem too, yet the doctors were trying to get me on acid reducing meds lol some of them are so clueless.

The meat fat digesting problem has happened in the past. Red meats are the worst. And in the past digestive enzymes helped some with this.

The last time this was bad , which was about three years ago ) I took Dr. mercola’s‘s gallbladder supplement which had ox bile, and a LOT of : pancreatic Proteus, pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase in it. This helped snap me out of it when even Gastro doctors could not figure it out. 25 bucks a bottle but I think I’m gonna get some more.

So basically what I think happens is if I have large amount of meaty fats it digest so slow that other food ends up fermenting in the lower intestine giving symptoms similar to SIBO.

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I just had three homemade wraps for early dinner which always settled pretty well in the past and were bery scrumptious too. Takes a whole countertop and some time though!

Gluten free / corn free soft tortillas: with fine shredded chicken meat, Brown and wild rice, shredded lettuce, chopped onions and tomato with sea salt and gluten dairy free ranch dressing. That was half an hour ago, so far so good. (I had this without any enzymes as a test to see if a well balancedMeal makes a difference.)

I am very fortunate that diet hasn’t really affected me.

I do cook a lot of gluten free meals tho - as i got used to it because my son has celiac disease.

I started out using Enzymetica digestive enzymes and felt worse. Then I saw the Functional MD who diagnosed me with CIRS/mold. She had me try Orthomolecular Ortho Digestzymes, and they worked much better without adverse effects for me. When I looked at the label on Enzymedica (and other store bought enzymes), I discovered that most were derived from mold, including toxigenic species of molds.

I just looked at Orthomolecular’s website. They actually have 3 digestive enzyme products:

DG Protect - for gluten and dairy

Digestzyme-V - has a ton if stuff, but doesn’t identify if it’s derived from fungi or not

Ortho Digestzyme - pancreatine, betain Hcl, pepsin, ox bile, bromelain, papain.

Here’s their list of products. https://www.orthomolecularproducts.com/shop-now/products . You can look at each one and compare them. If you have a practitioner, they can probably get you a Fullscript account where you can get the products at a discount.
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UPDATE:
I contacted Orthomolecular after posting this and asked about the source of enzymes. Here is their response: “Several of the enzymes in Digestzyme-V are sourced from fungi species such as Aspergillus oryzae, Aspergillus niger, Rhizopus oryzae, Torchoderma longibrachiatum and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.”

Post Edited (WalkingbyFaith) : 6/27/2022 1:50:00 PM (GMT-6)

Been taking some NOW brand enzyme mix with lipase, amylase and protease (+ other stuff in it). Plus some HCL and bromelaine.

I'm a little better, but based on past gut experiences, once its "off" is takes a while to get my gut balanced again.

So this whole episode created a SIBO like environment in my lower intestine. Im taking "anti- candida" what I call "hot herbs" for that too. So I need to eat green veggies as first part of meals again too.

Post Edited (astroman) : 7/1/2022 9:20:24 AM (GMT-6)

Well I’ve had enough gut problems, a combination of them but if I deviate from any of my boring diet it I pay the price. When I deviate away from it is when I’m socializing.

I even know some gluten-free people. The problem with them is they avoid gluten but the rest of their diet absolutely sucks, it’s actually kind of hilarious And incredibly ironic. So when they get to know what I can’t eat their jaw just drops and hits the floor.

So I figured out what happened here. I was eating way more meat than usual, which plugged me up, which started the fermenting process of other foods, which started the overgrowth of yeast and bacteria in my gut - things I’ve unfortunately treated before many times, I’m a pro at it now lol!

The fact that I’m very susceptible to gut Yeast and bacterial overgrowth is probably because of my permanently compromised Immunoglobulin levels. Besides lyme, I don’t know how that happened.

So in addition to my now super enzymes, which has everything in it you would need, I am also back to my anti-candida diet and antifungal herbs, quite a selection of all the good ones. Oh my what fun it is.

Good thing I’m not a foodie cause I would not be able to survive on this super clean , blood tested diet that I have.

Post Edited (astroman) : 7/6/2022 7:56:53 PM (GMT-6)