Paleo/Whole30 diet for "leaky gut", SIBO, auto-immune (100% cave-man food)

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Above is a gut questionnaire from a health club/magazine that some regional functional Drs do guest write-inns/articles once in a while. My PT and FMMD are guest writers both and mentioned this info recently.

So they are promoting three simple mixed supplements of probiotics/ digestive enzymes and L-glutamine to take while on this diet. Nothing new to those who have done some of this stuff for leaky gut/candida but with a strict diet, this seems to be the key. For 30 days.

I've been doing those supps for a month after my he// bent gut "episode" after T day week and feel better. I'm thinking of trying the strict diet, its going to SUCK, but its just for one month, then they say add back foods, but stop ones that are obviously bad for you.

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Huddie.

Yea, I cheated with brown and wild rice before + gluten free pasta (rice pasta) in my "mostly" paleo diets in the past.

Guess it's nuts, carrots, celery, bananas for breakfast for me. Maybe a pre-peeled hard boiled egg. No more g/f granola type bars for a while.

I'm too busy to stick to this in the summer. The hard part is making lunch the night before for work. No more g/f bread sandwiches with deli meat.

I'm going to try what the actual whole30 book says, which call this the whole 30 diet. Again, I didnt get the book, just heard about it, but this is what all the "hoopla" is about. They (the author) has a web site.

Says you can eat fruit, just not overindulge. So this is not the same as a real strict candida diet, but close though.

What you can and cant eat:

PDF : whole30.com/downloads/official-whole30-program-rules.pdf

Non-PDF whole30.com/whole30-program-rules/

They even have a forum , guess everyone does now ... ha ha..........forum.whole30.com/

Another good SIBO diet is low FODMAP. We had to go on that for my son's SIBO and fructose malabsorption.

Astroman,

Thanks. Will print out the links later. Appreciate.

Yes there is a lot of overlapping. The strict Candida has no room for any sugar, or anything that can convert to sugar or mold (peanuts, etc...)

I substitute half a frozen avocado for a frozen banana in my smoothie and it does the trick.

LOL! That 'song' reminds me of my childhood. Growing up with three brothers it was unavoidable.

I also often forget peanuts are legumes.

I did introduce a lot of buckwheat and almond flour on the candida diet that helped get me through.

Not sure there is any article/link to this but my son's LLMD thinks beans are good for Lyme. This isn't his main LLMD it is a pediatric LLMD he goes to in between. I have never heard of that but know they are good for you.

We don't eat a lot of beans in our family but I have starting cooking with them a bit more.

Do you think a person will lose weight on this diet? Because I am already underweight because of Lyme and can't lose anymore weight.

Day five of 30, on the "cave man" diet plan.

My knuckles are starting to drag and I feel the quest to find a cave and whittle a club. Grunting more, but with a smile.

No chemicals, dairy , alcohol, or grains. NO grains for now. No man made processed natural foods like vegan - soy stuff either.

Almond milk with no sugar or soy added and certain sausages with NO preservatives is on the boarder line.

Eat like you picked it or killed it then ate it, cave man food.

Ate eggs, fish, chicken, some steak, elk, some nitrate/sugar/gluten free bacon and sausage ($$), veggies, berries, some fruit, nuts, almond milk, water, tea. Lettuce sliced chicken sandwiches with "safe" mustard.

My gut has a settled feeling like never before.

No gut "body noises" (from either end, TMI I know). Zero bloating feels weird. Like an emptyness, I read this feeling happens when all the toxins are left out of diet. Digestion was is a little slower for a few days with out man made carbs and gluten.

MONTH TWO now.

I've adhered to this at least 95%, with less than 5% technical mistakes from learning what "disguised" ingredients really are...........they mislead on lables....white lies!!!!.

You cant even buy a dill pickle with out 2% offensive sugar of some type. Everyone knows sugar, or cane, but versions of sucrulose (corn sugar), dextrose, turbineo are the hidden terms. Milk and or soy is in way to many things.

Soy messes up hormones as it looks like a hormone to the body.

Organic labeled stuff can still have soy and sugar in it- just less refined versions of sugar, read, read, read.

All that soy packed stuff vegans eat.....is bad for you LOL.........wake up vegans/vegetarians.

So without carbs (grain products) there an not many snacks to choose from, and carbs are what make you feel full.

I will never buy a coffee shop overpriced chemical/sugar/dairy loaded coffee ever in my life. Plain coffee in its natural form is Paleo and whole30 acceptable, even though it is considered slightly toxic in functional medicine.

Regular coffee gives me reflux. It used to make me jittery when my adrenals were messed up, not now. The natural amino acid L-Theanine in enough tea to equal the amount of caffeine in coffee makes me feel a little loopy. So.......I started using Kava brand reduced acid instant coffee, with a minimal chemical almond milk added (some are bad) and some natural cinnamon in it.

And we really need alternative healthy restaurants that dont break the bank too. Restaurant food always put me into sleep mode- its scary what they do to make food addicting. Sit down restaurant food is in some cases, just as bad as fast food- worse if they fill your plate up.

Eventually I cant sustain this diet forever, its costly and time consuming. And cant really eat socially. I trained a family member on what they though was healthy- now they read labels LOL.

My energy bill went up! My stove/oven is gas, I dont like electric stove tops. In the northland gas is more expensive than electricity. I know in south US electricity is more costly than up here- they nail you for AC use. We use furnaces more and they are gas. Energy companies want our money and get it depending on your climate ..ha ha..

***I will getting LIPID PANEL and my previously elevated AUTOIMMUNE ANTIBODIES tested again in a few weeks to see what this diet is doing in that dept. See what all the meat and veggies is doing inside of me***

I lost minimal, only 4lbs, but I appeared fit before anyway. Have been increasing workouts, so maybe I converted some softness to leanness, who knows, jeans are a little to loser now I guess, tighted the belt up more.

I never had any food withdrawals from this- I ate pretty good anyway, but not this strict before. Gluten free is a cake walk compared to whole30/paleo!!

Post Edited (astroman) : 2/4/2017 11:13:15 AM (GMT-7)

I realize this post may seem "out there" to newbies fighting a major lyme battle. But once you get better, consider trying this, but slowly go into it doing the research/homework a little at a time until your ready for the deep dive. It can be a fun body science experiment vs food torture if you think of it that way.

As modern humans, we have many food addictions that we arn't even aware of. And- the chemicals are slowly killing starting at the gut level as we cannot adapt to these chemicals or even "natural chemicals" LOL, that were even once an natural food choice (like sugar and soy variations).

Not sure when I will slowly add back things. Its hard to accept that I've proven gluten pasta does me harm. Life with no pizza, but more comfortable. Its not just the glutan, its the dairy cheese and maybe the natural hormones even in organic dairy that does this to me and others (new info to me).

Bottom line...........immune health rests in gut health....thats why I choose trying this.

Post Edited (astroman) : 2/4/2017 10:48:17 AM (GMT-7)

Autoimmune protocol. I think it might be even slightly more restrictive but i may be mistaken. Wow i don't think i even had that energy before lyme!! I just got to a point where i realized i was eliminating so many things i was basically sustaining myself on plantain chips and salmon. Which is not the way to go about it. If you're going to do it you have to do it right i think and get all that vegetable diversity in there. I'm buying a piece of land in the mountains and the plan is to permaculture the heck out of it when i'm done with school this spring. So i'll pretty much be forced to eat better since I won't be able to afford much more than I'm growing XD After a year and a half though i can say pretty confidently i don't have any overt reactions to grains or legumes. I feel paleo is probably healthier and worth a try for anyone. But the biggest difference for me i think just came from not eating crap. I try to eat whole food everything as much as i can even though i stopped paleo.