Resistant starches

This is great, thank you. I have ordered the original article referenced to look into this further.

One thing I did not understand is, what is room-temperature rice and pasta? No matter what food temperature you start out with it would seem to me that shortly after ingestion your food becomes close to the temperature of your stomach so I don't really know what the difference would be.

I am not an expert in SCD although I spent quite some time on the diet so my take on why SCD is negatory on starch is that it becomes sugar after digestion and SCD seeks to eliminate most sugars which may be keeping bad bacteria alive. This article backs that up as starch being friendly to bacteria, the question is which bacteria is it helping, good or bad.

When my flare was at it's worst I eliminated rice and potatoes because they caused constipation and I yo-yo'ed between C and D. Since healing (not 100% but that may never happen) I am able to eat rice and potatoes but I use white rice since it is gentler on my GI system which does not like too much fiber.

Not all these articles can be used at face value for UC because our guts are wounded and not able to function the way other's do. For example fiber is great for most people but some UC'ers guts cannot handle fiber (and some can). Mine cannot handle much insoluble fiber. It's a fine line for me.

Remember though, all these starches must be organic and grass fed. The rice must be grass fed otherwise, it negates the thing.

Same article I posted hours ago

Diets do not work in everyone and when they do certain diets work in some and other diets work in others. The trouble is, for those where diet can help, it's about impossible to know which one of the diets will help you. It's often just trial and error. On top of that some diets can make you worse. I think posters do a disservice to others when they harp and harp and harp that you have to stay the course and do the diet for months or even years before you really get any benefit. If you have chosen the wrong diet then staying on it for months or years can not only be the wrong thing to do but it can be a very huge inconvenience to do all that for nothing. I really haven't seen too many people here who have had great benefit from these diets as far as UC and remission goes. Yes, there are some but many still wind up having UC symptoms even with their diets and all they can talk about is how much better they feel overall due to the diet.

so gary, let's go visit the ostomy forum sometime and ask how many there failed on meds ? what do you think ? most of them ? or are they all diet fails ?

telling someone who asks " what worked for you" is harping if diet is mentioned ? but all the folks who mention meds are not harping ?

people ask for advice - people give it - period !

geez, how many times have you harped about your acme enzymes ?

"I kind of screwed up and thought that these starches were evil".

I dont think you screwed up Stealth, we were told that these were bad starches because that is what was believed, at the time. We now know that resistant starches are very helpful for our condition. Totally agree that you have to find the right resistant starches to utilize as some may bring complications. I could not be more happy with the results, so far.

Sodium Butyrate seems to be the key.

"so gary, let's go visit the ostomy forum sometime and ask how many there failed on meds ? what do you think ? most of them ? or are they all diet fails ?

telling someone who asks " what worked for you" is harping if diet is mentioned ? but all the folks who mention meds are not harping ?

people ask for advice - people give it - period !

geez, how many times have you harped about your acme enzymes ?
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true true, but there is a difference between meds and diets.

Meds have been approved by an organisation, weather they work in all people or not, that is not the point. It's the approved treatment to this disease.

Diets, in all versions, are just theories. There is no scientific back-up, well, at least not at the same level as meds. So no doctors will prescribe SCD or Paleo over some meds that can very well work (meds work in most people, I would venture to say)

If I was a gastro, I'd be open minded and let the patient decide but I wouldn't go and say ...YUO needz to go on SCD!!one!!!

So, harping about meds is more acceptable than harping about diets simply because...well for the reasons I mentioned. lol

I am very happy with the resistant starch thing. Have managed to taper off pred without difficulties, though that may be due to strategic use of m. enemas.

I'm sticking to the beans with the occasional almost green banana or cold rice. Beans seem like the most straightforward and least controversial option.

I do have gas, but it isn't an issue. And I have the most perfect poops you have ever seen (I could only say this on a UC forum).

One of the best weekends I have had for as long as I can remember since being in a flare. The resistant starch + Sodium Butyrate +SF seed butter/Spinach has kept me B+M free for about 2 weeks now. I feel different in a good way-it’s really hard to explain other than I feel like I am healing.

Been eating green bananas/cold yams/cold brown rice/hi Maize (1 TBSP with protein shake. Also, the GF bread I am eating (Udi's) is made with Tapioca Starch. This combination with SF seeds/Spinach and 2 500 mg Sodium Butyrate pills is doing the trick

Truly hard to believe diet modification can work this well and meds don't. So blessed to have found this board.

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