Thu, Jun-15-17, 12:39
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Senior Member
Posts: 14,608
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/125/150
BF:
Progress: 136%
Location: USA
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I went gluten free, felt my gut healing for over a month (I did! it was a kind of "healing glow") and since then I have been very fiber sensitive and must take care even with too many raw, dense, veggies like cauliflower and broccoli. Salad greens are fine, but such low carb mainstays as flax seed and other high fiber fare does not work for me anymore.
Likewise, sugar alcohols are literally "off the table." They rely on their low carb status with molecules too large for the usual digestion processes. Their effect on me is is like fiber, only amplified.
That is when I realized all the suggestions in Gut Sense were coming true for me; according to his guidelines I have very healthy gut flora now.
I am probably on one end of the spectrum for tolerance, while others might be at the opposite, so do keep trying to figure out what works for you. But as someone with a eating disorder background, and a lot of research behind me; there is such as thing as "fiber dependence" just as people can get too into laxatives; in both cases they can wind up with digestion that has to be prodded into action, and keeps requiring more for the same result.
Fiber can be a trap.
That's something to definitely taper off and then end for best health.
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