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Quote from Janelle525 on September 29, 2025, 6:05 amQuote from lil chick on September 28, 2025, 6:32 amOur adult son often makes dinner and likes to always include "healthy food". (rabbit food LOL?)
You notice the nausea when you eat 'heathy food'? What does that consist of? Lettuce? My mom says she gets very bad acid reflux when she eats salads, I was like uhhh that's not normal! She has been on proton pump inhibitors for many yrs and her stomach is just a wreck. She had her gallbladder removed yrs ago from partying too much... too much alcohol. Her gallbladder was basically gangrene it was so sick. It's sluggish bile. I harp on soluble fiber because it's the only fiber that can bind to bile and carry it out of the body.. otherwise we just absorb most of it back into our system no matter how toxic it is.
Can she look at charcoal and psyllium?
So my problem of the last year isn't nausea (it is NOT what I used to call an acute "food attack") it is just embarrassing excess gas.
So, inspired by Hurd, I opened a can of butterbeans (they are similar to lima) and I dosed them yesterday. I had no excess gas! But I did have insomnia. I looked at the can and they were preserved with sulfites. DERP. Sulfites make my heart pound and give me low-level asthma that keeps me awake.
I have decided to cut back on coffee, though not all the way yet (to avoid the headache of going cold turkey) and sugar snacks to improve the adrenals (and I'm sure it also helps your b vitamin status).
I don't really MIND beans, they are OK, but I do want to replicate my grandmother's diet as much as I can, and she wasn't "dosing" beans! So I started today with oatmeal. I will also go out and buy some sulfite-free beans.
Besides oatmeal she had other sources of soluble fiber including daily apple sauce and prune sauce (extra prune sauce for the constipated), peeled potatoes, kraut, baked beans on Friday, green beans on Sunday, some whole rye, walnuts and barley. I want to get back to making my no-knead bread this fall, maybe I will put a small amount of rye in it.
I think the legume-answer I've found on my own is peanuts, which I love, and I think those will also be part of my experiment to do more fiber. They are about half soluble and half insoluble. I think they are especially nice for when you are away from home because they travel well.
I think Hurd's major insight is realizing that fat-soluble toxins can be very hard to get rid of...and that soluble (fixed it) fiber is literally MEDICINE for that. So talking about dosing beans becomes logical.
If fat-soluble toxins are not someone's major issue, if fat-soluble toxins are not the next peel of their health-onion, then I suppose they might not get better from her idea.
If someone's gut is very inflamed, I could sort of see that an onslaught of fiber might be harsh. I don't think of my gut as particularly inflamed.
Joe-2 is all about the slow implementation of changes, and that is probably very important with this topic.
But I can't help but wonder... when we add in the fact... that BEANS are one of the three things Grant eats!
Quote from lil chick on September 30, 2025, 5:42 amI think Hurd's major insight is realizing that fat-soluble toxins can be very hard to get rid of...and that insoluble fiber is literally MEDICINE for that. So talking about dosing beans becomes logical.
If fat-soluble toxins are not someone's major issue, if fat-soluble toxins are not the next peel of their health-onion, then I suppose they might not get better from her idea.
If someone's gut is very inflamed, I could sort of see that an onslaught of fiber might be harsh. I don't think of my gut as particularly inflamed.
Joe-2 is all about the slow implementation of changes, and that is probably very important with this topic.
But I can't help but wonder... when we add in the fact... that BEANS are one of the three things Grant eats!
It's soluble fiber that binds fats not insoluble, which is why beans and psyllium are the only main sources other than a few veggies, I could be wrong but I think one of them is okra and I'm not going to eat that!
So the lady that convinced me this works is Unique Hammond, she had Crohn's disease, so massively inflamed gut and has been in remission for 10 yrs thanks to beans and staying off sugar and stimulants and just generally being kind to her body, that's also a part of Karen Hurds research.
Karen believes we recirculate stress hormones as well in our bile, so the cure then is to get stress under control and eat soluble fiber frequently, once a day is generally not going to do anything, it's the frequency because we are re-circulating bile many many times a day, so stress hormones are being recirculated as well. I need to really get that through my thick skull that eating them once or twice a day is not going to reverse much of anything for me because I'm very high in stress hormones at the moment.
Sorry I keep getting confused about which one it is! thanks. LOL. I will go back and correct...
Last night I slept better, in fact, very well.
Still no gas, even though I've been eating so much more fiber!
We had no beans in the house, so I've been eating oatmeal, cabbage and other things. Also, I'm making sure to chew things well. We don't want to let that impatience, that some of us feel, goof up the first part of digestion!
Flabbergasted.
Quote from lil chick on September 30, 2025, 5:42 amI think Hurd's major insight is realizing that fat-soluble toxins can be very hard to get rid of...and that soluble (fixed it) fiber is literally MEDICINE for that. So talking about dosing beans becomes logical.
If fat-soluble toxins are not someone's major issue, if fat-soluble toxins are not the next peel of their health-onion, then I suppose they might not get better from her idea.
If someone's gut is very inflamed, I could sort of see that an onslaught of fiber might be harsh. I don't think of my gut as particularly inflamed.
Joe-2 is all about the slow implementation of changes, and that is probably very important with this topic.
But I can't help but wonder... when we add in the fact... that BEANS are one of the three things Grant eats!
I thought Grant is down to a spoon or so of beans a day now. If that.
Quote from Joe2 on October 1, 2025, 11:55 pmQuote from lil chick on September 30, 2025, 5:42 amI think Hurd's major insight is realizing that fat-soluble toxins can be very hard to get rid of...and that soluble (fixed it) fiber is literally MEDICINE for that. So talking about dosing beans becomes logical.
If fat-soluble toxins are not someone's major issue, if fat-soluble toxins are not the next peel of their health-onion, then I suppose they might not get better from her idea.
If someone's gut is very inflamed, I could sort of see that an onslaught of fiber might be harsh. I don't think of my gut as particularly inflamed.
Joe-2 is all about the slow implementation of changes, and that is probably very important with this topic.
But I can't help but wonder... when we add in the fact... that BEANS are one of the three things Grant eats!
I thought Grant is down to a spoon or so of beans a day now. If that.
It's not surprising he lowered his intake down to nothing because now his cholesterol is extremely low so he doesn't need to bind fats.