Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Any advice for gut issues?
no booze, no refined sugars, whole oat oatmeal, the good bacteria love oats, if you can tolerate fermented foods, kimchi and sauerkraut, a tablespoon with meals, collagen for leaky gut, simple foods, meat, whole grain carb, yams, etc. I believe in fasting to get off to a good start, breaking the fast with some bone broth. For me, personally, wheat is a bad grain, the gluten does a number on me, stopping that alone made a huge difference, but not everyone is the same. I really believe eating the foods our ancestors ate is the way to go. Wheat gluten is probably fine for Mediterraneans, Africans from northern Africa, southern europeans, but the farther north you go, refined wheat was rare. There is a little garden in our gut that communicates with our brain, we have to tend it by growing and feeding the good bacteria.
Thanks for the info! But I'm curious about your fasting regime. How often and for how long do you fast?
Twice a month usually, I just do not eat on Saturdays, water all day long until Sunday, at my age, 74 , I don't want too many ups and downs with my blood sugar. I can tolerate the hot weather much better if I just eat raw fruits and salads for a few days I succumb to temptations sometimes, but the older I get the more I pay for it with inflammation and pain in my joints. I can put away ribs and potato salad with cole slaw as good as anybody, but my old innards will rebel, and it just is not worth it anymore.
Lol. I understand and I'm glad you found a way to have less pain. So when you fast, you said it's usually on Saturdays. So let's say you finished your last meal on Friday at 7:00 as an example. Then you don't eat on Saturday. Even if you ate as early as 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, you'd have fasted for 36 hours. That's great for autophagy and human growth hormone production. Good for you!