Resistant Starch 101 — Everything You Need to Know

(Bunny) #3

Yes, don’t want to starve the gut bugs when fasting!

One of many trial and tribulations to consider is the gut flora biome starting to react because your starving them to death and at the same time they will make you incredibly hungry, so it would do me some good to take some resistant starch[1] or e.g. a real fresh un-ripened green banana[1] periodically to feed them when I’m fasting extensively or intermittently every day (OMAD) or my gut bugs will let me know they mean business and seems as though those gut bugs also have a say so in lipid metabolism[1]?

Footnotes:

  1. “… The big question is – how do we get back some of the microbes we’ve lost? When we compare ourselves to the hunter-gatherers in, say, Tanzania we’ve lost about 40% of our microbes. They have many species that we no longer have in the West. One way is to start reintroducing them, like early farming. We could start farming them up and see if we can introduce them back into humans, get them back as part of our chain. We don’t know if that’s going to be successful or not, but we know that very often rather than having zero amount inside us, we may have very small amounts inside us of some beneficial ones that we can grow up. …” …More
(Ethan) #4

This claims that it’s good for a ketogenic diet for when you consume carbohydrate… what??? We don’t consume carbohydrates enough to even raise insulin/glucose that much…

#5

You can eat keto and supplement with resistant starch - I used 1-2 tablsp chilled then fried basmati rice. Around 5-7 gr carbs - and the mental boost is significant.

#6

Thank you @atomicspacebunny, GREAT resource!

I’m particularly compelled by the butyrate aspect. My understanding is that the good bacteria in the large gut - the ones that produce HUGE amounts of butyrate for our brainz compared to the relatively tiny amount we get from ingesting butter - need to be fed with RS in many (but not all) industrial people’s guts.

Also, certain starches need to be chilled then reheated in a non-liquid way, in order to make the starch “durable for the journey”. Otherwise, your rice starch may just dissolve entirely in the stomach, etc.

Being that I’m erratic in supplementing the RS ( I use plain basmati rice, which is Low Glycemic - and available for takeout at any indian restaurant - I just chill it and refry)

While one can survive w/o resistant starches, one’s brainz may function better w/ them. I think that people raised in industrial society have very different brain nourishment prentally and through childhood + plus often massive antibiotics which destroy gut bacteria.

I’ve learned about this topic from Dr. Grace Liu and Dave Asprey - being that the gut is now called the enteric nervous system, because of its huge significance on emotional health, I think RS offers a unique medicine esp for those who’ve suffered long term stress and/or gut-compromised states since childhood.

Dr. Grace Liu also talks about using soil-based organisms as a probiotic - a much more expensive route, but necessary for certain types of gut derangements apparently.

https://www.enduranceplanet.com/dr-grace-liu-how-to-build-a-warrior-gut-common-and-solvable-gut-issues-in-athletes-and-more/

(Bunny) #7

This one too:

#8

Yeah - I stay away from potato starch though, due to not wanting to trigger my POTATO LOVE, lol. Plus, the low GI basmati is easy to do in my lifestyle.

(Bunny) #9

Yeah, the potato starch thing is kind of meh! I would prefer other sources!

#10

Yeah, it’s sort of scary/suspect to me- but a li’l ghee-fried reheated basmati is fragrant and goes well with dabs of savory curry. Processed white rice is not very ancient, but it does the job. I imagine eventually I’ll switch to just veg fiber as the imported rice gets scarcer.

(Bunny) #11

Something like this might be better!

Wild Rice?

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(Empress of the Unexpected) #12

Is chilled okay - or do you need to re-fry it?

#13

The basmati is tons cheaper and convenient for me (often via indian takeouts but I cook it too in winter).

How I love Wild Rice though! I’ve never bought it much due to costing around $6-7/pound compared to $1-2/pound for basmati rice. But it’s very precious, being grass seeds :herb: from a small region of the North American continent and traditionally gathered & eaten on the sacred lands of the Annishnaabe and Ojibwa peoples.

Being a Type 1 RS, the wild rice doesn’t need to be refried, which could make it much more convenient for those who may live in the Great Lakes region and have more local supply chains for it. Or for me, during winter holidays when I splurge more!!!

#14

I think you have to refry to coat it in fat so as to seal it? Otherwise it’ll dissolve fast in soup or in the stomach’s acid.

(TJ Borden) #15

Most of @atomicspacebunny’s post was over my head (nothing new), but I’m intrigued by this. That sounds delicious.

#16

Yeah - it’s delish! I try to take it a couple times a week, the mental boost is noticeable - beyond the mental boost I get from my daily 1-2 tblsp of coconut oil (as a preventative medicine for longterm brain health etc).

As long as one is able to be strict with the measuring out for the re-fry. Fortunately for me, my body/brain lets me be strict, but we all know how tasty a giant heap of fried rice is, so it depends on whether or not one is neurologically ready/able to approach it only as Tasty Medicine I s’pose.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #17

The reason I ask. Long story, but I am going through keto flu again. I say again, but when I started keto six months ago I had bronchitis, so who knew! Thought I could get away with 30 carbs lately, was still in light ketosis, but now have decided to walk the straight and narrow. Yesterday highest ketone reading (but I didn’t test until month four). Night, chills, headache, nausea, bad dreams. Today just spread out on the couch. But I am not sick, in the traditional sense of the word. I just got so tired of making every room I walked into smell like a chemical production plant. I spied hubby’s curry rice on the stove - cold. Snuck three tablespoons full. We’ve been married four years, and today was the first day he ever saw me nap. By evening, he said I had a crazed look in my eyes (headache). So, I have been in ketosis, but lowering carbs further, gets me deeper in? Guess I will have to go through keto flu again. Just wanted relief today, with the rice.

#18

Ah… No Fun! Hope you have some good bouillon cubes, or just salt snacks! Keto flu being truly carb poisoning detox, it’s serious stuff!

Yep - you got a dose of non-resistant starch in that cold rice that went quickly into your bloodstream as a li’l sugar/poison dose alas. Rice has to be made into a resistant starch, it can’t just be eaten unfried.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #19

And all I was detoxing from was peanut butter and the odd glass of milk!

(TJ Borden) #20

:notes:These are a few of my favorite things :notes:

(Empress of the Unexpected) #21

okay - and the odd English Muffin, which buttered is an amazing delivery system for cheese and bacon.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #22

Hanging my head in shame…and paying the price!