I don’t want to hijack the other gut issues thread, but I hope to have some of you who are using carnivore /keto weigh in.
Hubby and I are breaking a fast today, and given his severe and ongoing gut issues has agreed to try carnivore initially for a month. I’m carnivore for autoimmune stuff, so any tips for you all who are managing IBS etc, with diet? TIA
I cured basically all of my IBS by ceasing to eat salads, which I think were the main culprit. I can still eat a salad every once in a while, but if I have too many of them too quickly, IBS comes back.
I don’t eat carnivore though. I do eat some plants sometimes. I just keep the amount low and try to eat fermented plants or infrequent bouts of plants.
What plant foods do you tolerate? Things like avocados? I know this is individual, but since I react to the vast majority of plants, so I’m not sure where to start. I don’t think he will want to remain carnivore if keto will be enough to manage his symptoms.
I’m carnivore and probably always going to be 95% carnivore, and I’m okay with that. I don’t think he will be.
I tolerate avocados, but don’t eat them. I tolerate some well-cooked plants, so things like broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, I can eat if we bake/broil them. I can eat things like bell peppers, if really well cooked. Many fermented foods, like pickles. No issues with olives. Don’t seem to have issues with nuts, unless they are high fiber, then I get gas and the like.
I can eat chocolate.
Things like cabbage are weird. Usually I require this to be well cooked. But sometimes I can eat it raw (as in coleslaw); other times, I can’t. Sometimes I can eat sauerkraut or kimchi, and sometimes I can’t.
I can eat a salad, just not that much. Once a week.
Salads were how I figured this out. I would eat low vegetables, but then go on vacation, and begin substituting salads for fries or whatever, and a lot of my issues like IBS, constipation, etc., would come back.
Also, I was trying a targeted keto diet (TKD), where I ate carbs after a workout. I found about the only thing I could eat was rice noodles. The sweet potatoes, japanese sweet potatoes, spaghetti squash, etc., they didn’t work.
Potatoes aren’t bad, though I very rarely eat them.
And these are hard to tell, because I think it depends on how you eat it. Eat something last is probably different than eating something by itself. Though I’ve not tested this. But I have a hard time figuring out why I can eat something one day, and have an issue another day.
But I often have days where I eat low to no vegetables.
Dr. Georgia Ede’s book is filled with info on which plants tend to have which kind of effects/risks for sensitive individuals (including IBS). Perhaps worth a look.
Although her focus is centered around mental health issues in connection with food choices (well, she’s a Harvard-trained psychiatrist) there’s truly plenty of food reaction & sensitivity info provided along the way and insightful researched-based info for all:
Interesting approach. Yes, I own it, but ended up at her carnivore level pretty much right away. I’ve given it away as a gift, even.
Instead of starting at her low level, I could start him at the carnivore level and use it in reverse as a template to add things back.
ETA- I went to buy a digital copy for hubby (his preferred way to read), and it is on sale for $5.99 at eBooks.com and Amazon Kindle. My experience with the on sale eBooks is that the sales only last a couple of days.
I’m still experimenting on myself so try non animal products sometimes. I always regret it. I had IBD ulcerative colitis, I consider it reversed but my colon lets me know if I’ve eaten something inappropriate.
Can’t even look at cauliflower lol
That made me giggle.