Question: Why the sensitive tummy?

ameliasisco

I’ve been partially raw for awhile, but have recently been close to 100% (the last few months). But whenever I have something not raw it gives me the worst stomach ache! I’ve never really been sensitive to food before (except maybe white flour and really high (bad) fat things). And it doesn’t matter if it’s a reuben on rye or just rice and beans and a salad. Anyone experienced anything similar or know what’s going on? Thanks! ~Amy

ameliasisco

My husband noticed a similar thing when he first went raw (about a year before we met) and found that he could control it more or less through food combinations. He still sometimes has trouble mixing foods cooked and raw, but says it’s much less than when he first started. I know there’s information out there about how to combine certain foods, but I haven’t read enough about it yet. Something that helps on a purely “treating the symptom, not the cause” level, is to take some papaya digestive enzymes. It’s not a cure-all, but it does seem to lessen the symptoms when I feel them coming on. Maybe that will help you too. But I’m still curious as to why it happens!