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I have been following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet for several months which has helped a bit and one of the things recommended on that is home-made long-fermented yogurt that not only gives it a higher amount of 'friendly' bacteria but also means that most, if not all of the lactose is digested (I am lactose-intolerant) and the casein is changed into a more easily tolerated form.
I have been adding that to my green smoothies which is good.
My digestion collapsed last January and I have been trying to get it to work better ever since. Certainly I am sure that eating much more fruit and veg would be very beneficial - for the first time in ages I am going to bed without the gas and bloating and the throbbing/pounding effect, probably from my struggling digestion that has plagued me for several years, so that is a good sign.
Hi Stevio, thanks for that - I enjoyed reading your experience. it is encouraging to see how others are benefitting.
I also was on Byetta for 3 months. I had been on Metformin for about 3 or 4 years, then in 2003 I was put on to insulin. July last year my doctor suggested Byetta. I decided after doing a bit of research to give it a go and although I lost weight, it did nothing for my blood sugar which was around 12 on the hbA1c and had been for a long time. It also gave me terrible stomach problems. In the end I was in so much pain the doc took me off it. I have since discovered that it should not be given to diabetics who are on insulin (sack the Doc!). It works for those who produce enough of their own insulin but not for those who don't.
My stomach didn't recover after stopping the Byetta and just got worse until in January my digestion completely collapsed. I thought I might be Celiac so went gluten and dairy-free and low-carb as my stomach can't digest them properly, and that brought my Blood Pressure down enough for me to be able to stop the Ace Inhibitor - I didn't bother to ask a Doc when I did it - one of them had already told me to keep it going but I didn't like the dizziness every time I stood up! It has levelled out around 110/70.
I try to keep the insulin as low as poss - usually around 10-14 units twice a day with a Metformin and a Vitabase Blood Sugar capsule (which, after stopping the Byetta brought my BS right down to around normal with an hbA1c of 7.3, and which I had never been able to achieve, even with the Metformin and insulin at my previous level of 20-25 units twice a day. It has crept up slightly since then as I haven't controlled it as well as I would like since going gluten-free and being on the SCD so I am hoping that the raw way will sort that out.
I have only started the raw food just under a week ago - mainly raw smoothies - I am probably 60 - 70% raw at present but already I have been sleeping better as my digestion is more settled and I don't have the gas and bloating that went away after stopping gluten but then came back again. I firmly believe that a lot of our health issues are to do with bacteria and gut dysbiosis and if we can cut out foods that feed the bad guys and concentrate on foods that feed the good guys we may be able to get the gut back into some semblance of rebalance.
What level of raw are you now? Has the weight-loss continued?
Thanks Rose for that encouragement.
I realised a long time ago that the reason some vegetarians are not healthy is because their diet relies mainly on carbohydrates, and not always good ones at that. Personally, looking back I can see that I have always had a problem with carbs. I started off as a dumpy teenager, lost it a bit in my late teens then piled it all back on with my first pregnancy and never lost it since.
Low-carb is definitely better for me and I need enough protein or I get a headache so I doubt that I would ever be able to go fully raw. At the moment I supplement protein with either cooked chicken or fish or raw salmon. I don't seem to cope with the heavier meats.
As I have never been able to cope with some fruits I tend to limit to bananas, certain apples, a few blueberries, grapes and an occasional pear. I get allergic reactions to the prunus family - peaches, nectarines, mangoes, plums, etc. That may be to do with leaky gut and if so then I have had that for a long time - my first allergic reaction to a peach was when I was in my 20's. I couldn't even cut them up for the children.
I do wonder about salicylates too - aspirin mucked my stomach up and I do wonder whether it reacts more severely to salicylates because of it. As most fruit and veg contains them it could be why my stomach got so bad when I did the Alkalyzing Diet 2 years ago. Mind you I have since realised I am gluten intolerant and the green drink contains wheat-grass so perhaps it was that, or maybe I just simply over-alkalized myself!
Having the good fruit and veg was probably all I needed and the green drink and Alkalyzing Drops may just have been a 'bridge too far'! Still, I will see how I go with the raw 60% at the moment - I can always up the ante if things go ok with it.
He also said "All disease begins in the gut". He was a very wise man - shame that in the 21st century the Medical Profession have mislaid that piece of very profound advice and just end up treating the symptoms instead of looking at the root causes!
Everything is controlled by bacteria. Kill the good guys with antibiotics and other prescription drugs and you let the bad guys in. Even Alexander Fleming when he created Penicillin advised against unrestrained use of the things - did anyone take any notice??
Only just now are they finally beginning to twig that we need to be 'Pro-biotic' instead of 'Anti'. Too late - most of the damage is already done. The only people I know who are really well are ones who have managed to escape the darn things.
How strange Stevio that you could consume those fruits when blended without problems!
I hadn't had many apples over the years as I used to get allergic reactions to them, along with peaches/nectarines, but a year or so ago I decided to try an apple fast. I ate pretty much nothing but apples for 4 or 5 days then the next morning after having another apple - bang! Another allergic reaction! Granted the apple was a type I had not had before so whether it was the apple, something it was sprayed with, or just one apple too many, I really don't know, but up to that point I had consumed at least 20 apples over the preceding days and it hadn't happened before.
Two days later I was having a drink of water with lemon and ACV and had another episode, yet I had had the same drink earlier in the day. It is so weird. I wonder if the reason you can tolerate them now is because your body's acid/alkaline balance has changed since you have been eating raw? If the SAD regime makes our bodies too acidic then perhaps they can't cope with the post-digestive alkalinity of the fruit.
Anyway, I am having an apple in my smoothie every morning and it seems fine so far. I am sticking to the varieties I am fairly confident I am ok with.
It is good too that you can now eat a lot of the fruits that you couldn't before. That's a very positive thing and may well indicate that your body is much more balanced. Thanks again for the encouragement.
Am reading all this with great interest, as I am a Newbie here, and a type 2 Diabetic on Metformin. Found this place on a search for raw food recipes... like other people in here, I watched the Raw for 30 Days video and it kept coming back to mind.
I know nothing about raw food, or this 80/10/10 that was mentioned several times. Guess I have a lot of research to do, but I feel better knowing that I'm not alone in all this.
"Good luck but please do not try the 80/10/10 diet as for many it is not good and for diabetics it is a disaster." What the fuck?
I'm new here and have diabetes and take insulin 2 time a day I went raw w/beer about 3 years ago and cut my shots down in half this time I went on the juice feast for 20 days and didn't cure anything but I'm not giving up I'm 100% raw and loving it. I see here (again) that I'm eating way to many fruits. oh and I don't drink any thing but green's water and herb tea. I am staying busy making food's every day finds me making flax crackers and avocado dip. I will start to eat way less fruit today because my sugar levels are a bit to high for sure. the thing I found out was that a spoon full of pickle juice helped my digestive problems soothed me right down olive juice and vinegar helped also but the pickle juice tasted best to me.
any wanted to say hi both my wife and I are now raw nice to have someone stick by your side we both have been loosing weight too.