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Looking for advice from those that are well read up on dysbiosis and SIBO and might be able to help.
Last year around this time I did a sort of long detox diet and afterwards I gained a lot of food back in my diet that I hadn't been able to eat for a while.
It was going good until recently when I lost a bunch of them. I turned to FODMAPS and began reading about them, thought it might be the answer until I realized a lot of high-fodmap foods I can tolerate, while a lot of foods I cannot tolerate are in fact low-fodmap.
I was eating a diet of mostly meat and rice with dairy, eggs, some sweets in there and fruits.
A couple months ago my tolerances started slipping, I was experiencing diarrhea, and some acid-like discomfort.
-I removed the oral enzyme supplement from my diet and I thought things were getting better but never 100%, I'm not sure if I misread this as a trigger at this point.
-Next I removed orange juice which was nearly 25% of my daily carbs
-Next I had to give up white rice, which was the rest of my carbs, and basically only complex carbs I could eat
-had to cut coconut and olive oil which had been fine in the past
I was then relying on chocolate milk for carbs and to buffer my calories, and soon had to cut that.
My other known triggers are:
-gluten
-potato
-canola
-corn oil
-peanuts
-apples
-high fructose corn syrup (but not regular sugar or regular corn syrup, which are not much different fructose profiles)
Now my diet is pretty much all meat, dairy and oat flour pancakes, and I do fine on this, but I want to reverse what's been done, there's got to be an imbalance in my gut flora.
A lot of people say fermented food + probiotics, but if it's candida then fermented food can actually make this worse.
Last time my diet was targeted at candita and it worked well, I basically did a zero carb diet though for a while, which would effectively starve harmful bacteria, but also some good ones as well. Last time I had symptoms of candida, including frequent skin fungus infections, this time I don't have those. I do have the chronic fatigue and brain fog but that can be caused by any dysbiosis really
I've been reading around a lot but it seems like the people giving advice don't really know either, they're just saying "Eat this because it's healthy and full of probiotics, eat this because it's anti-inflammatory." but don't really know how the bacteria in the gut works or how this stuff interacts with it, just that it's 'good' for you.
I know that the intestinal flora varies by location, I tend to get my symptoms soon after eating, I may have to run to the bathroom shortly after finishing a meal for a BM, so I believe my small intestinal flora is the primary issue.
Last year around this time I did a sort of long detox diet and afterwards I gained a lot of food back in my diet that I hadn't been able to eat for a while.
It was going good until recently when I lost a bunch of them. I turned to FODMAPS and began reading about them, thought it might be the answer until I realized a lot of high-fodmap foods I can tolerate, while a lot of foods I cannot tolerate are in fact low-fodmap.
I was eating a diet of mostly meat and rice with dairy, eggs, some sweets in there and fruits.
A couple months ago my tolerances started slipping, I was experiencing diarrhea, and some acid-like discomfort.
-I removed the oral enzyme supplement from my diet and I thought things were getting better but never 100%, I'm not sure if I misread this as a trigger at this point.
-Next I removed orange juice which was nearly 25% of my daily carbs
-Next I had to give up white rice, which was the rest of my carbs, and basically only complex carbs I could eat
-had to cut coconut and olive oil which had been fine in the past
I was then relying on chocolate milk for carbs and to buffer my calories, and soon had to cut that.
My other known triggers are:
-gluten
-potato
-canola
-corn oil
-peanuts
-apples
-high fructose corn syrup (but not regular sugar or regular corn syrup, which are not much different fructose profiles)
Now my diet is pretty much all meat, dairy and oat flour pancakes, and I do fine on this, but I want to reverse what's been done, there's got to be an imbalance in my gut flora.
A lot of people say fermented food + probiotics, but if it's candida then fermented food can actually make this worse.
Last time my diet was targeted at candita and it worked well, I basically did a zero carb diet though for a while, which would effectively starve harmful bacteria, but also some good ones as well. Last time I had symptoms of candida, including frequent skin fungus infections, this time I don't have those. I do have the chronic fatigue and brain fog but that can be caused by any dysbiosis really
I've been reading around a lot but it seems like the people giving advice don't really know either, they're just saying "Eat this because it's healthy and full of probiotics, eat this because it's anti-inflammatory." but don't really know how the bacteria in the gut works or how this stuff interacts with it, just that it's 'good' for you.
I know that the intestinal flora varies by location, I tend to get my symptoms soon after eating, I may have to run to the bathroom shortly after finishing a meal for a BM, so I believe my small intestinal flora is the primary issue.
