wocky wrote:Insightful explanation, thank you. She is always trying to get me to do a “plant based” aka vegan diet. Sounds like legumes are a staple of her diet so you’re probably correct wrt the fiber helping. Every time we talk about this I explain that fiber in general is a huge problem for me. I feel miserable after a high fiber meal because of the bloating and gas. She doesn’t have that issue and claims it’s because my “gut isn’t used to fiber” and I should just push through. Not sure how accurate that is.
Fiver wrote:Wow TeresaB. That was an epic post, full of information.Thanks.
One day we will have a way to measure our status and track progress, and each one of us can try different diets and see what works best for us.
Fiver wrote:Hi dfmcapecod,
I remember that thread from the summer! I guess we're all waiting on that diagnostic test to come along.There was another flurry of news about blood and spinal fluid tests for AB and tau recently. If those come to fruition I suppose we could all evaluate how our lifestyle interventions are working for us....well maybe with the blood tests....I'm in no hurry to sign up for routine spinal taps.
I've been focusing on my mom recently and staying on track with exercise. I find that has gotten a little tougher.
dfmcapecod wrote:Fiver wrote:Hi dfmcapecod,
I remember that thread from the summer! I guess we're all waiting on that diagnostic test to come along.There was another flurry of news about blood and spinal fluid tests for AB and tau recently. If those come to fruition I suppose we could all evaluate how our lifestyle interventions are working for us....well maybe with the blood tests....I'm in no hurry to sign up for routine spinal taps.
I've been focusing on my mom recently and staying on track with exercise. I find that has gotten a little tougher.
I am finally making some progress on understanding how inflammation is measured, Dr. Bredesen's book has a section along with goals from their work. In almost all the research we see, we see inflammation, inflammation, inflammation. So if there is so much clinical proof there, I would think that measuring our inflammation easily along with our n=1 trials might help the larger public see if different lifestyle and diet changes track to reducing inflammation measurements.
It looks like inflammation reduction helps in so many things, especially for APOE 4 carriers that this is appearing to me as a good place to set a beachhead and march forward.
My body never ‘adjusts’ to grain/legume fiber or lectins, whichever causes the digestive issues. I gave it a couple years as a vegan about 30 years ago. People who can adjust to it tend to assume everyone can.
Julie G wrote:My body never ‘adjusts’ to grain/legume fiber or lectins, whichever causes the digestive issues. I gave it a couple years as a vegan about 30 years ago. People who can adjust to it tend to assume everyone can.
Apologies for going off-topic here but I was the same for most of my adult life BUT I've had a pretty dramatic turnaround. I can now eat legumes and foods high in lectins (like cashews) with no GI distress and no pain. None, whatsoever. My FMP prescribed a product called Atrantil, which I combined with a low FODMAP diet for one month. I was miserable for that month- very symptomatic but at the end, my GI health was restored. n full disclosure, I'd been previously DXed with a treatment resistant methane predominant SIBO that I suspect is resolved. I need to retest to be sure. I think you're supposed to drop to a maintenance dose of the Atrantil, for a week every month, which I never did. Your post reminded me. I just ordered and will give it another whirl. I want to maintain this happy gut.
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