superhuman
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@beanie Thank you. I have tried both those and i did not notice anything from it. Its really strange
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@superhuman This is a long shot, but I was wondering if you ever eat/drink anything that contains sucralose (Splenda). It is commonly found in protein bars, powders, etc. This substance causes immediate uncomfortable swelling and water retention for me. My feet swell up a few shoe sizes as soon as I ingest it. I have read that others have experienced this too. I even gargled once with a mouthwash sample, and I knew before I even looked at the ingredients that it contained sucralose because I had a reaction.
It's hard for me to know what your diet is and how diligent you are about reading labels, but I have gotten to the point where I check the ingredients on everything. Carageenan is another problem ingredient. It's found in dairy products (ie. ice cream, non-dairy milks, etc.). It might be helpful to keep a food journal to refer back to.
I'll keep racking my brain to see if I can come up with anything else.
It will be interesting to hear the results.This is my experience, huge swollen ankles, muffin top above sock line no matter what I tried. I removed all carbs and grains from my diet and replaced with fats, within 2 days complete resolution, never seen my ankles look like this before! Now I plan to add back non grain carbs to determine whether this is caused by grains or by carbs in general. As to why I have this issue I have no idea. Hope this helps.
Thanks for sharing.Interesting results I have found. By keeping carbs super low my ankles have remained completely thin with zero swelling. I tried various high carb meals, both grain based and non grain, eg bowl of oats or beans/rice, bowl of root veg, etc, if I eat the meal together with lots of fat, eg 50+ ml olive oil and or added coconut oil I get a tiny bit of swelling but nothing like the previous muffin top ankles. Alternatively if I reduce my carbs to nil or even up to say 20g along with the high fat I get zero swelling. So perhaps my blood sugar was too high, or perhaps the added fats are slowing digestion and prevent blood sugar spike. Or maybe it was just too many carbs for me to tolerate, not sure but I feel much better without the swelling, not puffing when walking around or exercise, etc. The reason I was eating low fat is because my digestion struggles but seeing all swelling vanish is enough evidence for me to keep this change. Will now try enzymes to hopefully improve digestion.
Thank you for the detail. I know everyone's situation can have its own unique factors, but I'll see if I can make use of what has been successful for you with my dad. That's if he's willing.Well I've had the ankle swelling for at least a few yrs and that whole time ate fairly low fat diet and high carbs for most part, eg breakfast wld be bowl of porridge with honey, lunch may have been beans and rice with perhaps drizzle of olive oil, snack would be muesli bar and fruit, etc. I've been fairly heavy feeling and short of breath on mild exertion that whole time too.
I have histamine issues, food allergies/sensitivities and have had dvt, I had assumed it was inflammation from eating foods that don't agree with me. Always lean and fairly active with sport.
Anyway so removing all the carbs was my attempt to improve this problem, I have been surprised that it doesn't seem to matter which carbs I eat, if I have too many and/or without lots of fat the swelling seems like it wants to return. Mind you because my ankles are now normal the swelling is very minimal but I can tell from the sock line that it becomes a touch greater if I indulge in a few too many grams carbs per meal.
Having office job ppl would say it was due to inactivity but now that I'm eating differently even during a work shift last week I got zero swelling. I wish I had before/after pics, the change is incredible and was simply achieved by very low carbs and high fat/oil replacement.
I did read something online about fatty acids being required to absorb or maybe transport blood sugar but not sure. I don't digest fats well so perhaps I was extremely deficient.