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I notice that whenever I eat things, maybe 10-15 minutes later, I start to get itchy. I'm realizing I might have some intestinal irritation going on based on these observations. Anyways, I started to read some forum posts and some Ray Peat quotes relating to gut irritation.
Ray Peat says whenever you are experiencing gut irritation... starch consumption should be ZERO.
My diet has a lot of starches I think. I eat carrots, potatoes, white rice pretty much every day. I eat like 2-3 medium potatoes, 2 carrots, 2 cups of white rice throughout the day.
I'm still not where I want to be in terms of bowel movement frequency and thyroid health. I currently take 1 grain of NDT via TyroMax+ an additional 10 mcg of T3 to change the ratio of t4 to t3 from 4:1 to 2:1. My temps since going from 25mcg only to 40mcg of t4+20 mcg of t3 have increased along with my pulse, where when I was on 25mcg of t3 only, I was struggling to get my temps up. It has been a week since I added TyroMax and my temps have been rising. Here are my temps and pulse records.
I probably still need more thyroid based on these temps, but I'll let the t4 settle into my system for maybe another week before I start to increase my dose.
Anyways, my questions are related to intestinal irritation and diet. What are the foods one should eat when experiencing intestinal irritation and what are the foods to eliminate?
The post that @Apple linked was very helpful, but I am still a bit confused. Especially since it says that foods like white rice and potatoes are fine... but according to Ray, starches should be zero.
If one were to exclude starches, what would they eat on an average day? I think what I understand from the article and from Ray Peat in general is that I should try to get more calories from liquids as a way to reduce gut irritation since less food is being digested through the intestinal tract which would cause less irritation and allow the gut to heal? Hence the milch regimen, since milk is a "complete food". I don't think I want to get on a milk only diet, mainly because I'm still not sure how I react to milk.
So should my diet switch from- high meat, high carbs/starches via potatoes, carrots, white rice, low dairy, low fruits to something more along the lines of- high fruit, high dairy (I can't drink a whole lot of milk, I find I can tolerate 2-3 cups fine though), an okay amount of meat, and I should reduce the potatoes and white rice etc... until the gut barrier can heal?
I'm not sure. This is what I understood from reading some articles relating to gut irritation.
My goal is to heal gut and intestinal irritation and to increase my bowel movements from 1x a day to 2-3x a day.
How do I go about doing this? I know i must continue to improve my thyroid function but I already know this. I'm confused about my day to day diet and what foods I should eat.
Ray Peat says whenever you are experiencing gut irritation... starch consumption should be ZERO.
My diet has a lot of starches I think. I eat carrots, potatoes, white rice pretty much every day. I eat like 2-3 medium potatoes, 2 carrots, 2 cups of white rice throughout the day.
I currently have 1 bowel movement a day. A vast improvement from when I was very hypo and would only have bowel movements every other day or even every 2-3 days sometimes if I was really constipated."When A Turk's Bowels Move Less Than Three Times A Day, He Consults A Physician."
Autointoxication; or, Intestinal toxemia : Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive "Very few surgeons are yet convinced that the elimination of the colon from human beings would be an improvement on the Creator's handiword; and it is a notorious fact that...raypeatforum.com
I'm still not where I want to be in terms of bowel movement frequency and thyroid health. I currently take 1 grain of NDT via TyroMax+ an additional 10 mcg of T3 to change the ratio of t4 to t3 from 4:1 to 2:1. My temps since going from 25mcg only to 40mcg of t4+20 mcg of t3 have increased along with my pulse, where when I was on 25mcg of t3 only, I was struggling to get my temps up. It has been a week since I added TyroMax and my temps have been rising. Here are my temps and pulse records.
I probably still need more thyroid based on these temps, but I'll let the t4 settle into my system for maybe another week before I start to increase my dose.
Anyways, my questions are related to intestinal irritation and diet. What are the foods one should eat when experiencing intestinal irritation and what are the foods to eliminate?
The post that @Apple linked was very helpful, but I am still a bit confused. Especially since it says that foods like white rice and potatoes are fine... but according to Ray, starches should be zero.
If one were to exclude starches, what would they eat on an average day? I think what I understand from the article and from Ray Peat in general is that I should try to get more calories from liquids as a way to reduce gut irritation since less food is being digested through the intestinal tract which would cause less irritation and allow the gut to heal? Hence the milch regimen, since milk is a "complete food". I don't think I want to get on a milk only diet, mainly because I'm still not sure how I react to milk.
So should my diet switch from- high meat, high carbs/starches via potatoes, carrots, white rice, low dairy, low fruits to something more along the lines of- high fruit, high dairy (I can't drink a whole lot of milk, I find I can tolerate 2-3 cups fine though), an okay amount of meat, and I should reduce the potatoes and white rice etc... until the gut barrier can heal?
I'm not sure. This is what I understood from reading some articles relating to gut irritation.
My goal is to heal gut and intestinal irritation and to increase my bowel movements from 1x a day to 2-3x a day.
How do I go about doing this? I know i must continue to improve my thyroid function but I already know this. I'm confused about my day to day diet and what foods I should eat.