Twohandsondeck
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This post references the "Vertical Diet" by Stan Efferding. It's a way to eat for physical performance (not necessarily longevity) that has many great testimonies.
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Anecdotally I've found that eating meat and then following it with pineapple, orange, or lemon juice... Or eating it with canned tomatoes will make digestion of meat feel effortless---
To the contrary, every time I've ever combined appreciable amounts of meat and starch at the same meal, it has given me autoimmune (psoriasis) grief and more or less wrecked my digestion for 1-2 days.
Yet there are so many professional athletes in virtually all categories of sport (except endurance stuff I noticed) who purport amazing benefit from eating red meat + white rice as a primary staple for 3-5 meals out of the day.
The best hypothesis I can think of is that there's a certain threshold of digestive integrity that we all have... And when that threshold is high enough (and there's enough stored micronutrients/vitamins/minerals, etc onboard), it benefits us to have meat and starch together regularly... But if we're below that digestive threshold, we'll suffer consequences.
What gives?
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Anecdotally I've found that eating meat and then following it with pineapple, orange, or lemon juice... Or eating it with canned tomatoes will make digestion of meat feel effortless---
To the contrary, every time I've ever combined appreciable amounts of meat and starch at the same meal, it has given me autoimmune (psoriasis) grief and more or less wrecked my digestion for 1-2 days.
Yet there are so many professional athletes in virtually all categories of sport (except endurance stuff I noticed) who purport amazing benefit from eating red meat + white rice as a primary staple for 3-5 meals out of the day.
The best hypothesis I can think of is that there's a certain threshold of digestive integrity that we all have... And when that threshold is high enough (and there's enough stored micronutrients/vitamins/minerals, etc onboard), it benefits us to have meat and starch together regularly... But if we're below that digestive threshold, we'll suffer consequences.
What gives?