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Derek
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Oh yes I've thought about it, it bothers my gut just as much when I try to eat my teenage diet. It was a lot of sandwiches, pizza, Japanese, and I put crushed red peppers and other spicy condiments on everything. I cannot do that now without bloating and cramps from the spices. I get what you're saying though, and I believe it is more than 50/50 likely that the extreme experimentation I did over about a decade led to my SIBO condition. Unfortunately it seems to be here to stay for now and I need some way to get back to that healthier gut state. I would gladly eat any diet that fixed it, but the way I think of healthy diet now is to eat as much of what you think is healthy as you can and not worry about too much about eating out or with friends occasionally. I'm far from the orthorexic diet obsessed person I was when I was discovering raw veganism and that whole cultish thought process, but I do believe in some basic biological principles and the Ray Peat type ideas seem to make sense. But again, it's the gut thing that is keeping me from eating what I used to eat, I'd love nothing more than to head to a Thai restaurant for dinner tonight and have a spicy green curry shrimp dish with tons of vegetables and rice, but depending on how I react (it's variable) that could knock me out for the night with bloating and all of tomorrow with stomach cramps until the chili residue works its way out.
You say you can't eat your teenage diet without cramps and bloating, how long have you tried eating this way? These things take weeks for the body to adjust. You would have to go back to your teenage diet and eat this way for like 4-6 weeks to really get any kind of valuable information about how well you do or don't tolerate that particular diet.