Oddbean new post about login | logout I’ve been playing around a lot with diet and digestion good with anything from below ground but terrible with any grains. I still wonder if it’s just the chemicals. Am mostly carnivore now anyhow but considering reintroducing veg once I am growing it personally and can verify.
I am on my 5th year eating seasonal whole veg from the garden. I can feel myself get worse when I go back to store bought in Januaryish
Yes. Really noticeable. I move to Costa Rica 5 years ago and can’t grow anything in current location other than beans and fruit. Nothing else grows but moving soon. In Spain, I was self sufficient from around April through October and stored pumpkin, butternut and sweet potato over winter. Year 2, discovered a bunch of local growers doing no chemical growing and the difference was quite stark. Since around 2012, I noticed digestion changes and after hunting around found info on glysophate use at harvest. Previously, nothing was sprayed in last 3 months prior to harvest to minimise contamination but then it was discovered that shocking the plant in last few weeks results in larger harvests. It was only last year that I finally found some decent research papers suggesting mechanism of digestion issues and it’s pretty bloody obvious. Loading gut with herbicides affects the micro biome which hammers digestion. It’s not 100% verified but it seems pretty logical to me. Do you get snow in winter?
Have you try soaking grains overnight before cooking?
I meant grain based products. Things like bread, pizza etc. I just stopped eating them and consider them essentially poison now. Since I stopped, digestion back to normal. In terms of soaking, I know people who soak all veg and lentils etc in water with hydrogen peroxide and then rinse them. They swear by it. I just try to eat stuff I know has no chemical crap on it now. It’s also interesting to see difference by country. I lose weight every time I visit USA for example. I spend most time there with diarrhea and vomiting which I guess is related to that.