Do Not Eat Fiber!
1. Stop Eating Fiber: Read “Fiber Menace.” For most, this will mean removing all grains and legumes from your diet, although white rice seems to be the least offensive grain and may be eaten, if tolerated, and, if a paleolithic-type diet is not being followed.
2. Eat Saturated Fat: Bacon fat, lard, tallow, suet, butter, ghee (clarified butter), coconut oil, red palm oil, olive oil (do not use olive oil for cooking). For information on why saturated fat is good for you, read “Good Calories, Bad Calories
Follow these blogs: http://www.marksdailyapple.com, http://www.rawfoodsos.com (this is NOT a “raw vegan” Web site! Denise Minger is an amazing researcher who completely debunks “The China Study” book), http://www.garytaubes.com/blog/, http://robbwolf.com/, http://thepaleodiet.com/, http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/. Read or watch anything by Mat Lalonde, a young, buff Canadian scientist who will blow your mind!
3. Increase Motility: 1) Take buffered Vitamin C powder to hydrate and soften your stools: Ageless Hydro-C or Thorne Research – Buffered C Powder,
4. Rebuild Intestinal Flora: Probiotics (daily), Fermented Food (daily), Ageless GI Recovery(tm), Fecal Transplant (not as bizarre as it sounds and relatively easy to do yourself if someone in your household or in your family is willing to donate a bit of their poo!).
5. Increase Hydrochloric Acid: Take NOW’s Super-Enzymes. Take one capsule in the middle of a large meal. Increase to two at the next large meal. Once you get a warm feeling in your gut, reduce by one capsule at the next meal (that is your set-point for a large meal). Never take more than seven capsules per meal.
6. Rebuild General Health: Vitamins and Minerals: I prefer the ease-of-use and practicality of supplements that are packaged together, rather than buying several individual bottles of vitamins/minerals. Find a supplier that you trust. I use Ageless Nutrition’s Morning and Evening Packs, but there are many companies that package supplements together. I think Mark Sisson has a product like this. Supplemental Foods: Eat homemade bone broths, gelatin (you can make hot chocolate with a package of Knox gelatin, hot water, dairy/coconut cream, cocoa or 90% dark chocolate and Stevia; you won’t even know the gelatin is there), homemade fermented foods (sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, yogurt, kefir, etc.), kombucha tea.
Will the road to gut health be smooth? No, it will probably be bumpy. Will you feel better overnight? In some ways, yes, maybe… but more likely it will take several weeks (at least) to get things sorted out. Everyone wants a magic bullet… the closest thing I can think of to a magic bullet is a fecal transplant. Everything else takes time! Keep at it; you will get there!
You may go through constipation and/or loose stools as you sort out what works best for you. But keep adjusting things and experimenting, keep researching and don’t give up or give in to Conventional Wisdom (CW) without a fight. If you don’t fight for your own health, trust me, no one else will!
Cocoa (30% fibre) and coconut milk (2.8% fibre) are both high fibre foods.