One Cannot Live by Bread Alonne
I've had great success with clearing my arteries with my version of the Esselstyn diet. But I developed a terrible condition of hives. Bright red welts would show up and sometimes they would be painful.
I noticed a relationship with eating starches and the welts, the welts followed my meals, although sometimes the welts wouldn't be gone by the next morning.
I hypothesized that some little microorganism in my gut was producing something that I was allergic to a few hours after I ate. This seemed especially problematic when Mary and I were on trips and we would eat in restaurants.
On our trip to Wrightsville Beach it became painful.
What to do?
Initially, I tried intermittent fasting, and that helped a little, but my diet was basically whole grain starches, potatoes and a variety of vegetables mixed in. I would start the day with oatmeal and then had one or more bowls of soup prepared fresh with it's mixture of potatoes, grains and beans mixed with spinach or kale cooked for ten to twenty minutes.
The Esselstyn diet as I interpret it is basically a starch diet with vegetables mixed in. Much the same ingredients as bread, the staff of life.
And then I thought that instead of fasting, I might return to my green goo, something that I had been consuming (I won't say eating) over a long period of time that had evolved from a cup of soy protein in the morning.
Since protein is not digested like starch, it would not generate the same problems.
The problems seemed to improve, as I mixed my protein (pea protein) into my soups.
When having the green goo alone, I would take a fiber capsule which has psyllium husks in it, providing bulk.
At this point I'm mixing about 20 to 50 grams additional pea protein into the food I eat, either in a protein drink or added to my soups or fruit smoothies.
The welts are seemingly diminishing, and don't appear until later in the day, after I've started to eat more starch.
Aside from being digested differently, the protein changes how the rest of my food is digested and appears to help when I add it to other things.
I noticed a relationship with eating starches and the welts, the welts followed my meals, although sometimes the welts wouldn't be gone by the next morning.
I hypothesized that some little microorganism in my gut was producing something that I was allergic to a few hours after I ate. This seemed especially problematic when Mary and I were on trips and we would eat in restaurants.
On our trip to Wrightsville Beach it became painful.
What to do?
Initially, I tried intermittent fasting, and that helped a little, but my diet was basically whole grain starches, potatoes and a variety of vegetables mixed in. I would start the day with oatmeal and then had one or more bowls of soup prepared fresh with it's mixture of potatoes, grains and beans mixed with spinach or kale cooked for ten to twenty minutes.
The Esselstyn diet as I interpret it is basically a starch diet with vegetables mixed in. Much the same ingredients as bread, the staff of life.
And then I thought that instead of fasting, I might return to my green goo, something that I had been consuming (I won't say eating) over a long period of time that had evolved from a cup of soy protein in the morning.
Since protein is not digested like starch, it would not generate the same problems.
The problems seemed to improve, as I mixed my protein (pea protein) into my soups.
When having the green goo alone, I would take a fiber capsule which has psyllium husks in it, providing bulk.
At this point I'm mixing about 20 to 50 grams additional pea protein into the food I eat, either in a protein drink or added to my soups or fruit smoothies.
The welts are seemingly diminishing, and don't appear until later in the day, after I've started to eat more starch.
Aside from being digested differently, the protein changes how the rest of my food is digested and appears to help when I add it to other things.
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