Atom’s Blog

Re: What can be done when your bowels are in an uproar?

(1) Temporarily stop taking all supplements, including vitamins and minerals.

The exception to the rule is probiotics.

(2) Temporarily avoid eating nuts and seeds.

The exception to the rule (for most people) is no more than three almonds for breakfast.

(3) Temporarily avoid (or minimize) foods like beans, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, spinach, Swiss chard, raw onions, raw garlic, etc.

(4) Temporarily avoid peanut butter.

(5) Temporarily switch to cooked, overcooked, and, above all, dextrinized foods.

Dextrinization converts starches into dextrose, also known as glucose (brain sugar).

It breaks down the spherical crystals of starch into a paste that is 100 percent digestible.

Raw starch is almost completely indigestible unless held in the mouth for at least 15 minutes.

There are are two ways to dextrinize starch …

(a) Heat starch to a temperature of 281 degrees Fahrenheit

(b) Heat starch to a temperature of 180-200 degrees Fahrenheit for an extended period of time

Number 2 was the preferred method of Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty).

He taught …

“Dextrinization is the ultimate starch blocker. When baked potato starch is dextrinized, the intestinal flora can convert the starch into a protein.”

… and …

“A microwave oven cooks from the inside out. Food needs to be cooked from the outside in to dextrinize it. You can warm food in a microwave after it’s already dextrinized.”

… and …

“When baked potato starch is dextrinized, the intestinal flora can convert the starch into a protein.”

(For a superior protein combination, combine cooked mushrooms with a dextrinized potato.)

Eat dextrinized starch immediately after it’s cooked because it sometimes reverts to its crystallized indigestible (insoluble) form.

Dry heat is the rule for most foods, but grains require wet heat – or they get rock-hard and inedible.

The best way to dextrinize a grain is in a Thermos bottle.

Simply pour boiling water over the grain inside a Thermos, seal it up, and it will be dextrinized by the time it cools.

Dextrinization with wet heat (boiling) won’t work on non-grain foods.

An iodine test turns a water-heated starch solution blue, just like digestible starch, but a truly digestible starch doesn’t flunk a Fehling’s solution test.

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