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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'5 Pointers On Taming a Wild Gut' have 6 comments
March 11, 2014 @ 11:09 pm atomb
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March 11, 2014 @ 11:16 pm atomb
Michael Gershon (The Second Brain, 1999) wrote …
“The ugly gut is more intellectual than the heart and may have a greater capacity for ‘feeling.’ It is the only organ that is able to mediate reflexes in the complete absence of input from the brain or spinal cord.”
Martial artists have been taking advantage of that fact for centuries.
March 12, 2014 @ 12:25 am Michael Gebhardt
Ok I am gonna say it, your a bad ass….perfect timing…for one of my clients, Sai Ram.
March 12, 2014 @ 1:35 am atomb
LOL :)
Sai Ram.
March 16, 2014 @ 10:05 am kate
Hi Atom — any thoughts on water retention? Since starting the chronobiotic way of eating including soaked almonds in the morning and a cobalamine tonic daily I have been really really puffy all over ugh!
April 25, 2014 @ 11:30 am atomb
You may have a food intolerance or allergy to almonds, coffee, cocoa, maple syrup, or a contaminant or food-processing additive in one of the four.
What else are you eating for breakfast? Are you mixing in any foods from Growth Zones 2 or 3?
Food is also connected to emotional traumas (toxic engrams).