Home → Questions →

No starches

• Edit

Eugenia Loli

29 Aug, 2012 08:00 PM

This is my story as to why I had to go to 150-200 gr of net carbs
daily (through fruits mainly) to get my energy back:
http://paleohacks.com/questions/145928/paleo-for-1-year-left-with-a-health-puzzle
I might not be the standard subject, since I have a lot of gut
problems, but for me a ketogenic or low carb diet did not work. Not
only I didn't lose enough weight for the 1 year of doing Paleo and
Paleo-ketogenic, but I nearly killed myself from starvation (I was
eating normally, it's just that I couldn't absorb what I was eating,
so it was like eating nothing).

So I don't think that your no-starches regimen works for everybody.
Most deranged people today must go slowly on low-ish carb for YEARS as
they heal, not go cold-turkey as I did. What you propose to people can
be dangerous.

Eugenia

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Dr. Rosedale on 29 Aug, 2012 09:03 PM

   

   Dear Eugenia,
   Unless you have some sort of rare, genetic enzymatic defect that prevents you from digesting fats, a very low carbohydrate, moderate protein, high-fat diet will work wonders for nearly everybody. I have seen thousands of people go on this diet and whenever there was a problem it nearly always ended up being caused by one or more dietary mistakes, or an underlying medical issues that needed attention. Has your gut flora been checked properly for dysbiosis such as Candida? Do you have low pancreatic lipase production? That would easily be fixed by supplementing with lipase each meal.

   It was not the diet that likely caused your problem, but something that you were doing wrong, such as eating too much protein or an underlying medical issue that continues to need to be addressed. Continuing to eat 100 to 200 gm of starches daily will only continue to feed your addiction to sugar and totally prevent the deeper benefits of adjusting your metabolism such that it continually burns fat and changes to an increased repair phenotype.

   We wish you the best of health.
   Dr. Ron

   • Edit

2. 2 Posted by Eugenia on 29 Aug, 2012 09:13 PM

   

   Thank you for the reply Dr.
   As mentioned in the URL I linked, I have had IBS-D for 10 years, SIBO (dysbiosis), C-Diff infection 2-3 times in that 10 years, and apparently I still can't absorb B12 (I supplement now). Going Paleo made my IBS asymptomatic, and goat kefir helps me with SIBO. But as I mention in that URL, going Paleo-ketogenic shut me off. I went into hibernation for months. I got all the hypothyroid symptoms and yet I'm not hypo (I checked it). This means that my body just started making more Reverse T3, and putting me into hibernation -- hiding at the back of the cave. My body thought it was winter, and I spent all this summer shivering. And I haven't lost any weight either! Other people are shedding off on Paleo by not even doing proper Paleo, and I haven't lost a single lb in 6 months (I'm still obese).

   For me, after a year of Paleo, very low cab just doesn't work. Maybe I will become more fat adapted in the next 2, 3 or 4 years, but that's certainly not something that takes 1 month as some people think. In the meantime, I have no choice but to eat carbs. Unless you have another idea.

   I haven't tried the lipase production btw.

   Rgds.
   Eugenia

   • Edit

3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Fiona on 06 Sep, 2012 03:14 AM

   

   Dear Eugenia,
   It would be great to make your question public that way others can learn as well, or maybe someone else has your same symptoms and had tried other things. Your email address will always remain private. Let me know if you are ok that I make your conversation with Dr. Ron public on our site.

   Many thanks.

   Fiona

   • Edit

4. 4 Posted by Eugenia on 06 Sep, 2012 04:15 AM

   

   Sure, it's fine to make it public.

   • Edit

5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Fiona on 06 Sep, 2012 04:21 AM

   

   Many thanks.

   • Edit