Health questions "safe starches"
Dear Dr. Rosedale,
I have a couple question regarding "safe carbs" and exercise.
I do several tough crossfit workouts a week. I have very little body fat and
I am 181 cm and 70 kg. I have done paleo with extra saturated fat for
several years but I was losing weight and became too skinny no matter how
much fat I added. I have added some tubers (sweet potato) and feel better.
However, I am afraid that in the long run this will affect my health
negatively in the long run. Do you have any advice how to combine paleo +
much fat but no carbs with hard exercise in order to gain weight? Also I
feel that a chronic sinus problem (due to candida I believe) has become
better when I added some sweet potatoes which is strange. Also I added some
fruits (berries and some banana).
Any comments, recommendations are much appreciated!
Many thanks and best regards,
Patrick
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Fiona on 26 Nov, 2011 03:15 PM
Your comment,'feel that a chronic sinus problem (due to candida I believe) has become
better when I added some sweet potatoes which is strange.' that is really very odd, I wonder if it is in correlation with something else you might be doing. Dr. Ron had a long response to his thoughts on the so called 'safe starches' you can see on our web site, www.drrosedale.com/blog. Having more fat will help to try to keep your weight on, and making sure you are getting the correct amount of protein as you work out quite a bit more than most. Based on all I have heard from Rosedale, and you can read yourself, I would pass on the starches, and the bananas.
2 Posted by Patrick Wahlber... on 26 Nov, 2011 07:47 PM
Dear Fiona,
Thank you for your answer!
Well the "problem" is that I have eaten (still eat) enormous amounts of saturated fat and protein I do not gain weight. Regarding the candida, I did not really do anything else. I listened to a podcast where Chris Kresser and Paul Jaminet discussed and they said that Candida will thrive not only on sugars but on ketones and that people with a candida problem often get flair ups with VLCHF. Chris said that he had experienced it many times in his clinic. I tried to add some starch from sweet potato and from banana and it became better. Not sure what to believe?
Kind regards,
Patrick
Support Staff 3 Posted by Fiona on 28 Nov, 2011 10:43 AM
If you are burning ketones properly then there should be few if any ketones in your stool, so whether a yeast thrive on ketones or not (that is debatable) would be irrelevant. Yeast can thrive on excess protein especially that which is unabsorbed.