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Believe me I've went through the entire spectrum of diets. When I first got diagnosed, the diets you would find after digging in a bit where "low-fat", and also dairy-free. I didn't stay low-fat for long, such a diet is extremely hard to stick to, and very though energy wise but also taste-wise. Going from a typical student diet of pizza and various things of the sort, to this, would have been very though. I then discovered Paleo, and then Paleo "AIP" (autoimmune Paleo). It made a tremendous difference. I followed it quite closely over the years, with moments of stumbling with various "compatible on paper" foods but not really in spirit. I was mostly symptom-free during that period wrt. to overt symptoms (I still experienced depressive states, but that I would also attribute to tweaking of the diet). Over the years I started forgetting I had to deal with this and started having chocolate, various non-gluten grains, coffee, etc., to sort of self-medicate the mental issues I was having. That didn't suit me well. Not even the coconut oil, which I later learned about why. Then a few years ago I discovered carnivore/zerocarb. But I wasn’t consistent for long and added fruit etc. Also there was a learning curve. Frankly my best period was when I was eating mostly raw ground beef and was very strict no-dairy / no-coffee / no-carbs. Subsequently as soon as I started adding even fruit, first of all I started binging on it when my emotional state was getting worse because of the lack of ketosis, and later when I had forgotten how it even felt to feel good I started with chocolate, coffee, later MCT oil, etc. As I state elsewhere here I've recently gone back on it, mostly by cutting all of the above foods. It's just evident my gut is super sensitive, and I swear i can feel it. To be clear, when I had the period where I felt really good, the feeling I felt was emanating from my gut. I thought it had something to do with gut biome (which it probably did), but moreso I think it's because it fixes "leaky gut" (I know, it's "alternative" but there is research on this). Anyway, thank you for suggesting it. I've avoided going into this too much in comments because it's always quite controversial, but it's what I'm putting my faith in, from experience. I actually like veggies, would love a salad sometimes… I would like to have some, but they do seem to be non-optimal for some with very sensitive guts. |