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Ross,
My hat is off to you for taking your health issues into your own hands and researching the subject until you found the answers.
I have asked many of the same questions that you have, especially since I had my k pouch done in 1979, long before the internet exisited and 'free information' flowed.
My mom was an RN who studied nutrition her whole life (didn't help her in the end!) and believed in all sorts of diets and exercise programs...we juiced veggies when I was a teen (while I still had a colon...I had such horrible IBD that I couldn't eat solids), made 'milkshakes' with raw eggs (I know, some of you are against them but those risks were the least of my problems back then) and black strap molasses with orange juice, lecitin, B6 and kelp (yuck!).
She had a nutritionist do tests on our hair and skin to find out what we were 'low' in and compensated. We had whole shelves full of supplements and gobbled them by the fist-full.
But we were always sugar and carb addicts with half the family suffering from diabetes, hypoglycemia and hypothyroid and the other half suffering from Fap, colon cancer and pancreatic cancer.
My mom died healthy from an undiagnosed blood disease (!)...She could eat 2 loaves of bread with butter and cheese in 1 sitting...bulimia is a family tradition with us.
I have tried hard to control my binges, lower my carb intake (ice cream, candies, potato chips etc) and reduced radically my processes food intake (nothing 'manufactured' with more than 3 steps enters my house: eg. frozen or canned veggies are fine but not frozen lasagna. Pure juice is ok but not juice drinks)...I do pretty well at it most of the time now...I fear disease more than I love my sugars.
I do eat lots of good quality chocolate...
I have become very high energy since I cut out the carbs, do more than a lot of people half of my age with no history of disease. I take Vit D in the hopes of reducing my muscle & joint pain, B's and collagene...I do chewables like gummies (fine, they are full of sugars too but digest better in me) or liquids. It seems that most coated tablets go in and out the same way or get stuck for days in my pouch.
Any help that you can give me to help me optimise my health would be welcome Ross. Surgeons are there to cut. G.I.s are there to treat disease. Neither are there to teach you about nutrition. That requires a nutritionist. Or someone who is interested and cares. You care. Thanks
Sharon
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