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I was able to eat bread my whole life up to last year. Now whenever I eat it I get so tired I have to sleep. I played outside all the time as a kid... Something

I was able to eat bread my whole life up to last year. Now whenever I eat it I get so tired I have to sleep. I played outside all the time as a kid... Something else is going on. Also, rural area report more claims than cities. You'd think cities would be "cleaner".

irrational 9y ago
Maybe it's just part of getting old? I've never been lactose intolerant, but around the middle of my 40s I found that if I went to bed after eating a big bowl of ice cream I would wake up with heartburn in the middle of the night. I've learned to pop a few antacids after eating my ice cream before bed.
- heurist 9y ago
  God I hope not, I'm only 28 and if this is a sign of things to come I'm not sure how I'll cope...
  - wernercd 9y ago
    Wow... you was around before the iPhone. How was it in the long long ago? but seriously... it's interesting to hear multiple people, at various ages, say they gained allergies. I've always been able to eat anything, do anything and never get sick... it's annoying but nice. With as much as the world has changed in 10 years, I wonder if there are commonalities that can eventually be tracked down... And if there are actual groups that are trustworthy enough to discover it (aka: not paid for by special interest groups)
trhway 9y ago
>I was able to eat bread my whole life up to last year. Now whenever I eat it I get so tired I have to sleep. i got similar situation after moving to US and for several years eating cheap white supermarket bread (i.e. bleached white flour as the main ingredient, and the bread is produced with quick rising achieved by too much yeast and sugar, in short it is very different from the way bread was done for millennia and what our gut is used to). Took some time to find better, more correctly done, bread. As result of this (and some other similar - ie. less of the food filled with sugar/corn-syrup - dietary changes) glucose level jumps with lesser amplitude (ie. much less of that roller coaster ride of sugar rush followed by the slump). Beside wrecking havoc with glucose system (and potentially paving way for diabetes), the large consumption of bleached flour, sugar/corn-syrup and yeast have been, if not implicated, strongly correlated with things like Crohn disease, autoimmune issues, etc... (note: i'm not a crusader against sugar - i'm actually a big eater of carbohydrates, including sweet pastries, cakes, etc. - it just took time to find the places which do it more "european" style. To illustrate the difference for example consider cake frosting - European style contains a lot of high-fat butter in addition to sugar, egg, high-fat cream, etc. where is American frosting is very high on sugar and deals away [partially or completely] with butter and cream, thus losing much of the taste/aroma and becoming very unhealthy in my view)
deepvibrations 9y ago
I found out in a pretty horrible way this year that I was a 'silent celiac' - symptomless gluten intolerance. I broke my leg whilst simply doing a hand-stand (spiral fracture of femur)! All the doctors were confused at how it happened and in the end it was only because I pushed for a blood test that I found out I had Celiac disease and this had meant my body was not absorbing nutrients and so had been taking calcium and vitamin D from the bone stores, making them really weak. My family has generally been very healthy (grandparents living past 100) and I am convinced this is down to chemicals in bread or changes in the wheat itself via G.M. An recent study from University of Sheffield suggests that for every diagnosed celiac, 8 others go undiagnosed. I'd advise anyone out there to get a blood test, as this would have saved me a few broken arms and this horrible experience of a broken leg and now having a semi-titanium leg after surgery..!

irrational 9y ago

Maybe it's just part of getting old? I've never been lactose intolerant, but around the middle of my 40s I found that if I went to bed after eating a big bowl of ice cream I would wake up with heartburn in the middle of the night. I've learned to pop a few antacids after eating my ice cream before bed.

heurist 9y ago
God I hope not, I'm only 28 and if this is a sign of things to come I'm not sure how I'll cope...
- wernercd 9y ago
  Wow... you was around before the iPhone. How was it in the long long ago? but seriously... it's interesting to hear multiple people, at various ages, say they gained allergies. I've always been able to eat anything, do anything and never get sick... it's annoying but nice. With as much as the world has changed in 10 years, I wonder if there are commonalities that can eventually be tracked down... And if there are actual groups that are trustworthy enough to discover it (aka: not paid for by special interest groups)

trhway 9y ago

>I was able to eat bread my whole life up to last year. Now whenever I eat it I get so tired I have to sleep. i got similar situation after moving to US and for several years eating cheap white supermarket bread (i.e. bleached white flour as the main ingredient, and the bread is produced with quick rising achieved by too much yeast and sugar, in short it is very different from the way bread was done for millennia and what our gut is used to). Took some time to find better, more correctly done, bread. As result of this (and some other similar - ie. less of the food filled with sugar/corn-syrup - dietary changes) glucose level jumps with lesser amplitude (ie. much less of that roller coaster ride of sugar rush followed by the slump). Beside wrecking havoc with glucose system (and potentially paving way for diabetes), the large consumption of bleached flour, sugar/corn-syrup and yeast have been, if not implicated, strongly correlated with things like Crohn disease, autoimmune issues, etc... (note: i'm not a crusader against sugar - i'm actually a big eater of carbohydrates, including sweet pastries, cakes, etc. - it just took time to find the places which do it more "european" style. To illustrate the difference for example consider cake frosting - European style contains a lot of high-fat butter in addition to sugar, egg, high-fat cream, etc. where is American frosting is very high on sugar and deals away [partially or completely] with butter and cream, thus losing much of the taste/aroma and becoming very unhealthy in my view)

deepvibrations 9y ago

I found out in a pretty horrible way this year that I was a 'silent celiac' - symptomless gluten intolerance. I broke my leg whilst simply doing a hand-stand (spiral fracture of femur)! All the doctors were confused at how it happened and in the end it was only because I pushed for a blood test that I found out I had Celiac disease and this had meant my body was not absorbing nutrients and so had been taking calcium and vitamin D from the bone stores, making them really weak. My family has generally been very healthy (grandparents living past 100) and I am convinced this is down to chemicals in bread or changes in the wheat itself via G.M. An recent study from University of Sheffield suggests that for every diagnosed celiac, 8 others go undiagnosed. I'd advise anyone out there to get a blood test, as this would have saved me a few broken arms and this horrible experience of a broken leg and now having a semi-titanium leg after surgery..!