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I was happily surprised the first time I tried a low carb diet to lose weight, as it also completely resolved my reflux issues.

sneak 5y ago
Mine is low carb, but also no wheat. Even when I do small (or even sometimes medium) amounts of rice, enough to absolutely not be in ketosis, I am still better than I was when eating bread or bread-containing/adjacent things (breading, pasta, sandwiches, et c). We know I'm not celiac. Perhaps it's some weird allergy; in addition to acid reflux eating such things also used to cause me ENT issues like coughing/congestion which have gone away entirely since I stopped. None of the traditional "allergic reaction" symptoms, though. Who knows? All I know is that it's different for everyone and for lots and lots of people, eating totally normal things is what causes or contributes to lots of bad symptoms misattributed to some disease or disorder. More often than not it's not you, it's the utter garbage food that our society has standardized upon. Just because it's common to eat a sandwich, or pasta, or a bowl of cereal or granola, or a bagel doesn't mean that human evolution has caught up with it yet.
- Nick87633 5y ago
  Have you tried cutting out coffee and dark tea? Both myself and my mom have found that it decreases ongoing throat irritation and coughs that run in our family.
  - sneak 5y ago
    Fortunately for me coffee and tea are some of the completely harmless/fine foods, at least to my body. I can even use heavy cream and sucralose with no issues. I live on espresso/tea, heavy cream, protein/nutrition shakes, zero-cal flavor syrups, and grilled beef. It's sort of crazy how much healthier I am eating this than if I ate, say, even healthy sandwiches. My body just seems to dig being primarily a carnivore. If I personally liked vegetables and leafy greens more I would probably do vegan keto, as I don't like how unsustainable western meat production is, but I simply can't get into the idea of leafs as food.

sneak 5y ago

Mine is low carb, but also no wheat. Even when I do small (or even sometimes medium) amounts of rice, enough to absolutely not be in ketosis, I am still better than I was when eating bread or bread-containing/adjacent things (breading, pasta, sandwiches, et c). We know I'm not celiac. Perhaps it's some weird allergy; in addition to acid reflux eating such things also used to cause me ENT issues like coughing/congestion which have gone away entirely since I stopped. None of the traditional "allergic reaction" symptoms, though. Who knows? All I know is that it's different for everyone and for lots and lots of people, eating totally normal things is what causes or contributes to lots of bad symptoms misattributed to some disease or disorder. More often than not it's not you, it's the utter garbage food that our society has standardized upon. Just because it's common to eat a sandwich, or pasta, or a bowl of cereal or granola, or a bagel doesn't mean that human evolution has caught up with it yet.

Nick87633 5y ago
Have you tried cutting out coffee and dark tea? Both myself and my mom have found that it decreases ongoing throat irritation and coughs that run in our family.
- sneak 5y ago
  Fortunately for me coffee and tea are some of the completely harmless/fine foods, at least to my body. I can even use heavy cream and sucralose with no issues. I live on espresso/tea, heavy cream, protein/nutrition shakes, zero-cal flavor syrups, and grilled beef. It's sort of crazy how much healthier I am eating this than if I ate, say, even healthy sandwiches. My body just seems to dig being primarily a carnivore. If I personally liked vegetables and leafy greens more I would probably do vegan keto, as I don't like how unsustainable western meat production is, but I simply can't get into the idea of leafs as food.