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"i'm not addicted to alcohol, but my gut flora are real party animals and start secreteing poison when they dont get their 'medicine'"

derefr 3y ago
Anecdote: something exactly like this seems to have been true for me until recently — but with sugar. I recently had a very strong course of antibiotics for a resistant infection. Completely destroyed my gut flora. Had two weeks of terrible, Chron's-like digestive issues afterward, before things settled down. Whatever grew back is very likely brand-new colonization, not regrowth. Before I got sick, if I didn't have at least a certain amount of sugar per day, I'd start to feel inflamed all over my body—especially in my face and my joints. I drank a lot of soda throughout the day; ate chocolate to "feel better" each night before bed; etc. Any time I was travelling away from access to these foods, and so eating "better", I felt worse. After getting sick + taking the antibiotics + re-seeding my gut, the "demand" my body had for sugar seems to have completely evaporated. Coke/Pepsi, which just tasted "good" to me before, now tastes horribly saccharine-sweet, to the point that I can barely stand it. Less-sweet stuff still tastes fine — sugar isn't inherently gross to me now, it's just suddenly gross in large amounts. And so I find myself consuming a lot less sugar now, to seemingly absolutely no ill effect.
- jareklupinski 3y ago
  thanks for posting that! i had a wild ride after a course of antibiotics as a kid too, and it definitely showed me the level of agency you can truly have when half of your cellular structures are 'foreign bodies' :) > re-seeding my gut hope to see more research around this: metabolic pathways are getting well understood, and we may find some more interesting interactions/shortcuts we can offload to bacteria already present in our body
- kridsdale3 3y ago
  I suspect a lot of people would benefit from "nuke it all and start over" treatments. Get a bunch of kimchi, leafy fibrous veggies, etc, in for the new seeding. Natto, soy sauce. Basically re-make yourself in to a Japanese or Korean person, diet wise. You may end up much thinner and healthier as a result.

derefr 3y ago

Anecdote: something exactly like this seems to have been true for me until recently — but with sugar. I recently had a very strong course of antibiotics for a resistant infection. Completely destroyed my gut flora. Had two weeks of terrible, Chron's-like digestive issues afterward, before things settled down. Whatever grew back is very likely brand-new colonization, not regrowth. Before I got sick, if I didn't have at least a certain amount of sugar per day, I'd start to feel inflamed all over my body—especially in my face and my joints. I drank a lot of soda throughout the day; ate chocolate to "feel better" each night before bed; etc. Any time I was travelling away from access to these foods, and so eating "better", I felt worse. After getting sick + taking the antibiotics + re-seeding my gut, the "demand" my body had for sugar seems to have completely evaporated. Coke/Pepsi, which just tasted "good" to me before, now tastes horribly saccharine-sweet, to the point that I can barely stand it. Less-sweet stuff still tastes fine — sugar isn't inherently gross to me now, it's just suddenly gross in large amounts. And so I find myself consuming a lot less sugar now, to seemingly absolutely no ill effect.

jareklupinski 3y ago
thanks for posting that! i had a wild ride after a course of antibiotics as a kid too, and it definitely showed me the level of agency you can truly have when half of your cellular structures are 'foreign bodies' :) > re-seeding my gut hope to see more research around this: metabolic pathways are getting well understood, and we may find some more interesting interactions/shortcuts we can offload to bacteria already present in our body
kridsdale3 3y ago
I suspect a lot of people would benefit from "nuke it all and start over" treatments. Get a bunch of kimchi, leafy fibrous veggies, etc, in for the new seeding. Natto, soy sauce. Basically re-make yourself in to a Japanese or Korean person, diet wise. You may end up much thinner and healthier as a result.