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I did quite some experimenting with this. Fruit moves fastest and green leaves. Meat, cheese, oil and fats slowest. But we often eat combinations: and the slo
by flossly 6mo ago
I did quite some experimenting with this.
Fruit moves fastest and green leaves. Meat, cheese, oil and fats slowest.
But we often eat combinations: and the slowest component of your food determines the speed of the whole.
Also: it's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible.
So, eating a fast moving meal after a slow moving meal results in the fast mover getting stuck behind the slow mover.
Hence I start my day without and slow food (only fruit, herbs, green leaves, spices, ginger => usually a smoothy); and end the day with slow food (oily food, nuts, seeds, beans; usually combined with green leaves as we need a lot green leaves).
YMMV
- lordgrenville 6mo agon=1 But interesting nonetheless, thanks for sharing your findings.
- flossly 6mo agoI have a small following of people how also saw improvements doing this. Then, I did not come up with this myself, but found a lot of anecdotals in this direction. And... I comment on a real science piece that seems to be making similar claims.
- x______________ 6mo agoInteresting. A great opportunity to add "YMMV"
- mrroryflint 6mo agoThere have been alternative (often mad) health proponents who have insisted upon only eating fruit in the morning for years - similar(ish) reasons. I think there is probably something to it.
- oulipo2 6mo agoI mean the most obvious reason is fibers
- flossly 6mo agoFor me the most obvious reason is that we are primates and most primates have a fruit heavy diet. So I believe that's a reason for our human bodies to be very well adapted to fruit. And that's the fibers, vitamins, minerals and sugars... The whole package.
- DANmode 6mo agoYeah, but during what part of the day do they eat it?! ^_^
- konradb 6mo agoI remember this being a thing in some Tony Robbins book!
- sublinear 6mo agoWhole fruit also has a lower glycemic index due to the fiber. This slow release of sugar helps reduce insulin resistance and balance out hormone response in general. Hormonal imbalance is severely underrated as a root cause of common mental health issues like anxiety, depression, etc. Having fruit in the morning is a little boost without the guilt. Adding in some light exercise, like walking, also helps prime the day. It even gets easier to wake up early for all this the more regularly it's done. It's one big reinforcement cycle for healthy habits.
- altmanaltman 6mo agoWhat do you mean, the human stomach is absolutely not a "one line road", your comments lacks the basic biological understanding. What you're describing is a good generic diet and maybe that's why it feels good but please learn a bit more about the stuff you are expetimenting on.
- flossly 6mo agoI did not mention stomach. I meant the GI-tract as a whole. I've used food coloring and indigestibles (like corn kernels) to do experiments on whether meals can "overtake" or "merge" or "join" with other meals into poops.
- jahller 6mo agothat's the most insane thing i read today. kudos to your curiosity
- andrewf 6mo agoThen you'll love https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpc.14309 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpc.14309 "Six paediatric health-care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head."
- red-iron-pine 6mo agoomg this article is wild lol > To standardise bowel habit between participants, we developed a Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score to look at stool consistency over time. The SHAT score is the sum of the Bristol Stool Chart scores over a specific time period divided by that time period in days. > Post-ingestion, stools were monitored and examined in search of the excreted item. The search was conducted on an individual basis, and search technique was decided by the participant. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score.
- flyinglizard 6mo agoAdding debug prints to your diet.
- andsoitis 6mo agoHave you found that coffee speed things up?
- boring-human 6mo agoI don't disagree with your findings, but here's the model I use: - Fiber: ^ - Dairy: v - Coffee: ^^ - NSAIDs: vv - Ice cream splurges: vvv
- arethuza 6mo agoMy breakfast routine for ~40 years has been coffee, muesli, coffee, yoghurt, coffee, fresh fruit all served with plenty coffee.
- sillyfluke 6mo agoI end up eating a similar breakfast when I visit Swiss/Austrian/Dutch friends in their natural habitat.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6mo agoI will add an anecdote that from observation, two people on the same diet over long periods can have significantly different poop frequencies, and differing regularity. YMMV. It's not just determined by the food intakes, there are individual factors. At a guess, these individual factors start with 1) genetic component to reactions to substances such as lactose and to caffeine. 2) Gut microbiome. In other words, saying "change diet and you can change the poop schedule" is true, but "with this diet you will definitely get this schedule" is not.
- CTDOCodebases 6mo agoEating bitter greens can cause the body to secrete more bile and that speeds up fat digestion.
- Bender 6mo agoI use TUDCA for that though it can make me gassy if I take too much.
- calf 6mo agoJust to be clear I thought the typical advice has been fiber -> protein -> carbs, for blood sugar reasons, you're saying to frontload fiber/carbs & backload proteins for easier digestion? That is interesting, I wonder what studies there are on this.
- flossly 6mo agoMy reason is I dont want the fast moving food to get stuck behind the slow moving food. Another reason I do it like this: I get no after diner dip from fast moving food. Slow moving food makes me crash a little, and I prefer to experience that in the evenings. I did also experiments with fruit (and leaves) only diets. No crashes at all. Nice! But I did crave savory, chewy food a lot.
- paul7986 6mo agoFor me i drink close to a gallon of water a day and that truly cleans me out daily.
- vogelke 6mo ago> It's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible. Best poop-related comment I've seen.
- alpineman 6mo agoOr just don't eat meat and cheese at all
- mcv 6mo agoBetter for the environment too.
- flyinglizard 6mo agoThe best thing for the environment is dying. You stop wasting resources and start fertilizing the soil.
- danielbln 6mo agoOnly a Sith deals in absolutes.
- flossly 6mo agoI've not for the last 12 years. But fake meats/dairies have a very similar macro profile, so I expect them to digest similarly. I'll not try though, as I'm vegan for ethical reasons.
- gchamonlive 6mo agoIsn't slow food going through your body during sleep something that'll impact your sleep quality? When you wake up you are basically fasting so your body is ready to take a hit. Slow food will go through your body faster when you eat it in the first half of your day.
- flossly 6mo agoI found the same food goes about as fast (on a rather empty GI tract) no matter when eaten. Slow food takes about 24h for me (so even when eaten early).
- gchamonlive 6mo agoI don't think the last 12h impacts sleep quality that heavily though
- senectus1 6mo agoyeah my mileage is i eat fruit and i get cramps and the squirts for the next two days. as I've gotten older my ability to consume fruit, onions, garlic and most dairy (and coffee :-( ) has been taken away from me. its really a miserable experience for someone that enjoys eating new and interesting things all the time.
- wantoncl 6mo ago> Also: it's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible. I've eaten some hamburgers at Krystal's that definitely overtook whatever else was in front. Some folks have had the same or similar effect from White Castle, although I never have. Chipotle on occasion moves things along rather briskly too. No fruit or green leaves in any of them. It may be that it's not a digestion thing, but some other factor they have that accelerates the process.
- Schmerika 6mo agoNot a doctor but I know that some foods, in some guts, at some times can trigger a 'quick-release valve' of sorts. You're not digesting properly when that happens.
- _DeadFred_ 6mo agoThis. Eject != digest