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Yes. You just eat beans a lot. After a few months it stops making you gassy until you eat a type of bean you have never eaten before and then you are back to sq
by blackjack_ 5mo ago
Yes. You just eat beans a lot. After a few months it stops making you gassy until you eat a type of bean you have never eaten before and then you are back to square one.
Source: vegan who eats beans with 75+% of meals
- krackers 5mo ago>After a few months it stops making you gassy What causes this? Gut microbiome adapting? Doesn't that imply there should be some probiotic-type supplement you can take to seed these bacteria and keep them alive even when not eating beans?
- shermantanktop 5mo agoYMMV and people differ. Source: vegetarian who eats a lot of beans too. Beanzyme is a lifesaver.
- blackjack_ 5mo agoYeah, people are diverse. I have this issue with lentils. I love em, but however many I eat they don’t love me back.
- littlexsparkee 5mo agoDo you rinse them until the water runs clear before cooking them?
- brewcejener 5mo agoExactly. The gut microbiome adjusts and cultivates bacteria that feeds more efficiently or even cross feeds on gases produced by other bacteria.
- mixedmath 5mo agoI was very surprised to see that the article explicitly says it will not consider this answer!
- tptacek 5mo agoIf Dave Arnold says he really doubts it, it's a pretty safe bet he's read like a dozen papers related to the prediction and is basing it on something. He's like the Bunnie Huang of cooking.
- dandellion 5mo agoIn the article the only explanation he gives is that it doesn't make sense to him, doesn't mention any papers or anything at all. But I'm pretty certain that he's wrong and it works. The difference in gas if I've been eating beans recently vs if I haven't eaten them in a couple of months is not just "I feel like maybe I get a little bit less gassy maybe" it's going from "two dozen farts at least, guaranteed" vs "one or two, if any at all" it's a night and day difference and if there even was a paper that says the contrary rather than change my mind I'd just assume that there must be something wrong with how the study was made. Of course, I'm just a sample of one and I haven't done any study either, so I don't mean to imply that there might not be other factors or that it may not work to the same degree for everybody, only that I'm pretty sure that dismissing it is wrong because I know at least one counter example.
- raddan 5mo agoMore anecdata here. For various health reasons, about six months ago I started eating beans every day for lunch. At first it was… intense. But within a few weeks, the gas entirely disappeared. I now have no issues whatsoever. FWIW, some beans are easier on my system than others. Kidney beans (sadly), my favorite, can be murder if you don’t cook them thoroughly enough. Lentils, on the other hand, seem to be pretty gentle. They also soak up whatever flavor they are cooked in so they are a great “starter bean” if you want to eat a more vegetarian diet.
- blackjack_ 5mo ago
- jack_pp 5mo agowell if your solution is to eat beans with 3/4 meals and I STILL need to social distance for a few months while I acclimate then that's not really the best solution now is it?
- toast0 5mo agoI'd guess you might get more prosocial results by ramping up slowly. Start eating beans twice a day, but start with very small portions.
- blackjack_ 5mo agoYeah, you don’t run a marathon on your first run. You ramp up the intake slowly as your body adapts, like anything. If you are unlucky, this takes a long time or never happens because you rolled a bad microbiome. But for most people, this works fine.
- jack_pp 5mo agoIn my case or a lot of people's cases.. I eat beans to save money and if I have to save money now.. months of adaptation isn't gonna cut it
- enaaem 5mo agoReminds me of the cure for lactose intolerance: You just have to keep drinking milk until your microbiomes adapts.
- finger 5mo agoThat seems like a very shitty cure.. But on a more serious note, does that actually work, even if just a bit?
- polishdude20 5mo agoYes.
- aw-engineer 5mo agothis youtuber presents herself as a case study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90rEkbx95w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90rEkbx95w she also cites references
- thunfischtoast 5mo agoI'm nitty picking now, but for most people you can't cure lactose intolerance because it's not a disease. It's more like the default state that adult mammals have. You might be able to rebuild some tolerance, but it's much easier to just take the artificial lactase and manage intake. One could argue that, biologically speaking, lactose tolerance is the off state and just so happens because we keep consuming breast milk well into adulthood (just not our own mother's).
- awesome_dude 5mo agoYeah - humans have adapted to be able to use milk(s) from other sources than parents for the high sugar and fats present and required to survive in harsher climates (cold) that we're not native to. Milks, butters, and cheeses are a high value food source for people who burn massive amounts of calories to keep their bodies warm.
- finger 5mo ago
- girvo 5mo agoCorrect, signed another vegan :) Unscientifically, it feels like your gut microbiome adjusts to it after a while!