5-HTP and low carb diets

[Maria Bohle]

Hi Bob, some people by necessity must live on a low fiber diet. One of those conditions may be diverticulitis where the seeds can get caught in the intestinal pockets irritating the area. For most of us, more fiber, if increased in a sensible manner is probably good for bowel health.
One size does not always fit all.
Warmly, Maria

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[Veronique Bouan]

Enjoy your full pack of popcorn RogerD!

Véronique
2014-06-20 6:44 GMT+02:00 Roger B rogerbird2@hotmail.com [minutus] >:

[Bob Needham]

Tks Maria

I have oscillated back and forth on this subject for some time, but you summed it up quite nicely --- susceptibility and individuality. Now I can enjoy my Oatmeal / Teff breakfast : >)

bob

[Tanya Marquette]

I understand the diverticulosis condition or other similar ones.
If that is the case then homeopathy and diet should be able to help
correct it, or minimize it.

[Irene de Villiers]

Not possible or probable or actual:-)

Teff is not a small seed-like food. You cook it first, and it is like soft bread then, not like seeds. A couple giant muffins take 2.5 mins in the microwave, starting weith teff flour.
If you wish to make hamburger buns from whole teff, you need to first boil the teff grain to cook it, then cool it, shape it into buns and fry it.
The traditional bread from teff, (injera) is a sourdough type with a teff culture that needs to be "fed" regularly, the dough is then fried in a pan - and food is then served on top.

But anyway diverticula pouches are marble size and the old wives tale about corn, nuts and such getting stuck in there to cause the inflammation called diverticulitis, has been disproved in research.
(Teff would be too small, it is a hundreth the size of a wheat grain, so could not jam up a thing the size of a marble if it tried, even if you could get it through the digestive system undigested and raw somehow.)

Research has identified many (chemical) factors that cause the inflammation in the diverticla pouches that stick out from the large intestine (or other gut places) and likely the list will grow:
One is c-reactive protein - the higher it is the worse diverticulitis is.
Another is the type of intestinal bacteria - high numbers of Proteobacteria are culprits
It is also recorded that diverticulitis first was discovered after steel mills were invented.

The problem is to do with chemical-induced inflammation not physical blockage.

Namaste,
Irene

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[Bob Needham]

Thks Irene - the picture has now cleared to make sense.

bob

[Maria Bohle]

My grandmother had diverticulitis. She was told to avoid nuts and seeds. Tomato seeds were found glued to the inside of one of those pouches, stuck to the mucus I am guessing. Most of us have some divercules, high fiber if increased slowly is good for the bowel and should serve to keep it clean. No extremes.

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[Bob Needham]

Hi Maria
I think Irene hit the nail on the head. It's the pre-cooking of the Teff or seeds that breaks down the seed coat to allow digestive enzymes to enter and assimilate the product. Eating a small raw seed enhances the potential for it to lodge on a bowel pocket as was no doubt the case with your grandmother and my mother too. I tried a precook with tomatoes for my salad, but ended up with tomato sauce. ; > (

bob