Eric Bakker:
It's Eric Bakker, the naturopath from New
Zealand.
Thanks for tuning in.
Now let's talk about the low fermentation
diet.
If you got SIBO, small intestinal bowel overgrowth,
likely you've spent some time online and looked
at about the 50,000 diets that are available.
You've got all sorts of diets.
They generally involve modifying the carbohydrate
intake to look at changing fermentation in
the gut to stop symptoms like gas and bloating
and burping and all that kind of stuff.
There are so many types.
The low fermentation, I think, was designed
by Cedar Sinai doctor, Dr. Pimentel.
And a lot of people really like this diet.
You're basically taking out brown rice and
you're taking a carbs that could be problematic
for some people and you're putting in white
bread, white stuff, probably potatoes and
things like that go in there as well.
But what I kind of understand is why the hell
people would eat white bread for?
I mean, look at the fiber content.
There's no nutritional content.
You might as well eat white newspaper.
Here.
Have a sheet of this to eat with your low
fermentation diet.
You're probably going to get more nutrition
out the ink than you will out of the white
bread.
Typical of a medical doctor to recommend white
bread, isn't that so typical?
They also recommend that you should take artificial
sugars out of your diet.
Well, you shouldn't have them in your diet
in the first place.
Why would you have to take crap out of your
diet that really should not be in there?
Like artificial sugar.
Does it ring alarm bells to you?
Imagine if I said I've got artificial white
bread for you to eat, how many people want
to buy it?
I've got an artificial husband for you.
How many women would buy that?
Right.
Okay.
Where was I?
We were talking about the low fermentation.
As I've always maintained on this channel,
if you've got a SIBO condition, this is what
I can't understand with many doctors, why
they designed these specific types of diets
and list yes foods and no foods.
How the hell do they know what's in your gut?
How do they know what the level of your beneficial
bacteria is?
Many patients don't even stool test.
Lots of doctors haven't got a flipping clue
on how to read a stool test or how to use
that information to the best advantage for
their client.
Particularly in terms of guiding them on what
foods are problematic or potentially problematic.
But here's the other crazy thing.
I can't tell you how many people I've seen
over the years who were told to eat XYZ foods,
but they couldn't tolerate them.
They couldn't tolerate them.
And they finally had to drop those foods and
find foods that they personally could tolerate.
Even though the doctor was not in agreeance
with it.
I mean, I don't know the state of your digestive
system.
If you've got SIBO, if you've got inflammatory
bowel disease, I don't really know.
I only know that through signs and symptoms.
By the way, watch the video on signs and symptoms.
That will explain a lot in terms of objective
and subjectivity when comes to disease.
When a patient comes to me with a gut problem,
the very first thing I want to know is exactly
what they've been eating for a while, what
they used to eat, and they likely changed
when they got the gut problem, they try and
improve their gut, and what diets they tried
to see if they could help the condition.
Then slowly but surely helping that person
find their way, navigate their way through
the food maze to see what are the best foods
for them?
I may not agree with those foods, but you
know what?
I don't care.
But it is true though.
You'll probably think they're saying this
guy's an idiot.
If somebody doesn't react to white bread,
why shouldn't they be able to eat it?
Well, they should.
You've got a good point there.
It's just, I don't really like people eating
stuff that's got no nutritional value at all.
And white bread doesn't generally have that
much.
When you're paying 99 cents for a loaf of
bread in a plastic bag, you're mostly going
to feed the ducks if you want to get rid of
the ducks.
It just doesn't make sense.
Let's just drop the bread thing for now and
move on.
There are other carbs that maybe you've been
told you can't have that you can tolerate.
Does it mean to say that it's making symptoms
worse?
Well only you know that because only you have
got your digestive system.
When it comes to advice regarding the low
fermentation diet, I would say modifying that
approach to suit your digestive system, not
the doctor's recommendations, because that
could vary widely.
You may come back and say, "Wow, I can handle
brown rice perfectly fine."
And then that solves the argument.
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