RE: Fasting Journal : Off plan, Day 10
I digest them fine as well. I do try to keep a little exposure to vegetable sources so that I don't gain sensitivities to anything. After consuming that meal, I can see the meal sitting in my gut from the pictures people took (it was my mom's birthday).
It is more about feeding the bugs in my gut that want to try and digest the undigestible fiber I think. Crapping 3 times a day isn't something I miss. I forget how much time bowel maintenance can take as an omnivore.
I can't really explain what the issue is because I'm still recovering from that meal more than 24 hours after I ate it. My stomach just isn't as flat as it was before the meal. I'm wondering if there is some sort of inflammation that comes along with the fiber. I'll have 1 or 2 habeneros mixed in with a tortilla-less quesedilla, so it isn't nightshades. I've heard your gut biome can weigh ~2 kilos so maybe it is just the flourishing of all those bugs in the lower intestine.
It's a curious thing.
In fact, that curiosity is my real motivation. I don't really worry about my digestion this much, except that it presents an interesting puzzle. Since I have to buy food anyway, it becomes a hobby with little added expense.
I think the human body is adaptable enough to make do with just about anything. For an individual, unless they have unusual problems, there's little evolutionary damage that can be done. My child will survive whether I burp or not. But messing around like this gives us some data on the question of the optimum human diet. Thanks to the internet, we are on the verge of being able to aggregate that data into meaningful information.