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Originally Posted by Nancy LC
No, I measured my blood sugar after drinking the smoothie. It went higher, much higher, when I mixed in potato starch. It has been a long time since that experiment, so I don't recall all the details, but it was enough to warn me off taking potato starch with food.
Please, tell me how you're taking the RS (dosing and frequency). I might experiment again.
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Hmm...very interesting about the blood sugar spike with the smoothie. I have read every post and comment on FTA and nobody's reported anything like that.
I've been taking it with either plain water or sometimes with a spoonful of yogurt mixed in the water. Sometimes with probiotics, either the capsule or opening the capsule in the potato starch water. Sometimes with fiber, psyllium or acacia. Not a very good experimenter, as I haven't written things down or been at all systematic. Maybe once the holidays are over I can figure out the optimal time/dose for me.
The reason for taking it with probiotics or something like yogurt or kefir is, as I understand it, that the RS coats the bacteria so it winds up in the lower intestine, and the fiber when it accompanies it jets it along even farther into the end of the colon.
The one with psyllium was the least successful, or maybe because I took all 4 heaping TB at once. I felt a bit jangly after that one.
I have taken it before a meal but mostly before bed or first thing in the morning, or both, 2TB each time or sometimes 1 TB in the morning, 3 at night. Many people on Free The Animal reported better sleep and I am hoping for that in the long run.
I've had some slight, brief headaches with it, and increased flatulence as everyone has but not too bad really. I've seen opinion either way from the resident "experts", Tim Steele and Dr. BG from Animal Pharm, who btw, is a certified diabetes educator in real life and a pharmacist, that the absence of much flatulence either indicates already existing good bugs or virtually nonexistent good bugs. I'm anxious to try the SBO probiotics and see what happens. At least one person on FTA said her postRS headache went away and the good effects really only came about after she started the SBOs.
Here's Grace/Dr BG's list in her inimitable style, from somewhere in a recent blog post, sorry, didn't keep the link:
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RS clinical benefits:
banging BGs
improved HgbA1c < 5.0%
lower body fat
higher muscle ratios (less sarcopenia, u pussy)
better mood/dreams/sleep
no cravings (alcoholism, food nighttime binge eating, crack spells)
bigger testicles/balls/ovaries
fecundity, fertility
better skin, hair
improved adrenals, endurance, core body temps
no longer frigid digits or extremeties and cold intolerances
thyroid Free T3 higher and reverse T3 lower (because this is what VLC ketosis F*KCS UP OVER TIME B/C YES I LIVED IT)
better gut/digestion/immunity
normalized WBC white cell counts
less colds and infections
amelioration of the dawn phenom and rebound peripheral insulin resistance
less pathogenic overgrowth and fungal infections (gut/nails/skin)
Who might be 'germ-free' and killed off the commensal symbiont organisms???
(a) anyone has taken EVEN ONE SINGLE antibiotic course, much less MONTHS of acne antibiotics
(b) anyone not eating organic soil based foods on routine basis (no beer doesn't count!)
(c) long standing VLC, ketotic, LC diet or IFers or cyclic ketogenesis
(d) still have cold hands/feet/penis/ovaries
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I can only guess of the horror that chemotherapy wreaks on the gut. It's been over a year and I feel like I've bounced back fairly well, but would like to keep my immune system up to par. That and the blood sugar regulation are the big draws for me with this measure.