May 2010

Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 18 – Is Almond Flour Like SCD Cocaine?

Steady Eddy, that’s how my digestion was last week. My BM’s are continuing to jump around on the Bristol Stool Chart between 3′s, 4′s, and 5′s. All other digestive symptoms seem to be staying relativity stable (on a weekly time frame) for the time being. Everything is not quite where I wish it was but I’m still light years ahead of December of last year. My hypothesis is the last phases of healing and optimizing digestion will take the longest.

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Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 17 – What’s in Your Medicine Cabinent?

As I’m going to see the doc this week I’m guessing my supplementation is going to change based his recommendations so I figured I would give an update to everyone. If your are doing the SCD diet and are in any way restricted (have food intolerance/allergy or are in the early phases of the diet) I think it is extremely important for you to be supplementing to make sure you are getting all your needed vitamins and minerals as well as replacing your good bacteria and enzymes. This is not intended in any way to be a list for everyone, this is what I take and it is put together solely based on what I am finding that I am deficient in. Always talk things over with your doctor to make sure that they support your supplementation. If they don’t support the SCD diet… find a new doctor!

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Could Zinc Deficiency Be Robbing You of Your Taste and Smell?

Last week I posted that I had found some research indicating that my lack of smell might be related to zinc deficiency. This week I want to give a high level overview of how zinc might be impacting your life and give you some great resources if you want to learn more about it.

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Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 16 – Learning New Cooking Techniques

I used a technique I learned called a dry rub. For spices I used a salt, paprika, ginger, and cayenne pepper (but you can use any combo). The main point is don’t skimp on the quantity when your dry rubbing a meat. I’m not including any specific spice amounts because I just winged it, but also because this is about learning new ways to cook not necessarily recipes. The following steps are for using a dry rub spice mixture.

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Steve’s SCD Healing Journal: Week 15 – Why Can’t I Smell?

This last week was pretty much an extension of the previous week’s symptoms. I didn’t have a bowel movement for around 3 1/2 days and was starting to get pretty uncomfortable so I went out and got some prune juice. I drank about 8 oz on Wednesday night and 8 oz on Thursday morning and finally that afternoon the pipes started working again. After that, I continued to drink about 8 oz a day throughout the weekend and was back to averaging one bowel movement a day. Although I was able to shake the C, my BM’s were only of about 2 quality on the Bristol stool chart. I also had more gas than I have had since starting the diet back in January. I have had smelly loud gas all day everyday for about 10 days now. I really hope that whatever is going on in there leads to the good guys starting to win the battle.

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