Vegan diet is said to be really good for you,
right? If you have long term gut issues it's actually
one of the major causes. And in this video I want
to explain to you what's going on. My name is
Joe, I'm a university trained dietitian, myself
and my team, we are the world's leading dietitian
consulting company. If you are eating you
know, heavily plant-based diet or a Vegan diet
because you want to do what's best for your
gut health but, you're finding that oh my symptoms
are not getting better or they're even worse than before,
then this video is specifically for you. If you
stay until the end I have a free food list for
you which is going to help you get started with
basically what I'm about to teach you now. Now
I don't have 1000 hours to debate a Vegan diet
with you and talk about Pros. and Cons. I'm going
to talk about one Con of the diet that we see with
a lot of our clients and that is for clients who
have sensitive stomachs or IBS or related
digestive disorders. The Vegan diet is doing
them more harm than good. Here's what's happening.
So those with IBS, they are sensitive
to some or all of the FODMAP compounds, okay?
Which are carbohydrates that are found in plant foods.
The only exception is lactose, which is
in milk, but the rest are found in plant-based
foods are not in meat or other animal products.
And therefore, if you're eating a heavily plant-based
diet, Vegan diet, you are going to increase
your consumption of FODMAP compounds. And
if you're someone who is sensitive to some of
those, then you've increased the amount of
trigger compounds and foods in your diet and therefore
your gut symptoms don't get better or they can
even get worse. So what do I recommend? What
I would say to a client or to you is that if you're
willing to bend the diet a little bit and not
be fully strict Vegan is going to help you get
relief a lot faster and it could be a temporary thing.
So, for example, allowing eggs into your diet
or lactose free dairy, right? Or fish. But even
just eggs or lactose free dairy, that helps
a lot in having a balanced diet that is more nutritionally complete.
That will also allow you to resolve your digestive issues.
So then you do it could really be in different
phases and it's about like getting specific
on which goal is most important to me first and
you know, typically we're talking with people
whose digestive issues are long-term and really
impacting their life. So that is goal number one.
So then we will bend the diet a little bit to try
to tick as many boxes as we can. But first and
foremost to resolve the gut issues. If you are
not willing to bend the rules are in and say
you're a strict Vegan, then you're going to
have to supplement. You have to supplement
anyway obviously like B12 because it's not
a nutritionally complete diet, but in particular
protein sources. You're going
to have to supplement with low FODMAP protein source
to typically, something like a pea protein
isolate, a soy protein isolate, something
like that, and you'll need to be quite diligent with that.
That's what we help our clients do as well. But,
you know, for sure, if you're not married to
the idea of being strict Vegan, then we would
encourage you to bend the rules. It's just going
to be so much easier for you to adhere to, and
so much faster for you to get some relief because
as I said, if we don't have to rely on the Vegan
protein sources which are typically High FODMAP,
then we can just get symptom relief much faster.
If you think about your digestive tract being
very red and irritated, I use the analogy of
like, so you burn your arm really badly. If you're
continuing to have to find high protein Vegan
sources, they're going to have these compounds
in them and it could be like rubbing you know…gravel
and rocks and things on that burn is going to
cause symptoms and it's going to hurt. Whereas
if we can move towards protein that is low or
no FODMAP, which means bending, you know, the
Vegan diet a little bit, then we're not rubbing
anything on on this inflamed arm and it can recover
and get better quicker and to the point where
then it's recovered your food sensitivity
are gone down, now we can reintroduce these foods.
You can move towards the Vegan diet or follow
a Vegan diet again and you know, if you rub rocks
on your arm now it doesn't hurt. There's no reactions.
That's kind of what we're going for. It's just like that
case in time you you're going to have to bend
the rules a little bit for a short period of time.
So really coming up your diet in two different
periods and setting different goals and working
through it that way. If you believe or suspect,
that FODMAPs could be the issue for you and you've
not really explore that area much. Then I have
free food list that you can grab from me. So just
comment “FODMAP food list”,
in the comments or you can direct message me
“FODMAP food list”, same thing, and I
can send you that free list. If you found the
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