what is the purpose of the intro diet, exactly?

[Guest guest]

Does it put you off all illegals, cold turkey, onto the diet and is

that considered preferable for some reason?

If a person doesn't suffer from diarrhea normally, it is necessary to

avoid eating raw fruit and having nut bread for a while?

thanks,

Helen

[Guest guest]

Helen,

I tried to find something on the sites that pointed to the exact

reason for intro and couldn't find anything to refer you to.

I look at the intro diet like this, and maybe I read it in a book?

The intro diet gives your body a " resting " or " cleansing " period if

you will, when your body can adjust from eating grains, sugars, etc.

and changes the environment in which our yeast/bacteria thrive. It

gives your body a chance to begin the healing process and allows you

to eat a basic diet that is healthy for you, and allows you to see a

change in BM's if those are a problem for you. The cooked fruits and

veggies are easier to digest and this is how you want to introduce new

foods, easiest to digest first, then work up to raw and dried foods.

Then by adding one new food at a slow pace, you can tell if your body

is not able to tollerate that particular new food. You can take that

food back out and try a new fruit or vegetable, if you had problems.

Listen to your own body and work your way up to the raw fruits. Allow

your body to function on easy to digest foods and observe.

Time afer time I've read posts on this list about how people who

didn't do the intro diet, went back later to do it, and got better

results.

My son who typically had constipation, did intro, and then we found

that just a Tablespoon of homemade applesauce would give him " D " and

so for quite a while we lived on homemade pearsauce, which he handled

just fine. I never would have dreamed he'd have a reaction to

applesauce.

With the nuts, start with nut butters, work up to nut flours, and

eventaully whole raw nuts.

Moderator may wish to add more to this or have a link to point you to.

Always follow the guidelines in the book if you have it.

Best Wishes to you!

(temporary moderator helper)

mom to Josh, 12, Aspergers, leaky gut, SCD 19 months

[Guest guest]

my thoughts on the intro diet are that if you consider what the diet

is supposed to do -- starve the bad guys, then we want to make sure we

do it from the beginning. i assume anyone considering scd is doing so

because they have a gut flora & intestine that is not what it should

be. by starting on the intro diet you are getting rid of any

undigested foods in your intestine and beginning a diet in which you

are feeding your body foods that it CAN digest. so it is the first

time that 100% of the food eaten will be digestable by your own body

(not the microbes we want to KILL). so if you start the diet with

foods that you cant digest fully you are not sure how well you are a)

feeding yourself and starving the bad guys.

many people have found that when they didnt start out on intro diet

they ended up going back and starting again.

also you dont stay on intro diet for a long time. i think it is 1-2

days normally. then you add in foods. i love the list of suggested

order of foods available at www.pecanbread.com under food prep - i

found it to be a wonderful trail map of where to go next. so if you

follow that list and add green beans one day , wait 1-2 days (+/or

till nice BM) you add spinach next day, apples, bananas, etc. You will

see after 2 weeks that you are having a variety to work with .

donna

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> Does it put you off all illegals, cold turkey, onto the diet and is

> that considered preferable for some reason?

>

> If a person doesn't suffer from diarrhea normally, it is necessary

to

> avoid eating raw fruit and having nut bread for a while?

>

> thanks,

> Helen

>

[Guest guest]

when my husband started the diet with my boys, he started at intro

diet and added foods one at a time but not necessarily at the same

order that was listed at pecanbread.com. he did eat raw fruit pretty

early on and had not trouble. at one time he was having a reaction and

it turned out to be raisins. we stopped and the gas stopped. his issue

was yeast related but he didnt seem to have any obvious digestive

problems with bad stool. (or at least he said -- i never check his0.

i dont think he had the same gut damage that my boys had so he had

more freedom to jump into raw fruit and veggies. hope this comparison

is helpful.

donna

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> If a person doesn't suffer from diarrhea normally, it is necessary

to

> avoid eating raw fruit and having nut bread for a while?

>

> thanks,

> Helen

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