IMPORTANT! /Re: Fermenting - Nourishing Traditions SCD

[Guest guest]

Suzanne,

Thank you for bringing this topic up!! Elaine was very much against

the idea of wild fermentation. I also want to remind everyone to

only use SCD legal starters. The BED starters are NOT SCD legal.

I am a big fan of fermentation and asked Seth Barrows who is the

expert for SCD fermentation to write an article about fermentation

and SCD. I will post the link tomorrow as well as a link for making

SCD legal sauerkraut. Please read Suzanne's post below my email.

Mimi

>

> Not to discuss other diets unduly, but I do want to note that we

did

> the Body Ecology Diet for 8 months before starting SCD. There are

many

> polysaccharides in the BED that continued to cause us problems. In

> addition, we used cultured vegetables very heavily, using what I

think

> is " wild fermentation " and I think they caused an acidosis

condition

> in my son. He tested positive for D. Lactate after months on the

> diet, and I think the wild cultured vegetables were the cause.

>

> Just a caution. Acidosis is not something to mess with. It can

lead to

> pancreatitis, I beleive.

>

> I think the principle behind fermented foods is a good one, but I

> beleive you should be sure to nurture healthy flora not unhealthy

> flora. Our kids guts are sensitive, not a laboratory to grow

whatever

> happens to thrive in their intestines.

>

> Suzanne

>