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Rick Larson's avatar

No. I don't have any health problems anymore. Absolutely no constipation problems.

Tins of little fishes are still cheap for the city people.

I also grow enough food from gardens without commercial aids and hunt & fish.

Although I will give you a point on the legumes and some grain as long as it is fermented for three days to lesson the lectins.

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Shelley's avatar

I purchase 5-6 tins of sardines in mustard sauce when I grocery shop once every 3 to 4 weeks. I eat them on crackers made from almonds or rice. Do black-eyed peas bought in a can need to be fermented? And if so, how is that done? According to this site it is a great food. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/black-eyed-peas-nutrition Do rice and oats need to be fermented? I only have a hobby garden; tomatoes, bell peppers, spinach, curly kale, string beans and zucchini – no can live on that…I can catch a small mouth bass or perch in my pond but I don’t clean fish. I guess I can check out your Newsletter for hints. I don't hunt but do shoot possums that won't go in my traps because their dung is debilitating if ingested by horse. Sometime I have to relocate racoon cubs though.

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Rick Larson's avatar

You don't need to ferment anything, its about what you want, or rather, what the bacteria and other critters in your body has habituated to.. Look up what lectins are and what they do to the digestive system, quite the opposite of what the phd thinks.

I've been working with nature here, its a hoot. Type in these keywords into YouTube "rick larson cleaning fish".

My Dad grew up with large horses, his Dad used them to plow the field. They lived with out modern conveniences selling produce in summer and logging in the winter. The fumy thing is he doesn't remember many bad times. I should ask him about opossums & raccoons with the horses in mind. They probably shot and ate them all. Ha!

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Shelley's avatar

I know about lectins from reading Eat Right 4 Your Type a couple of decades ago. I try to follow its food plan for type O. My ex's grandfather and uncle raised coon hounds back in the day. And he would hunt with them. They went out at dusk. I don't think they ever ate the meat, just wanted the pelt. What for I don't know.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

I like sardines. However they are off the menu for folks taking 200 mg allopurinol/day

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SR Miller's avatar

300mg allopurinol taker here - been doing so for nigh on 30 years, maybe longer, lost track. Yeah, the big toe plague sux; but I also eat sardines as often as I can remember to do so - with no ill effects that I know of. What did cause a problem was my love affair with dark beer, the darker the better. Some number of years ago I was having issues in large joints, particularly my bad (bad enough to need replacement) knees. Never knew gout could afflict other joints and it doesn’t have to be debilitating. Thank you Dr Google. Anyway, deep dive into gout, the foods, what to do, and I’m left with a beer cellar still full of that chocolate colored elixir. On the bright side, it was amazing how quick the discomfort went away.

As for the foods, one thing I came across is that not everyone seems to respond to the same foods AND that veggies high in purines seem to not be the same issue as purines in meats - fer instance, asparagus is condemned because of its purine content but it can be consumed. Here’s an interesting articl about foods and gout from NIH (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722549/)

As for the sardines, it’s possible my high consumption of gout protective foods provides me with some leeway to consume sardines w/o consequence.

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

I had to back off of my fav beer because its alcohol too hi and also unfiltered (and unpasteurized) due to kidney stones. Really loved that beer but Shiner Bock going down pretty well now

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Rick Larson's avatar

What the hell they taking that for?

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Micheal Nash, Ph. D.'s avatar

Gout--sardines and anchovies loaded with purines. Not so good for gout. Sore big toe bad, kidney stones not so hot either

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Rick Larson's avatar

Too much oxalates according to my YouTube doctor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH9llWp0ixs

I don't know much about the details, and I normally don't care much to learn, what I do know is I feel better now than I ever did all my life just by changing my habits of eating and working.

I theorize the reason people seek pills and injections, concoctions as I've termed them, is they do not live a healthy lifestyle.

Since I have no letters behind my name nor am seeking to profit, I am free to speculate.

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