Interesting. I love animal fats and saw lots of advice over the years from Paleoists and LCers to eat MOAR fat and reduce the fiber "menace," which I was more than happy to try out.
There were also some vegan and vegetarian voices that I found mostly extreme, flaky and offputting (with some exceptions), and I debated some of them. I even called my approach "raw facultative carnivore."
While fat doesn't plug me up as much as lean meat protein, I've been getting better results from including more of what seem to be the best sorts of plant "fiber" for me (including microbiota accessible carbohydrates, which I hadn't seen much on in the past--instead the pro-fiber talk from physicians, nutritionists, other experts and conventional wisdom had been focused on whole grains, especially whole wheat/bran) than from ingesting lots of fat (don't get me wrong--I felt great for some time while eating lots of fat and look for any excuse to eat it
--and who knows, maybe I'll find that something else works better down the road). Individual differences can be remarkable, and no one can know for sure what will work for everyone else. It seems most of us need to figure it out ourselves what works for us, and to each his own.
Without you guys id most likely be downing bottles of murilax...
Ugh, don't remind me.
Polyethylene glycol was an utter nightmare for me. I even asked the gastroenterologist who prescribed it if long-term use could have any side effects, such as electrolyte/mineral depletion (given that the acute dose products of it, like GoLytely, had warnings about that, and most of them even included added electrolytes in them), and he angrily insisted that it couldn't. I should have guessed that his irritation was a sign that something was not right, but I was willing to try just about anything at the time. I'll bet that past patients had complained about side effects, but he insisted otherwise because of what his big-pharma-funded American books and brochures told him (I later learned that some European governments require that electrolytes be added to low-dose long-term-use PEG products, as well as acute-dose products).
Cheers.
