What are your "more resistant-starch-rich raw Paleo foods" ?
> dried raw green plantains (I used to eat them super-ripe, but found they were quite harmful for me that way if I ate more than a smidgen and I've discovered that I am most sensitive to glucose out of all the carbs; now I take the opposite course and try to get them as green as I can
); the very green ones are like bland crackers when dried and if you let them ripen for two or three days you can get a little bit of sweetness while probably preserving a fair amount of the RS, though the greener they are, the more RS there will be
> raw semi-green bananas or dried raw organic very-green bananas (don't touch the flesh with your fingers or eat them undried--the very-green ones are VERY sticky and astringent when they're moist)
> small amounts of raw fingerling potatoes (my favorite variety is purple Peruvian, and the Russian banana variety is OK - but people who aren't used to raw potatoes probably won't like even these; and yeah, I know, most people don't regard any potatoes as "Paleo," ... to each their own; I try to avoid varieties for which even small amounts sting my mouth and throat, as I figure that probably means I'm more sensitive to the natural plant toxins in those)
On days that I don't get enough RS from whole raw foods, I add Bob's Red Mill unmodified potato starch. The expert on the stuff, Tatertot Tim, says he checked with Bob's and found that their unmodified potato starch is not heated enough to be considered cooked. It seems to have been particularly effective in lowering my BG.
I also use tapioca flour, though Tim is not sure how much that is heated and how much RS is in it. I've also recently been experimenting with some lightly cooked RS-rich foods (I won't get into that here, as it's off-topic for this subforum).
two things phil, what do you attribute the starch foods in helping lower you fbg?
The "beautiful butyrate" that is generated as a result of eating foods rich in fermentable fibers, especially
resistant starch (not other forms of starch).
and is everything else consistent, for I remember you eating a fair amount of fermented honey at times? And might you be substituting your starch foods for some amounts of protein which I believe could lower ones fbg's , as would substituting fat for extra protein.
I tried lowering my protein and upping the fat and that didn't help in my case, though it did help Jimmy Moore. Maybe if I used the expensive testing equipment he used it might have worked better for me, I don't know. Resistant starch has been a quick, easy and cheap solution for me, with the only downside being excessive fartage when I overdo it,
which is quite a contrast from the near-absence of fartage I had when eating very little RS and can be humorous at times, but is not overly concerning to me and I find it happens less with increasing adaptation over the weeks since increasing my RS intake.
By extra protein, I mean that to be any amount not needed by the body for maintenance and repair. Lex eating one meal a day imo falls into that category, as the body can only utilize so much protein at any given meal, or so I've read. I don't have direct experience with that though.
Yes, though Lex is so far not concerned by his high FBG. LC advocates refer to it as "physiological insulin resistance" and many claim that it's totally benign. I'm not so sure about that in the longer run. One thing that puzzled me is that I haven't seen a single case of any population eating a wild Paleo diet reported having high FBG numbers, even those with the lowest carb intakes. When I learned about "Eskimo potatoes," it seemed it might be one of the missing puzzle pieces, though I didn't understand why until I learned more about RS.
Note: not all soluble fibers are fermentable and not all fermentable fibers are soluble. Tatertot Tim has answered every question about this and other aspects of the topic that you could probably ever possibly imagine.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tatertot+%22resistant+starch%22Another benefit I seem to be getting from RS is less need for P5P supplements. I agree with the many people who advocate trying to get your nutrients from foods rather than supplements and RS appears to be helping with that.
