Thanks. Ive definitely gotta get off this chronic smoking off both tobacco and weed, Im coming to feel that’s a strong hinderance of my progress.
When it comes to my diet, I went through a phase of eating far too little fat and sugar which led to far too long of a calorie defect, which when I re introduced healthy fats, carbs/fiber from vegetables like carrots I got some benefits in digestion and bowel comfort as well as other various health changes like thicker hair. Sleep and proper meal spacing has been paramount, as well as identifying my few acute fodmaps and reducing my workouts from constant overtraining to a more scientific recovery and managing stress, it’s amazing how many different things interfere with the gut/brain axis, especially stress and hormone fluctuation, once you develop a problem it can be quite difficult, especially without a good doc or someone to talk to with similar experience so I thank you for the motivation to reduce my smoking, hopefully in 6mo or a year I can come back and add something positive.
mattytrui essentially stopped both for a few months. i did this in combination with a change in diet to one much higher in greens (especially kale and broccoli), basically focusing on eating whole foods (ones with minimal/no processing) that were higher in fiber. and i stayed ultra hydrated this whole time as well. over the next year or so i started to reverse symptoms which i had thought i would never get rid of and had been dealing with for the past 8 to 10 years. so now i still pretty much eat like that, maybe a little less strict, and it has been the single best thing ive ever done for my overall health and wellbeing.
and i do smoke weed and occasionally tobacco now again as well. id just highly reccommend dropping them if you are trying to heal something within your digestive system because a) i felt a direct effect from both of them and b) when trying to heal yourself you need to simplify all the variables anyways
but diet is the most important thing imo
