Bread was my thing!
Spent 2 years grain and refined carb free and felt so good! I've been trying to get back to it since having Spock junior but its not so easy now!
I look forward to your posts regarding nutrition, they are always so very interesting!
Have you ever started a thread regarding grains and ovarian cysts?
I'm sure there are many forum members who would be very interested to read about it and maybe you'll be doing a great service to sows everywhere!
the subject ovarian cysts-insuline (therefore high carbs, refined flour, etc.) is now accepted by the official medicine for us humans, doctors have understood that ovarian cysts are not an ovarian defect, but a consequence of a metabolic desorder... but of course doctors prefer following the usual road towards the Big Pharma business, prescribing the drug used for diabetes (metformin) which has a lot of side effects. Some "different" doctor recommends only a diet for losing at least 5% of body weight. My daughter started feeling bad, had a lot of symptoms, had gained quickly 8 kg but she was considered normal weight even with those kg! because she was very slim before... therefore I had to do on my own. It was hard because no diet seemed to work with her! at home we started eating like her and we became skeletons, but she was losing nothing! until we tried that crazy diet which in her worked amazingly and she came back active and dynamic as before. Now she is again a lively girl, does a lot of sport, feels not tired, can study and pass her exams with good results and so on. And her new scan was a great surprise even for her doctors (no meds at all for her, only diet and some supplements). In the meanwhile, for supporting her, we started her same diet and we also started feeling great! I saw a lot of results on both my body and brain. At the beginning it was hard, I felt like a drug woman, I was going "cold turkey"; but after some days I felt fine.
When I read about the fact of ovarian cysts in sows I came back to the researches I read for my daughter (for humans) and I found out that the first tests were conducted with guinea pigs (sows)! therefore I had a talk with a vet and he also was very interested in the matter but talking with his collegues (even abroad), found out that nobody knew anything more about the subject; the only thing they all agree is that sows develop different cysts, most of them are hormonal (in fact they alter also hair and behaviour), respond to hormonal drugs (anti-estrogens) and (but this was told in a low voice) these sows have been usually fed with common old pellets and old fashioned diets and are often "chubby". Just like women. But there are no studies, although the diet and the pellets for piggies have been changed in these last years and maybe in the future some good results will be seen in this field.
What they have discovered in women is that ovaries have receptors for insuline and certain women are prone (genetically?) to a certain sensitivity and a different hormonal response. These women may be too sensitive to high picks of insuline (caused by high carbs) and ovaries can be bombarded and damaged during the years...
I don't open any thread of course because I am only doing a sort of experiment on my daughter (and family) and on my sows who are kept far from any kind of sugars and cereals. Maybe it will not work... anyway I think it is a healthy diet, we all feel fine and it might bring some good result to some people (of course it is not the miraculous discovery for getting rid of cysts and other symptoms...)
I have lost all the researches saved on pc, unfortunately...
when my stupid pc broke down some months ago...
Maybe this one is a good article which explains clearly the subject.
PCOS and DIET | OBGYN.Net
another thing we should consider is: guinea pigs and humans share a similar hormonal system, hence they are used into the labs for our future drugs, too...
where they won't stop till I give them their pellets.
I don't know enough about nutrition so wasn't going to comment until I saw the above!
