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My Eighth Mitosis on The Bean Protocol

6/19/2022

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*I'm not a doctor, nutritionist, or any kind of medical professional. None of this is medical advice. Always seek advice from your doctor before changing your diet and/or healing routine. I am just a human sharing my experience with this protocol.

Welcome back!

I've been beaning for 720 days! That's enough beans to fill an olympic size swimming pool!
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As usual, I have a lot to share.

Last mitosis, I promised to write about MCAS in this installment. But, then I realized it may be too much so I made it a post of its own. If you have a lot of food sensitivities, weird symptoms, and no protocol seems to help, you may have MCAS. You can read about it here.  On to some big news:

I'm taking a break from beans.

I've been on the bean protocol for almost 2 years now and I've had some amazing improvements. But, those were mostly in the beginning. So many things have gone downhill and keep sinking more and more. So, towards the end of this mitosis, I just stopped eating beans. In the back of my mind I had been wondering if a bean break was the right move. Ultimately, my body told me no more beans for now. 

I'm not be done with beans forever.

I feel like right now, the fiber is not doing my struggling gut any favors. My gut is begging for a break. I'm also starting a healing program with a naturopath. I finally have the funds to test everything. I'm planning on making posts about that process to pick up where the beans have left off. So check for those in the future. I'm thinking they'll be posted every 3 months like I've been doing with the bean posts.

​I'm excited to work with this new doctor. She explained my blood sugar crashes! 

You know how stress spikes your cortisol but chronic stress can actually drop your cortisol levels?

Well, our bodies need cortisol to act as a cushion to prevent blood sugar crashes. 🤯 So, that's probably why I'm struggling so freaking hard on digestive enzymes. And, why any little bit of sugar leads to a crash. I LOVE when things make sense. So many weird things go on with my body and I've always known there was a reason (or many) as to why, but never made much progress toward those answers. So, to hear something like that gives me hope that I'm not such a dire case after all and that with some small changes, I have a chance at getting better. Anyway, let's move on. 

With this mitosis, I found my new favorite thing in the whole wide world. 

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My Seventh Mitosis on The Bean Protocol

3/21/2022

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*I'm not a doctor, nutritionist, or any kind of medical professional. None of this is medical advice. Always seek advice from your doctor before changing your diet and/or healing routine. I am just a human sharing my experience with this protocol.

Wa wa wee wa!

Welcome to my 7th mitosis on The Bean Protocol! I've been on The Bean Protocol for 630 days! That's a whole lot of beans!
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As usual, there's so much to share.

I naively thought that these blog posts would get shorter and shorter as time went on and I healed but no, it's the opposite. These posts have become so long-form now that I'm personally shocked by it and I'm the one writing them. It's led me back to researching about Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) because it seems that when nothing fully helps, it might be MCAS. It's something I came across years ago and matched a lot of the symptoms but seeing a doctor for it is crazy expensive ($4,000 for the first 2 appointments NOT counting labs and you need a lot of labs done, oh and they don't accept insurance, doesn't matter because I can't afford insurance now anyway 🤣). I'm saving the MCAS stuff for when I write about the next mitosis because this post is already way too long. So, look for it in the 8th mitosis, a few months from now. On with the post!

First, a little TMI about BMs...

I've been battling constipation since Hashimoto's first hit me in 2014. No diet ever helped except for Carnivore and the Bean Protocol. I moved back to the US and even though I'm still beaning, everything slowed down again down there. Besides the occasional *ahem* breakthrough, I was still struggling. QNRT helped some and I started to be able to go once a day again but only a tiny little turd. Not good enough. Then, at my mom's suggestion, I started taking her digestive enzymes. And, thank you 6 pound 8 oz little baby Jesus, regular poos returned. 
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Moral of the story, if you can't poop, consider digestive enzymes.


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Spiced Almond Butter Popcorn

2/28/2022

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Struggling without the sweets on The Bean Protocol?

Maybe this little gem can help you out.

I know we aren't supposed to be hitting up corn much on The Bean Protocol but I've been enjoying this little number after dinner here and there.

It requires a few simple ingredients and it just might change your life.

Spiced Almond Butter Popcorn

  • Popped Popcorn
  • Almond Butter (or nut butter of choice)
  • Allspice
  • Salt (optional)
All you need to do is drizzle your popped popcorn with almond butter and sprinkle on a light amount of allspice and voilà! I feel like I'm telling you how to microwave bacon. 

​Corn is naturally sweet, the almond butter adds some savory, and the allspice gives me that hint of cinnamon that I miss so much since starting TBP. 

Enjoy!

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Bean Recipe - Chicken "Something" Soup

2/15/2022

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No, this isn't an actual photo of the soup but it looks almost exactly like this. I know, I'm a terrible blogger. I just wanted to share the recipe and we ate it too quickly for me to get photos. 

I prefer to call this Chicken Enchilada Soup.

But, my dad calls it Chicken Something Soup. 

Chicken Enchilada Soup

Ingredients:
  • Rotisserie Chicken, 1
  • White Beans, 4 cans
  • Chicken Broth, 32oz
  • Salsa Verde, 2 cans

Optional:
  • Tortilla strips
  • Sour cream
  • Shredded cheese
  • Noodles
  • Cilantro
  • Whatever else you can think of
Preparation:
Carefully pull all the meat from the rotisserie chicken and throw it into a large soup pot. Dump in all the other ingredients (don't drain the beans! Just dump them in). And, heat. It's simple, easy, and delicious, and versatile.
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