I don’t have ANY issues eating anything Quest. I always say I have a gut of steel now. I do avoid insoluble fibrous food and fermented foods like cheeses with unknown strains of bacteria. I replace those with raw milk to add good bacteria. Like I said in the beginning of this post “safe” does not mean “optimal”. With that being said you are young Quest and what you can “get away” with is different than someone twice your age that has been through the medical system’s damage from antibiotics and medications. My father contracted Montezuma’s Revenge in his thirties and went from being an athlete trying out for the Olympics as a diver to having digestive issues and weight gain and now Alzheimer’s issues from starch grains entering his blood stream from his impaired intestines. If I knew now what I didn’t know then I would have avoided commercial grains. I lived on and loved my grains until ten years ago and had a lot of health issues which included stones, migraine headaches, adrenal issues, histamine intolerance, arthritis, pain in my feet, insomnia and weight issues. I have non of those issues now following Ray Peat’s advice and not just some of it.
In essence grains are animal’s food, but our ancestors used them wisely to get through long winters and times when they didn’t have a fresh kill. I feel fine eating properly prepared grains, but I see a difference in my skin tone the day after, with it looking a little ruddy and I do feel a little less energetic the next day as well. I don’t know anything about sorghum as it compares to regular grains.
I get what you are saying Quest about the downside of having a sterile gut, but even Ray Peat said that that is impossible and only happens in a lab or just newborn baby. It is then a question of do you keep the evil and good together battling it out in the gut in large amounts or do you reduce both so it is more of a small battle rather than an outright war?
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Cari aka "Rinse & rePeat"