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A free weekly email about what actually sets off gut symptoms. Each issue takes one trigger and explains the mechanism, the dose that matters, and what to do about it.
The writing comes from gut science and from what real patients report, drawing on Monash University FODMAP research and the GI literature. No detox teas. No “15 foods that secretly destroy your gut.” No wellness fluff. Every claim is sourced and checkable.
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When researchers fed gluten-free eaters secret gluten, nothing happened. When they fed them fructans, they bloated. Why most 'gluten sensitivity' is your gut fermenting a carb — and how a slice of sourdough can tell you which one is yours.
Histamine builds up in protein-rich food the longer it sits, and reheating does not destroy it. Freezing leftovers the day you cook locks the histamine at its lowest level.
Histamine builds up in protein-rich food as it ages, ferments, and sits in the fridge — so freshness isn't a wellness slogan, it's dose control. The DAO enzyme, the histamine-bucket model, the freezer move, and how to tell a sensitivity from a true allergy.
Garlic is loaded with fructans, a fiber the human gut cannot break down, and the symptoms usually arrive 4 to 24 hours after the meal. That delay is the reason most people blame the wrong food.
Each food on your plate can be low-FODMAP on its own and still add up to a reaction. Your gut doesn't grade foods one at a time; it adds them up. How fermentable carbs stack within a meal, with the smoothie that proves it.
Fermentable carbs aren't digested until they reach your colon, hours after you eat them — so lunch's garlic gets blamed on dinner. The clock between bite and symptom is the clue most people throw away.
Smoothies, salads, beans, cauliflower, oat milk: the foods on every wellness list also top the gut's most-fermentable list. The reason isn't that they're bad for you. It's that healthy says nothing about how your gut handles them, and the dose adds up.