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I'm very sorry to hear about your digestive and health issues.

With diets we don't see the effects fully in the short term and from what you said I highly suggest you work out how to eat a range of vegetables in your diet, to support your nutritional long term needs.

If it's not just fruit but also vegetables that trigger your digestive issues, are you aware of the low Fodmap diet? It is based around understanding which vegetables don't cause the inflammation you mentioned, designed for people with digestive issues and reducing food irritation and inflammation.

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fwiw, my wife is going through a similar experience and has done roughly 1 bajillion hours of trying to sort out the various buzzword diets referenced across the internet.

"Fuck it i'm just going to eat chicken soup and unaged beef and ghee" is not nuanced, nor is it a great idea long term probably, but it did bring a pretty abrupt end to a lot of the symptoms she was having, including but not limited to: diarrhea, esophagitis, duodenitis, insomnia, random undirected anxiety, lethargy and ovarian cysts. We don't yet know what she was eating before that was causing issues, but it seems pretty clear that the issue was in her diet. She is planning on slowly reintroducing foods but her planned timeline is measured in years.

I say this as a vegan of many years. I hate it, but I can't argue with the results so far.

Not the parent but going ti check this out. Feels that this could help bloating

It certainly did for me + IBS goes away after just a week on it. Gas is passed once a week, if at all. It's hard to argue that my gut is extremely happy when eating an extremely restricted diet. Digestion is a non event.

And no, you don't _need_ fibre. I'm right in the middle of the Bristol stool scale with zero fibre. Another thing that scientists are uncovering right now but "you need fibre, fibre is good" keeps being parroted by everybody because someone said so 5 decades ago. Such is dogma.

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