FMT next Month!!! & Gluten-free, Vegan, FODMAP-Friendly Graham Cracker Recipe

Hello I know its been forever again... I wasn't going to write today but I felt like I should at least write a little just to get use to posting :P

So yes I will be getting FMT next month in Oregon woot woot!

Also this new diet I have devised has been helping me feel so much better and let alone no diarrhea :D

So I have decided that I want to go to a Tasty Noodle desert Party in the Mojave Desert this weekend
since I actually feel I could physically do it now and I have been really wanting to go since my sister-in-law discovered them :P

but that comes with a price and that is I am not prepared ahhhhh!

Its kind of like burning man in which you bring all your stuff and can't leave anything behind...ugh...
so I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna wash my sleeping bag on valentines day :S since it wont fit in my wash machine and dryer...., also trying to devise some portable food that I can eat, trying to figure out how I should deal with the bathroom situation which my sister-in-law gave me lots of ideas 0_0

So one thing I realized today on valentines day is that I didn't have anything planned to cook which I usually do... so I thought why not make graham crackers! so that I can Smores this weekend! :D

-I would buy them but the ones at the store--

Kinnikinnick
Gluten Free Smoreables Graham Style Crackers

 have pea protein and Inulin which I dont want to risk since they could be a FODMAP in my digestive tract....

So I made my own!
which I will sharing with you!
You should feel lucky since I usually never share my recipes since I had always had in the back of my mind I would open a store front or sell them but I have discovered that is not what I want to do so.... today is your lucky day!

I try not to bake often since
A) I am to good at it
B) I am really too good at it.... (nom, nom, nom....)

Dry Ingredients:

Susan’s modifications to Cake & Commerce's Gluten-free and vegan Graham Crackers

3/4 cup sorghum flour
½ cup millet flour

1/4 cup Sweet Rice Flour
1/4 cup sucanat sugar
1/2 t Baking Powder
½ t Baking Soda
½ t Salt

Wet Ingredients

1/3 C Virgin Coconut Oil, melted
¼ C Maple Syrup
1/4 C Water about just enough for everything to combine
1 T Vanilla

Preheat oven to 325 (if convection, preheat to 300)

Combine Dry ingredients in a bowl mix then add all liquid ingredients except water mix again then add in water slowly just enough that everything mixes and combines together.

Place blob of dough on a cookie sheet and spread as thin and even as possible with your hands

Then score it with a knife to the size and shape you want your crackers

Bake in a 325 degree oven for 25-30 minutes or until dry.

Pull them our and let them sit out to cool and also additionally dry

Once cooled they will break into the size of the crackers you made them!

They taste a little too amazing…(why must I be sooo good at baking…. Gah!)

Original recipe:http://www.cakeandcommerce.com/cake_and_commerce/2009/04/recipe-vegan-glutenfree-graham-crackers.html

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Happy Valentines Day!!!!

Healing and FMT soon?

WOW has it only been  2 weeks!?!!?

Craziness….

Well the reason I have not been posting is of course the obvious one that is given by most people is

1.   I’m busy (of course…)
2.  I’m still working at the chiropractors…. But I gave my 2 weeks notice exactly 1 week ago!! So I’ll have more time to post yea!

And yea those are my reasons :P

But on ward to tell you some amazing news!!!!

The day after I gave my 2 weeks notice (drum roll please…druma lum bum bum…)

I don’t have complete diarrhea anymore!!!!

I couldn’t believe how much I have healed these past couple of weeks with some of the tweaks and turns to my diet that it resulted in this 0_0

A-mazing!!!!

SO…………… In consequence in this my ND here said I should schedule my appointment for FMT!!! WOOT WOOT :D

what has led to all of this healing?

1. I have not only been following an anti-inflammatory diet for months now..but I have also incorporated a low residue diet (no cheating these last 2 weeks) the other weeks I would accidently cheat and then feel the pain that accompanies it. Lets think about how the low residue diet works: 

If you have a cut on your skin and it forms a scab, but if you keep rubbing it off its not going to heal!!!! 

That's what makes the intestines so difficult to heal since you cant just stop eating you still need a vast amount of nutrients and macronutrients for your body to use to rebuild itself!

       2. The anti-inflammatory portion of the diet helps dampen the immune response so that those junctions within your intestinal cells have the potential to come back together bind and heal.

       3. Proper immune response- by supplementing your diet with emulsified cod liver oil!!!!!!!!
Cod liver oil is amazing must get the emulsified one its sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much easier to digest and I think the addition of this to my regime has really helped me heal these past 2 weeks with the addition of taking lauricidin just before bed.

--Ill have to make a blog just on why cod liver oil is amazing...

       4. Coconut- the oil within this amazing food help kill off bad pathogens but leaves the good! I have        been using Lauricidin but in very small doses since it gives me extreme gas and pain when I take too much...

       5. Tumeric- helps regulate the immune system

       6. Enzymes!!- Will help you not only break down and utilize your food but will also prevent fermentation of bad pathogens from eating it in your gut later on...(gas)

       7.Probiotic enema- which I tried last week and by the end of the week I have felt the difference- might have helped as well on the healing process

things that were different these two weeks:
addition of- Emulsified Cod Liver Oil, lauricidin before bed, probiotic enema, low residue diet (no cheating)

ugh I have to get ready for work soon with the chiropractors... So I was going to put my recipe up on how to make a very allergen-friendly-gut-healing-protein shake but Ill have to do it later....

If you have any questions comments leave a message!

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Why am I making this blog?

Hello my name is Susan Hamori, I am starting this blog to document my journey towards healing my gut! I also hope it helps others by bringing ideas, perspective, and a community that can help one another with similar digestive issues :). 

I have what the medical community like to call Inflammatory Bowel Disease aka--> IBD since I was 4 years old. Knowing this title does not give relief so I have done a plethora of tests and diets to figure out why I have this disease and to see what helps it: food allergy tests, colonoscopy & endoscopy, hydrogen breath test, etc... I now know what is causing the extreme inflammation in my gut... and that is...

Dysbiosis
-A dysbiosis is an imbalance of having more pathogenic species in the gut than the good guys called probiotics..

What caused this dysbiosis?
 the overuse of antibiotics...
when I was 4 years old I had a dog rip off my scalp and since they were not sure if it had penetrated the skull they gave me antibiotics to prevent a potential brain infection...(Thanks Kaiser! :S ) After this I had tons of ear infections which I was given....MORE ANTIBIOTICS!!! YEAH (sarcasm to the MAX! WOOT!) and because my gut was so messed up I would get sick constantly about 70% of your immune system is from the good bugs in your gut which I did not have anymore :( so MORE AND MORE ANTIBIOTICS!!!!WHHHEEEE!!!! (sarcasm again..)

-OK... so....you can see my thoughts towards antibiotics now... :S ... ONWARD!

Why dont I just take tons of probiotics then?
-Well according to the results from my Naturopathic Doctors stool sample the probiotics I need cant even come from over the counter probiotics.

-2nd of all when I take probiotics orally and up to a certain point that would be therapeutic it gives me extreme pain and gas.

-The only time I have noticed probiotics helping me was last year when I took antibiotics for C. Diff. Yes I had C. Diff and I still do...with a host of other bad bugs that the M.D.'s tests did not catch....

The antibiotics for C. Diff were torturous I had all the terrible side effects: metallic taste, extreme nausea, throwing up, headaches, the works..... every time my heart would beat it felt like poison running through my veins...the only way to escape the nausea and the potential of throwing up was to sleep...

-long story short--the probiotics after the last of the antibiotics made me almost normal (not complete diarrhea) but only lasted 3 days and reverted back to my normal diarrhea...

So what can I do about this horrible dysbiosis?

-Well my plan is to do FMT!

FMT- Fecal microbiota transplantation
also known as a stool transplant

So as you can probably tell by the second name....
Yes, it is literally transplanting someone who has healthy stool into someone who does not.

It is kind of the ultimate probiotic!!!

Since I found out that probiotic capsules wont work for me. I think this is my last resort on the potential to have a normal stool which will lead to hopefully not being in pain, not having to constantly think about how food will effect my bowels, and to be more spontaneous in my life ahead! :D

I first have to reduce the inflammation in my gut before the procedure since its too inflamed for good probiotics to want to even stay in there... I have been through a lot of different diets and have been constantly modifying it towards my own needs (about 4 months now) and I feel that each day I am getting closer to being able to do FMT. 

My goal is to be healed by Summer 2013! At least by the end of Summer so that I and so far one of my friends can travel!!!

We were thinking--> backpacking in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand!! :D

I'm considering moving to Australia and not just traveling there so we shall see where life takes me :)

With this blog I shall keep you updated on what foods help me feel better, life, and whatever I feel like sharing ;)

If you have any questions or just want to talk don't be afraid to email me personally or to leave a message on my blog

I am also a Nutritionist who has helped many people with many health conditions including weight loss, digestive problems (others who had reoccurring C. Diff infections-3months time, IBS, IBD- each condition varys greatly from one another on what is causing it and what helps it), and other chronic health issues

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