Lately I
eat a lot of steel cut oats, which unlike rolled oats are not pre-toasted. In the past week I had lost my appetite for oats. But
since oats is what I eat for calories, I had (against my appetite) oats
more often than I had polenta (which I am currently really loving) this
week.
In my research, oats came up as a mineral nutrition inhibitor,
which I had previously been vaguely aware of thanks to some
Dad-prompted research I had done. The problem is phylates. The
solution is soaking or fermenting. Apparently the traditional way of
cooking oats (as well as other grain porridges and bean soups) involved
soaking first, and in fact the directions on Quaker Oats once indicated
to pre-soak.If I can't do it, there will be volcanoes! If I can do it, maybe my legs will rest easier.
Update 2013-04-07 (April 7): Well, there have been a few volcanoes, and there have been a few bowls of oats that smell like Parmesan cheese or smelly feet. But I'm getting better at it. And my restless legs seem better, if it's not too early to tell.
3 comments:
Hi Tom,
you may want to check your Vitamin D level. I myself suffered from a lack of sunshine for about 10 years. I also suspect that my low Vitamin D (19.9 ng/ml) level worsened my gums disease, because the immune system fails to work properly with a low level. An optimal level is around 50-90 ng/ml or better yet 60-80 ng/ml.
I highly recommend an enlightening talk by Dr. Gominak, who discovered the epidemic Vitamin D deficiency by accident and thereupon fully dived into the topic; it's a wonderful talk:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL35D93D52577FB34C
The best collection of resource about Vitamin D, grouped by disease:
http://www.vitamindwiki.com/
Here's an article about the restless legs and Vitamin D:
http://www.vitamindwiki.com/Those+with+restless+leg+syndrome+had+40+percent+less+vitamin+D+%E2%80%93+June+2012
Stefan, I wanted to acknowledge your comment though I haven't look at it in depth yet. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I too have a pin-pointed oats as well as refined sugar to my restless leg syndrome. You are not alone! This has been a huge journey for me over the past year of avoiding and reintroducing foods. I look forward to trying soaked oats to see if I can handle them.
Post a Comment