Reflux, which may be the cause? (som... 
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Hi everybody, i'd like to ask your help for finding a plausible idea.
Here's the facts:
*Nuts (esp. peanuts) give me reflux, as well as tomatoes, rice, onions and some other foods.
I was reading of dysbiosis-reflux relation, so rice would fit it, as it can probably feed the bad bacterias, but can the other foods do the same?
*fruit alone doesn't give me any bloating or adverse symptoms. I can't say the same of some vegetables.
*Rice, as well as the other foods, gives me bloating and generates symptoms linked with adverse reactions at thyroid and hypothalamus level, such as weakness, impaired thinking, dry mouth/eyes warm hands, confusion, worse tremors (which i suffer of). I think this is connected with leaky gut, which allows toxins to pass and cause body inflammation. Rice then can indirectly contribute to this, via dysbiosis worsening.
*I have no particular food craving; the strongest one is sometimes for canned oil tuna, and potato chips. Would this contradict a dysbiosis hypothesis?
Though I've had important food cravings (for refined carbs mainly) for many years.
*Staying without eating improves my cognitive and physical conditions, and makes abdominal bloating (which otherwise is almost constant) practically disappearing.
Theory 1
There's a condition of dysbiosis or SIBO. Eating the wrong foods feed the bad bacterias, worsening leaky gut and allowing toxins to circulate.
Bad bacterias, when fed, produce gasses (and bloating) which increase abdominal pressure, then leading to reflux. Any FODMAP food will thus increase the symptomatology.
Theory 2
Leaky gut has been caused by other factors, but food intolerances are one of its consequences.
Reflux manifests itself as a sign of food intolerances , as well as bloating. Major offending foods produce worse symptoms.
Here it's not clear how food intolerances would cause reflux.
Theory 3
Low stomach acid causes undigested food particles and acid reflux.
Undigested food particles feed bad bacterias and promote leaky gut. Also, this way toxins and bacterias are not fully digested, making leaky gut symptoms worse.
Would this explain why no reflux occurs with meats (which i think require more stomach acid to be digested)?
Which one of these is the most plausible in your opinion? there are other hypothesis i can consider?
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This is a reply to # 2,329,902If you can eat fruits like mango for example, without having symptoms, then your problem is not with sugar, although it is hard someone with intestinal hyperpermeability able to consume unlimited carb, is probably the intestinal hyperpermeability, I can distinguish the symptoms fruits cause me and grain type things, but I can not eat fruit, I am very limited, today for example I ate one apple, I get 1 or 2 fruits a day, you consume fruits in large quantities without symptoms? if so this is weird ... Problem with nuts probably leaky gut.
In my case, so I analyzed, seems to be the theory 3, low stomach acid was the beginning, as I said before, is a disease process, try to remember a little before you get very sick and can not eat anything you will certainly realize that already had some symptoms despite living life.
One year before developing this disease, I was losing weight despite eating at lot, I was always thin, was totally addicted to sweets, and was beginning to feel a mild to moderate brain fog after meals, had just eat and not feel fed, had mood swings ... it all began 1-2 years ago, until after a period of too much stress, everything collapsed and it came with a 10x greater force. I suspect that I had problems with unbalanced blood Sugar and lack of stomach acid, my digestion was getting worse with my shit lifestyle, but I was still alive, had power and was the activities, I think it's important you remember the adrenal fatigue, I really was in a period of a lot of stress, and then came this brutal fatigue and all these food intolerances and digestion was worse, after you get the unbalanced hormones, everything becomes chaos.
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This is a reply to # 2,329,902while hormones are well, you can handle and still live, many people with these problems has a problem with the thyroid or adrenal, many get food sensitivities after a period of stress, like me, but before that I was not healthy, but something my body still held until it broke and shit leaked.
I am pretty sure that if I had changed the habits and not have that stress period, perhaps this had not happened, or perhaps delayed a few years
I think in most cases, start with low stomach acid and hormonal imbalance, which triggers many other processes (serious dysbiosis, leaky gut> leaky brain, poor protein digestion ...)
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