PawPaw wrote:Twizzle, I wasn't aware of something called the Simplified Carbohydrate Diet. Did you mean the Specific Carbohydrate Diet?
Doesn't this exclude simple sugars, such as glucose, allowing only honey?
When you do a ride that includes a 2000 Calorie climb, what are you eating to fuel or re-fuel that?
The Paleo Diet would suggest animal fat.
You are correct - Specific Carb diet. No - it _only_ allows simple sugars or foods which contain simple sugars. If you can't produce the disaccharide enzymes due to damage to the villi (which is what my biopsy showed), you can't break down the polysaccharides and they end up in the large intestine. Where they feed the bacteria and make gases and all kinds of other fun stuff (such as alcohol, lactic acid etc.).
For my rides, I'm just mixing up glucodin (pure glocose) and cordial powder (no sugars), about 30 - 40gm per 700ml bidon. I tried adding fructose as well, but I don't seem to tolerate that at all now. Or it wasn't pure fructose, because I'm not having problems with fruit.
There isn't a lot of difference between SCD and Paleo, Paleo allows sweet potato which is banned under SCD because it's a complex starch that's hard to digest. But the science behind SCD is getting outdated, ie. beans containing lectins which increase gut permiability, which are allowed under SCD but banned under Paleo.
Edit : And just to be clear, there was about 1400 KCal in threshold climbing, the other 600KCal was on the flats getting to/from the hill. I didn't actually fuel on the main climb, it's a solid 40-odd minutes of grinding up ~700M elevation over about 12Km, but you are going so slowly you can't stop to drink.
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