January 2024 – Liminal Nest
2 posts published by liminalnest during January 2024| Liminal Nest
[CN: this post discusses food science and nutrition] How do antioxidants affect the gut microbiome? The short answer is, “it’s complicated.” Photo of a market display of fresh pro…| Liminal Nest
[CN: this post discusses nutrition, food science, food intolerances, and restricted eating due to medical conditions] A photo of bananas, pineapple, strawberries, and oranges with a fruit smoothie.…| Liminal Nest
[CN: this post discusses cancer/physiological processes related to cancer] Trying to learn about why antioxidants are important from pop science articles is frustrating (at least for me). It genera…| Liminal Nest
[CN: this post discusses nutrition and food science] My nutritionist has been encouraging me to up my omega 3 intake for awhile, but unfortunately her dietary suggestions have run into a big wall o…| Liminal Nest
Text art that says “Enzymes and Chronic illness 101” Enzymes are really important for digesting food, absorbing medication, making neurotransmitters and recycling them, clotting, and al…| Liminal Nest
[CN: this post discusses food science, nutrition, and food intolerances] Feeding yourself with a lot of weird MCAS food intolerances is complicated. Sometimes it’s full of competing needs tha…| Liminal Nest
[CN: this post discusses food science, medical diets, and nutrition] [Specifically, this post includes a lot of technical discussions of fermented mustard as a “functional food” and pot…| Liminal Nest
[CN: This post discusses medical exclusion diets, food intolerances, nutrition, and food science.] Fermented foods are delicious. They’re also currently something of a health trend, because they may help the gut microbiome. Unfortunately, histamine can form during the fermentation. If you have MCAS or histamine intolerance, eating higher histamine foods can potentially worsen your symptoms.… Continue reading Eating with MCAS: is low histamine fermentation possible?→| Liminal Nest
Our guts hold a dizzying array of microorganisms that can impact human health. This is called the “gut microbiome,” and is so important for human health that some have compared it to an…| Liminal Nest
[CN: this post discusses nutrition and food science] For a short overview of the post, please scroll down to “tl;dr: Key Takeaways” Photo showing an emulsion (I think some kind of ranch…| Liminal Nest
[Note: this post discusses food science, nutrition, and food intolerances] For a brain fog friendly outline of this post, see the Conclusion. It is a truth universally acknowledged that finding foods you can tolerate with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome is a Sisyphean task. For a long time, I really struggled with finding a cooking fat… Continue reading Cooking with MCAS: fats and cooking oils→| Liminal Nest
Basic botany of bean sprouts Bean sprouts are bean seeds that have started to germinate and grown a “tail” (the first root), but that have not grown any leaves yet. To grow bean sprouts…| Liminal Nest
This post is part of a series on bean sprouts. See also: why sprout beans; how to grow bean sprouts. There are two basic supplies you need for sprouting beans: Sprouting beans (conveniently labeled…| Liminal Nest
[CN: this post discusses food and nutrition; there are also some hopefully judgement-free metaphors about exercise] A couple years ago, I was talking with my nutritionist about how certain cooking …| Liminal Nest
Note: in medical articles Tregs is often spelled with no space, but I’m adding the space here to make it easier for screen reader users. A brain fog friendly summary of this post By Blausen M…| Liminal Nest
