I'm right there with you coopatroopa. It's very hard to argue with Paul jaminet and/or Dr.Ayers' points.
A friend of mine(with AS) started with only 1tsp of potato starch/ day an is now up to about 5tsp/ day a few months later. He went from one bowel movement / 3 days(like me) to a "glorious" 1-3 bm's /day. He hasn't added the fermented veg or pro-3 yet.
I'm taking a PEG based laxative whilst waiting for my orders to arrive. Hoping it will help.
I too have the same brand of sauerkraut but have recently been making my own because in the comments section, Dr. Ayers suggested that one should only use salt , veg and water. I like the taste of the sonoma brand and still eat it but it has bacterial cultures in the list of ingreds. I don't know if that helps or hurts but I'm just going to follow Dr. Ayers' exact recs. and go home made from here on out. The variety of veg can't be found in stores, either. He also mentions something along the lines of that sometimes a juice fast MAY work because of the bacteria or foods "catching, or sticking" to the gut wall and enable the user to tolerate certain foods afterwards because of it. I believe her name is Andrea on this site(aka bettyrawker.com) but she documented her fast and can tolerate tons of stuff I can only dream of.
You're exactly right, add it and you'll know if that's what's causing the symptoms. I ate a half of a really small yam last night again and seemed to tolerate it pretty well. It didn't change my pain level of about a 3 that I've been in for the last few weeks.
If FMT's are not more easily accessible in the VERY near future, I will be forced to max out my credit card. A weekend in vegas, $1659. An ultra-hd television set, $4899. Another man's poo up you bum...priceless
Thanks for the freetheanimal primer for newbies link. I couldn't find that before.
