Now the weirdest part: drinking coconut water will make the symptoms go away, and I can basically eat gluten if I drink coconut water at the same time. My best guess is that the high levels of magnesium in coconut water are doing something here, but that’s really just a guess. On the model, somehow the coconut water probably gets any gluten bound to the villi and causing inflammation to release and out of my small intestine and maybe also does something to help the inflammation to go down.
How on earth did you privelege the hypothesis that coconut water helps? Is that common?
It was an accident mostly. I drank some coconut water when I had extreme thirst because I thought maybe something something electrolytes and it cleared it right up even though similar things that should have worked if it was an electrolyte imbalance didn’t.
Also, I’m not sure where you live, but where I am in the Bay Area coconut water is everywhere and a pretty common thing that lots of people drink, so it wasn’t even like I had to try very hard to find it. Before I found it had this medicinal property, I was probably already drinking coconut water several times a month just because I liked it, and drinking water from fresh coconut whenever I could get ahold of one also because I like it.
How on earth did you privelege the hypothesis that coconut water helps? Is that common?
It was an accident mostly. I drank some coconut water when I had extreme thirst because I thought maybe something something electrolytes and it cleared it right up even though similar things that should have worked if it was an electrolyte imbalance didn’t.
Also, I’m not sure where you live, but where I am in the Bay Area coconut water is everywhere and a pretty common thing that lots of people drink, so it wasn’t even like I had to try very hard to find it. Before I found it had this medicinal property, I was probably already drinking coconut water several times a month just because I liked it, and drinking water from fresh coconut whenever I could get ahold of one also because I like it.
Yeah makes sense. I sort of pictured you stopping your glutenfree diet to test this, which didn’t make any sense.
I live in Germany, coconut water is easily available, but I did not know people actually consuming that regularly.