Does anyone have experience with pre-Camino gut training?
I have heard that eating lots of Kimchi and fresh sauerkraut (not canned) about a month before adventuring will do wonders for your gut health and help with warding off food poisoning.
Also anyone do apple cider vinegar? Not sure if this is for real or not.
Any insight helpful.
As a celiac, I can tell you this is not a silly question. Out of 112 countries traveled, I have been sick in many of them. 20-30 years ago, I used to take Cipro every time I had travelers’ diarrhoea. It ruins your gut, don’t do it. I caught parasites from the inside of a fruit in Eciador & fish in Mexico that took years & several drugs to get rid of. I ate everything, & suffered the consequences, part of which now is that I can’t eat gluten. Gluten is in WAY more things than people think, including many sauces & marinades (thickener), dressings (soy sauce), alcohol (vodka), as well as cereals & most bread (wheat, rye, & barley). It is also added to things like sausages, meatballs, etc. So people criticize my luggage transfer? Well, half my bag is food I have to bring because there are many instances & places where there’s nothing I can eat. Some gluten-free food is contaminated so I still can’t eat it (ie g-f crust pizza cooked on same oven rack, gf toast made in same toaster, potatoes fried in same oil as wheat flour-battered fish), because I cannot have 10 µg or one crumb of gluten, or I will get very sick.
I take Align, very good probiotic, every morning about half an hour before food. Mostly, I am just careful what I eat and ask twice, or even three times before eating if food contains gluten. It’s not a joke, but I don’t let it stop me. I do eat sauerkraut, but I don’t eat most Asian food, such as kimchi, unless I confirm it’s made with Tamari instead of soy sauce. Some people recommend prepared charcoal pills, but my doctor did not recommend that. And by the way, you can definitely get sick in a western country! I had food poisoning in Austria.