Does anyone else have this problem with meat?

[Jaxinator]

Basically it hurts my tummy.

I've pretty much eaten meat my entire life. I did stop for awhile back in grade school, although I can't remember why. Recently (like within the past 6 months) every time I eat beef, chicken (possibly all poultry, I've only tried chicken) and pork the next day... well, there's some issues. I stopped eating meat and everything cleared up, including some skin issues I had on my legs. Whether the skin is coincidental or not, I don't know. I narrowed it down quite easily, I stopped eating meat, was feeling great. Yesterday I ate pretty mellow things, a banana, a handful of nuts, some bread... nothing crazy. And some bacon. Well sure enough today... wasn't awful, but wasn't normal for sure. I've done this a few times, but last night pretty much sealed it for me.
Oddly, fish doesn't do it.

I've read that there's a such thing as meat intolerance, but it's fairly rare.

I'm really not fussed about it, for a few reasons. I'm not looking to incorporate meat back into my diet. Just looking for insight I suppose. Or maybe an explanation why my body seems ok with fish and shrimp. Also, I've already researched how to get everything my body needs, so I'm pretty set on how to get a balanced diet.

So does anyone else have this problem? Any ideas why it would suddenly come about? One theory I have is that my husband was gone for about 7 months, and when he's gone I don't really cook meat, mostly because it's a hassle and I'm lazy, so my body got used to an almost veg diet.

Thank you for any responses!

[caiesmommy]

Me. Seriously I would get SO ill when I was younger with stomach issues that I would end up in the hospital for weeks at a time on IV. It was horrid. Pork especially. KILLED ME!

I gave up meat when I was younger KNOWING that that and dairy were what was making me ill. But noone believed that a 12 year old knew what was best. So I was forced to eat things that made me ill.

I slowed down eating meat, as in very rarely and in small amounts. When I met my dh and learned that he use to be a vegetarian and I had been a vegetarian we decided to give up meat again together. And I've never felt better.

[tankgirl73]

Just curious, is this typical storebought meat, or is it organic, pasture-raised, etc?

If it's typical factory-farm meat, perhaps you're sensitive to some of the chemicals, hormones, dyes, etc etc used in them.

If it is pasture-raised organic meat, then I dunno. ???

[Jaxinator]

It's anything. I usually buy (commercial) organic beef and pork. Not so much chicken because I can't afford it out here.
And it's British meat, not American

Although that was a good suggestion, I am sensitive to many chemicals and fragrances too, so I wonder if it would be *worse* with non-organic meats. I'm not willing to find out though

Caiesmommy, that sounds awful!!! I'm thankful it's not nearly that bad with me.

[treemom2]

If I haven't eaten red meat in a while it hits my stomach so hard. . .I think my body doesn't digest it very easily. My DH has horrible eczema on his hands, legs, and feet. He's found that pork is one of his trigger foods. He used to think it was just processed pork products, like maybe it was the nitrates/nitrites, but now I think he thinks it's just all pork. He also has major skin problems after drinking a lot of homebrewed beer or fancy artisan beers. I think he's destined to have the eczema the whole time we live in Belgium

[Chicharronita]

I think these problems are really common now, mainly because of gut and digestive issues, and the fact that mainstream nutrition "experts" keep pushing the low-fat agenda.

If you don't eat much fat, and then all of a sudden eat a bunch, you can develop gallbladder issues.

If you rarely eat meat, and then have some, you won't have much of the enzymes needed to digest it.

Most meat sold at the grocery store now is extremely lean, and that's hard to digest.

The other problem is that people aren't being taught to cook meat properly. Any decent cookbook written pre-1960 has a ton of recipes on bone broth-based sauces. Bone broth and sauce used to always be served with meat.

It's also an important food in Chinese medicine.

Here's a great article on broth from the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients:

"Traditional Bone Broth in Modern Health and Disease"

"To summarize, gelatin (broth) can be considered for use in the following conditions: food allergies, dairy maldigestion, colic, bean maldigestion, meat maldigestion, grain maldigestion," etc.

[Jaxinator]

Well, glad to know I'm not the only one

I'm not really willing to make broths ATM, but thank you for the suggestion. It's definitely not from a low fat diet, I loooove avocados and olive oil and dairy and nuts, so that's one reason eliminated. Ah well, burgers were fun while they lasted.