Peanut Butter and holding water???

loganb_football · Dec 11, 2008

Hey everybody,
It may just be me but I feel like peanut butter is making me hold water. I have been working with Phil, and right now I changed my diet a little to add some extra funds for holiday gifts. Its not a bad diet by any means, just low carb. Anyway, the past two days I have probably had 4-6 servings of natural peanut butter (dont usually eat peanut butter as this blurriness has occured before, but I needed it till I could get to Sam's Club). These 4-6 servings has really made my physique a little blurry so to speak. I know Poliquin mentioned that peanuts could contain a fungus that has phyto-estrogens could this be making me hold water???

Logan

n8ia · Dec 11, 2008

I feel the same way when I eat peanut butter upset stomach really weird all over and bloat. I just chalked it up to a little bit of a peanut allergie. Switched all my good fats sources from peanut butter to cashews or fish oil or macadamium nut oil; problem solved.

Mash1 · Dec 11, 2008

I don't have a problem with it all now, butttt....I know in high school all my football coaches would praise peanut butter and milk! Pretty much EVERY body on the team ate a jar of peanut butter and a gallon of milk a day. I know about the first week of doing this I felt bloated but then it went away. Maybe you just have to get used to a lot of it?

I also know though, that I was the smallest starter on the team at 185 as a sophomore. Peanut butter + milk = awesome gains.

oldfella · Dec 12, 2008

Sodium! Have a look at how much sodium you are taking in every day!!!!
PB and nuts can have a high sodium content and then add that to the sodium in nyour other foods and you might find your answer there.

blackhole · Dec 12, 2008

i recall in michael colgan's 1993 book:
Optimum Sports Nutrition

he mentioned peanuts as containing a poisonous fungus. a quick web search found this article:

The Perils of Peanut Butter

http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/007598.html

the article also mentions this:

Here's the most interesting thing about all this: usually your "organic" or "natural" peanut butters will have the highest aflatoxin concentration.