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Okay, here's how I understand things. (I'm really wishing I'd taken that chemistry class - and one in molecular biology, human anatomy, etc., etc.)

All animal proteins (poultry as well as eggs, fish, dairy, meat, etc.) contain amino acids that break down when digested. One product of that breakdown is sulphur. From the little poking around I did, my impression is that there is a group of people who believe this sulphur is bad for humans (toxic, apparently) and therefore, people shouldn't eat animal proteins. I don't buy this myself, but to each his own, as the old lady said when she kissed the cow.

Wild caught or organic makes no difference in this regard - animal protein is animal protein and it produces sulphur when you digest it. If you want to avoid the sulphur by-products of digesting animal protein, you must become what one Website called "a pure vegetarian".

That's what I understand about the whole sulphur thing. Here's what I believe: animal proteins are safe; fish is good for you; egg whites are fine.

The other thing I believe most firmly is that I can only handle one guru at a time. Right now, I've elected Heather to that post, so I'm eating the way she says to. As long as her guidelines keep working for me, she keeps the position of "My IBS Guru". If her guidelines ever stop working for me, I'll elect a new IBS guru. What has never worked for me is mixing and matching gurus. I can practically guarantee that anytime you get 2 gurus together, they're going to disagree; I'm going to get confused; and the end result is going to be that I'll spend all my time angsting over which guru is right instead of just picking one and putting all my energies into doing what she says. (Okay, I'm putting away my soapbox now.)

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