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Dumping Syndrome

This situation appears after a meal, called precocious or delayed dumping.

The reason is either reactional hypoglycemia, because of over-secretion of insulin, or insufficient circulating volume of blood in vascular system.

Simple sugars can be one cause, if eaten to excess, but most frequently a meal is composed of lipids, carbohydrates and proteins.

Starches and proteins taken together accelerate absorption.

This is of course less the case for fiber carbohydrates.

Especially white rice has a glycemic index of 1, but pasta is not much better.

Proteins are of several sorts and vegetal ones, as they are associated with fibers, are absorbed very slowly and are thus not a concern.

During evolution genetics have changed tremendously from one species to another.

Mammals are nearest to us, and their meat needs a long process of evaluation by our immune system in the digestive tube before absorption.

Mammals

Genetically spoken all Vertebrates are tightly related animals. Pigs and all cattle are mammals (Triassic Period, 252-201 million years ago), remarkably like us.

Implanted cardiac porcine valves remain tens of years without deformity in the human body. Nowadays diabetics use genetically produced Insulin, but for half a century commercialized hormones were of porcine and bovine origin.

Reptiles

Birds, which is poultry are related to Dinosaurs, (Reptiles arose about 320 million years ago during the Carboniferous period) and thus much farther in Evolution.

Amphibians

With fish we have common ancestors among Amphibians (Late Devonian, about 363 million years ago), even farther away.

Invertebrates

Shrimps and crabs are crustaceans. Clams, snails and mussels, like all those last-mentioned ones, like all Invertebrates (Paleozoic, appear about 3.5 billion years ago), are extremely far from our species.

Hence, flesh of invertebrates is digested extremely fast, because only shortly analyzed by immune system.

Absorbed also immediately, they represent a high risk for dumping syndrome.

Lipids are digested slower, but can represent also a risk, depending on sequence of consumption.

In advanced society people consume few Essential Fatty Acids (EFA).

Hence, the body absorbs avidly all of them, and many persons are intolerant to some oils.

First come those containing a high percentage of combined Omegas 3 and 6, as this adds to rapidity of absorption.

Such an example is represented by Colza oil.

If several EFA are added in a high percentage to the same meal, their digestion and absorption are potentiated and accelerated.

Olive oil contains Omegas 9, but also a lot of mono-unsaturated fatty acids.

There is a lesser deficit in society for those nowadays.

Least concerned are animal fats, as they have been since ever most abundant in our nutrition.

From another point of view, food which has been conserved for longer, and better cooked one as well, as they are absorbed faster, contributes to triggering this condition.

Such one is extremely far away from our body composition and needs only a short analysis by the immune system.

Also, adding salt to one’s meal accelerates absorption of sugars and starches.

Dealing with this entity is simple, if you understand underlying physiopathology.

First handle hypoglycemia with simple sugars, preferably bee honey, one-two spoons.

Then arterial hypotension by lying down on the floor, legs elevated, and drinking 1-2 glasses of cold water.

As to preventing deficits, especially concerning EFA, this is easy to correct, provided you do it gently and slowly in an intolerant patient.

Following the rules of classic French cuisine, with several servings avoids a dumping syndrome in predisposed individuals.

You start with fresh salad, a big plate, which slows down emptying of the stomach.

Then, you follow with a warm soup, which provides for circulating volume with liquid and salt.

You finish the meal with cheese, fruit and a sweet dessert, which avoids late hypoglycemia.

A regime fighting the dumping syndrome prevents frequent meals, overeating, obesity and Diabetes mellitus.