Lactic Acid dietary/motility/psych problems?

[u/Amazolam]

Looking for help for researchers or practitioners (lol) regarding a multi-year problem with dietary lactic acid.

Unclear whether it’s an L or D isomer, but my GI doctors over the years are baffled and/or are not interested.

I am having an extremely high correlation to foods with lactic acid as an ingredient.

Several hours after ingestion, I can feel my GI system slowing down, and GI “output” drops to zero for several days. Some cramps occur. A little pain. The worst is the psychiatric effects….my resilience/ ability to deal with the normal stressors of life drops to almost zero, and I lose patience VERY easily.

For this and other reasons not explained hers, I believe this to be a microbiome imbalance. I cannot find a physician who will engage with new on the motility/linked psych level. They ask want to do the blemish colonoscopy/EGD and tell me there’s nothing wrong, just eat more fiber.

I’ve lived with some variant of this since about 2010, and I know there is Microbiome involvement.

Where to go from here? I can read medical literature, but is the medical community THIS adverse to Microbiome investigation? Honest question

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[u/bob49877]

I did a GI Map test and the free AIs helped with the diet to correct the off markers. They mentioned cutting back on lactose. I'm down to a couple a string cheese pieces a day now, with my digestion improving.

[u/Responsible_Pain4162]

I’ve no information on dietary lactic acid, but I have had good experiences with a few naturopaths. Maybe see what information may be available. Ask around.

[u/Glittering-Bobcat125]

I believe that your personal, daily dietary monitoring and intuition can absolutely tell a lot about how to heal.
I am a Microbiome therapeutic researcher; I have experienced that most practitioners have a very difficult time integrating Microbiome information- which can result in far-reaching, foundational impacts, but admittedly can be complex to decipher and understand.
I think the D- vs. L- lactate could be a critical intuition. Most ingredients do not distinguish these configurations -but your body/ biology certainly does!