Your diet sounds great. Have no fear of potatoes and other tubers, cooked regularly (not always fried). And definitely keep adding your fermented veggies. Your gut bugs NEED starchy carbs, fiber. And we need the gut bugs for digestion, and for mental health. Carbs are not the enemy. -Processed, useless carbs, sugary carbs, they are. Stiff veggies with good fiber and tubers like potatoes etc are important to our diet.
Thanks. I eat LOTS of veggies; my wife and I have salad loaded with vegetables and a bit of leafy greens and spinach three, sometimes four, nights per week. We are fortunate our local grocery stores here in California have remarkable produce all year round. My wife always has hers dry, but I like some vinaigrettes on mine most times.
I started taking a probiotic supplement about three weeks ago thinking my gut flora may be imbalanced (I worked in some small Asian villages with poor sanitation many years ago). Went to my doc last week and he suggested taking a probiotic supplement. I had the pleasure of telling him “I’m ahead of you.”
For tubers, I would suggest sticking to yams (make sure they’re actual yams and not sweet potatoes). Regular Idaho/Maine spuds have too much simple starch, so they do more harm than good. Sweet potatoes are a little better but are a little hard to eat regularly. Yams are not as sweet and have a LOT more fiber and complex starches.