Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Hidden Truth About 'Healthy' Pasta | Gut Health Q&A

20 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman explains why lentil pasta spikes blood sugar like regular pasta despite lentils being low glycemic, because processing changes how your body responds to the food. He also shares how removing dairy, coffee, and carbs for a month made him feel noticeably better.

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Dairy, coffee, and carbohydrates

One month

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You know, lentils have a low glycemic index, but lentil pasta does not. You have a similar insulin sugar spike and insulin spike with lentil pasta as regular pasta. So the processing to put it in the pasta thing changes the food chemistry. So that's another thing with the remove part. I think people get it tricky as far as, like, replacing, putting things back in. I think sometimes people, like, rush through too quick. They're so excited, they add thing. If you do a really good elimination diet, I mean, you, you know, it. I mean, I did one years ago, and at the end of the month, I was like, wow, I feel, like, pretty clear and good, and we eat pretty good. It was just cutting out dairy and coffee and carbs for a month. It just makes a big difference.