so, i've actually doubled the amount of sunflower seeds and the beeturia hasn't come back. nor have the stomach aches. so, was that really it?

was i actually sick?

did i get a bacterial infection that's cleared?

see, it's the beeturia that strikes me as the key symptom that i have to explain by the diet, as i can't imagine suffering malabsorption of plant pigments as a consequence of a virus. how would that work? a bacterial infection makes a little more sense, if there was something parked in my gut that was messing around with things, but i'm having trouble imagining an actual mechanism besides crowding, which....like, if that was it, i must have been overrun....

there are only two items i haven't readded, yet: anchovies & yellow mustard, which was way past date and had shit growing in it, before i realized it. was it one of those things?

see, i established a crystal clear causal relationship with those seeds.

so, i'm convinced it was a contaminated batch. but, contaminated with what?