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The gut is amazing and poorly understood. We have observed that it adapts to the food eaten over a few months. We have also observed that antibiotics can severely kill off this bacteria - so medications in addition to causing diarrhea can impact a healthy gut.

What is a good, bad, or even optimal gut biome is a area of open research. Here is what i've gathered

• It's currently assumed diversity is good
• If you eat junk (high sugar, processed foods) your gut biome won't be great, sugar invites lots of nasty bacteria we don't want
• if you must eat plants - fermented food encourages a more diverse gut biome
• Probiotics are totally unnecessary except when kick starting after anti-biotics (we don't know which bacteria is good, so a probiotic is just guessing anyway)

Gut health is more then just the biome, its also how intact the lining is, any foods that cause irritations or leaky gut can have outsized health impacts beyond just the bacteria.

Since the gut will adapt to a diet over 3-9 months, pick a diet you think is healthy - and stick with it for maximum benefits.

There is lots of suggestive research that many gut issues (ibs, crones, Diverticulosis, etc) are based in a food sensitivity - with many people resolving their issues following a elimination diet (such as animal foods only). This is suggestive of the importance of gut health, and eating food that doesn't upset the gut. If these issues are because of the nutrients themselves, lectins, gluten, pesticides (glyphosate on food can act as a antibiotic in humans....), allergies, etc - we don't know, its a area of exciting research.

Some people, many people actually, say fibre is really good for gut health - this is an assumption based on the diversity assumption. I don't think its correct in a general population. The only RCT i've ever seen on Fibre is its impact on constipation patients (it makes constipation worse). But.... it's an area of on going research. heh

A fun anecdote - Celiac disease and its relationship with wheat was basically unknown until Dutch wheat shortages in WWII showed some people resolving their gut issues. https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/ - There is alot we don't understand about the gut....

Great point, I would also recommend locking all existing posts before lemm.ee is shutdown

I eyeball it. A few times I was surprised and had to double check the video and found a few segments sponsorblock had skipped.

Everyone drinks water, otherwise they would be dead.

Lots of people drink water with extra steps

• addicted to sugar
• addicted to stimulants
• habit .

Breaking old patterns and just drinking water can take lots of effort and time.

I can hear this photo

You can adjust your own gut bacteria in 3-9 months through diet alone. Eating shit is a unnecessary optimization.

Or that part of you, since where's the line?

Brains exist in a chemical soup, but you are still you even if the soup changes. The good thing about this relationship is the brain can control the food and slowly change the gut and in turn the chemical soup the brain exists in.

It's been helpful in summarizing YouTube transcripts for the video alt text

Check your block list, you blocked a person that is in the thread chain so you don't see anything below that.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/settings then click on blocks.

Make a default plan. Before you learn everything, just say in 20 minutes I'm going to do x unless I know better. Then do all the research you want for 20 minutes, then if you don't know better, do x.

You can obviously modify this for longer time frames, deeper research etc. Just have a default plan that you will do by a time, rather than waiting for perfect information.

This is really good for executive function, and for emergencies, if you don't know better, you do the default.

If you blocked somebody you won't see their comments.

If they blocked you, they won't see your comments. But you will still see their comments.

low blood sugar - hypoglycemia is of concern for people who are not fat adapted, and it speaks problems with insulin function either from t1d or insulin resistance. The best way to avoid low blood sugar, is to avoid eating sugar, so that the body can have a very flat regulation of blood glucose

high protein - I've seen no benefit to eating high protein documented anywhere. In fact carnivore is not a high protein diet, its a high fat diet, with adequate protein. The protein targets for a healthy adult do not change based on their diet, they need the same amount of bioavailable protein on SAD, Mediterranean, vegan, keto, or carnivore. As far as any deleterious effects, you would be missing nutrition from fat, but I'm not aware of any actual downsides either.

Yes, A first step for everyone should be to eat less processed foods and exercise - totally agreed.

I was initially responding to the person above to said keto/carnivore were crackpot pseudo science bs.

elevated blood glucose will glycate the body. This is how the hba1c measurement works, it looks at the glycation of a sample and estimates the overall glucose rate based on that glycation.

Some people can eat a bunch of sugar and keep their blood sugar low, but most people can't over a long period of time, thats why prediabetes and diabetes are such huge issues.

Elevated blood sugar by itself can have tremendous emergent problems for type 2 diabetics.

The whole point of keto/carnivore diets is to take the sugar out, reduce the sugar, reduce the insulin, things get better.

Like the Carnivore diet which is being held as some secret to health, or alkline water, or “natural” bs, or raw milk, or “keto” and so on.

As both a Carnivore and Keto person, it's not that meat is magical, its that sugar is toxic.

Creatine is abundant in animal foods, especially red meat

My default is set to 1 week.

Enough for conversational context

viable in the current time.

That is just a way of saying don't change anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLLyaiPoi5Q

If you think about it a soup bowl is just a big spoon

Not just corporate greed, it's very convenient

Tip the bowl to your mouth, use chopsticks to push the soup in