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Posted 5/15/2013 7:30 PM (GMT 0)
Definitely adds some validity to the resistant starch/prebiotic argument. Enjoy!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?hp
Posted 5/15/2013 7:34 PM (GMT 0)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?hp

Thanks for the info...added a link. Long article I'll have to read it later. I had no idea C-diff killed 14,000 people a year!

Edit: and that's just Americans. Dang.

Posted 5/15/2013 7:41 PM (GMT 0)
Well it's nice that the FDA is cracking down on FTs for Cdiff then. Almost a guaranteed cure. Makes a good sense. Thanks for the links, will add to my post bedtime reading list.
Posted 5/15/2013 7:47 PM (GMT 0)

killcolitis said...
Well it's nice that the FDA is cracking down on FTs for Cdiff then. Almost a guaranteed cure.

Haha.

Who cares if it's a cure. Someone in the FDA sees it cutting down on his brothers/in-laws/friends/college pals profits who works in the Big Pill industries. Corporatism.

Posted 5/15/2013 7:52 PM (GMT 0)
yeesh. at least poop is free and readily available. luckily my gp was happy to do all of the required testing before i did fmt with my daughter. I guess people are going to have to resort to back ally poop transplants.
Posted 5/15/2013 9:06 PM (GMT 0)
What a great article - one of the most interesting things was the link to the American Gut project. It's an open-sourced crowd-funded effort to study learn about the microflora in the body.

http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/

Donate $99 to the project and we will send you a home sampling kit. In return, we will provide you with a list of the bacteria in your sample – and abundance – and show you how your bacterial community compares to others in the study based on the diet and lifestyle questionnaire you fill out when you take your sample. The more people we have in the study, the more we will learn. Our data are for the good of understanding and will be shared both with participants and with other scientists. 100% of the donations go to the Biofrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Earth Microbiome Project.

I totally want to know how my jacked up gut compares to the norm, so I signed up! I figure I've wasted way more than $99 on false hope cures, at least this one might contribute to learning. I'll post back when I get results.
Posted 5/15/2013 9:48 PM (GMT 0)
That's great, let us know how it goes Gilligan. :)

Maybe a group of us could do it and glean something of importance by comparing and contrasting our gut's contents.
Posted 5/16/2013 9:34 AM (GMT 0)
If a wide variety of good foods increase good microbes, then the SCD and GAPS diet removing grains and starches is doing more harm then good?
Posted 5/16/2013 10:52 AM (GMT 0)
Rick, not really, because we have broken colonies and broken guts. SCD should help rebalance the micro flora (that is what the high bug, low lactose yogurt is all about) and heal your intestinal lining. Eventually, you can add back in a lot of foods (measured in years...)

My hospital got a mention in the article :)
Posted 5/16/2013 2:44 PM (GMT 0)

Jane123 said...
Definitely adds some validity to the resistant starch/prebiotic argument. Enjoy!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?hp

Awesome Jane,

Thanks

Some of My Best Friends Are Germs said...

His comment chimed with something a gastroenterologist at the University of Pittsburgh told me. “The big problem with the Western diet,” Stephen O’Keefe said, “is that it doesn’t feed the gut, only the upper G I. All the food has been processed to be readily absorbed, leaving nothing for the lower G I. But it turns out that one of the keys to health is fermentation in the large intestine.” And the key to feeding the fermentation in the large intestine is giving it lots of plants with their various types of fiber, including resistant starch (found in bananas, oats, beans); soluble fiber (in onions and other root vegetables, nuts); and insoluble fiber (in whole grains, especially bran, and avocados).

If your transit time is too fast - you wont be fermenting even if you eat the RS foods, Librax, Mebeverine and Immodium can slow it down allowing you to benefit.

I live in Boulder County and could pay them a visit while I am off for 2 weeks vacation next week.

biofrontiers.colorado.edu/about

Post Edited (aguywithuc) : 5/16/2013 8:48:56 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/16/2013 3:21 PM (GMT 0)
Beans, onions, root vegetables, nuts and avocado are huge parts of my diet. They are things I didn't eat a lot of preUc. Beans were a bit of an adjustment because while you are establishing the colonies you need to digest them, you get gas. If you work through it, the body works it out. Preparing beans with Kombu helps make them more easily digestible in the beginning.
Costco sells a sprouted bean blend that is much easier on the digestion then unsprouted beans. Also preparing beans correctly, by soaking them, is imperative. I don't buy canned beans because they often are not soaked and instead are just cooked under high pressure.
This is a great article, thanks for sharing!
Posted 5/16/2013 8:05 PM (GMT 0)

Little Buddy said...
What a great article - one of the most interesting things was the link to the American Gut project. It's an open-sourced crowd-funded effort to study learn about the microflora in the body.

http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/

Donate $99 to the project and we will send you a home sampling kit. In return, we will provide you with a list of the bacteria in your sample – and abundance – and show you how your bacterial community compares to others in the study based on the diet and lifestyle questionnaire you fill out when you take your sample. The more people we have in the study, the more we will learn. Our data are for the good of understanding and will be shared both with participants and with other scientists. 100% of the donations go to the Biofrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Earth Microbiome Project.

I totally want to know how my jacked up gut compares to the norm, so I signed up! I figure I've wasted way more than $99 on false hope cures, at least this one might contribute to learning. I'll post back when I get results.

Thanks for this resource.
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