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Antibiotics Gut Flora Food Intolerance and Disease

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Cattle Are Finished by Selective Killing of Gut Flora.  The Sickened Animals Store Fat that Grills Great.  People Get Metabolic Syndrome. The likening of modern humans to potatoes sacked out on a couch is misleading.  The obesity epidemic linked to diets of processed foods more closely resembles the stumbling progression of cattle to abattoir.  Antibiotics and diet systematically lead in both feedlot and food court to gut dysbiosis, immune system failure, hormone disruption, rampant fat accumulation, physical inactivity, depression and the modern suite of chronic diseases.  Healthcare costs escalate, but vet bills, in contrast, are forestalled by a captive bolt pistol. Background Observations Antibiotics kill bacteria and not humans, because the bacteria have different machinery for making proteins, nucleic acids and cell walls. Antibiotics kill bacterial pathogens and not viruses or fungi. Antibiotics kill helpful bacteria in the gut (gut flora) even more ...

Dr Oz Diet and Gut Flora Myths

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….All 190 posts here…. I just watched a Dr. Oz program on health myths, including corrections, such as recognition of the high fructose content of agave syrup (especially bad for diabetics.)   So I thought I would go ahead and correct some of the perspectives on his show that I dont think are supported by biomedical research. The Big Truth about Diet and Gut Flora Health results primarily from a matched Diet AND Gut Flora, with minor contributions by exercise, personal genetics, environmental toxins, etc.  You can eat the extremes of just meat or only vegetables or any mixture and be healthy, as long as your gut flora is made up of about two hundred different species of bacteria that can fully digest the soluble fiber in your diet.   Health requires a gut flora adapted to your diet.  Those bacteria, the gut flora, produce all of your needed vitamins, eliminate constipation, block inflammation and control the development of your immune system, which takes place in th...

Constipation Gut Flora and Health

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“If you notice your bowel movements, they are unhealthy.” Scatological jokes are common. The guide on my Swedish language tour of Moscow in 1976, told a joke about Russians.  She described Russian toilets that are dry, with a shelf for stools to drop upon and a lower hole in the back into which the stool is swept with water.  This was contrasted to Western toilets that partially concealed the stools as they dropped into water.  The joke was that Russians had no art, because they could easily observe their creations each morning. You Are What You Eat and the Proof Is in the Toilet Refer to Mr. Monastyrsky for a broad discussion of constipation and stool characteristics.  This web site has lots of information about stool types, how to get them and how to change them.  His recommendations to avoid constipation center on a healthy diet, like my Anti-Inflammation Diet, plus glutamine to help the gut heal. Another useful perspective on gut flora is provided by a Natur...