Dr Oz Diet and Gut Flora Myths
….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...