He covers the SIBO breath test and how it measures hydrogen and methane, and
the effects of fermented foods:
Researchers are beginning to observe the positive
effects of fermented foods on mental health, including the link between the microbiome and anxiety and depression.
Not exact matches
Promising interventions for depression from a gut - brain perspective include probiotics,
fermented foods as part
of a high natural fat diet, and relaxation response for optimal digestion, anti-inflammatory and insulin sensitizing
effects.
Beer might not be the healthiest thing to drink, but San Diego scientists suspect various kinds
of fermented foods and drinks could have beneficial
effects on the microbes in our guts.
We are certainly not the first to ask this question in the broad sense; in 1938, Lloyd Arnold, MD, aptly a professor
of both preventive medicine and bacteriology at the University
of Illinois, pondered to what extent ancient diets,
fermented foods, and their
effect on the «bacterial flora
of the intra-intestinal contents» converged to promote health [126].
More exactly, we will discuss pairing
fermented foods and prebiotics, to enhance the
effects of the microbiota, and to minimise the
effects of fiber on our stomach.
So,
fermented dairy
foods may have an
effect on weight control independent
of their calcium and protein content.
So we have this whole digestive domino rally
effect here and when the gut becomes inflamed, when there's stress in the gut, one
of the first thing that gets compromised is hydrochloric acid secretion and once HCl secretion gets compromised, enzyme secretion gets compromised, bile salt secretion gets compromised and then
foods tend to sit and rot and
ferment and putrefy and rancidify creating more stress.
Acids found in
fermented foods (sauerkraut, kimchee) and vinegar lowers the insulin
effect of foods.
◆ For increased
effect add 2 - 3 capsules
of probiotics to your
fermented food and let sit for half an hour before consumption.
When we think
of the word «fermentation,» we tend to think
of probiotics, sauerkraut or yogurt, and various beneficial
effects of eating
fermented foods.
Even fish and meat were
fermented, the aim being preservation
of course, but with the remarkable side -
effect of turning the
food into a «super
food».