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I've heard most of the things you do suggested before, except for fermented foods - could you please elaborate on what is your reasoning behind that?

by kk_cz 9y ago

JoshMnem 9y ago
My goal with this way of eating isn't just to reduce calories, but it's to create the an environment that feeds a healthy collection of microbes. Basically this: "a future step for researchers could be to identify probiotics or diets that encourage the right kinds of microbes to grow to promote weight loss."[1] I don't look at myself as a single organism, but more as a farm that needs proper gardening. See this[2], and this[3]. Here[4] is an example of one beneficial organism that you can find in fermented foods. I think that humans are generally doing things the wrong way -- we shouldn't simply kill bacteria and other microbes, but we should create environments that cultivate a good balance of beneficial ones. Another interesting place to look is the hygiene hypothesis.[5] Eating healthily after a lifetime of not eating well takes a lot of effort, but so does not smoking cigarettes (if one is addicted). [1] http://www.sciencealert.com/gastric-bypass-surgery-gives-patients-a-new-set-of-helpful-microbes http://www.sciencealert.com/gastric-bypass-surgery-gives-pat... [2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-... [2a] That above ratio may be incorrect, but it is still significant. See also https://www.sciencealert.com/bacteria-cells-don-t-actually-outnumber-human-cells-in-our-bodies-study-finds https://www.sciencealert.com/bacteria-cells-don-t-actually-o... [3] http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/47125/title/Bacteria-and-Humans-Have-Been-Swapping-DNA-for-Millennia/ http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/47125/... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_rhamnosus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_rhamnosus [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

I've heard most of the things you do suggested before, except for fermented foods - could you please elaborate on what is your reasoning behind that?

by kk_cz 9y ago

I've heard most of the things you do suggested before, except for fermented foods - could you please elaborate on what is your reasoning behind that?

JoshMnem 9y ago

My goal with this way of eating isn't just to reduce calories, but it's to create the an environment that feeds a healthy collection of microbes. Basically this: "a future step for researchers could be to identify probiotics or diets that encourage the right kinds of microbes to grow to promote weight loss."[1] I don't look at myself as a single organism, but more as a farm that needs proper gardening. See this[2], and this[3]. Here[4] is an example of one beneficial organism that you can find in fermented foods. I think that humans are generally doing things the wrong way -- we shouldn't simply kill bacteria and other microbes, but we should create environments that cultivate a good balance of beneficial ones. Another interesting place to look is the hygiene hypothesis.[5] Eating healthily after a lifetime of not eating well takes a lot of effort, but so does not smoking cigarettes (if one is addicted). [1] http://www.sciencealert.com/gastric-bypass-surgery-gives-patients-a-new-set-of-helpful-microbes http://www.sciencealert.com/gastric-bypass-surgery-gives-pat... [2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-... [2a] That above ratio may be incorrect, but it is still significant. See also https://www.sciencealert.com/bacteria-cells-don-t-actually-outnumber-human-cells-in-our-bodies-study-finds https://www.sciencealert.com/bacteria-cells-don-t-actually-o... [3] http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/47125/title/Bacteria-and-Humans-Have-Been-Swapping-DNA-for-Millennia/ http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/47125/... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_rhamnosus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_rhamnosus [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis