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

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