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Is there a way to get good guy bacteria? I've read probiotics are useless.

by tsherr 7y ago

gukov 7y ago
- Sauerkraut - Kefir
- 000dry 7y ago
  Second that for sauerkraut and basically any pickled food. For probiotic foods to have any meaningful effect, though, make sure your gut is healthy first. Probiotics foods are good for one type of bacteria but you also need to neutralise the bad types. Stop eating sugars, saturated fats etc. Your stomach is an ecosystem that will suffer any changes quite badly at first, but will thank you in the long term.
- ng12 7y ago
  Kefir is absolutely magical. I highly recommend it to anyone experiencing digestive issues.
- joeldg 7y ago
  and add: -lacto-fermented pickles -kimchi
gnode 7y ago
The most robust way to deliver new bacteria to your gut is with a gastro-resistant capsule (so it bypasses your stomach acid). Food will introduce it too; fermented foods contain more. Introducing the bacteria is only part of the problem though. If you want to have a diverse community of gut flora, you need to have a nutritionally balanced diet.
lioeters 7y ago
I'd recommend reading up on fermented foods and drinks to incorporate into your daily diet. There's also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant
Theodores 7y ago
I chose to be vegetarian aged six, this was probably my first conscious thought as opposed to doing what I thought other people wanted me to think. I am sure I could put meat in my mouth if under duress but I am fairly sure that the gut bacteria most people have for digested meat have died out a long time ago, I have effectively starved them. I am no scientist and I am not wanting to push a diet choice on anyone, I went vegetarian simply because the food was better at school for the few that were specially catered for as vegetarian, with larger portion sizes being key to my motivation at the time. However, as a science experiment you could go vegetarian for a year to selectively cull the bacteria that go with eating meat. You could go full on vegan too but that isn't as easy a change as going merely vegetarian. Expect some flatulence that will sort itself out in time, something you might also want to look into as part of your experiment. Allegedly people in Africa who actually eat have the most diverse gut bacteria and these guys ain't eating hamburgers. I think that a change over to full vegan would be with health negatives to consider, a change to vegetarian would not run that risk. It is worth remembering that anyone who is anyone in Hollywood is in the serious business of looking after their looks, they tend to be not eating steaks. In sport there are also athletes that only hit the high notes of performance after going on a mostly plant based diet. The probiotics business is a business, they have something to sell. Nobody except for book authors are going to sell you the idea of removing rather than adding something from your diet. As mentioned I am vegetarian by chance - a school dinner lady just happened to do much nicer vegetarian food than meat eater food and I blatantly lied on my first day at that school about being vegetarian just to benefit from the better portion sizes. I had to stick to that lie thereafter and my parents were okay with me not having meat at home. I don't have any skin in the ethics game unlike some recent converts to veganism. However, that said, I can see the upsides financially whenever I dine out. Although bills get split I am aware that my part of the bill is 2/3 the price of whatever everyone else is having or even less than that. I am okay with a bowl of pasta whereas others around the table have some endangered species from some ocean on the far side of the planet, it is obvious what is going to be the cheaper option. You can conservatively estimate four figure savings by spending a year in vegetarian mode so maybe think of something you want to put that money towards in order to cope better with the hardship of not scoffing burgers etc. for a year.
- thrower123 7y ago
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bayareanative 7y ago
Fecal transplant. There's not really any other way and most "advice" you're getting is regurgitated unscientific, data-free hogwash from the colon cleanse and health fad industries.

Is there a way to get good guy bacteria? I've read probiotics are useless.

by tsherr 7y ago

Is there a way to get good guy bacteria? I've read probiotics are useless.

gukov 7y ago

- Sauerkraut - Kefir

000dry 7y ago
Second that for sauerkraut and basically any pickled food. For probiotic foods to have any meaningful effect, though, make sure your gut is healthy first. Probiotics foods are good for one type of bacteria but you also need to neutralise the bad types. Stop eating sugars, saturated fats etc. Your stomach is an ecosystem that will suffer any changes quite badly at first, but will thank you in the long term.
ng12 7y ago
Kefir is absolutely magical. I highly recommend it to anyone experiencing digestive issues.
joeldg 7y ago
and add: -lacto-fermented pickles -kimchi

gnode 7y ago

The most robust way to deliver new bacteria to your gut is with a gastro-resistant capsule (so it bypasses your stomach acid). Food will introduce it too; fermented foods contain more. Introducing the bacteria is only part of the problem though. If you want to have a diverse community of gut flora, you need to have a nutritionally balanced diet.

lioeters 7y ago

I'd recommend reading up on fermented foods and drinks to incorporate into your daily diet. There's also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant

Theodores 7y ago

I chose to be vegetarian aged six, this was probably my first conscious thought as opposed to doing what I thought other people wanted me to think. I am sure I could put meat in my mouth if under duress but I am fairly sure that the gut bacteria most people have for digested meat have died out a long time ago, I have effectively starved them. I am no scientist and I am not wanting to push a diet choice on anyone, I went vegetarian simply because the food was better at school for the few that were specially catered for as vegetarian, with larger portion sizes being key to my motivation at the time. However, as a science experiment you could go vegetarian for a year to selectively cull the bacteria that go with eating meat. You could go full on vegan too but that isn't as easy a change as going merely vegetarian. Expect some flatulence that will sort itself out in time, something you might also want to look into as part of your experiment. Allegedly people in Africa who actually eat have the most diverse gut bacteria and these guys ain't eating hamburgers. I think that a change over to full vegan would be with health negatives to consider, a change to vegetarian would not run that risk. It is worth remembering that anyone who is anyone in Hollywood is in the serious business of looking after their looks, they tend to be not eating steaks. In sport there are also athletes that only hit the high notes of performance after going on a mostly plant based diet. The probiotics business is a business, they have something to sell. Nobody except for book authors are going to sell you the idea of removing rather than adding something from your diet. As mentioned I am vegetarian by chance - a school dinner lady just happened to do much nicer vegetarian food than meat eater food and I blatantly lied on my first day at that school about being vegetarian just to benefit from the better portion sizes. I had to stick to that lie thereafter and my parents were okay with me not having meat at home. I don't have any skin in the ethics game unlike some recent converts to veganism. However, that said, I can see the upsides financially whenever I dine out. Although bills get split I am aware that my part of the bill is 2/3 the price of whatever everyone else is having or even less than that. I am okay with a bowl of pasta whereas others around the table have some endangered species from some ocean on the far side of the planet, it is obvious what is going to be the cheaper option. You can conservatively estimate four figure savings by spending a year in vegetarian mode so maybe think of something you want to put that money towards in order to cope better with the hardship of not scoffing burgers etc. for a year.

thrower123 7y ago

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bayareanative 7y ago

Fecal transplant. There's not really any other way and most "advice" you're getting is regurgitated unscientific, data-free hogwash from the colon cleanse and health fad industries.