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Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time (2023)
- feverzsj 6mo agoEat lots of fibers and water, and you'll poop like a cow.
- iammjm 6mo ago... Would that be good? I mean that soft flat pancake thing they produce. My general approach so far was to aim fora not too soft, not too hard kind of poop. Like a one that slides out of you with minimal wiping needed afterward. Like what would be the gold standard for poop consistency?
- devolving-dev 6mo agoI wonder what this means for GLP 1 drugs that slow digestion.
- andreareina 6mo agoActual outcome data shows that they're a net benefit, and it's not even close.
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- delis-thumbs-7e 6mo agoIn that case you really should go and see a doctor ASAP.
- hhh 6mo agoAnd if I flip flop between both?
- nacozarina 6mo agostress-induced nobody dumps during their first two days of boot camp
- flossly 6mo agoI did quite some experimenting with this. Fruit moves fastest and green leaves. Meat, cheese, oil and fats slowest. But we often eat combinations: and the slowest component of your food determines the speed of the whole. Also: it's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible. So, eating a fast moving meal after a slow moving meal results in the fast mover getting stuck behind the slow mover. Hence I start my day without and slow food (only fruit, herbs, green leaves, spices, ginger => usually a smoothy); and end the day with slow food (oily food, nuts, seeds, beans; usually combined with green leaves as we need a lot green leaves). YMMV
- lordgrenville 6mo agon=1 But interesting nonetheless, thanks for sharing your findings.
- flossly 6mo agoI have a small following of people how also saw improvements doing this. Then, I did not come up with this myself, but found a lot of anecdotals in this direction. And... I comment on a real science piece that seems to be making similar claims.
- x______________ 6mo agoInteresting. A great opportunity to add "YMMV"
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- cess11 6mo agohttps://gut.bmj.com/content/72/1/180 https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/1/180 The study. It basically says that this is something one perhaps should consider in clinical settings and that the speed of fecal matter might be a worthwhile direction for future inquiry. "Altogether, a better understanding of the complex, bidirectional interactions between the gut microbiota and transit time is required to better understand gut microbiome variations in health and disease." It does not say 'this is a sign of health and that is not'.
- beardyw 6mo agoIf the writer ingested a lot, very little came out.
- sph 6mo agoI guess with my IBS I should be the healthiest person around.
- adt 6mo agoAkshually, IBS-D is the least common form of IBS. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3865067/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3865067/
- jonatron 6mo agoI'm surprised there's no mention of hot drinks in the morning.
- pawelduda 6mo agoSooo.... Another reason to drink coffee/yerba mate? Although the latter also supposedly stimulates release of GLP1, which slows down "the release"
- fibermaxxx 6mo agoMore fiber, more plants. I know individuals that eat "only vegetable on the burger" Oats, grits, or smoothie for early day Mine:Fruit smoothie with oats Starches, leafy greens, for midday Mine:roasted sweet potato on a salad Legumes and tree nuts for dinna Mine:Chickpea sauce over roasted veggies with pasta, or cashews. The goal is more than 13 plants a day and your movement will be very consistent
- iszomer 6mo agoConsumption of dairy and products are a relatively fast and painful solution for personal system purges within 30m but entirely depends on how processed they are.
- DaedalusII 6mo agoyou may evaluate the concept of a milk enema, dramatic and rapid defecation ensues in comparison to a saline enema
- iszomer 6mo agoAt that point it’s less of an ‘enema’ and more like udder chaos.
- phyzix5761 6mo agoI wonder how Ozempic affects this because it slows down gastric emptying.
- Grp1 6mo agothis post needs an enema
- bregma 6mo agoI find I can't keep it down for more than a few minutes. I guess I can eat all the poop I want and stay healthy then?
- dustractor 6mo agoThis is why I suspect that GLP-1 agonist medications have the potential to cause a cascade of negative consequences for the health of some people. One of the mechanisms is slowed gastric emptying which leads to decreased motility of the small intestine as a side effect. They do tell people to drink more water to counteract this. It just seems like trading one set of problems for another so hopefully doctor and patient will carefully weigh the benefits versus the risks. We shall see.
- the_real_cher 6mo agoI got food poisoning on a GLP-1 and the slowed gastric emptying made it a hellish 5 days.
- Qem 6mo agoI wonder if this explains in part the purported health benefits from cofee. One thing people claim makes hard to quit cofee habit it's that they can't take a shit in the morning anymore.
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- deepsun 6mo ago"Linked" not "caused". So it may be that someone with Parkinson's just happen to have slower rates.
- fny 6mo agoHeadline is megaclickbait. The research is about how healthier gut microbiomes correlate with improved pooping and nothing about how it impacts your health.
- mplanchard 6mo agoFrom the article’s “key takeaways”: > By considering interindividual and intraindividual differences in transit time in human studies, diet–microbiota interactions and disease-related microbiome signatures may be better elucidated. There is also an entire section entitled “The role of gut transit time in health and disease”
- fny 6mo agoNone of this is summarized in the posted article. It's in the research paper which I didn't read because the article seemed like fluff.
- mplanchard 6mo agoSeems presumptuous to make assertions about what’s in the research if you haven’t read it
- mplanchard 6mo agoThe article is open access, I don’t see any reason to prefer the dumbed-down narrative summary: https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/1/180 https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/1/180
- fellowniusmonk 6mo agoI've been using 1/4cup ground hulled barley and 20-32oz of greek yogurt, with a bit of craisins and pecans as my base for the last several years, my gut now chews through everything and output is consistent and homogeneous. You gotta lay down a fermentation base.