As usual lots of important and relevant information to give us all food for thought on simple ways to improve our gut and general health. Thanks Dr Iggy.
Hank you for the information about excercise. This is great information. I'm on a journey to learn as much as I can. The 30 different vegetables made me think about how I can not always afford that and other food for my family, and poorer people cannot afford that at all. I hope things can change for people to be able to eat healthier
Excellent Infor. As a 68 yrs old who is still exercising just as when I was 30 yrs old doing calistechnic for hypertrophy, this video is more educating. I look fwd to more of such videos. Tq dr
Thank you Dr Iggy, very interesting! I would love to see video on herbicides, pesticides, rodenticides and other food additives (eg E..). How these impact health and the microbiome.
It would be interesting to hear views on this advice vs the carnivore diets that are doing the rounds right now, and the evidence that 'seems' to show that we are built to eat mostly meat. Personally I'm on the fence, but there are plenty of communities around the world that do eat predominantly meat and obviously have done for multiple generations. Instinctively, even as a meat lover I also feel that some plant nutrition is essential, but then it can't be if people around the world are doing just fine without.
Many factors determine an individual's response to diet. These include age, gender, genetics and exercise. There is not a lot of research on the carinvore diet. I realise that there are proponents who claim great benefits from this diet. No one diet is suitable for everyone. The Inuit people who inhabit the northern regions of Canada where the summer is very short live on meat and fat. They have done for many hundreds of years. Their genetics and microbiome are suited for that diet. They would not cope with a vegetarian diet let alone vegan. Likewise, you can't expect a South Indian vegetarian whose people have been eating that way for hundreds of years to thrive on a carnivore diet. Her genetics will be very different. The current research tells us that we need fibre to fuel our microbiome and the metabolites they produce are very protective of heart disease, cancer etc. There may be pockets of people whose genetics and microbiome are such that they thrive on a carnivore diet. i suspect that those numbers will be small. It will be interesting to see how the carnivore dieters fare in the long term into old age.
@@driggysoosay-guthealthforlife Thanks for the in depth response. I agree with you on this. Even as a meat lover, I struggle to accept that a meat only diet is the optimal way for most people and that ALL plants are poison to the human body. Clearly, hundreds of millions of Indians are doing just fine. What I do accept is that if you've been eating a 'normal' Western diet for decades that is mostly processed, there may be some benefit in removing all potential sources of auto immune triggers for a period of time in order to let your body heal (whatever that means, I suspect it's mostly digestion that needs to recover), but suggesting that it's the only way to live forever seems a bit foolish. There does seem to be a bit of mid life crisis about a lot of the information out there, where middle aged guys (I'm a middle aged guy) are looking for a fountain of youth, and playing 'caveman' makes them feel a bit better about stuff.
Have you any evidence on the amount of salt that is most beneficial for the micro biome? I am a very active 62 year old (I run 30 to 50 km per week). I am a whole plant based vegan and from personal experience I need the RDI of 5000mg of salt (2000mg sodium and 3000mg chloride) otherwise I feel sluggish when I run. I feel the chloride is essential for adequate stomach acid too for absorption of minerals etc. Have you any advise here? Many online forums advocate for ultra low salt diets instead of the published RDI levels.
Animal studies show that high salt intake can alter the microbiome unfavourably. High salt intake can independently and via the microbiome aggravate hypertension. The studies do not, as far as I can see, mention a contraindicaton with the RDI intake of salt.
@@driggysoosay-guthealthforlife Exercise affects the whole body but you try to boil down everything to gut health based on speculative superficial "research". Your speculation that it increases muscle mass by increasing butirate can be easily disproven. Eat butirate and do not exercise - I guarantee no increase in muscle mass. End of "science".
Thanks Iggy. Lots of good reasons for everyone to prioritise exercise.
As usual lots of important and relevant information to give us all food for thought on simple ways to improve our gut and general health. Thanks Dr Iggy.
Thank you
Hank you for the information about excercise. This is great information. I'm on a journey to learn as much as I can. The 30 different vegetables made me think about how I can not always afford that and other food for my family, and poorer people cannot afford that at all. I hope things can change for people to be able to eat healthier
Thank you Iggy, so much great information. Looking forward to watching many more videos 🙏🏼
Wow. Many great reasons to exercise. Thank you
Valuable information. Thank you!
Excellent Infor. As a 68 yrs old who is still exercising just as when I was 30 yrs old doing calistechnic for hypertrophy, this video is more educating. I look fwd to more of such videos. Tq dr
Good to hear you are exercising so well. Keep it up.
Thank You 🙏🏻
You’re welcome 😊
Very interesting !!!
Thank you for this information .
My pleasure!
Thank you Dr Iggy, very interesting!
I would love to see video on herbicides, pesticides, rodenticides and other food additives (eg E..). How these impact health and the microbiome.
It is in the pipeline Olesya
excellent and thanks
Thank you too!
It would be interesting to hear views on this advice vs the carnivore diets that are doing the rounds right now, and the evidence that 'seems' to show that we are built to eat mostly meat.
Personally I'm on the fence, but there are plenty of communities around the world that do eat predominantly meat and obviously have done for multiple generations.
Instinctively, even as a meat lover I also feel that some plant nutrition is essential, but then it can't be if people around the world are doing just fine without.
Many factors determine an individual's response to diet. These include age, gender, genetics and exercise. There is not a lot of research on the carinvore diet. I realise that there are proponents who claim great benefits from this diet. No one diet is suitable for everyone. The Inuit people who inhabit the northern regions of Canada where the summer is very short live on meat and fat. They have done for many hundreds of years. Their genetics and microbiome are suited for that diet. They would not cope with a vegetarian diet let alone vegan. Likewise, you can't expect a South Indian vegetarian whose people have been eating that way for hundreds of years to thrive on a carnivore diet. Her genetics will be very different. The current research tells us that we need fibre to fuel our microbiome and the metabolites they produce are very protective of heart disease, cancer etc. There may be pockets of people whose genetics and microbiome are such that they thrive on a carnivore diet. i suspect that those numbers will be small. It will be interesting to see how the carnivore dieters fare in the long term into old age.
@@driggysoosay-guthealthforlife Thanks for the in depth response.
I agree with you on this. Even as a meat lover, I struggle to accept that a meat only diet is the optimal way for most people and that ALL plants are poison to the human body. Clearly, hundreds of millions of Indians are doing just fine.
What I do accept is that if you've been eating a 'normal' Western diet for decades that is mostly processed, there may be some benefit in removing all potential sources of auto immune triggers for a period of time in order to let your body heal (whatever that means, I suspect it's mostly digestion that needs to recover), but suggesting that it's the only way to live forever seems a bit foolish.
There does seem to be a bit of mid life crisis about a lot of the information out there, where middle aged guys (I'm a middle aged guy) are looking for a fountain of youth, and playing 'caveman' makes them feel a bit better about stuff.
Have you any evidence on the amount of salt that is most beneficial for the micro biome? I am a very active 62 year old (I run 30 to 50 km per week). I am a whole plant based vegan and from personal experience I need the RDI of 5000mg of salt (2000mg sodium and 3000mg chloride) otherwise I feel sluggish when I run. I feel the chloride is essential for adequate stomach acid too for absorption of minerals etc. Have you any advise here? Many online forums advocate for ultra low salt diets instead of the published RDI levels.
Animal studies show that high salt intake can alter the microbiome unfavourably. High salt intake can independently and via the microbiome aggravate hypertension. The studies do not, as far as I can see, mention a contraindicaton with the RDI intake of salt.
@@driggysoosay-guthealthforlife Thanks Dr Soosay. I will be sticking to the RDI then.
finally someone smart
Wild speculations and the typical medical confusion of correlation with causation. It just shows that medicine doesn't understand shit.
I would love to hear your reasons for your comment
@@driggysoosay-guthealthforlife Exercise affects the whole body but you try to boil down everything to gut health based on speculative superficial "research". Your speculation that it increases muscle mass by increasing butirate can be easily disproven. Eat butirate and do not exercise - I guarantee no increase in muscle mass. End of "science".