Amazoniac
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A lot of Peatatarians are proud of the purity of their diet in terms of feeding gut microbes but most of them are just trading starch for other foods that act as prebiotic.
Large amounts of fruit will provide more than enough - fiber, polyphenols, sugars and some resistant starch in some cases - to feed gut microbes.
Paired with ruminant's milk that are a rich source of pro and prebiotic food.
I once commented how the udders are strategically located in ruminants to collect fecal matter and pass to their babies. The babies get their microbes but it wouldn't make much sense to have them living inside but not feed them. Milk, especially from ruminants, have a lot of prebiotic compounds that mimic plant polysaccharides. Since they rely so much on fermentation, they need to consume from an early stage nutrients in milk that will support those commensal organisms.
Endotoxins are a natural part of having to deal with microbes. It's much wiser to consume foods that are low in toxins and to improve immune function to help to shape your gut microbes than it is to conciously select foods that won't be a source of endotoxins but also won't provide nourishing compounds to feed commensal organisms that will provide many nourishing compounds like SCFAs, K2, B vitamins, etc..
It us unfair to blame starch. If you use white rice as an example, even people with bacterial overgrowths can handle it with no problem due to its rapid absorption, this suggests that is not the starch that is problematic, but the context of living organisms that live on the substrate of consumed foods.
Large amounts of fruit will provide more than enough - fiber, polyphenols, sugars and some resistant starch in some cases - to feed gut microbes.
Paired with ruminant's milk that are a rich source of pro and prebiotic food.
I once commented how the udders are strategically located in ruminants to collect fecal matter and pass to their babies. The babies get their microbes but it wouldn't make much sense to have them living inside but not feed them. Milk, especially from ruminants, have a lot of prebiotic compounds that mimic plant polysaccharides. Since they rely so much on fermentation, they need to consume from an early stage nutrients in milk that will support those commensal organisms.
Endotoxins are a natural part of having to deal with microbes. It's much wiser to consume foods that are low in toxins and to improve immune function to help to shape your gut microbes than it is to conciously select foods that won't be a source of endotoxins but also won't provide nourishing compounds to feed commensal organisms that will provide many nourishing compounds like SCFAs, K2, B vitamins, etc..
It us unfair to blame starch. If you use white rice as an example, even people with bacterial overgrowths can handle it with no problem due to its rapid absorption, this suggests that is not the starch that is problematic, but the context of living organisms that live on the substrate of consumed foods.