Sound like very sound advice. I'm guessing by healthy food you're not just specifically talking about what Ray reccomends to eat? Starch would fall under this too?My take on abx is they can be good or bad. Like most things. Abx doesn't discriminate between good and bad bacteria when it kills...it kills them all. Then it's up to you to ensure that the beneficial bacteria achieve and sustain the upper hand.
If you take abx and then put a bunch of rancid PUFA, processed, shelf-stable preserved food into your body after you take it, then you're probably going to be a lot worse off and wind up with a really poor ratio of good : bad gut bacteria.
But if you take abx and then put healthy, whole food into your body, you're probably going to be okay. You may also need some beneficial probiotics, which I also used after I got done with the abx. Probiotic can be a dirty word around here but they helped me a lot and I think many people need them. But they're not a forever measure. Episodic only.
IMO the key to gut health is a clean food supply. Which means no processed, preserved crap, esp. after killing a bunch of gut flora with abx.
Can the bad guys feed on the resistant starch too or is it just in favour of the good guys?I like cold white rice with some coconut oil, pickled ginger (Ginger People Pickled Ginger, yum), and seaweed flakes. Doubleplus good if you eat it with shrimp. Ginger People pickled ginger is made with real sugar, not HFCS. Chilling the white rice has the advantage of making resistant starch, which can actually get down into the long stretches of the colon. Supposed to be good for the good guys to feed on. But without the additional problems that just fiber can cause in the small intestine. Works for me. Others' mileage may vary.