I was (am) intrigued by this thread here: Amazing "Croissant Diet" Experiment Results (Stearic Acid/Saturated Fat).
A lot of what is discussed in there, on the forum in general and in related subreddits seems to be how to avoid PUFA and mitigate the damage caused by them. Also discussed on here a lot is gut health in general. I wondered if the two overlap somehow.. Maybe PUFA is so damaging not only b/c it's now a much larger part of westernized diets, but also b/c our guts can no longer process ("detoxify") PUFA's either b/c of damage to the gut or microbiota caused by PUFA itself, or something else damaging our guts that allows PUFA to cause more damage than it otherwise would. Maybe it's some of each..
In doing a little research into this stuff, I ran into this: Gut microbiota confers host resistance to obesity by metabolizing dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids. Pretty interesting, IMHO.. What if some strains of gut bacteria (maybe normally present in a healthy gut) could saturate or otherwise detox PUFA? Or what if a healthy gut might normally do that, and did that for previous generations, but no longer does b/c of something else introduced into our diets?
Looking into gut health supplements, I came upon this: Dietary Supplement for Gut-Brain Health | ION*Biome. Searching on here under the active ingredient ("Terrahydrite") I only found one mention a couple of years back. The whole premise of that supplement is that it seals "leaky gut" and in so doing fixes digestion, the immune system and even the balance of chemical messengers from our gut. The person who developed it claims that glyphosate is mostly responsible for leaky gut by both dis-regulating the gut lining itself and the gut microbiota. Note that he also apparently recommends a "plant-based diet" and seems to favor appearing on media outlets where that is a big part of their agenda. Even though I couldn't disagree more w/ that agenda, I'm hoping that doesn't necessarily make his theories on leaky gut wrong, or his product useless.
Seems like a lot of us are looking for a primary cause to the metabolic diseases ruining our health.. I take it most here (as do I) believe PUFA is the devil, whereas the developer of ION*Biome claims that glyphosate is the root of all of our problems, and is more or less recommending a diet loaded w/ the worst kind of PUFA, vegetable oil. Both PUFA and glyphosate not only seem to correlate w/ the rise in obesity and other metabolic diseases, but there seems to be a growing amount of science backing up the correlation for both.
What if there is more than one primary cause, w/ each of them working together to create a tipping point for many of us?
My own health history seems to bare this out.. As far as I can recall, my own metabolic health problems didn't start until a) PUFA became a larger part of my diet and b) I started to be plagued by gut problems.
Interested to hear other opinions on glyphosate and/or products like ION*Biome or it's mechanism of action..
A lot of what is discussed in there, on the forum in general and in related subreddits seems to be how to avoid PUFA and mitigate the damage caused by them. Also discussed on here a lot is gut health in general. I wondered if the two overlap somehow.. Maybe PUFA is so damaging not only b/c it's now a much larger part of westernized diets, but also b/c our guts can no longer process ("detoxify") PUFA's either b/c of damage to the gut or microbiota caused by PUFA itself, or something else damaging our guts that allows PUFA to cause more damage than it otherwise would. Maybe it's some of each..
In doing a little research into this stuff, I ran into this: Gut microbiota confers host resistance to obesity by metabolizing dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids. Pretty interesting, IMHO.. What if some strains of gut bacteria (maybe normally present in a healthy gut) could saturate or otherwise detox PUFA? Or what if a healthy gut might normally do that, and did that for previous generations, but no longer does b/c of something else introduced into our diets?
Looking into gut health supplements, I came upon this: Dietary Supplement for Gut-Brain Health | ION*Biome. Searching on here under the active ingredient ("Terrahydrite") I only found one mention a couple of years back. The whole premise of that supplement is that it seals "leaky gut" and in so doing fixes digestion, the immune system and even the balance of chemical messengers from our gut. The person who developed it claims that glyphosate is mostly responsible for leaky gut by both dis-regulating the gut lining itself and the gut microbiota. Note that he also apparently recommends a "plant-based diet" and seems to favor appearing on media outlets where that is a big part of their agenda. Even though I couldn't disagree more w/ that agenda, I'm hoping that doesn't necessarily make his theories on leaky gut wrong, or his product useless.
Seems like a lot of us are looking for a primary cause to the metabolic diseases ruining our health.. I take it most here (as do I) believe PUFA is the devil, whereas the developer of ION*Biome claims that glyphosate is the root of all of our problems, and is more or less recommending a diet loaded w/ the worst kind of PUFA, vegetable oil. Both PUFA and glyphosate not only seem to correlate w/ the rise in obesity and other metabolic diseases, but there seems to be a growing amount of science backing up the correlation for both.
What if there is more than one primary cause, w/ each of them working together to create a tipping point for many of us?
My own health history seems to bare this out.. As far as I can recall, my own metabolic health problems didn't start until a) PUFA became a larger part of my diet and b) I started to be plagued by gut problems.
Interested to hear other opinions on glyphosate and/or products like ION*Biome or it's mechanism of action..
