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brandonk said:leave tiny particles as end-products of their digestion that can be persorbed through the intestine, lodge in the tissues, and in theory result over time in many degenerative diseases from atherosclerosis to alzheimer's.
Do you have any studies to back those claims? Any human studies? Rats don't know how to cook starch. They also don't produce as much amylase as humans.
That's called leaky gut and it's bacteria that can lead to sepsis that is the problem.
The gut is designed to keep things out. It is extremely efficient at this. Drug smugglers swallow all kinds of things including plastics and other things that they then poop out. They don't die from plastic particles "leaking" through the gut. Babies also swallow many foreign non-food things and its the same.
Starch is broken down into sugar in the gut. The other fiber that was in that starch food is then moved through the gut like any other fiber. The starch is converted into sugar which is glucose for the bloodstream, not "leaked" through.
High-starch eating cultures are a clear example of it working. The claim that starch particles can be persorbed applies to someone with an extremely impaired intestine. This kind of person will have trouble eating anything.