We all know we need the fiber in the diet but we ignore that, we eat too much meat, and then we scream for our beloved Squatty Potty to assist with eliminating the problem. Here at the Rockhouse, we can't afford all that meat so we can laugh at your digestive troubles and your Squatty Potty.
The absence of sufficient fiber in diet is not only a problem for elimination since it's also protective against attack on the lining of the colon and that attack can set up all manner of hideous diseases. (Science Daily: High-fiber diet keeps gut microbes from eating the colon's lining, protects against infection, animal study shows)
Note: the Squatty Potty has a comical video commercial I saw but I didn't believe it was real so I looked. The product turns out to be a clever and insightful answer to the poor design of American toilets. They're about $25 to $35 or so on Amazon.
The content in this article is like a swatting from your mother because of your wicked ways but the consequence of failing to be aware of it is ugly so here goes.
When mice were raised germ-free, then given a transplant of human gut microbes, the impact of fiber on their colons could be seen. Mice fed a high-fiber diet maintained a thick mucus layer along the lining of their colons, while those that received a fiber-free diet saw the mucus layer grow thinner as bacteria capable of digesting mucus proliferated. The thin layer allowed a pathogen bacteria access to the cells of the colon wall.
Credit: University of Michigan
If you're thinking "Aliens" with the creatures eating their way out from inside you, it seems apt.
"The lesson we're learning from studying the interaction of fiber, gut microbes and the intestinal barrier system is that if you don't feed them, they can eat you," says Eric Martens, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan Medical School who led the research along with his former postdoctoral fellow Mahesh Desai, Ph.D., now at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.
- Science Daily
They're clear they have a reason you should listen so here's the Message from Mother.
Quit your whinging, you knew it was coming.
"While this work was in mice, the take-home message from this work for humans amplifies everything that doctors and nutritionists have been telling us for decades: Eat a lot of fiber from diverse natural sources," says Martens. "Your diet directly influences your microbiota, and from there it may influence the status of your gut's mucus layer and tendency toward disease. But it's an open question of whether we can cure our cultural lack of fiber with something more purified and easy to ingest than a lot of broccoli."
- Science Daily
Ed: oh great. Now I have to worry about my microbiota!
Well, not if you don't mind them eating you, I suppose. Always remember ...
"How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your broccoli?" - Pink Floyd
Ed: rubbish! That's not what the song said!
It's not but we made it biologically correct and that's like politically correct except lack of biological correctness may kill you.
Remember how it went with Reagan as it's not bad enough to get old, your colon has to fall apart too.
Oh. Hell. No.
The absence of sufficient fiber in diet is not only a problem for elimination since it's also protective against attack on the lining of the colon and that attack can set up all manner of hideous diseases. (Science Daily: High-fiber diet keeps gut microbes from eating the colon's lining, protects against infection, animal study shows)
Note: the Squatty Potty has a comical video commercial I saw but I didn't believe it was real so I looked. The product turns out to be a clever and insightful answer to the poor design of American toilets. They're about $25 to $35 or so on Amazon.
The content in this article is like a swatting from your mother because of your wicked ways but the consequence of failing to be aware of it is ugly so here goes.
When mice were raised germ-free, then given a transplant of human gut microbes, the impact of fiber on their colons could be seen. Mice fed a high-fiber diet maintained a thick mucus layer along the lining of their colons, while those that received a fiber-free diet saw the mucus layer grow thinner as bacteria capable of digesting mucus proliferated. The thin layer allowed a pathogen bacteria access to the cells of the colon wall.
Credit: University of Michigan
If you're thinking "Aliens" with the creatures eating their way out from inside you, it seems apt.
"The lesson we're learning from studying the interaction of fiber, gut microbes and the intestinal barrier system is that if you don't feed them, they can eat you," says Eric Martens, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan Medical School who led the research along with his former postdoctoral fellow Mahesh Desai, Ph.D., now at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.
- Science Daily
They're clear they have a reason you should listen so here's the Message from Mother.
Quit your whinging, you knew it was coming.
"While this work was in mice, the take-home message from this work for humans amplifies everything that doctors and nutritionists have been telling us for decades: Eat a lot of fiber from diverse natural sources," says Martens. "Your diet directly influences your microbiota, and from there it may influence the status of your gut's mucus layer and tendency toward disease. But it's an open question of whether we can cure our cultural lack of fiber with something more purified and easy to ingest than a lot of broccoli."
- Science Daily
Ed: oh great. Now I have to worry about my microbiota!
Well, not if you don't mind them eating you, I suppose. Always remember ...
"How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your broccoli?" - Pink Floyd
Ed: rubbish! That's not what the song said!
It's not but we made it biologically correct and that's like politically correct except lack of biological correctness may kill you.
Remember how it went with Reagan as it's not bad enough to get old, your colon has to fall apart too.
Oh. Hell. No.
5 comments:
I suggest yams
I can send some as I just harvested about 50lbs of them
Thanks but they would be expensive to ship and friend Wally World has lots. Fifty pounds is quite a harvest. I hope it's possible to preserve them in some way.
Roots are easy to store for a long time
You must have a super-size pantry.
Yevette made some lemon curd the other day and she was pleased because she never did it before but there's only so much lemon curd anyone can eat and there's no way to eat all that before it goes bad. She likes to try to make some stuff for Christmas with witchy herbal stuff.
Post a Comment