Gut Dysbiosis: Starving Our Microbial Self

Inadequate consumption of prebiotics—the fiber and resistant starch concentrated in unprocessed plant foods—can cause a disease promoting imbalance in our gut microbiome.

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This is one of the reasons I recommend three daily servings of legumes (beans, split pea, chickpeas, and lentils) in my Daily Dozen (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/book-...) checklist.

The microbiome connection may explain the extraordinary results in the study I featured in my last video: Is it Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-it...)

More on the musical fruit:
• Beans and the Second Meal Effect (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans...)
• Canned Beans or Cooked Beans? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/canne...)
• Increased Lifespan from Beans (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/incre...)
• Beans, Beans, They're Good For Your Heart (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans...)
• Cooked Beans or Sprouted Beans? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Cooke...)
• Diabetics Should Take Their Pulses (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diabe...)
• Slow Your Beating Heart: Beans vs. Exercise (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/slow-...)

More on the microbiome revolution in medicine:
• Treating Ulcerative Colitis with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treat...)
• Microbiome: The Inside Story (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/micro...)
• Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebi...)
• What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whats...)
• How to Change Your Enterotype (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-t...)
• Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whats...)

More on bowel health in:
• Dr. Burkitt’s F-Word Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-bu...)
• Breast Cancer and Constipation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/breas...)
• How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Every Day? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-m...)
• Should You Sit, Squat, or Lean During a Bowel Movement? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/shoul...)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-d... and he'll try to answer it!

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