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The Hungry Microbiome: why resistant starch is good for you
For something part health, part biology related, here's a decent 4-minute overview on resistant starch, which I mentioned briefly before, HERE. I haven't posted a whole lot of health stuff lately, which is an interest of mine that comes and goes, but I put links to some things that have been useful for me below.
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Three links that give a great overview of resistant start and how to get started trying it:
A Gut Microbiome, Soil-Based Probiotic, and Resistant Starch Primer For Newbies
The Definitive Guide to Resistant Starch
How to Conduct a Self Experiment: Resistant Starch
Not resistant starch related, but here are three health books that I recommend. There are certainly some differences between them, but most of the key ideas are the same:
Perfect Health Diet: Regain Health and Lose Weight by Eating the Way You Were Meant to Eat
The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging
The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy
And if you don't want to read a whole book or just want an easy summary, this one is still my favorite: Archevore Diet
There are some additional supplements recommended in Perfect Health Diet that I may add to my list one of these days, but for the most part I personally have been experimenting with...
Fish Oil and Vitamin D: Recommended by most of the things I read, the ones I take are:
Carlson Labs Norwegian Cod Liver Oil
Carlson Labs Super Daily D3 2000IU Supplement
Resistant Starch and Probiotic
As the articles above mention, there are likely some benefits to varying your sources, especially adding in some whole food sources (like a green banana), but I'm personally starting with 1-4 tablespoons of Bob's Red Mill Potato Starch a day mixed in cool water that I also use to wash down 1-3 capsules a day of 1 of the 3 (or maybe 1 of each) probiotics Richard Nikoley recommended, which are THIS, THIS, or THIS.
Glutathione and BCAA (branched-chain amino acids)
Art De Vany recommends those from Guardian, which you can find HERE. Sometimes their shipping speeds have been inconsistent, so I've also tried experimenting with alternate versions of those supplements HERE and HERE.
I take the fish oil and vitamin D pretty regularly, and have also been taking the resistant starch and probiotic regularly as I experiment with that. I take the Glutathione and BCAA less often, and a little more randomly.
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Ted Talk - Bonnie Bassler: How Bacteria "talk"
Feeding the healthy bacteria in the gut is essentially the purpose of the growing popularity of supplementing one's diet with Resistant Starch. For more on that part of it, read THIS and listen to THIS. Link
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Book Excerpt For “perfect Health Diet: Regain Health And Lose Weight By Eating The Way You Were Meant To Eat” - By Paul Jaminet, Shou-ching Jaminet
There are some differences from Art De Vany (my usual, go-to resource on health), but this looks like a very interesting read. Click on the text below to go to the excerpt. Do NOT eat:• Grains and cereals (including wheat, oats, and corn but excluding...
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Where Cows Are Happy And Food Is Healthy – By Nicholas Kristof
FOOD can be depressing. If it’s tasty, it’s carcinogenic. If it’s cheap, animals were tortured. But this, miraculously, is a happy column about food! It’s about a farmer who names all his 230 milk cows, along with his 200 heifers and calves, and...
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Quotes
“For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and...
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Captive Gorillas Succumbing To Human Disease
Found via Hunter-Gatherer. Life for humans is much easier than for animals in the wild. On a day-to-day basis, we generally do not have to worry about being eaten or starving to death. Depending on the individual's job, some can get by just fine by...
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