A low-fiber diet is a key driver of microbiome depletion, the disappearance of diversity in our good gut flora. What would happen within just two weeks if you swapped the diets of typical Americans with that of healthier eaters?
For more on colon cancer, see:
• Stool pH and Colon Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/stool-ph-and-colon-cancer/)
• Solving a Colon Cancer Mystery (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/solving-a-colon-cancer-mystery/)
• Resistant Starch and Colon Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/resistant-starch-colon-cancer/)
• Bowel Wars: Hydrogen Sulfide vs. Butyrate (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/bowel-wars-hydrogen-sulfide-vs-butyrate/)
• Putrefying Protein & “Toxifying” Enzymes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/putrefying-protein-and-toxifying-enzymes/)
Should we all get scoped at age 50? Check out Should We All Get Colonoscopies Starting at Age 50? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-we-all-get-colonoscopies-starting-at-age-50) and What to Take Before a Colonoscopy (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-to-take-before-a-colonoscopy).
For more on keeping our colonic colleagues thriving, see:
• Microbiome: The Inside Story (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/microbiome-the-inside-story)
• Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebiotics-tending-our-inner-garden)
• What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/whats-your-gut-microbiome-enterotype/)
• How to Change Your Enterotype (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-change-your-enterotype/)
• Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Paleopoo-What-We-Can-Learn-from-Fossilized-Feces)
• Gut Dysbiosis: Starving Our Microbial Self (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-dysbiosis-starving-microbial-self/)
• How to Become a Fecal Transplant Super Donor (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-to-Become-a-Fecal-Transplant-Super-Donor)
• How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-Our-Gut-Bacteria-Can-Use-Eggs-to-Accelerate-Cancer)
• Microbiome: We Are What They Eat (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Microbiome-We-Are-What-They-Eat)
• How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-to-Reduce-your-TMAO-Levels)
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31 Comments
Processed food manufacturers need to hear from consumers that less ADDED chemicals, sugar, oil and salt is wanted in their food products.
Why is there so much ADDED sugar in everything, even bread. That's just crazy
Email, text, tweet or phone your favorite producer of poison and let them know consumers want less salt, oils and sugars in their products.
Let their customer service department know that all the extra added salt, oil and sugar is not necessary or desired and is causing health issues.
Reduce or eliminate highly processed food from your diet if you can.
watching from my treadmill ! thanks you very informative 🙂
You can't concatenate these videos together with that big pause in between – many people will think the video is over and stop!
Just eat meat 🥩 and be healthy.
Eat more chick peas.
Thank you. I have been vegan since last September and am happy to see confirmation that this diet may help me avoid the colon cancer that plagued my grandmother.
Excellent video! Seems like baked, boiled or steamed potatoes would also be effective…
THANK YOU!
Thank you for this important information!!
I have been various forms of vegan for 34,yrs. I have had fairly severe constipation issues since I was a kid.
I started the daily dozen, at first turning everything into soups or smoothies, three months ago, and have not had one single day without a decent bowel movement.
I will forever be grateful for Dr Greger for not bombarding me with recopes, but instead giving me a simple list of accessible items that I can turn into and add to my own recipes.
This was a very important and informative podcast. I like the fact that the experiment was so short lived without going all out vegan, as this will encourage more people to go in that direction to save themselves from a lot pain, financial expense, and an early demise.
Just two foods I'd highly recommend to help get the fiber that many may consume now: oatmeal (steel cut & organic if possible) and cabbage. I'm sure others have favorites, but these are inexpensive and very convenient.
Thank you so much <3
I've eaten wfpbno for over 12 years. My husband survived lung cancer because of this. Issue is my temper. I cannot influence my family. I can't get away from my mother without abandoning them.
My 92y.o gives them instant oats with milk and sugar that she microwaves for 5 minutes.
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The vegan diet killed Dr McDougall prematurely. Had he done low carb high fat with lots of meat, cheese and eggs it's likely he would still b Alive and well.
WOW fiber fiber fiber! Its a mess in the gut confusing the microbes!
Too much misinformation sorry dude!
Doctor i just want to share something, what you have done for my family and life is just astonishing. Today i completed something that i was unable to do my whole life. So there is this really huge park(7km maybe), my goal was to take a whole round while running, I wasn't able to complete it like ever not even half. After changing to a WHOLE FOOD PLANT BASED DIET in 5 months i completed the round i felt i could do more but the happiness was too much too handle. My sincere appreciations.
Спасибо!💚💛❤
Thanks for the info!
Nice 👍🏻 information
What evidence led you to believe in Darwinian, molecules-to-man, Evolution?
Would love to see more colon videos especially videos about appendix health
Going on 9 years of being vegan. And predominantly WFPB. Love these videos.
#VeganForLife ❤
Isn't this the guy who was trying to say diet soda is healthier than dairy
Ibd ppl cannot handle wfpb diet you gotta have some animal protein
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I have made massive improvements to my health by changing to carnivore diet 3 months ago. I ate fibre for over 60 years and burped and farted and had gerd. Plants are toxic and meat is the proper human diet…. Always was, always will be.
Vegans are rarely healthy and most quit
One of the BeeGees was vegetarian and died of colorectal cancer.
Gling Ng kwinto mo nka2lbang.
Doc oromi on YouTube channel I wanted to express my deep gratitude for the incredible impact your medicine has had on my health. Thanks to your treatment, I have been successfully cured from HIV Virus”
Bots g c wow good foods for diet create good healthy and strong body thank u very much for sharing u videos sir god bless us sll