Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy
by Mirioron on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:48AM
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Diet and health is incredibly complex. Not only is it about which nutrients we get for our body, but also which bacteria live in our gut and which nutrients they need and in what concentration, so that the balance stays the same. A healthy diet is basically about trying to feed an ecosystem.
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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy
by glastra on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:41AM
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Definitely. However, this has been used to market a myriad of so-called health products that are far from ideal.
I follow a carnivore diet and have always been a bit scared of messing up my microbiome, while finding it quite strange that I defecate non-negligible amounts of waste, once a day on average.
Only recently has my knowledge gap been filled when I found out that our microbiome can survive solely on amino acids. In fact, all this "gut-brain axis" stuff regarding the production and/or catabolism of neurotransmitters by gut bacteria only makes sense if bacteria can ferment amino acids. Thinking that some bacteria strain can produce neurotransmitters from fibre is an insult to intelligence: where does the nitrogen come from?