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Optimize Your Gut to Fight Disease With Tim Spector

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Importance of Plants in Diet

Having a robust and healthy microbiome is crucial to so many facets of health. A key component to maintaining the robustness of that ecology is a diversity of plants in your diet. People who don't eat plants have less diverse gut microbes, which means they will have a poorer immune system. My worry about the carnivore diet is that it may work short term, they might feel better. And not everybody. I know some people who really can't tolerate those levels of meat or fats. There are some people who can tolerate it. But yeah, but your breakfast cereal in the US is one of the biggest sources. We should just get rid of that. Have a health warning like a cigarette packet

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