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Heal Your Gut: Dr. Alan Desmond On Optimizing Your Microbiome Through Plants

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Effects of Maltodextrin on the Gut Microbiome

The average US citizen consumes maltodextrin three times a day because it's in almost every processed food. One of the things that it does in our gut microbiome is it promotes the growth of a bacterium called adherant invasive E. coli A.I.C. So this bug now becomes prevalent within our gut microbiome. In order for that bug to cause mayhem in your digestive tract, it needs to get really close to the cells that line your gut. And also we know that in a fiber deficient diet, your gut microbiome isn't receiving the carbohydrates that it thrives on.

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