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Food is Medicine (with Dr. Will Cole)

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The Pros and Cons of Prebiotics

A prebiotic is in effect fiber, you know it's resistant starch. The microbiome eats what we eat the prebiotics are food for the microbiome and they digest ferment these prebiotics or fibers to make something called short chain fatty acids which are end products of bacterial fermentation. Now is there a place for a silly and husk for some people orresistant starch for some people adding that like supplementing with that? I think these can be tools for people, both can be, but I go back to food. If you can get good variety of fiber, get some maybe probiotic rich foods like kimchi or kombucha or sauerkraut or kefirs

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