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by bumby 958 days ago
>It decreases inflammation, and gives your gut chance to heal. It may improve sugar digestion, liver and so on.

Are there clinical trials that show these outcomes in patients? (To clarify, I don't mean studies that show potatoes have potential chemicals/mechanisms related to those outcomes, but actual trials with patients that saw a scientifically meaningful difference in those outcomes after a potato diet.

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I do not read studies, but this pops from google [1]

Potato diet is a baseline in fasting community. Before you do long water fast, you need to go on detox. Doing potato diet for couple of weeks is strongly recommended.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6928682/

Your linked study did exactly what I cautioned against. It's in-vitro. It's pointing to potential mechanisms, not a clinical outcome on patients. I know you said you don't read studies, but maybe it's a good idea before drawing conclusions.