[seethishat]

IMO people should eat more fiber. A lot more fiber. It cleans the gut, the liver, absorbs cholesterol, slows insulin response and makes you feel full longer. The microbes in our guts need it to function.

Rather than jumping from one fad diet to another, just eat what you like and be sure to get a lot of fiber each day.

[rossdavidh]

Agreed, but I think the mechanism relates to different microbes. If there are two microbes in your gut, and type A requires a dose of high-calorie, low-fiber food coming down the pipe every day, and type B is not able to reproduce as fast as type A but is able to live on high-fiber food, this tells you two things:

type A cannot have been living in humans thousands of years ago, but type B might have

type A benefits from making your brain worse at choosing healthy foods, and type B does not

Which kind would you rather have in your gut?

[behehebd]

To do this eat stuff that grows and not further processed.

[skirmish]

Don't be simplistic. Mold on old bread grows and is natural, yet you should not eat it all day.

[papyrus9244]

> you should not eat it all day

How sure are we about this? How certain are we that those specific species of mold have a net negative effect, rather than a net positive (like for example mushrooms)? Penicillium grows on stale foods and I doubt eating it would have a net negative effect.

[meindnoch]

>I doubt eating it would have a net negative effect.

Feel free to eat it.

"Penicillium Species and Their Associated Mycotoxins" - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27924532/

[papyrus9244]

Muchrooms have mycotoxins too. And red meat is a carcinogen. And predator fish have plenty of heavy metals. And the list goes on and on. Yet we eat all those things. Hence the "net positive".

[cromka]

Let me also introduce you to the new kid on the block, the resistant starch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6IcMW5Khh4

[memonkey]

The post is about a scientific study and your response is your opinion with nothing else to back it up?

[igleria]

they IMO are trying to help by giving good ideas to keep a healthy gut. Add that to the study and at least to me, it´s a nice idea.

btw people, do drink water to keep up with the fiber. Otherwise it might not help.

[grvdrm]

Roughly what I follow. I pour chia seeds into everything I eat. Also: edamame, goji berries, green peas. Etc etc. My particular motivation is 1) health, but 2) I lift quite a bit and try to get as much protein from food as possible.

[jstanley]

> eat what you like and be sure to get a lot of fiber each day

Sure sounds like another fad diet.

[lelele]

> Sure sounds like another fad diet.

Yeah! A fad lasting millions of years of human evolution, however.

[jstanley]

The fad lasting millions of years is "eat what you can get, what is fibre?"

[raincole]

Practically advocates of every fad diet claim so.

[vablings]

This has been the recommendation for general health for as long as I have been alive. Fiber is really important and there are plenty of easy healthy options that are cheap, unlike the astroturfed beef checkoff primal diet

[nomel]

The charitable interpretation is "just eat more fiber, regardless of the rest"