Sun, Apr-15-18, 16:17
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Plan: High protein, lower fat
Stats: 000/000/145
BF:276, 255 hi wts
Progress: 0%
Location: Michigan U.P., USA
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Interesting. His comments and advice on lc and good bacteria sounds like what Dr. William Davis ( Wheat Belly, Undoctored) recommends.
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So, how about weight loss? Well, starting with low-carb autoimmune paleo diet is a really good starting point. Then, slowly add carbs back into tolerable levels because, remember, if you’re very low-carb for too long – if you are consistently under, maybe, 100 grams, that can cause a loss of healthy bacterial populations, and it can cause a decrease in some of the protective short chain fatty acids. So, you don’t want be any more low-carb than you necessarily have to be.
Can I manipulate the microbiota for weight loss? Well, let’s look at that. The microbiotial manipulations in obesity. We already know the antibiotics used early in life is a risk factor for obesity. And diverse early exposure may be protective. Why is that? Because, if you don’t have diverse early colonization, you don’t make that immune system training, and that makes your immune system more prone to inflammation, and the inflammation can cause things like insulin resistance and impaired metabolism....
Negative changes to the microbiota from very low-carb diets can be offset by supplementation with fiber, prebiotics, and resistant starch. They have done studies where they put obese patients on low-carbohydrate diets, but they’ve given them various prebiotics or resistant starch, and they’ve seen the bacterial populations that normally die flourish. So, there are some great implications for if you’re someone that really can’t tolerate carbohydrate, and you have to stay on a long term low-carbohydrate diet, prebiotics and resistant starch may help prevent the loss of short chain fatty acids and other helpful bacteria.
How about fiber? The worst studies regarding fiber show no weight loss; the best results have been with fiber’s glucomannan. There were 8.3-more pounds lost than the control group. So, two groups, both on a low-calorie diet – one went on a low-calorie diet with glucomannan fiber. That group lost 8.3 pounds more than the control group. So, not bad. Other reviews have shown fiber’s average weight loss – again, reviews pool many, many studies – weight loss would be about 4.2 pounds. So, the average loss, maybe about 4.2 (pounds), glucomannan may get you to 8.3 (pounds), and viscous fibers may be better than non-viscous. A viscous fiber is one that when you mix it with water, (it) forms this kind of thick gel. A non-viscous one is very, very liquid still.
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