How to Cultivate a Healthy Gut Microbiome with Food

There is absolutely no reason for someone to introduce carbohydrates into their diet. There is a reason that there are no essential carbohydrates. Your body does not require nor desire dietary carbohydrates. Human glucose is tightly managed. It needs no help from you. Constantly overwhelming that system with endless carbohydrates is making our society fat and diabetic. Stop flooding your body with a substance that your body does not need. It produces and manages glucose without your continuously tampering with that system. Leave it alone. Every time you ingest carbohydrates your body goes into overdrive to get rid of it. If you don’t eat one single gram of that absolutely nothing will happen to you.

You need to be fact checked because you have some false statements and your going all the way left. There’s no black or white when it comes to nutrition

Ok so where are the foods that have the friendly microbes. Besides raw fruits and vegetables because I know your stand on fermented foods.

For a healthy diet, I would like to try more fermented food. Located in the UK, I drink the genuine kvass for my gut health :)

Vegan seems to extreme and carnivore seems deadly.
I tried whole food vegan for 10 weeks. Now I have added grass fed beef 2x a week, pasture raised eggs 3x a week and fish 2x per week. And I feel much better. The amazing doc Hyman added these to his diet and he seems so sensible. No offense Dr Greger but to me vegan diet seems a bit extreme.

Is TMAO the evil twin of LMAO?

I think this might be one of your most important videos. This clear link between bugs and food type. And how the system dynamic plays a critical role in leading to negative/positive effects on health, is really interesting and eye opening.

I took like 3-4 rounds of antiobiotics and I have the same diet and exercise as before but I've gained 25-30lb and feel bloated and blocked up all the time. Like my intensities feel sore and discomfort

Is there a video on probiotic foods to eat ? Ive been looking but not found much from dr.gregor

What about choline (or carnitine) supplements for plant based eaters? If they dont have the bad bugs, does it increase TMAO too?

You are a gift to mankind Dr!

How long does it take to get to "vegan" levels (as in whole food plant based) of micorbiome?

World Government research. ignored

Great Video! 👍🏾

Did anyone really understand any of this video ?......or just pretend to ?

Why is he walking in the intro? So confusing!

Consume too much salt and kill of most lactic acid producing bacteria.

Unless you do a stool transplant the number of different gut bacteria is given. You can promote the growth of certain bacteria and slow down the growth of other bacteria through food, but as soon as you move back to old eating habits the previous balance reestablishes itself.
Eat a lot of oats and you promote the formation of one type of bacteria, eat a lot of broccoli and you promote other bacteria.
The start with your hamburgers yet again and you go back to the hamburger eating bacteria.

What causes Type 2 diabetes is well proven all white flour and sugars FACT these cause Type 2 diabetes not eggs or meat i am 87 years old i eat red and white meat also many plants but not potatoes and i have a healthy A1c of 5.1 so stop talking rubbish taking any antibiotic wipes out the gut microbiome my statements are all peer reviewed so STOP promoting BS.

Makes me wonder why people who have auto immune deseases who eat only meat sort out their auto immune issues. It's strange

Nightshade vegetables is not good for your gut even wheat and dairy is not good for your gut it causes inflammation flammatory response.

As someone who's got Hashimoto and should not eat gluten, I always wonder if quinoa, millet, buckwheat etc have the same benefit on my microbiome as barley and the always praised oats.

very nice but how to get 2g for kg of Proteins for an athlete of 70kg ? With plants foods only? There are a lot of fibers and carbohydrates

That should mean I can eat a hamburger every now and then:)

Dr McGregor I love your videos. I've been trying to control my sugar naturally for the past 2 years it was pretty high. I've been eating a lot more whole foods. I've found that eating eggplant drastically brought blood sugar down and is keeping it at 101- 111 a couple of days of eating it. My blood sugar was in the 200s. Can you make a video on eggplant and maybe the effects it has on diabetes.Are there any studies on it.

Another fantastic video!

So no Keto then?

I was a devoted follower of Gregor for many years. Then I started reviewing the research myself and came to the opinion that he cherry picks his studies and leaves out important
information not supportive of his agenda.

Is there a good gluten free substitute for barley that would be as beneficial? Thanks

Dr Greger I love your videos and information but sometimes because you have so much inflection in your voice it’s hard to follow the info it’s like listening to this 📈📉📈📉📈📉📈📉📈📉📊📊📊📉📉📉📉📈📈📈📈📈

Thank you so much! Can you do a video on how to get rid of acne through probiotics and supplements? I have blackheads and have had it since 10 years old and am now 21. I’m really wondering about this. Thank you!

So confused on what plants to eat to feed the microbiome, and which to eat to increase the population? The vegetables that are always mentioned are not ones that I see at my local grocery stores. Is there a list of which plants are best to FEED the current bugs, and which are best to INCREASE the bug population?

Why is barley a good thing to eat? Is it different regarding gluten compared to wheat or rye?

There's definitely not a one size fits all. I'm vegan but the diet causes severe cramping and excess gas STILL after 20 years.

it's probably a good idea to eat some probiotic foods/drinks after having taken antibiotics. examples are water kefir, sauerkraut, etc. what about taking a probiotic supplement? there are many kinds available online.

If you haven't covered it already, I'd like to see a video on vegan junk foods that we should avoid and why. Do these foods include seitan and mock meats? I try to minimize sugar and fried food, but I'd like to see where you draw the line. Love your content!

I also wanted a ven more healthy gut so i took physillium. No matter how little physillium husks, its always bloates the belly. Here on YT is a very intresting eye opening video "fiber is for farting". Watch it. its true...And what i read is..either you already do have the bacteria which is responsible for processing fiber or you will never have them. You do get them passed on or not. if not, you only could get it with a poop transfer ..but this is only for real ill people.

There's so much wrong to unpack here that it's not funny.

So.....if we eat eggs and steak.....we should also take antibiotics??? LOL! Ok, so the takeaway here is......eat barley?? and no meat or meat only once in a blue moon?

Hi Dr Gregor, I see you’re on a treadmill. What brand is it? I’m looking to buy a treadmill.

Mind if I come fix the loose cable in your railing right behind your head? Probably just an 8 hour flight for me but we've got to do something about it

I wonder if eating wild berries is a good source of prevotella.

The problem is who would create experiments like this without a particular angle that they would want to push. It could be a situation with me in which the poison is in the dose. Why realistically and healthily eats an 11 oz steak which is Just over 300g. The modern guidance is to eat no more protein in one go than a piece of meat the sides of a playing cards pack is like. You'll never know because as I said everyone has an angle that they want to push.

Does this not mean that a vegan can eat the occasional steak with no ill effects 🤔🤔

Very informative video, thanks.
To be precise, the chemical structure shown in this video is that of butyric acid, not that of "butyrate".
The term butyrate refers to o either an ester of butyric acid, or a salt of the latter (more relevant here).

U really need to work on the pitch of your voice

Guys, what do you think of fish?