Which is the best diet for overall health and weight loss?
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According to US News, it is the Mediterranean Diet.
On the other hand, I read a study today that asparagus feeds cancer. There is no single, perfect diet that will guarantee you health and longevity. Chasing the perfect diet will likely cause enough stress to kill you or lead to restrictions that result in malnutrition.
Low fat foods in and of themselves do not cause inflammation. Many fruits and vegetables are anti inflammatory, as a matter of fact. Low fat food stuff that has engineered the fat out of baked goods is another story.0 -
That's what I meant, low fat processed foods.
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Dr. Josh Axe must have done a google search on PubMed. Try it yourself. intestinal permeability, pubmed14
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The lab test tested lactulose levels in urine. it was called an intestinal permeability test. Before this, a nutrition biochemist named Van Beveren pricked my blood from my finger and looked at it under a microscope and saw food particles in my bloodstream. He said I had leaky gut. If I didn't have digestive holes, then how did the food get there?
L-glutamine and bone broth and collagen are known to repair the intestinal wall gut lining. In fact, after the program, i was free of leaky gut. Meaning the test came out normal.
The test was done by Genova Diagnostics.
I'm not saying everyone should believe in this. I'm just saying that functional medicine doctors usually describe leaky gut as a condition. The Institute of Functional Medicine would agree. It's perfectly fine for me if you disagree though.
Are you surprised that food acts as medicine in so many ways? It really does.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Don't you find it suspicious that only functional doctors believe in this? That is not how the gut works at all. You know holes in your intestinal walls is a medical emergency? I guess you really like wasting your money on such nonsense. Again show me one legitimate gastroenterologist who does these tests.17 -
Intestinal permeability and leaky gut syndrome are not the same thing by the way.8
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Plus dr axe is a quack.10
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Dr. Josh Axe must have done a google search on PubMed. Try it yourself. intestinal permeability, pubmed
I just pulled up the pubmed site and searched "leaky gut." My search only found 248 returns, most of them studies on patients with other conditions already. What did you do differently to get 11k?7 -
diannethegeek wrote: »Dr. Josh Axe must have done a google search on PubMed. Try it yourself. intestinal permeability, pubmed
I just pulled up the pubmed site and searched "leaky gut." My search only found 248 returns, most of them studies on patients with other conditions already. What did you do differently to get 11k?
Sounds like quack Dr Axe said it so I guess it must be true.
Oh btw I actually had holes in my intestine (fistulas). If you aren't in a huge amount of pain or have major health issues you do not have hles.16 -
singingflutelady wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »Dr. Josh Axe must have done a google search on PubMed. Try it yourself. intestinal permeability, pubmed
I just pulled up the pubmed site and searched "leaky gut." My search only found 248 returns, most of them studies on patients with other conditions already. What did you do differently to get 11k?
Sounds like quack Dr Axe said it so I guess it must be true.
Oh btw I actually had holes in my intestine (fistulas). If you aren't in a huge amount of pain or have major health issues you do not have hles.
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1) Dr. Axe is a quack (as are most "functional medicine doctors):
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Joshua_Lee_Axe
https://badscidebunked.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/axe-idental-poisoning-josh-axe-debunked/
http://thesciencepost.com/dr-josh-axe-debating-which-fake-doctor-degree-to-get-next/
http://www.overcomeobesity.org/overcome-obesity/research/josh-axe-d-c-spewing-a-bunch-of-nonsense-on-the-dr-oz-show/
2) Leaky gut is an imaginary, made-up thing which is only diagnosed by quacks like "functional medicine doctors". It doesn't exist.11 -
Leaky Gut is definitely a "thing". You also need to find out what foods you are allergic to or sensitive to. Read the Whole 30 and the Plant Paradox. The Whole 30 eliminates foods that generally cause allergic reactions, wheat, dairy, sugar, processed foods for 30 days. You eat real food, real fats, fruit as well. Then you start adding back the items that were eliminated to see if any of these bother you. The Plant Paradox discusses leaky gut quite a bit and talks about additional foods to eliminate to keep the gut biome healthy. It is quite strict and I am not totally sold on it at this point in time. One thing I did take away and started immediately was using psyllium fiber husks every day - this helps to clean out the digestive tract and I feel it has really helped me. As most everyone else has stated - real food - not processed is absolutely the best - and you will find you get way more bang for your buck. You can eat a lot more real food for the calories than you can processed food.36
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Leaky Gut is definitely a "thing". You also need to find out what foods you are allergic to or sensitive to. Read the Whole 30 and the Plant Paradox. The Whole 30 eliminates foods that generally cause allergic reactions, wheat, dairy, sugar, processed foods for 30 days. You eat real food, real fats, fruit as well. Then you start adding back the items that were eliminated to see if any of these bother you. The Plant Paradox discusses leaky gut quite a bit and talks about additional foods to eliminate to keep the gut biome healthy. It is quite strict and I am not totally sold on it at this point in time. One thing I did take away and started immediately was using psyllium fiber husks every day - this helps to clean out the digestive tract and I feel it has really helped me. As most everyone else has stated - real food - not processed is absolutely the best - and you will find you get way more bang for your buck. You can eat a lot more real food for the calories than you can processed food.
You're not strengthening the case any by using Steven Gundry as a reference. He's another quackadoodle who's been widely panned by evidence-based sources.18 -
Leaky Gut is definitely a "thing". You also need to find out what foods you are allergic to or sensitive to. Read the Whole 30 and the Plant Paradox. The Whole 30 eliminates foods that generally cause allergic reactions, wheat, dairy, sugar, processed foods for 30 days. You eat real food, real fats, fruit as well. Then you start adding back the items that were eliminated to see if any of these bother you. The Plant Paradox discusses leaky gut quite a bit and talks about additional foods to eliminate to keep the gut biome healthy. It is quite strict and I am not totally sold on it at this point in time. One thing I did take away and started immediately was using psyllium fiber husks every day - this helps to clean out the digestive tract and I feel it has really helped me. As most everyone else has stated - real food - not processed is absolutely the best - and you will find you get way more bang for your buck. You can eat a lot more real food for the calories than you can processed food.
So you know more about the GI tract than all the gastroenterologists? Hmmmm...10 -
I can’t help you with an ideal diet because we evaluate claims differently.
The “wait ten years and we’ll see who is right” is used by all sorts of quack claims. Any agency who uses this argument immediately goes on my least trusted list.
There are ways to reliably test claims for veracity. It’s called the scientific method and there are rules. Due to the scientific method I trust all substances that have made the GRAS list.
I see an “ideal diet” one that generally hits the daily minimums for calories and protein and is tasty. It will include a variety of foods so that the micronutrients are covered. That’s it. Therefore my ideal diet will include a little chocolate daily.9 -
Hey, can you guys help me figure this out? Hmmm, I don't like your answers. You're all going to die of diseases, and thanks for taking the time to read my post! :huh:
OP, if all of the experts you are consulting are telling you different things, what do you think that means? Isn't it possible that maybe they aren't really experts?
I recently read about the Blue Zones, areas where there are an extraordinary number of healthy centenarians. They eat a lot of veggies, fruits, whole grains, nuts and seeds, and legumes plus a little dairy, oil, fish, alcohol and meat, with lots of variations between communities. But what they all had in common was they live constantly active lifestyles and remain socially active in the community. I am firm a believer that it's not really difficult to eat a healthy diet, just aim for variety and make sure you are eating a decent amount of nutritious food. I think how you live is way more important. But I'm guessing that's not what you are looking for.
I'm going to enjoy a Coke Zero and a Fiber One brownie and then take a brisk walk while phoning a friend, and I bet it does me more good than avoiding low fat dairy or taking a Dr Axe recommended supplement.20 -
Here's a couple opinions on "leaky gut" from credible sources (i.e., not naturopaths, "functional medicine" doctors or other quacks):
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/leaky-bowel/
https://www.badgut.org/information-centre/a-z-digestive-topics/leaky-gut-syndrome/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/leaky-gut-syndrome/
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