Minutus

Greetings, y'all,
The real issue with resistant starch is about nourishing and balancing one's gut microbiota, and this is not limited to resistant starch. The gut microbiota is this vast frontier of mostly unexplored territory that has already proven to be very important to one's health. It is, in my opinion, the main reason why we can't get agreement on so many subjects. Why is it that some people can eat crappy diets for decades and get away with it? How come grandmother can smoke cigars until she dies at 101 years old? Why is it that one person eats potatos and steaks and does fine and other people don't? These kinds of questions haunt my intellect. And I believe that the intervening factor that puts all our ideas about diet out of perfect focus is the gut microbiota and all of its variations from person to person.
I have even entertained the idea that homeopathy impacts at least in part the gut microbiota. Given that we don't even know how it impacts the human being per se, it is possible that it is also impacting the gut microbiota of the human being.
Sincerely,
Roger Bird

No ....that is someone's theory (the person whose blog you linked) of what resistant starch might help with in their opinioin.
There is, to date, no evidence for it doing so.
SO then, removing the nonexistent reason for rersistant starch, we are left with resistant starch not being a good idea to use at all.
But low carb diet and *fermentable* fiber do matter.
Gur health is extremely important yes, but it is dependant on *fermentable* fiber for the specific gut enviroment of the specific species. Even dogs and cats - both carnivores and not that different as species - have totally different fermentable fiber needs, to feed their gut bacteria suitably to produce short chain fatty acids.

So we agree that gut bacteria need the roight food to make the right health products.
But what research is there to show what fibers these are for people?
We are stil in the dark as which prebiotics are valuable.

The latest research has made the mistake (IMO) of putting human gut bacteria into mice and expecting the mice to give results for humans, on what to feed humans.
With what we know about how cats and dogs can't be used for each other - why assume mice can be used for human research in this area - much less a mouse with human gut bacteria and mouse digestion system.

It needs human volunteers, not mice, to figure this one out.
Why lump a single issue into "many unnamed subjects" - let's stick to a named subject - one at a time.
The answer is ...ICT plus diet.
IF we look at the two species for which the food for gut mcrobes is well researched - cats and dogs - we find a common thread.
ALL dogs with healthy gut, grow the SAME microbes on the SAME sustrate options.
Same for cats - al cats with heathy gut environemtn have similar ratios of bacteria there, and they eat the same limited fermentable fibers that cat gut bacteria like.

SO why assume all humans are different in what gut bacteria work, and what food workd for them?
How WELL it is implekented depends on diet ad ICT - but the ut bacteria and their food, is more likely species-specific than individual, as in cats and dogs he diet and ICT make the individual variations;

Same in cats and dogs.
You can look at a gut biome, and predict what the dog or cat was eating to get that biome.
My carnivore consults always include a "gut potocol" - which has to do with diet and fermentable fiber and the health of the gut lining- and that has a huge impact.
As Hahnemann teaches, maintaining causes are relevant, and also, no remedy provides nutrients or gut fiber for gut bacteria.

Homeopathy is likely to help a gut change to a healthier one faster, but it cannot supply what is needed to effect the change in gut bacteria or their food. It will help with speed of gut lining recovery and USE of these short chain fatty acids. But diet is a prerequisite and determines the ratio of short chain fatty acids that he bacteria can produce. For example, butyrate is the one you want most of, but you will only get it with a high aniimal-protein diet. The body can exist on propionate instead of butyrate (from vegetarian food) but it is not an optimal situation for health. Actate is less critical as to diet composition. Those are the main three short chain fatty acids used in immune system and organ support.
But we do know how homeopahty impacts the human, medically speaking, it is all there is the repertory:-)
Hard to say. Maybe the bacteria need some of the remedy too?
How are we individualizing the needs of those bacteria if so?

Namaste,
Irene
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