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So today we’re going to talk about what

would happen if you were to actually

starve your colon your large intestine

of the fiber it really needs to support

your colon cells because we all know

that fiber is essential it’s almost

classified as a nutrient there’s just a

lot of confusion in this area and a lot

of questions that people have and so

we’re just going to bring up these

questions what type of food would our

bodies be best designed to consume are

we really herbivores plant eaters okay

are we carnivores meat eaters or are we

omnivores a combination of both plant

and animal now I want to touch on that

for just a little bit because it’ll kind

of give you a little Foundation of what

I’m going to talk about next

if we take a look at a cow which is an

herbivore callus are not designed to

consume meat they were designed to

consume grass and of course we end up

feeding them grains right more than

grass which makes a huge difference in

the health of that cow which I want to

bring up since I have cattle and I was

involved in a study comparing grass-fed

to grain-fed cattle so this is very

interesting now if we just take the pH

of the stomach of a cow when it consumes

grain it’s 10 times more acid than if it

consumes grass so typically the pH of

the cow’s stomach should be about 6.4

that’s almost seven and it’s almost

neutral okay

but when a cow starts consuming grain

the pH changes it becomes 10 times more

acidic it’s right around like 5.3 okay

and when you talk about pH every whole

number when it comes down like from a

six to a five is not just one number

it’s by a power of 10. and there’s a big

problem nowadays with cows consuming

grains they develop a common condition

called Subacute ruminal acidosis this is

a situation where their microbiome is

creating a very acidic condition and

this creates a lot of inflammation and

it’s already a known factor that cows

that are raised on grains

have a more inflammatory profile in

their meat in other words the omega-6

omega-3 is really off and grain fed is

like eight to one okay so very small

amounts of Omega-3 grass-fed is like

three to one which is better in a study

that I participated in my beef came to

almost a one to one so it was definitely

not an inflammatory type meat it was

definitely an anti-inflammatory meat

because it buried low amounts of omega-6

fatty acids because you have to realize

that the grains are very heavy in

omega-6 this could also explain any

studies that were done on Meats in

general

they’re probably not doing studies on

grass-fed grass-finished meat they’re

doing on the grain-fed meat which is in

some cases inflammatory so I just want

to differentiate that one point because

it’s really what that cow ate that

determines the health of that meat when

we take a dog or a cat they’re more

carnivore and we’ll see meat but they

also been known to eat other things too

you know whatever is available grass

acorns things like that but typically

they’re carnivores and a dog or a cat

has an extremely acidic stomach it’s

between like

1.05 to 2.2 okay that’s like battery

acid humans also have a pretty acidic

stomach not quite as acidic as a dog or

a cat it’s like 1.5 to 3.0 the fact that

our stomach is that acid gives Clues on

what we should be eating and so humans

have more of a digestion that is a mix

okay it’s a it’s omnivore both animal

and plant you can actually put a human

and just plant foods and they can

survive probably not as well as they

should but you can also put a human on a

carnivore diet and they can also survive

as well I’m bringing that up to bring up

a point on this confusion of what should

people be consuming well I always like

to compare that to what diet would be

the absolute worst diet for man okay

well it just so happens to be the diet

that man is on now it’s called this sad

diet the standard American diet where

they’re doing animal products and plant

products but the definition of their

plant products are really grain products

so I want to just put a magnifying glass

on Plants right

a grain is a plant but if you’re

consuming mainly grains and that’s

really what a typical American consumes

65 of all their calories in the form of

grains of course it’s mainly refined

grains but whole grains have a lot of

other issues with them gluten

other anti-nutrients like phytic acid

which blocks zinc and other minerals

tannins oxalates

anti-enzyme factors and it’s also true

that plants also have some

anti-nutrients as well but I think

really what happens if you start someone

out on grains you will start creating

damage in your gut and now because of

the damage

any fiber food is going to be a problem

for you this is why I always recommend

if someone has got damage they’re

probably not going to be able to handle

all this vegetable fiber salad okay so

they should back off on that the

question is is it because of the fiber

is the fiber doing that well I think

it’s the anti-nutrients in the fiber of

course fiber relates to the microbiome

okay now I’m going to bring up the

actual subject that I wanted to talk

about the microbiome in relationship to

what it eats if you look at some of the

standard textbooks they usually omit one

key function they don’t really talk

about it very much okay they’ll tell you

that the large intestine is primarily

there to reabsorb water and form and

store your feces or stool okay but what

about all those microbes what are they

doing they’re fermenting and they’re

making things from that fermentation in

the fermentation process there are small

change that acids that are made they’re

feeding your colon you also have

vitamins that they’re making certain

acids secondary compounds that help your

immune system so the small intestine is

about 25 to 23 feet but the large

intestine is about five feet and what

happens when you start off the microbes

with fiber they can eat other things

they can even ferment Protein that’s

right they can ferment collagen

cartilage and just so you know a good

portion of bone is collagen when someone

is on the carnivore diet okay they’re

just eating meat no plants

those microbes are adapting to digest

that protein and this explains why many

carnivores if they’re doing it right are

thriving in fact they’re doing much much

better microbes are amazing they can

adapt to different diets but the point

I’m going to bring up is you’re not

going to kill all your microbes off if

you just avoid all plants for a while

but I want to bring up this really

important Point okay when you consume

grains or eat animals that have consumed

grains you’re usually going to end up

with inflammation in your gut especially

if you’re genetically predisposed

and then that is going to make it very

difficult to digest any plants at all

and I think a lot of people are on the

Spectrum where they might not have any

damage to a little damage to some major

damage in their colons and so some

people can handle digesting different

plants like salads and things like that

large quantities okay like myself yet

other people on this spectrum

well you give them plants and they just

get bloated they get constipated okay so

they should be not consuming plants for

a while then you get these people in

between which they can handle plants but

in a fermented state I’m talking about

the sauerkraut the kimchi pickled

vegetables because what do we have there

we have a plant like cabbage for example

that’s fermented and has a lot of

additional microbes that can actually

help you with your gut why they found

that the more Diversified microbes you

have the better the digestion the better

the health so we have this wonderful

fermented food that has Prebiotic it has

some Fiber

already broken down it has a lot of

microbes which are very beneficial that

can start to seed and help your colon I

don’t know if they can be cultured in

and developed into more microbes but

those microbes by themselves can

actually add a lot of benefits plus you

have all the additional vitamins in

fermentation right you have K2 you have

B12 you have Biotin you have other B

vitamins you have certain acids that are

very beneficial the other cool thing

about eating fermented foods is this

that when you ferment things you

immediately start decreasing these

anti-nutrients you lessen the oxalates

the lectins the phytic acids the tannins

and you make other things in that food

more bioavailable like the proteins so

here’s some tips

preferably if you eat animal products go

for the grass-fed grass finished if

possible because the more grains the

more inflammation the more problems if

you are a vegan or a vegetarian don’t

consume the grains Okay consume other

plants like vegetables for example if

you have severe digestive problems you

probably have gut damage and you’re

going to have to do carnivore for a

while but just make sure that you do the

grass-fed grass finished why so that way

you don’t have that that omega-6 grain

effect that has been passed over to that

animal if you have marginal problems

with your digestion maybe you’re going

to benefit from fermented vegetables so

that would be like the kimchi the

sauerkraut and just have that with your

meals now if you don’t have any

digestive problems at all you may

benefit more from having a combination

of the grass-fed grass finish animal

products with the plants but not the

grain category of plants I hope this

video cleared up some confusions on some

of these topics there’s a lot more to

say about that but if you haven’t seen

my video on the microbiome which is a

very important and interesting topic I

put that video up right here check it

out