Gut biome and diversity on keto

(Chris Kornelsen) #1

Ok so recently I’ve been posting on my digestion and how I’m going low carb (less then 100g) a day. So I’ve expanded my research and found a giy named chris kresser. And I really like him I love anyone that uses facts and science and doeant have a dogmatic idea about anything really.

So what are peoples thoughts on the idea that the healthiest people on earth have diverse gut biome. That eaying underground veggies is super healthy. That meat is super healthy. And that fat isnt an enemy. Or that every human that ever lived at plants fruits and meats. Even the Inuit ate seaweed when they could. Also that eating grains (not the style we have) is also a part of majority of tribes. He definitly isnt keto but he isnt anti keto. I find it interesting this balanced approach to diet and the idea that individual people vary widely. And that nutirtion is just far to complex to be boiled down to one singular diet. Though we can all agree high carb is terrible.

(John) #2

If you have a healthy metabolism and are at a healthy weight and maintain reasonable levels of fitness, then a balanced diet comprised of minimally processed whole foods is probably ideal.

If you can achieve your health goals eating that way, then go for it. There are plenty of people who do NOT need a ketogenic diet to thrive.

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #3

Until approx 10K years ago the vegetables and fruits we know now did not exist. Grains as we know them did not exist. The plant predecessors of all modern grains, fruits and vegetables contained far fewer digestible nutrients and much high percentages of indigestible cellulose, up to 90% in most. So 99.9% of human evolution occurred in the absence of anything more than minimal and inconsequential plant nutrients. There’s a very good reason there are no essential carbohydrates.

(Chris Kornelsen) #4

How do we find out plant make up.50k years ago? That seems like a very easy field to have mis information In. I would think plants grow generally the same unless humans touch them

(Scott) #5

That is just it. The plants we have today have been influenced by man more than evolutionary pressures. Man’s goal is rarely nutritional content but profit motivated even at a cost of nutrition. With the lack of storage and refrigeration meat was the one item available year round in some climates.

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #6

Humans first ‘touched’ them at the beginning of the agricultural revolution, when we began to domesticate and selectively breed some of them. Plant life during the Pleistocene is well documented.