There Examine.com, I made the headline more interesting and accurate for you, you’re welcome.
Yes indeed, this Monday morning we return to the shoddy “research” summary website Examine.com and a meta-analysis of 8 randomized controlled trials that included 437 participants, where some morons evaluated the effects of low-FODMAP diets on gut microbiota regulation is severely unhealthy people.
Since neither the abstract nor Examine.com explained the reasoning behind the study or what impact they believed it could have, I’ll do my best to summarize their “thinking.”
Researchers in these pseudo-scientific fields evaluate the effects of a low FODMAP diet on gut microbiota regulation to “understand” how this dietary restriction influences the balance and function of gut bacteria. In those who consume toxic carbohydrates and highly damaging fiber, which unfortunately is the majority of all gullible people on this Earth, the gut microbiome plays a crucial role in carbohydrate fermentation, and since FODMAPs are fermentable short-chain carbohydrates, and humans are not fermentation chambers like cows, their removal or reduction can alter the microbial environment in the gut to the better. This can lead to changes in the composition and metabolic activities of the gut microbiota, which may in turn affect digestive symptoms and improve overall gut health.
Some of these useless studies have shown that a low FODMAP diet can reduce the abundance of certain bacteria, such as Bifidobacteria, while potentially increasing the abundance of others.
These changes can influence the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and other metabolites that are “deemed” as important for gut health. By understanding these effects, researchers aim to develop more personalized dietary interventions that can help “manage symptoms” (backwards thinking) of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other functional bowel disorders.
Now, the SCFAs, as in acetate, propionate, and butyrate, are naturally produced by the body in perfect amounts when we follow our species-appropriate carnivore diet and run on our natural fat metabolism and are in ketosis. It is only when we step out of this natural metabolism by consuming toxic plant-matter that we have to try and rely on other means to get these SCFAs, as in the breakdown of some fiber by the assistance of bacteria that can hurt the colon.
Now, humans have multiple pathways of producing and obtaining SCFAs. The fact is that there are many strains of bacteria which can metabolize fat, protein and animal-based collagen and produce SCFAs and probiotics in return. No fiber or anything plant-based needed. The thing most people, including these imbeciles posing as “researchers” are missing, is that our gut microbiome will shift and adapt depending on what our diet looks like. And since humans are obligate hyper carnivores, our perfect microbiota will manifest once we follow our natural carnivorous diet. However, if we consume plants, it will change in order to help extract some nutrients as plants are virtually useless and also very toxic to us. That is very simple logic.
Acetate is normally produced from the metabolism of amino acids and fatty acids, while propionate is generated from the metabolism of certain amino acids and from the beta-oxidation of odd-chain fatty acids found in animal products. And butyrate is only one of many different fuel sources that our cells within the colon can utilize and is therefore not needed by humans. Also, butyrate is available in dairy fat, as in raw milk, butter or cheese. Other SCFAs such as propionate, acetate and many others that our microbiome can make from fats and protein, can fuel those cells. Also, beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB,) which is produced by the liver during our natural state of ketosis can do everything butyrate can do and much more.
Also, these imbeciles that preach about how important SCFAs are for intestinal cells never take into account how much SCFAs actually are needed to sustain cellular functionality. Intestine cells that are being stressed by damage from plant-based and processed garbage and have an increased need to repair and detoxify will need a lot more SCFAs than the intestine cells in someone healthy who follows a species-appropriate diet that is totally harmless.
In other words, if you follow our natural human diet and run on our natural fat metabolism, your requirement for SCFAs will be many times lower than what is seen in the average population that has been deceived into consuming complete species-inappropriate garbage. So, even SCFAs are pretty much irrelevant in the large picture. Nature is never wrong.
So, this nonsense about the microbiota and FODMAP is only somewhat “relevant” in very unhealthy people who have been deceived to consume a highly species-inappropriate diet that includes carbohydrates and fiber and are thus paying the price for it with irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease, ulcerative colitis and/or any of many other “diseases.”
Of course, simply removing a few of the offenders will not do much as it is the entire diet that is making them sick and unhealthy, as in anything plant-based and especially seed/vegetable oils.
So, the only way to actually fix and heal these health issues is by removing all the offenders, as in everything plant-based and processed and adopt our natural human carnivore diet.
Thus, anything that has to do with FODMAP or the “alteration” of microbiota when already on an inappropriate and unhealthy diet is completely irrelevant, it’s bollocks.
Why would you research interventions and “damage control” on an unnatural toxic diet that keeps people sick and unhealthy… Oh wait, yeah. That is their agenda…
Well, let’s see what these imbeciles had to say.
Key study details
“In 4 trials the participants had irritable bowel syndrome, in 3 trials the participants had celiac disease, and in 1 trial the participants had ulcerative colitis. In most of the trials, the control group ate their usual diet, and the interventions were studied for 21 to 28 days.”
The problem here is that the damage to the digestive system takes a very long time to heal and requires an animal-based diet and preferably some fasting to speed up the process (as the digestive system needs some rest.) Many who are suffering from symptoms of a damaged gut have already altered their diet a tiny bit to make it somewhat less painful and less difficult to deal with. Still, they have not done enough to heal and reverse the conditions, as that requires ample amounts of animal-based foods and the removal of the offenders, as in pretty much everything plant-based and processed.
So, with this in mind, results from such studies where the “control group” are left to their own devices following their “usual” diet will produce varying results, as some might actively be trying to mitigate symptoms while others rely on idiotic drugs and medicines to dull the damage being done.
“A subgroup analysis of only the participants with irritable bowel syndrome showed that a low-FODMAP diet had no significant effect on intestinal microbiota compared to the participants’ usual diet.”
Actually, looking at the original paper, the researchers summarized the meta-analysis with the following, “this meta-analysis suggests that a low FODMAP diet may have a positive effect on gut microbiota regulation. However, the effect appears to be less pronounced in IBS patients.”
So, Examine.com could not even summarize the findings correctly. Well, not as it really matters anyway as they all followed a species-inappropriate diet. It is quite obvious that removing crap that the body can’t use will alter the gut microbiome as it is bacteria that tries to break down that stuff, and humans are not designed for fermentation, we are not ruminants and our appendix is not functional as compared to monkeys — so removing carbohydrates that can ferment will of course improve gut health a little bit. Still, the really big offenders remain, as in fiber, antinutrients, defense chemicals, heavy metals, pesticide residues, man-made chemicals, seed/vegetable oils, and other carbohydrates — all of which is extremely unnatural and damaging for human physiology.
Examine.com’s take
“On its own, this trial provides evidence that a low-FODMAP has a small effect on participants’ gut microbiota.
However there are factors that reduce our confidence in these results:
- The researchers did not say which specific intestinal microbiota outcome they analyzed (i.e., was it stool sample microbial diversity and abundance, as measured by the Shannon index?).
- The risk of bias was not reported.
- There was moderate heterogeneity between the trials examined.”
Again, Examine.com misses the point. While meta-analyses and studies in this field does prove that fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols (FODMAPs,) which are short-chain carbohydrates that are poorly absorbed in the small intestine and ferment in the colon, are very damaging and promote more of the unhealthy bacteria in the microbiome, it is completely irrelevant as humans are obligate hyper carnivores and should never consume these toxic and damaging carbohydrates to begin with.
So, focusing on removing only a few of many offenders in a diet that is species-inappropriate and not natural to begin with and looking at changes in the gut microbiome in hope that it can provide insights into why some individuals respond more negatively to a diet than others or in hope to develop more “personalized” dietary interventions that can help manage symptoms of bowel disorders is retarded.
Simply adopt our natural diet and all these digestive and gut health problems will go away. And in someone who follows our natural diet, these “disorders” can never manifest to begin with. All digestive “diseases” are the result of an species-inappropriate diet. Simple, logical, and common sense.
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