> A late response to your question. Here's another point of view from > Mercola talking about how we need more **fermented** foods in our > diet.
Research shows we went wrong in our diet by choosing farmed food over the staple foods we once used. In eastern Europe for example, onion, garlic, burdock, dandelion, chicory, Jerusalem artichoke and a couple of others were the staple foods; they are among the highest inulin- containing foods. Where historically 20-30 grams of inulin, a feed for probiotic bacteria, were consumed daily, and optimal is considered to be 12-15 grams, the modern diet contains only 2.6 to 3.6 grams. The bowel ecology is pretty resilient but chronic shortage is behind most bowel problems, and when it's added back in the problems resolve. People believe that probiotics are useful, and they can be somewhat, but lactobacilli are probably the wrong choice. Lactobacilli numbers rise in the elderly along with pathogen numbers, and the elderly are more prone to dysbiosis, showing lactobacilli aren't a particularly good probiotic. On the other hand, changes to bifidobacteria numbers mean big changes in the other bowel bacteria populations. Using inulin or lots of high-inulin foods is an easy and cheap way to keep their numbers up, and to a certain extent the lactobacilli. Duncan Crow -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
