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316: Dr. William Li - Is Your Diet Feeding Or Defeating Disease?

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The Role of Fiber in Gut Health

Fiber is actually being delivered as food. It's a prebiotic, really to our gut bacteria. When they eat that fiber, when the bacteria are metabolizing the fiber, literally eating the fiber and leaving all kinds of fragments left over. And those are the scaff of the small chain fatty acids that float everywhere. More fiber wheat, the happier gut bacteria is, happier and healthier,. The more scaffa, small chain fatty acid they produce, which float in our bloodstream. They are anti-inflammatory. They are protected against cancer. They stimulate our immune system. All the things that we wanna have happen.

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