Comments by "" (@BothHands1) on "The Hunt for a Better Gut Bacteria in Central Africa" video.

  1. definitely, the people in this video certainly have a superior diet. the stuff we eat in the west these days is pretty awful. i try to eat as many veggies as possible, but even the vegetables here are so low in nutrition compared to wild plants. for millennia, we bred food only for size, taste, and calories, without understanding what vitamins even were. so we didn't select for nutrition when selectively breeding crops, and it led to an overall less healthy diet.
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  2. this was absolutely amazing! this is exactly the content i love! i wish i had never taken antibiotics in my life, so i could have retained all the gut bacteria from when i was a kid who would splash in the mud with my dogs. i definitely think they're overprescribed these days, and completely ruin everyone's natural microbiome. i'd like yo go down there and eat like them (minus the meat) for a few weeks and see how it changes my life. microbiome differences have even been linked to depression and other psychological issues and disorders. a reset might be a good thing to try to see if maybe it'll fix my head.
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  3. i don't know about the whole fasting - intermittent fasting for 12-15 hours has been shown to boost metabolism, but i don't know about 5 days... haven't read anything about that. but definitely the microbiome is extremely important, and has been linked with depression and other psychiatric disorders, as well as autoimmune disorders and immune function
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