Eric Bakker the naturopath, thanks for coming back and checking out my video.
Let's talk about starch.
I wrote quite a lot about this in Candida Crusher, my book.
If you got to yeastinfection.org you can also read some of my articles about starch where
I explain the difference between the soluble fibers, the insoluble fibers.
I talk about starch.
But if people want, I'm happy to do a video going into more detail about starch and stuff
like that.
I find with the longer videos, it's probably a waste of time because most people click
off after three minutes and probably go back to Facebook to watch funny cat videos or something.
I find three, four minutes to be about good.
Anyway, let's not waste time.
Resistance starch, why it is so important for you.
When you eat different foods, many of them get digested, partially digested in the stomach
and finished off in the small intestine.
Some can even start getting to become digested with your mouth, with the saliva.
You can get a bit of digestion occurring which increases in the gut and then gets finished
further down.
Some foods are called resistant starches.
They actually bypass the small bowel or will get partially digested higher up and then
move further down into to colon or large intestine where they get finished off.
They get fermented, they get broken down, these starches.
They're food for beneficial bacteria.
They're very, very, very important to eat.
This is really what gets up me, really annoys me a lot is so many people now think that
the foods I'm going to talk about are bad for you.
They're the Darth Vader of foods.
They make you fat and sick and ugly and you'll die of cancer, whatever.
There's so much crap on the internet about fiber and about carbohydrates.
Some people are so worried now about carbs they treat them like they're radioactive substances.
They walk around them.
They think they're toxic.
Look, do I look fat?
I've eaten oats all my life.
I've eaten bananas, I've eaten potatoes, I've eaten all the stuff you're told not to eat.
I'm not fat.
You don't get fat from eating the finer foods I'm going to talk about.
Many people just don't get that through.
They say, "I can't eat oats, they're no good.
I get bloating.
They're sick.
They make me sick.
I'll get fat from them.
My nutritionist told me avoid most forms of carbs including potatoes and sweet potatoes
and rice and pastas.
I've been told to ban all that now."
Well back in the 70s there was the pasta diet where actually people did lose weight eating
pasta.
But back then also, they didn't have the high fructose corn syrup and all the other crap
we've got in our diets today.
What do we do?
Well resistant starches are very important because they will also help you to regulate
your appetite.
They'll also help to bind cholesterol, pull it out of the body.
You eat a good serving of rolled oats everyday, probably like your great grandma did, there's
a big chance your cholesterol will come down with any kind of statin drug or junk like
that.
Food is medicine.
Medicine is food.
Rolled oats are a fantastic food.
Green bananas are touted as being healthy but I'm not really a fan of promoting unripe
fruits to people.
Fruits should be ripe.
Maybe a little bit not ripe but you shouldn't eat bright green bananas.
You can get plantain bananas which is Samoan and Tongan people eat, the Pacific island
people eat the green banana but they stay green.
They don't go yellow.
But it's not a great idea to eat a semi-ripe fruit, in my opinion.
Would you eat a semi-ripe watermelon?
Probably not.
Would you eat an apple that's green, that hasn't gone red yet?
Probably not.
You can cook with it, doesn't taste so great.
Some of the best resistant starches, in my opinion, would be oats, potatoes, sweet potato,
pastas, brown rice, white rice.
This is the interesting thing with fiber, resistant fiber.
When you let a potato cool, and then cook it, you're doubling the fiber content just
by doing that.
That's a pretty cool trick.
Brown rice, sweet potato is my favorite.
You can also get potato, sweet potatoes and maybe some brown rice, you can cook them and
the following day, you can make patties out of them like little hamburger kind of patties
and cook them in olive oil and they are delicious.
Little bit of salt and pepper on top, you will love it.
Trust me, [inaudible 00:04:12].
That's really healthy for the gut because this is what the bacteria want.
They want that resistant starch, they're going to feed on that.
And that's going to really increase their population and then they're going to confer
benefits to you.
More energy, better cognition.
You're just going to feel better.
When I finally move people from high protein diets into a little bit more of these resistant
starches, they have a problem because their bacteria are not up to speed yet.
You can't just all of a sudden jump off a building.
You need to jump off a chair first.
Maybe then okay but now you can jump off a taller chair and then eventually you can jump
off the whole big building, providing you got a parachute I hope.
Point I'm making is, start small and then go up and up.
If you haven't really eaten the foods I'm mentioning like the brown rice of the oats
or the potato, what you will do is you'll start with a very small portion.
Especially if you got a lot of gas or bloating.
You may even want to do a stool test to determine where your level of pancreatic health is first.
Look at the PE1 or the elastase.
If that's really low, you may need some enzymes so you're going to not get too much gas or
bloating.
Look at the beneficial bacteria.
You need to have reasonable levels otherwise if you've got very low levels, you'll get
a lot of farting and bloating which will then get blamed by some practitioner on a detox
reaction, some crap like that.
Always start slowly when you make major dietary changes.
Never ever do things quick because you'll get sick and you'll feel it then you'll pay
the price for it.
Don't forget, resistant starches are important.
I'm a big fan of brown rice.
I like brown basmati rice.
I'm also a fan of sweet potato.
We've got some very nice sweet potatoes here in New Zealand.
What I like about sweet potato is they're not a nightshade.
And also is, they don't really get affected by pests.
I've never heard of sweet potato crops being sprayed.
Not in my country anyway.
Maybe in your country could be different.
But sweet potato are easy to grow.
They are a powerhouse of nutrition.
They're high in potassium, they're very high in vitamin A, superior when it comes to starch
and fiber and they're one of best natural, in my opinion, one of the best root vegetables
you can eat, period, is sweet potato.
Check out the nutritional facts on them.
But yeah, check out, might want to watch the video again to get some of the finer points
on the bacteria and the cholesterol, what I mentioned.
But those are just two or three things out of 50 points I could expand on when it comes
to the benefits of fiber.
The other big benefit is appetite regulation.
It'll control your appetite to a better degree so it'll stop you from wanting to snack on
foods.
That's it.
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Thanks for tuning in.