Hi there.
Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
We're going to talk about short chained fatty acids, what they are, and also some of the
best foods that help you stimulate the production of short chained fatty acids.
So these are basically acids that are produced by the fermentation of particular foods in
the intestine, and these fatty acids provide really good fuel for the colonic cells, they
help to build up their health.
They also stimulate cells that help to produce T cells, or immune cells, so it's very important
to have good levels of short chained fatty acids in your gut, because that means you've
got great gut health which means you've got great overall health and wellbeing.
So let's look at some of the best food sources, short chained fatty acid food sources.
Resistant starches is the first one.
These starches really resist breakdown, they break down very slowly and ferment very slowly
in the gut over a prolonged period of time, giving you a lot of energy.
We're talking about wholegrain cereals like barley, brown rice, and lentils.
Green bananas, remember I've always talked about green bananas, not the yellow bananas.
Cooked and cooled potatoes.
Sweet potatoes can do this as well.
And many people can't tolerate these foods, they tell me, "Eric, I feel sick when I eat
them, I get bloated and gassy."
Do a stool test, folks.
If you can't tolerate these foods, especially if it's quick after eating, you might want
to do a SIBO, a breath test to determine if you've got upper GI bacteria, and you may
also want to complement that by doing a comprehensive stool test along with this breath test to
determine the whole GI tract's microbial health.
It's a very good idea to do.
So these are great foods.
Brown rice is one of my favorites.
Brown rice and quinoa combined is very nice to eat.
Lentils are good too, and the green bananas cooked in coconut milk, what a fantastic food.
So that's number one, the resistant starches.
Number two is pectin, and I'm always talking about these foods too.
Berries and apples.
Green apples are my favorite.
Apricots, blackberries, carrots, oranges and apples, they contain pectin.
So pectin is a kind of starch also that breaks down more slowly over time, feeding the cells
lining the small bowel and the large bowel.
The third one is called FOS, or fructooligosaccharides.
Now, some supplement companies actually put this inside capsules with probiotics, which
I'm not a fan of at all.
I've had too many people complaining of aggravations when I used to make that recommendation, and
for that reason in my CanXida Restore product you will find no FOS in there.
So FOS and inulin, two types of sugars, are found quite a lot in foods like Jerusalem
artichokes, onions and leeks, and wheat, and rye, and asparagus.
So if you don't want to eat the gluten, avoid the wheat, but asparagus are a fantastic food.
Green beans also contain some amount of FOS in them.
Onions in particular are very, very good, red onions and brown onions.
So let me read that list again: Jerusalem artichokes, but don't eat too many or they
become fartichokes, remember.
Onions, leeks, rye and asparagus, and if you want some organic wheat is also quite good.
The other one you could look at, number four, is from a tree called the larch tree, larch
arabinogalactans.
So these are called a mannogalactan I think, a particular type of sugar that really helps
to feed up different aspects of your gut.
So this will help to feed up parts of the small bowel and the large bowel.
It's a great food for the short chained fatty acid, is larch.
It's particularly good for immune disfunction like sore throat.
It can also be used for autoimmune diseases, and even cancer treatment.
It's very, very good.
So that's larch arabinogalactan.
And the fifth one is guar gum, which is a thickening agent found ... Guar gum comes
from particular types of beans, I think, that they dry and then make a powder out of.
So guar gum if eaten in too large an amount can cause a lot of problems in the gut.
Very small amounts are quite beneficial, but again I've seen some people who buy tubs of
guar gum and have tablespoons per day, they get more bloating and more gas thinking it's
a die-off effect.
So don't eat guar gum or larch arabinogalactans in large amounts, you just need small amounts
of these regularly.
So those are the five food sources, best food sources for short chained fatty acid production.
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