What can we eat to increase good gut bacteria richness in our colon?
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Little did we know until recently how powerfully our gut bacteria can affect our health. Catch up on the latest science here:
• Microbiome: The Inside Story (
• Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (
• What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype? (
• How to Change Your Enterotype (
• Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces (
• Gut Dysbiosis – Starving Our Microbial Self (
Even white rice can be better than many choices (see Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape ( but brown is better (Is it Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown? ( and pigmented rice probably the best.
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