Search Weight Loss Topics:




Aug 25

Why the Hadza Diet is being touted as gut-health #goals – Well+Good

If youre suddenlyhearing the word Hadza a lotespecially from your gut-healthy friend who turned you on to apple cider vinegarand is basically your probiotic conciergeheres why.

It turns out, we could all stand to learn a lot, gut-health-wise, from the Hadza people in Tanzania, where a few hundred of them live as hunter-gatherers, only eating what they find in the wild.

Because of the highly processed Western diet, were losing important bacteria varied microbes that keep our well-being in check.And according to a new study, paying close attention to theHadza diet could help us get it back.

After comparing 350 stool samples collected from the Hadza withones from 17 other cultures, researchersnot only found that the Hadza peoples bacteria was muchmore diverse than those found in samples from theWestern diet, but it also differed season to season, depending on what they were eating.

The Hadza get 100 or more grams of fiber a day in their food, on average. We average 15 grams per day.

While they ate mostly meat and tubers in the dry seasons, they ate more berries and honey in the wet seasonsand each season had a specific set of gut bacteria. Whats interesting, though, is that thedry-season microbesthat disappeared in the wet season, for instance, returned for the following dry season.

What does this mean for Americans? Our range of gut bacteria isnt nearly asdiverse, but researchers think this study shows what were missing might not be lost forever. Since the Hadza people have beenable to re-harnesscertain microbes depending on what they were eating, a shift in our diets could work the same way.

I think this finding is really exciting, Lawrence David, PhD, told NPR. It suggests the shifts in the microbiome seen in industrialized nations might not be permanentthat they might be reversible by changes in peoples diets.

Not to worry, this doesnt mean you need to quit your day job to take up thehunter-gatherer lifestyle.You might just have to up your intake of fiber.

Fibers all thats left at the very end of our digestive tract where these microbes live, so theyve evolved to be very good at digesting it, Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor atStanford University, said in a statement. The Hadza get 100 or more grams of fiber a day in their food, on average. We average 15 grams per day.

Along with upping fiber, its also a good idea toonly eat minimally processed foods andalways have in-season fruits and veggies on hand, Samuel Smits, PhD, professor at Stanford University, told Seeker.

That extra bacteria will give your gut a nice boostand when our microbes arehappy, were happy.

Try this gut-friendly ice cream float for dessert tonight. And be careful that youre not doing these three everyday things that can destroy your microbiome.

Continued here:
Why the Hadza Diet is being touted as gut-health #goals - Well+Good

Related Posts

    Your Full Name

    Your Email

    Your Phone Number

    Select your age (30+ only)

    Select Your US State

    Program Choice

    Confirm over 30 years old

    Yes

    Confirm that you resident in USA

    Yes

    This is a Serious Inquiry

    Yes

    Message:



    matomo tracker