Controversial Thoughts: Hunter-gatherers don’t like fiber!

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Do the Hadza really consume 100g of fiber per day? Do we really know what a healthy gut microbiome is? Doubt it! When asked to rank their preferences for food (their diets are essentially meat, honey, berries, baobab fruit, and tubers) they consistently rank honey as their favorite and tubers last! In this video, I break down a number of articles looking at how the Hadza eat, their predilection for honey and meat, their oral health, and the seasonal cycling of their microbiota. I challenge the notion that we know what a "healthy" gut microbiome really is and suggest that this is better defined by clinical outcomes rather than myopic interpretations of individual species/phyla. I also share my own gut results on a nose to tail carnivore diet with honey in it.

Check us out at Heart & Soil (www.heartandsoil.co) if you need more nose to tail nutrition in your life! Firestarter (our high stearic acid tallow from suet) and Gut & Digestion are out now.

You can also follow us at @heartandsoilsupplements on IG.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What is up you guys?
0:02.0	It's been a really exciting week here at Harden's soil with the release of Firestarter.
0:06.2	I've done a ton of videos previously on Stereoc acid and Linoleic acid and why I am super
0:11.5	excited about Stereoc acid containing fats like suet which we made into the little Firestarter
0:17.0	pills.
0:18.0	We also released gut and digestion this week and it's got me thinking a lot about gut
0:21.4	stuff.
0:22.4	It's been kind of percolating in my mind.
0:23.9	I did a number of podcasts a few weeks ago with Vincent Pedre, Michael Ruchio and Lucy
0:27.7	Mailing about gut stuff and I came across some articles that were really interesting
0:31.6	looking at the seasonal variation of the human microbiome.
0:34.1	I want to review some of those today and I found another paper this morning that was so
0:38.5	cool that I had to do a whole controversial thoughts starting with this one.
0:44.1	So if you listen to the mainstream narrative today they will tell you that fiber is good
0:48.8	and you need more and more plant fiber and the more plant fiber the better.
0:52.6	They will say things like the HODZ eat 100 to 150 grams of fiber per day which I think
0:57.3	is completely incorrect and misleading and I'll show you why in this video and they'll
1:01.0	say that's why they have a quote, healthy microbiome.
1:03.8	That's why they have a diverse microbiome.
1:06.0	Now in this video I'll also review a little bit of my microbial diversity results from
1:11.3	one Jeviti which showed that on a carnivore diet with honey I have essentially a very high
1:17.8	alpha diversity with zero fiber.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paul Saladino, MD, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Paul Saladino, MD and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.