Fermented Foods and Probiotics | Doctor's Mailbag with Dr. Neal Barnard

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Physicians Committee

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Neal Barnard gives his thoughts on probiotics and fermented foods when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room podcast!

He doesn't stop there either. Dr. Barnard also gives advice to someone who was vegan for 25 years, but began eating meat again. What is the best way for them to get back on track? Find out and raise your nutrition IQ when Chuck opens The Doctor's Mailbag. Dr. Barnard spends more than 30 minutes answering diet and health questions sent in by listeners!

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0:00.0	What is your opinion on probiotics? Don't waste your time. I know this is exactly the
0:05.6	opposite of what everybody else will say. Your body is already colonized with bacteria
0:09.5	of all different kinds, but it really matters. Is the other foods that you're eating,
0:14.2	are they the ones that nurture the survival of the healthy bacteria or they nurture the survival of
0:19.2	unhealthy bacteria?
0:21.2	Well, hello there and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:34.0	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a
0:38.8	listen, or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate the fact
0:45.7	that you are here. And we are rounding out this year with a big episode. It is Dr. Neil Barnard
0:55.9	answering your questions for the next half hour. We have so many fantastic people who wrote in and
1:06.0	stuffed the doctor's mailbag and we tried to get to as many of those questions as we possibly
1:12.0	could. Questions like what you heard at the beginning of the show, what are Dr. Barnard's thoughts
1:17.5	on probiotics and fermented foods you heard that little clip, but he's going to go a lot deeper
1:23.3	with his answer in just a little bit plus. We heard from somebody who needed some advice.
1:28.4	They said, well, look, I just began eating a plant-based diet and my blood sugar has really improved.
1:35.1	But I haven't lost any weight. So how could that be and how can I get the scale moving? Dr.
1:42.4	Barnard has some great advice for that. Plus, we're also going to hear whether soy curls should be
1:48.0	part of a healthy plant-based diet and iron absorption. This is a big one. Can you get enough iron
1:54.8	on a plant-based diet? How do you get enough iron on a plant-based diet? Very interesting question
2:01.1	that we have not yet tackled on the show as well is this and it has to do with hair loss.
2:07.9	Is there a connection between taking meat off of your plate and dairy out of your diet and hair loss?
2:15.8	Dr. Barnard has a ton to say about that and he's also going to help somebody out who wrote in
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