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Enders: Dietary Fiber Protects Against Colon and Metabolically-Driven Cancers
“Fiber can protect you of colon cancer, for example, and then other cancers that are related to those metabolic processes that I mentioned.”
Dr. Giulia Enders: Stress hormones select for harmful gut microbes in studies
“And also some microbes, and that is maybe the most hygienic part of it all, they thrive on stress hormones. They are really able to deal with them very well, and others are not. You're kind of making an atmosphere for your gut. We're selecting gut microbes tha…”
Enders: Unhealthy guts contribute to anxiety, depression, and immune dysfunction
“And then also some other things are also a bit more subtle when you look at the effect of an unhealthy gut on symptoms like anxiety, risk of depression, just an immune system that's out of check. Maybe influenced by some disturbances in the gut has an impact.”
Dr. Enders: Cooking and cooling carbs increases prebiotic resistant starch
“Or when you just have carbs like rice and noodles and so on, if you cook them once, let them cool down, suddenly their content of Like the resistant starch, and so with that soluble, water-soluble fiber, rises. So just having your carbs cooked, cool them down,…”
Enders: Long-term soft drink consumption significantly elevates inflammatory disease risk
“We see, for example, people drinking soft drinks high in sugar for 1020 years, They have a significant elevated risk of, like, inflammatory diseases.”
Enders: Half of adults fail to replenish microbes lost to antibiotics
“So we see especially small kids and seniors in studies that they have a harder time going back to their microbiome after a round of antibiotics. Then we have all the adults in the middle area of this. For them, it's like fifty-fifty. Some of them will actually…”
Enders: Squatting Posture Reduces Rectal Pressure and Hemorrhoid Risk
“When we put our legs up a little bit, you could say like a 30 degree angle from just being horizontal, then this gets loosened up, and then there's not this curve anymore, but it's rather a bit straight, and you know, this is just the natural position when we …”
Enders: Ultra-processed foods convert to sugar immediately in the small intestine
“When you look at highly or ultra-processed foods, they're so almost falling apart into sugar particles. White bread, white pastries, white flour stuff. I mean, you can chew, but it'll be very soon just sugar in the very first you know, inches of your small int…”
Enders: The gut microbiome positively adapts within three days of dietary changes
“Some effects you'll see after three days. Some it might take, you know, one, two, or three weeks, but that's really the amount of time. You hardly ever take more than that in the Department of the Microbiome to reach all these really nice, good changes, becaus…”
Enders: Studies show coffee reduces sleep quality even when falling asleep easily
“Because we've seen all the studies, and rarely ever is science so clear on one point. There's always multiple opinions, usually. But with coffee, there's really not been a study where you don't see an effect. People will say, but I have no trouble falling asle…”
Dr. Enders: Time-restricted eating often improves visceral fat accumulation
“When you look at visceral fat, like this Sudden belly coming in in your forties or something, or afterwards. Then, oftentimes, you see some improvement when you actually watch the times where you eat, and if you have some time in between where you really don't…”
Enders: Large studies show synthetic vitamin E increases smoker lung cancer risk
“Some supplements even have disadvantageous effects in big studies. Really, I'm talking big studies like vitamin E at a higher risk of people who smoke having lung cancer.”
Enders: Diet and probiotics can directly trigger skin reactions
“After probiotics, sometimes things like this can pop up, or food can even show up on the skin.”
Enders: Studies show probiotics help treat antibiotic-induced diarrhea
“We've seen studies that probiotics help with antibiotic-induced diarrhea. So especially for children also, and the elderly, as I said, but also with grownups experiencing diarrhea, that is an indicator probiotics could be helpful.”
Enders: Decaf coffee delivers the same microbiome benefits as regular coffee
“The Pondiphena is an antioxidant. Wonderful. They are actually good for the microbiome, you could say, but you can have them with decaf coffee just as well.”
Enders: The Gut Naturally Replenishes All Its Cells Every Two Weeks
“Because usually after two weeks, a gut really replenishes all its cells.”
Dr. Giulia Enders: Research proves food quality impacts wound healing and psychiatric illnesses
“We have the research on wound healing after surgery, for example, and the quality of foods of psychiatric diseases even.”
Enders: Email Apnea Triggers Elevated Stress Hormones and Muscle Tension
“People at workplace might have this phenomena where it's called e-mail apnea, where they hold their breath when they hear the sound or they see a new e-mail coming in repeatedly over the course of a day, or breathe really fast and too, too deep or something, W…”
Enders: Endoscopies reveal that acute stress causes gut walls to turn pale
“When you look at the gut with the camera, And then you really stress out the person. The walls of the gut go pale.”
Dr. Enders: Alcohol disrupts digestion by irritating immune cells, nerves, and microbiome
“And it's a mixture of alcohol annoying the immune cells, alcohol not being good on the nerve cells, alcohol getting chaos into the microbiome, so all of this comes together and gives you this weird, weird text message on your toilet in the next morning saying,…”