Resistant Starch and Colon Cancer

Resistant Starch and Colon Cancer

Fiber isn’t the only thing our good gut bacteria can eat; starch can also act as a prebiotic.

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This is a follow-up to my video Is the Fiber Theory Wrong?(http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-the-fiber-theory-wrong)

What is this butyrate stuff of which I speak? See:
• Bowel Wars: Hydrogen Sulfide vs. Butyrate (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bowel-wars-hydrogen-sulfide-vs-butyrate/)
• Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebiotics-tending-our-inner-garden)
• Treating Ulcerative Colitis with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-ulcerative-colitis-with-diet)

For videos on optimizing your gut flora, see:
• Microbiome: The Inside Story (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/microbiome-the-inside-story)
• What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype?http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whats-your-gut-microbiome-enterotype
• How to Change Your Enterotype (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-change-your-enterotype/)

More on preventing colon cancer in:
• Starving Cancer with Methionine Restriction (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/starving-cancer-with-methionine-restriction/)
• Stool pH and Colon Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stool-ph-and-colon-cancer/)
• Solving a Colon Cancer Mystery (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/solving-a-colon-cancer-mystery/)

If you’re eating healthy do you need a colonoscopy? Find out in Should We All Get Colonoscopies Starting at Age 50? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-we-all-get-colonoscopies-starting-at-age-50).

When regular starches are cooked and then cooled, some of the starch recrystallizes into resistant starch. For this reason, pasta salad can be healthier than hot pasta and potato salad healthier than a baked potato. Find out more in my next video Getting Starch to Take the Path of Most Resistance (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Getting-starch-to-take-the-path-of-most-resistance).

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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