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[Strangelove]

There are many discussions on line in health forums, but I cannot confirm anything for sure.

 

I know from many reviews that grapefruit seed extract is a good biofilm buster, do you have any other complaints that might have anything to do with an infection?

 

I cannot really understand how the problem of balance correlates with the other issues.

[MEMOREX]

There are many discussions on line in health forums, but I cannot confirm anything for sure.

 

I know from many reviews that grapefruit seed extract is a good biofilm buster, do you have any other complaints that might have anything to do with an infection?

 

I cannot really understand how the problem of balance correlates with the other issues.

 

I am thinking the balance issue could be an ear infection. I use to get hives on my body which appears overnight.There have also been a big improvement with this. Around this time some of the supplement I was using included grapeseed extract and Membrane Complex by Nutrient Carrier. I was thinking then maybe one of those two was responsible.

 

My day to day complaint includes running nose, watery and itchy eyes, brain fog and the fatigue.

 

[albedo]

An interesting article from SA in case you have not seen it:

The Tantalizing Links between Gut Microbes and the Brain

http://www.scientifi...A_HLTH_20151027

[treonsverdery]

I was just viewing a youtube video then made these comments about BDNF probiotic prebiotic effects

BDNF is published as beneficial

 

 

this patent describes a variety of the probotic bacteria Bifidobacterium longum that causes a greater amount of BDNF compared with water at lab mammal neural tissue http://www.google.co...tents/US8343482

 

prebiotics food that bacteria like that cause greater brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) at the hippocampus it is near 1.7ish or 1.8ish times higher with fructooligosaccharide (FOS) Prebiotics http://www.ncbi.nlm....2/figure/f0005/

[albedo]

In case you have missed it, there is an article in the March 2016 issue of the Life Extension Foundation magazine:

 

Safely Reduce Anxiety and Mood Disorders

http://www.lifeexten...sorders/page-01

 

which promotes a new product for mood they put on the market (but I never tried it) which includes a mix of Lactobacillus helveticus strain R0052 and Bifidobacterium longum strain R0175: http://www.lifeexten...florassist-mood

[fairy]

If I were to extract my own starch from potatoes, how much of it would be RS?

[fairy]

Edit

 

Found this: If you weigh a raw potato (regular white potato), 15-20% of that weight is raw starch. Of that, 75% of it is RS. With me? So if you weighed out 100g of raw potato, it would contain 20g of starch, and about 15g of RS. Source: http://goo.gl/hdcKqI

 

[Kinesis]

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The reason I am asking is because I can not seem to find unmodified potato starch here, so I would need to order from overseas.

 

There should be no need to go overseas.  Just yesterday I bought an eight pound bag at the grocery down the street for only $2.69.

 

Seriously, see fairy's posts above.  Packaged extracted potato starch is convenient for adding to other foods, but the most unmodified stuff you can get is in the produce section.  Bake one and season with some coconut oil and you have a tasty and nutritious treat.

 

Potatoes aren't that bad raw, either.  Aside from water, they're mostly unmodified potato starch with a bonus of a little protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals like potassium, and sundry other nutrients.  Although I don't have the source handy, i recently read that cooking potatoes and then cooling them overnight also produces resistant starch.  Potato salad anyone?

 

In general, it's clear that if you want to seed your digestive tract with specific species of bacteria, probiotic foods and commercial supplements are the about only game in town.  But I'm not convinced you have to resort to esoteric commercial products to feed them well.  The same kind of diet that is healthy anyway, one including a plentiful variety of plant foods - unmodified to the extent palatable - will also help keep your gut bugs happy.