Friday Favorite: The Best Dietary Changes for Colon Cancer Prevention

A low-fiber diet is a key driver of microbiome depletion, the disappearance of diversity in our good gut flora. What would happen within just two weeks if you swapped the diets of typical Americans with that of healthier eaters?

For more on colon cancer, see:
• Stool pH and Colon Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/stoo...)
• Solving a Colon Cancer Mystery (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/solv...)
• Resistant Starch and Colon Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/resi...)
• Bowel Wars: Hydrogen Sulfide vs. Butyrate (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/bowe...)
• Putrefying Protein & “Toxifying” Enzymes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/putr...)

Should we all get scoped at age 50? Check out Should We All Get Colonoscopies Starting at Age 50? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/shou...) and What to Take Before a Colonoscopy (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what....

For more on keeping our colonic colleagues thriving, see:
• Microbiome: The Inside Story (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/micr...)
• Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/preb...)
• What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what...)
• How to Change Your Enterotype (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-...)
• Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Paleo...)
• Gut Dysbiosis: Starving Our Microbial Self (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-...)
• How to Become a Fecal Transplant Super Donor (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-...)
• How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-...)
• Microbiome: We Are What They Eat (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Micr...)
• How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-t...)

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