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jf-190910-how-to-fix-your-digestion-poop — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview jf-190910-how-to-fix-your-digestion-poop. The excerpt begins at 00:01:58 and runs for 1 minute 4 seconds.

The change from a crude diet to a very refined diet was one of the factors. Around the beginning of the 20th century, there were health organizations that emphasized using whole grains rather than refined. Whole wheat flour rather than white flour, for example, because of the bulk forming effect of the bran of the wheat. People who have studied the difference between, for example, Africans and Americans found that because there was a lot of potato in the diet of the Africans and other fibrous foods, their transit time on average was about 12 hours from in to out.