Ray Peat Audio Archive

ewh-110825-serotonin-and-endotoxin — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-110825-serotonin-and-endotoxin. The excerpt begins at 24:57 and runs for 58 seconds.

So for the listeners, can you just identify some of those foods that you're talking about, the pectins and lignins that are not digestible or harder to digest? Oh, lots of vegetables. The less cooked a vegetable is, the better food it is for bacteria. And even the firm fruits, the ones that have a lot of fibrous material, such as pectin. Crisp apples, crisp pears are very good bacterial food, very poor human food. Pineapple too? Yeah. The cellulose itself, the more pure the cellulose is, the less bacteria are able to break it down.