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kmud-101119-endotoxins — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-101119-endotoxins. The excerpt begins at 00:08:21 and runs for 58 seconds.

About 30 years ago, some Australian studies saw that people who ate a lot of oat bran actually were increasing their risk for bowel cancer. Certain types of fiber cause such intense growth of bacteria that the bacteria produce many types of toxins, not just the fragment of the bacterial coat that's known as endotoxin, but they can produce modified proteins, modified fats and so on from indigestible food. So endotoxin is just one kind of universal toxin that everyone has some basic defenses against it