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kmud-110617-serotonin-endotoxins-stress — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-110617-serotonin-endotoxins-stress. The excerpt begins at 29:02 and runs for 1 minute.

In terms of all those dietary fibers that we talk about, that we're telling people that really they should be avoiding? Well, traditionally, we ate a very low fiber diet from--I mean, a low fiber diet from grains. I mean, we would have eaten our fruits and vegetables, but-- The fibers like the acacia and guar gum, these things are very convenient for food processing. Carrageenan is now very widely used. They can increase the weight of meat by as much as 30 percent by infecting this water-retaining gum, and it's used instead of cream for making ice cream, so it has a very long shelf life, where if you used good cream or coconut oil, you could get a very fine texture that would last a long time.