How much fiber does the speaker say sub-Saharan African populations consume per day?

Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101 | Fiber_ The Superfood Revolution

19 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD titled "Gut Health 101 | Fiber: The Superfood Revolution." The speaker asserts that high dietary fiber intake is linked to low rates of autoimmune disease, heart disease, and cancer, and cites sub-Saharan African populations as consuming ~80–100 grams of fiber per day. The speaker also references soluble vs. insoluble fiber and emphasizes real, fibrous foods as fuel for gut-derived metabolites.

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80 to 100 grams per day.

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Fiber is the new superfood. It's just amazing how just getting adequate fiber in your diet in countries like in populations sub Saharan African populations consume 80 to 100, which these numbers are crazy grams of fiber a day. They have no autoimmune diseases, almost no heart disease and cancer. Now we're realizing that all the things your gut makes, you have to have the fuel. And that is fibrous, healthy, real fiber. And there's soluble and insoluble, which I don't want to get in the weeds with that, but that's the pre block.