Aaron Hartman explains how prebiotics like cranberry and pomegranate feed gut bacteria to produce butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid that heals the gut lining, reduces brain inflammation, and affects metabolism. Prebiotics differ from probiotics: they're the food, not the bacteria themselves.
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The other thing that's come out in this research is these, these things called prebiotics. You've got probiotics, you've got prebiotics, you've got postbiotics. So the, the prebiotics are fiber and different chemicals, plant colors, that the bacteria will eat to actually make these molecules that turn into the GLP1s or what else. The biggest source for those are cranberry, pomegranate extracts, grapeseed extracts that actually feed these bacteria. One of the things that these, these bacteria will make are butyrate or short chain fatty acids that also have a big impact on healing leaky gut on the gut, mucosal membrane, as well as your brain and brain inflammation. So this is opening a whole wide range of different research opportunities, as well as clinical opportunities to how can we actually improve people's health through prebiotics and probiotics, getting a change in their metabolism.