Gary Brecka argues you're not eating to feed yourself, but to feed your gut bacteria, which then nourish you. Your GI tract is a hollow tube where food stays outside your body until it's broken down small enough to absorb. The small intestine is where nutrients finally enter your bloodstream and become part of you.
We don't eat to feed ourselves. We eat to feed our gut bacteria, and they eat to feed us. So remember that there's an intermediary between the food that you eat and you, and this intermediary is your gut microbiome. So we want to be really good to our gut microbiome.
We do. In fact, what I find fascinating is that our gastrointestinal tract, it's a hollow tube, which means anything that goes in there is not part of you or me until it gets broken down to tiny little particles absorbed out of the gut and into the blood. Then it becomes part of you or me. And what's responsible for that fiber? Final breakdown, I do a journey through the gastrointestinal tract, and I say we're going to start at the mouth and end up at the other end. And when we get to the small intestine, I say to people, we have now come to the grand finale of digestion, the area where our nutrients are actually absorbed into our blood.
