<p>I have <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/10/the-happiness-microbe/”>lately been discussing</a> the potential benefits of fermented cabbage as sauerkraut and kimchi. In addition to being sources of both vitamin K1 and K2, the presence of the unique microbial species <em>Pediococcus pentosaceus</em> may provide an important role in reducing inflammation body-wide that, in turn, leads to effects such as reduced insulin resistance, reduced blood sugar, reduced blood pressure, and other benefits. Fermented cabbage also often provides the microbe <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/09/leuconostoc-mesenteroides/”><em>Leuconostoc mesenteroides</em></a> that also provides a blood sugar-reducing effect, potential neurological benefits, and has been found to bind the heavy metal lead (!!).</p>
<p>Pause for a moment: We are discussing the impact of intestinal microbes on human health. Who would have thought, even 5 or 10 years ago, that such magnificent effects were achievable with none of the side-effects or costs of pharmaceuticals, all by restoring microbes that we as humans should have been exposed to all along. The insights we are obtaining into the human microbiome are nothing short of earth-shattering and are pushing the efforts of Big Pharma to the back of the room. (Yes: I cannot help but gloat.)</p>
<p>But let’s focus on kimchi in particular because this traditional form of Korean fermented cabbage combines vitamins K1/K2 and unique microbes with capsaicin that comes from the red pepper that is typically added. Recall from a <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/09/hot-stuff/”>previous Wheat Belly Blog post</a> that capsaicin from hot peppers has important effects on the intestinal microbiome that include:</p>
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<li>Doubling the keystone species <em>Faecalibacterium prausnitzii</em>, the most vigorous producer of butyrate in the GI tract that, in turn, exerts effects such as reduced blood sugar, reduced blood pressure, and reduced triglycerides.</li>
<li>Increases Ruminococcaceae and Lachnospiraceae, species that are also important in producing beneficial fatty acids from dietary polysaccharides and major players in maintaining the intestinal barrier</li>
<li>Reduces populations of potential pathogens such as <em>Bacteroides fragilis</em>, <em>Clostridium difficile, E. coli, Streptococcus </em>and<em> Desulfovibrio</em></li>
<li>Increases Akkermansia, a keystone species that contributes to mucus production and insulin sensitivity</li>
<li>Reduces Enterobacteriaceae species that produce lipopolysaccharide, or LPS, the toxin that is released upon microbial death and enters the bloodstream, thereby reducing the important process of <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/07/recognize-markers-of-endotoxemia/”><em>endotoxemia.</em></a></li>
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<p>Toss in the garlic and ginger that are also common ingredients and you have a mix of ingredients that are inadvertently crafted for wonderful intestinal microbiome benefits. Of course, kimchi was not created with these end-effects in mind, but it provides a miraculous collection of health benefits exerted via effects on the human microbiome. You’d have to suspect that kimchi was not created over many generations based only on gustatory criteria, but health effects. After all, the people in Korea have among the lowest incidence of cardiovascular disease in the world.</p>
<p>Most Koreans consume kimchi every day, not uncommonly at every meal. There are, of course, hundreds of variations on kimchi recipes, but they all share the core ingredient, cabbage, as well as the microbes that reside on the surface of the cabbage plant: <em>Pediococcus pentosaceus,</em> <em><a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/09/leuconostoc-mesenteroides/”>Leuconostoc mesenteroides</a>, <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/10/the-happiness-microbe/”>Lactobacillus brevis</a>, Lactobacillus plantarum, </em>and others. That mix of microbial species is a <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/09/sauerkraut-and-kimchi-fermented-cabbage-superfoods/”>powerful combination</a>.</p>
<p>It is becoming increasingly easy to buy kimchi at the grocery store. But I have found that kimchi from Korea, available at Asian markets, tastes better and is less expensive. I recently paid $12.99 for a half-gallon of Korean kimchi and it was much tastier than several products produced in the U.S.</p>
<p>Recall that including plentiful fermented foods in your daily routine is crucial for restoring microbial diversity into your gastrointestinal microbiome. It means frequently including kimchi, sauerkraut, other fermented vegetables, kombucha, kefir, yogurt, fermented meats and other fermented foods in your diet.</p>
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<p>I’m bringing back a Wheat Belly Blog classic from several years ago, updated to today’s sensibilities and context. The creation of high-yield semi-dwarf wheat, intended to feed the world’s hungry, is a perfect illustration of the Law of Unintended Consequences on a massive worldwide scale.</p>
<p><strong>It’s 1961. Jack Kennedy has been inaugurated as President, the Cuban missile crisis dominates headlines, and Hostess cupcakes and Twinkies are the rage in school kid’s lunch boxes. </strong></p>
<p>I was 4 years old, playing with toys on the floor while my mother ironed shirts, Divorce Court droning on the television, the scent of bread baking in the oven wafts through the living room.</p>
<p>Let’s try and recast this common domestic scene in 2021. Well, I might be surfing on my computer going to battle against Facebook misinformation, the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic news on the TV in the background. New faces, new technology. But, beneath the surface, human life hasn’t changed all that much in 50 years. But if bread baking remained part of the picture, it would yield something different than the stuff our mothers used to make. The bread would look much the same with brown crust on the outside, the same alluring scent, the same texture, though ours might be a darker, heavier, fiber-rich variety than mom’s white flour product. But probe beneath the surface and you will find something entirely different than mom’s proud loaves.</p>
<p><strong>How different? </strong></p>
<p>In the late 1960s, a valiant agricultural breeding effort was launched in then Third World nation, Mexico, complete with noble intentions of feeding the world’s hungry. Dr. Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist with the moral commitment of a Minnesotan Lutheran and the work ethic of a Norwegian farmer, understood that grains, in particular, could be genetically manipulated into the service of providing calories for hungry humans.</p>
<p><strong>Thousands of genetic experiments, mating different breeds of plants, coupling wheat with other grasses, and Borlaug’s prize creation resulted:</strong> high-yield, semidwarf wheat, a plant that required enormous quantities of nitrogen fertilizer to flourish, with fewer nutrients required to grow the short, 18-inch long stalk (unlike the 4-foot or longer traditional stalk) and more nutrients diverted to grow the unusually bulky seeds. But flourish it did, yielding more per acre than any wheat strain preceding it.</p>
<p><strong>Introduced into India and Pakistan, and yield doubled within the first year. In Mexico, yield-per-acre quadrupled over the first few years after its introduction, yields climbing higher every year over the next 10 years in cultivation.</strong></p>
<p>Borlaug, who vocally preached a better-life-through-science message, became the hero of Big Agribusiness, persuading governments and farmers that, though it looked different and had unique needs, this creation of genetics research could save the world by casting crop diversification aside in favor of vast monoculture fields of grains. Borlaug did have to repeatedly answer criticisms over the greater nitrogen requirements and herbicide and pesticide inputs, but he defended such practices as necessary evils in the quest to feed the world’s hungry.</p>
<p>Borlaug’s semi-dwarf wheat delivered on his promise of greater yields, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the World Health Organization estimating that as many as one billion people were saved from starvation by more readily available and inexpensive chapati, himbasha, Barbari and other breads, variant ethnic staples on the wheat product theme. Starvation was replaced by surplus in some regions of the world, earning Borlaug the Nobel Peace Prize for his creation.</p>
<p>Borlaug’s success whetted the appetite of agribusiness to continue the quest to “improve” on nature’s design. Demand for greater and greater yields, coupled with increased susceptibility to pests and diseases, paved the road to the methods of genetic modification, or gene splicing to insert specific genes, with promises of solving such issues with targeted genetically programmed features. The world of agriculture and nutrition has never been quite the same.</p>
<p>Though Dr. Borlaug’s efforts now seem primitive in light of new technologies that create, for instance, strains of corn that express their own pesticide (Bt toxin) and are resistant to herbicides such as glyphosate, his vision of a world surviving on agribusiness generated fare of high-yield grains, millions of tons deliverable wherever and whenever needed, has materialized. It has proven a catalyzing force in allowing continued human population growth. Indeed, world population of 3 billion people inhabiting the world in Borlaug’s time has now expanded to 7 billion in ours, U.N. projections of 10 billion by 2050, permitted in large part by the proliferation of high-yield monoculture grains to yield plentiful inexpensive calories. It is politically incorrect to talk about world overpopulation and so we talk about it as its proxies, such as overfishing and acidification of the world’s oceans, soil erosion and salinization, endocrine disruption via industrial chemicals in food and water, even global climate change.</p>
<p><strong>Back to mom’s bread. Noble intentions or no, the stuff of modern wheat today not only looks different with it’s short knee-high stature, large seeds, and large seed head, but it is different.</strong></p>
<p>If I mate a goldfish with a piranha, I will surely obtain an entire range of unique hybrids, some deformed, some viable, some docile, some deadly, given the unpredictability of such an unnatural convergence. The offspring of this peculiar theoretical mating would likely look different than either parent, behave differently than either parent, likely have genetic and biochemical idiosyncrasies of either, both, or neither parent. Such an experience, repeated over and over again, introducing the seed of other fish species, repetitive mating to select for specific characteristics, such as large carnivorous teeth or bright orange color, will, over time, yield something a genetically far cry from our original and naturally-selected two fish.</p>
<p>This is precisely what Borlaug and his successors have done, creating new breeds using methods that extend beyond the traditional farming methods of choosing, say, a tastier or hardier cucumber from the patch to save for next year’s seeds. While conducting such genetics manipulations may raise accusations of God-playing or unnatural engineering when animals, even fish, are involved, such responses are less likely when it comes to plants, including ones we eat. What might be the effects of such never-before-consumed-by-humans sorts of grains such as high-yield, semidwarf wheat?</p>
<p>Well, we certainly can’t ask agribusiness nor the geneticists who continue to tweak, mate, and genetically manipulate such things, as they adhere to the <strong>USDA’s loose policy of don’t ask, don’t tell</strong>: create a new strain using traditional techniques, or even using extreme and bizarre techniques—it makes no difference in the USDA’s book—sell it as the newest ciabatta at the supermarket tomorrow, no questions asked.</p>
<p>Such a laissez-faire policy is paralleled at the EPA, an agency that puts the burden of proof of the safety of industrial chemicals on the public, not on industry, allowing chemical and other manufacturers to introduce hundreds or thousands of new chemical creations every year without having to demonstrate safety first. As it goes at the EPA, so it also goes at the USDA.</p>
<p>In the cause of unrestrained free enterprise, we now have exposure to an impressive array of industrial compounds in drinking water, produce, livestock, toiletries, cosmetics, even baby formula, just as we have exposure to unique components of newly created grains with allergenic, immunogenic, digestive, and neurological effects, all occupying the widest part of the USDA MyPyramid, largest segment of MyPlate.</p>
<p>Yes, Dr. Borlaug deservedly received the title of Father of the Green Revolution, a revolution from which we may never recover.</p>
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<p>Listen to my latest Defiant Health podcast episode: <a href=”https://www.buzzsprout.com/1795054/9314515″>Does wheat cause heart disease? </a></p>
<p>We are told that, in addition to obvious causes of heart disease such as cigarette smoking and diabetes, risk factors for coronary heart disease and heart attack include high total and LDL cholesterol and that you need to reduce dietary fat intake and take statin cholesterol-reducing drugs to address this source of risk. We are bombarded by this message by the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, practicing cardiologists and primary care doctors, and drug advertising. These efforts at raising public awareness of this message would be terrific—if it were true.</p>
<p>As I have often pointed out, the original research by Drs. William Friedewald and William Frederickson at the National Institutes of Health in the 1950s and 1960s identified cholesterol in the various fractions of plasma (the clear portion of blood after red blood cells have been removed) as a way to crudely and indirectly estimate the lipoproteins (fat-carrying proteins) in the very low-density, low-density, intermediate-density, and high-density fractions layers of plasma spun down in a centrifuge, thus the terms VLDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and, when all added up, total cholesterol. In other words, measuring cholesterol in these blood fractions was meant to be a means of indirectly gauging the number of lipoproteins present. It did not mean that cholesterol, a ubiquitous component of every cell in your body, was a causative factor in coronary heart disease, but that is the modern public misconception that most people hold.</p>
<p>Just take a single layer of lipoproteins in the centrifuged plasma: the low-density fraction, estimated by measuring the amount of cholesterol in that layer. The lipoproteins in that layer are not all the same; in fact, they vary widely in size and configuration: some are small, some are large, others are intermediate, with varying surface proteins and conformations. You can appreciate that characterizing this heterogeneous fraction of lipoproteins by simply measuring cholesterol is astoundingly overly simplistic.</p>
<p>But broadcasting the notion of “reducing cholesterol,” especially with the use of statin cholesterol drugs, was something healthcare practitioners and the public could embrace—even if it was wrong. I hope that you can appreciate that the real tragedy of focusing on cholesterol and statin drugs is that it took everyone’s attention off the <em>real</em> causes of heart disease that include provocation of small LDL particles (the actual lipoprotein particle, not LDL cholesterol), excess VLDL particles caused by consumption of grains and sugar and exaggerated by insulin resistance, and the processes of insulin resistance and inflammation. That’s why nobody around here is concerned about cholesterol, saturated fat intake, or silly statin drugs. Instead, we focus on eliminating the dietary provocateurs of small LDL particles (wheat, grains, and sugar); and reversing the causes of insulin resistance (wheat, grains, and sugars; lack of vitamin D, magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids, iodine; bacterial <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/07/recognize-markers-of-endotoxemia/”>endotoxemia</a>)—all accomplished without resorting to drugs to “reduce cholesterol.”</p>
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<p><em>Lactobacillus brevis</em> is yet another interesting bacterial species with an impressive list of potential health benefits for its human host. It is unusually tolerant to acidic conditions in the stomach and bile acids from the gallbladder, thereby easily surviving to make its way to the lower reaches of the small bowel and colon. Isolated from fermented foods such as fermented meats and kimchi, one of its standout effects is a reduction in inflammation, especially intestinal inflammation.</p>
<p>Experimental models and some human trials of <em>L. brevis</em> administration suggest a broad panel of potential effects:</p>
<ul>
<li>Reduced inflammation of the colon and reduced colitis (<i>L. brevis</i> Bmb6). This microbial species has specifically been shown to strengthen the tight junction barrier between intestinal cells that could be especially beneficial in ulcerative colitis.</li>
<li>Reduced oral inflammation (<em>L. brevis</em> CD2). Among its effects in the oral cavity, <em>L. brevis</em> suppresses <em>Streptococcus mutans</em>, the species that causes tooth decay, reduces decay-causing acidity, and reduces gum bleeding.</li>
<li>Increases diversity of bacterial species in the colon, including increased Akkermansia. It also reduces Proteobacteria (the species of dysbiosis and<a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2020/08/50-shades-of-sibo/”> SIBO</a>) that yield metabolic advantages to the host, including reduced <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/07/recognize-markers-of-endotoxemia/”>endotoxemia</a></li>
<li>Prevents weight gain</li>
<li>Suppresses potentially pathogenic species such as <i>Escherichia coli</i>, <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i>, <i>Salmonella</i><em> typhimurium</em>, and <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i></li>
<li>Protects against mercury toxicity by binding mercury molecules and protecting the intestinal barrier from toxic mercury effects (<em>L. brevis</em> 23017)</li>
<li>Reduces uric acid blood levels induced by fructose consumption (<em>L. brevis</em> DM9218)</li>
<li>Produces gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) that yields anti-anxiety and blood pressure-reducing effects (<em>L. brevis</em> CD0817 )</li>
<li>Exerts favorable effects on hippocampal function and nerve cells and increases the brain growth factor brain-derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF. (Diminished hippocampal health is the greatest area of interest in Alzheimer’s dementia.) (<em>L. brevis</em> SBC8803)</li>
<li>Converts fructose, glucose, and sucrose to mannitol that results in a reduction in blood sugar and potentially <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/09/leuconostoc-mesenteroides/”>protection from Parkinson’s disease</a> (L. brevis 3-A5)</li>
<li>Protection against urinary tract infections, especially those caused by uropathogenic strains of <em>E. coli </em>(<em>L. brevis</em> DT24)</li>
<li>Inhibits colon cancer cells (<em>L. brevis</em> 8803)</li>
<li>Reduces allergic responses (<em>L brevis</em> HY7401)</li>
<li>Reduces symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (IBS-D) (<em>L. brevis</em> KB290)</li>
<li>Modest reduction in the incidence of influenza in schoolchildren (23·9% with no treatment and 15·7% with <em>L. brevis</em>) (<em>L. brevis</em> KB290)</li>
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<p>Given its impressive range of potential benefits for humans who consume and harbor this microbe, why would I call it “the Happiness Microbe”? Add to <em>L. brevis</em>‘ effects is its ability to produce a compound called phenylethylamine, or PEA (not to be confused with palmitoylethanolamide, an endocannabinoid that I’ve discussed in past for its intestinal barrier and pain-relieving effects). Greater levels of PEA raise mood, increase mental clarity, and improve memory. Low levels of PEA have been identified in people with depression—could the solution to depression be an increase in <em>L. brevis</em> combined with efforts to reduce endotoxemia? I believe that the evidence is indeed pointing in that direction. Imagine that: Depression is not a condition best addressed with pharmaceuticals that simply interrupt a pathway affecting emotions, but address basic underlying microbial and hormonal disruptions that, with simple bowel flora efforts, undo the dark moods and suicidal thoughts and without the undesirable adverse effects of prescription drugs?</p>
<p>By ingesting <em>L. brevis</em> and others via consumption of fermented foods, you therefore not only potentially obtain some of the benefits listed above, but you may, over time, improve mood and mental function. The key is to therefore include foods <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/09/sauerkraut-and-kimchi-fermented-cabbage-superfoods/”>fermented from cabbage</a> and related vegetables in your daily routine that provide <em>Lactobacillus brevis</em> as well as another beneficial microbe, <a href=”https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2021/09/leuconostoc-mesenteroides/”><em>Leuconostoc mesenteroides.</em></a></p>
<p>You can appreciate that one of the challenges with this species is the tangle of various strains available. We know, however, that this bacterial species is a common inhabitant in its various strain forms of the surface of cabbage and related vegetables such as kale. My suspicion is that many of these benefits are <em>species</em> effects, not necessarily <em>strain</em> effects.</p>
<p>By the way, if you are interested in new and unique ways to put your microbiome to work for practical use, mobilizing an army of creatures you can employ to your benefit, you will want to get a copy of my new book, <a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Super-Gut-Four-Week-Reprogram-Microbiome-ebook/dp/B096RTDMXV”>Super Gut</a>, that will be released Feb 1, 2022. Super Gut will NOT be the usual “take a probiotic and get more fiber” sort of book that has already been written, but a how-to book on how to achieve anti-aging effects, smoother skin, manage SIBO using microbes, and other strategies, all designed to help you regain health, youth, and higher levels of functioning.</p>
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<p>The <u><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-10-Day-Reprogram-Amazing/dp/1623366364″>Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox</a></u> supplies you with carefully designed meal plans and delicious recipes to fully eliminate wheat and related grains in the shortest time possible. Perfect for those who may have fallen off the wagon or for newcomers who need a jump-start for weight loss, this program guides you through the complete 10-Day Detox experience. In addition to this quick-start program, it will show you:</p>
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<li>How to recognize and reduce wheat-withdrawal symptoms,</li>
<li>How to avoid common landmines that can sabotage success</li>
<li>How to use nutritional supplements to further advance weight loss and health benefits</li>
<li>How to effectively navigate the grocery store and choose safe products</li>
<li>How weight loss and magnificent health are achievable without cutting calories, without hunger</li>
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<p>Our goal: to help you succeed in restoring your health and achieving your health goals.</p>
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<p>Through the New York Times bestseller, <u><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Revised-Updated-Weight/dp/1984824945/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=wheat+belly+revised&qid=1575333940&s=books&sr=1-1″>Wheat Belly</a></u>, millions of people learned how to reverse years of chronic health problems by removing wheat from their daily diets. But, after reading the original <u><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Revised-Updated-Weight/dp/1984824945/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=wheat+belly+revised&qid=1575333940&s=books&sr=1-1″>Wheat Belly</a></u> or the <u><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Total-Health-Weight-Loss/dp/1623364086/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=”>Wheat Belly Total Health </a></u>book, or even using the recipes from the <u><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-Cookbook-Recipes-Weight/dp/1609619366/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CWF2T89V226P84YE3TXK”>Wheat Belly Cookbook</a></u> and <u><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-30-Minute-Less-Cookbook/dp/1623362083/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1S2TZRMT29VWY218JTK3″>Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook</a></u>, people still said: “<strong>I’ve read the books, but I’m still not sure how to get started on this lifestyle.</strong>”</p>
<p>The <u><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Wheat-Belly-10-Day-Reprogram-Amazing/dp/1623366364/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=KEJQ80KJTKKV”>Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox </a></u> Challenge helps readers navigate the core Wheat Belly lifestyle strategies. This is the quickest, most assured way to get started on regaining magnificent health and slenderness by adopting the Wheat Belly lifestyle.</p>
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