What Are Prebiotics?
To answer the question of what prebiotics are, lets start with our microbiome.
What they eat is insoluble fiber, which is also known as resistant starch.
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Its one of the two types of fiber contained in the foods we eat.
Its called resistant starch because it resists digestion by our digestive systems.
Prebiotics reduce our production of the stress hormone cortisol, and have an anti-anxiety (anxiolytic) effect.
How Do We Get Prebiotics?
Before recent years, prebiotics werent something you could ingest on their own.
They taste like a cross between an artichoke and a potato, and have deliciously creamy flesh.
And they are known colloquially and in the chef world asfartichokes.
That fermentationwhich occurs quickly despite sounding like something that takes months, not minutes or hourscreates gas.
Can You Take Prebiotics Without Experiencing Bloating?
Here is where science differs from anecdotal evidence.
This is often the case with other prebiotics.
Certainly this is the case for some people, as the industry continues to flourish.
For others like me, it doesnt matter what product I try, or what quantity of it.
I have since given up on taking prebiotics and chosen to leave well enough alone.
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