Honey contains over 180 biologically active compounds, including prebiotic oligosaccharides that are gentle on the gut and do not cause gas or bloating.

“talk about honey there are over a hundred and eighty biologically active compounds in honey and one of the things that honey includes is that it actually has a Legault saccharides which is a prebiotic although you don't need you don't need fiber for your gut microbiome by the way but your gut microbiome literally ferments amino acids into the short chain fatty acids that it needs if there is no fiber but the oligosaccharides are very gentle to the gut and very friendly doesn't cause gas and bloating and swelling of the mucosal tissue in the gut like other fibers do and and the bacteria in the gut do love it so you're when you're eating honey you're feeding the good back to your doing everything I mean it's just a wonderful food and it's animal based it's not playing bass it is not playing bass yeah I've been sharing a few of the been sharing a few studies that anyone that saw the podcast last week or two weeks ago for the CGM will know the effect of Ethiopian multiflora honey on fluconazole resistant Candida species in the oral cavity of AIDS patients there's many more here that I will share real quickly while you were just talking I shared this one about oral mucositis or randomized controlled trial with honey I guess why are we not surprised right I love sort of this idea that goodness gracious this I'll tell you another thing about honey I was somebody I can't remember who contacted me they had a patient so it was an integrative physician they had a patient that had a diabetic ulcer that they could not get to heal and they saw some of my articles about honey for whatever reason and they asked me what did I think about that I said well you know honey has a variety of literature research in medical journals for healing all kinds of wounds I would just go ahead and put honey on the wound put a piece of gauze over it and see what it does and that actually yield this diabetic ulcer that never was healing from conventional methods oh this is well known yeah and they didn't care in the hospital when I was doing my residency there's the hospital will sell you a 2 ounce tube of honey for $30 or $40 it's a finished process honey many honey but it's process I think they actually sell it meta honey yeah no thing and it's very well known then and of course they'll sell it to you for 10 times the markup because it's some sterile honey but it's probably less good than what you find anywhere yeah anywhere else yeah and I just want to highlight for people that on your website you have a lot of great articles about this please check this out guys I'll link to these in the show notes dr. Dannenberg common uka honey mouth health here is a great list of references for the oral benefits of honey antibacterial effects on nearly 60 species prevents the development of resistant strains manuka honey preventing the growth of biofilms reducing the production of acids reducing gingivitis on and on with the benefits of honey so I think that this is interesting to point out because a non processed sugar or specifically honey does not have the same effects in the mouth with regard to tooth decay that a processed sugar does and everyone gets worried about this I'm not saying that everyone needs to include honey in their carnivore diet but if you want to include some honey or you want to include some carbohydrates in a carnivore or an animal-based diet that are not gonna have complex fibers then this is the way to do it in my opinion it's been great for me as I said on the continuous glucose monitor podcast I found that it helps me manage my electrolytes better I am NOT insulin resistant as I showed in that podcast you can see my CGM readings my fasting glucose is very low I'll get a little spike it comes back to normal very quickly I would refer everyone back from the continuous glucose monitor podcast for all this information but I really think that our raw organic honey is is a very is a very potentially beneficial thing dr. Dannenberg has multiple articles on his website which go into this and you guys want to see it we showed a few articles there I will link to them in the show notes and I will write about this more in the cookbook now I'll just mention here briefly that when I put out the CGM episode Sonny will got very concerned they said why are you doing this you've talked about this in so much detail in the past it's not a good thing and I thought you know we're always evolving and I'm not saying that you need carbohydrates but if you want to include carbohydrates I found it to be an addition to my life and hey this is about as close as we're ever going to get to an animal-based carbohydrate we're gonna get into ketosis and the pros and cons as we wrap up the podcast here but I think we should chase results and not ketones we should be not be dogmatic and I encourage you all if you got if you see GM podcast was confusing re-listen to it I'll do more on continuous glucose monitoring very excited about what nutria cents is doing I'm going to keep wearing continuous glucose monitors myself and I found this to be a very useful addition to my diet occasionally to have some carbohydrates I think doctor Dan Barr burg and I will probably talk about this in a moment i I do have some concerns about rising levels of fasting glucose an overemphasis of what you might consider to be glucose sparing at the level of muscles so that's just some more comments on honey which i think is a very valuable addition it's very ancestrally anthropologically evolutionarily historically consistent food that our ancestors of anything for a long time and I don't think it's the same as high fructose corn syrup and I think that we've demonstrated that in clearer detail so why don't we I wanna we've already talked for a long time and this”

“when you talk about honey there are over a hundred and eighty biologically active compounds in honey and one of the things that honey includes is that it actually has a Legault saccharides which is a prebiotic”

“the oligosaccharides are very gentle to the gut and very friendly doesn't cause gas and bloating and swelling of the mucosal tissue in the gut like other fibers do and and the bacteria in the in the gut do love it”

“but i know in previous conversations with a few other people they had mentioned that honey had definitely had some fermentable substrates in it and and something there it would kind of make sense there's there are non-digestible oligosaccharides and substrates like that and honey”

“Honey contains oligosaccharides that can be utilized by the saccharolytic fermenters to yield beneficial metabolites that promote the prebiotic effect.”