The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
The plant-based diet, if you're eating a bunch of complex fibers that feed your gut microbiota, your gut microbiota produces these substances called short-chain fatty acids, things like butyrate. And it's known that these short-chain fatty acids play really essential components, both in terms of fueling colonocytes, enforcing the barrier, keeping inflammation low, regulating the immune system, regulating metabolism.
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Well, so the dietary fiber we eat is really the key for feeding this gut microbial community, and the point that the microbes in our digestive tract primarily live at the end of the digestive tract is really important because so much of the food that we eat in the Western world is laden in simple carbohydrates and fats and all of those things gets absorbed in the upper GI tract and leave our microbes essentially starving; there's no complex carbohydrate to feed this community.
It is. Yeah. And it's a primary fuel for colonocytes.