Floriano Marchetti MD

None of the diseases we vaccinate against are innocuous. They are all serious diseases that can cause permanent damage and death.

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Every time I hear anti-vaxxers say that the diseases we vaccinate against are "innocuous" I want to scream. Each year in the US more than 40,000 people are diagnosed with an -caused cancer. And every year thousands of these people die. Parents: please vaccinate against HPV!

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I've seen epiglottitis (from Hib) once. Once too many. I've seen a toddler die of meningitis. One too many. I've seen a child die of influenza - again, one too many. I've seen tetanus in a child who was ventilated in intensive care; one too many. I've seen a young woman die of diphtheria - her parents never vaccinated her. This should never have happened. I've never, ever seen anybody permanently injured by a vaccine and I don't know of anyone, doctors or not, who have.

MH. Medical doctor. Father of 4 healthy vaccinated children.

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The scientific and medical communities are pretty unequivocal: dietary fiber is essential for optimal health.

Dietary fiber is a catch-all term for indigestible carbohydrates and other polymers found in plant-based foods. Fiber is broadly classified into soluble and insoluble: this relates to whether the substance dissolves in water. Fiber can be characterized further based on additional properties of the molecules in question. These include the ability of the substance to adsorb other compounds (such as lipids), bulking capacity, ability to encapsulate other molecules to transport to the lower GI tract, and the fermentability to be used as a food source for gut microorganisms.

Important fiber molecules include things like cellulose and lignin (insoluble) as well as pectins, mucilages, beta-glucans (soluble), and others.

Fiber plays many roles in our health and physiology including proper digestion and extraction of nutrients, gastric distention and sensation of fullness, facilitating healthy stool formation and bowel movements, regulating blood cholesterol levels, moderating glycemic responses to food, and serving as a nutrient source for the trillions of microorganisms that live in our gastrointestinal tract.

Indeed, inadequate intake of fiber is associated with a variety of health issues including diverticulosis and diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, constipation, but also cardiovascular issues, pancreatitis, and more.

Most Americans don’t consume enough dietary fiber. Common sources of fiber include a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, and nuts/seeds. Ideally, one should be attempting to increase daily fiber intake through food sources, as they typically contain multiple types of fiber that all play important roles in our health.

Fiber supplements can augment fiber intake, but since they typically contain only one type of fiber, they don’t offer as great a benefit as dietary sources. Some fiber is better than no fiber, but not all fiber supplements are equal, and many new ones on the market make unsubstantiated claims beyond the role of fiber.

Tune into this week’s episode: “we love gut health with every fiber of our bean” for more on this topic!

This week's episode: https://youtu.be/J2RgbwU-5yE

Additional resources:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614039/pdf/13197_2011_Article_365.pdf
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https://www.poison.org/articles/internal-shower
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415962/
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(22)00166-4 #%20
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/04/fiber-supplements.html
https://today.duke.edu/2022/07/it-doesn%E2%80%99t-matter-much-which-fiber-you-choose-%E2%80%93-just-get-more-fiber
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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0002-9165(23)03614-6

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