The simple diet changes that could help us live to 100
[Gut bacteria is key: Odoribacter, Oscillobacter, Christensenella and Akkermansia.]
foods you may want to incorporate more of in your diet to ‘cultivate’ these types of bacteria.
pomegranates, dried cranberries, concord grapes, either whole or juiced, chilis, black raspberries and Chinese black vinegar were good options.
Dr Li recommended people store cooked carbohydrates, like rice, potatoes pasta, overnight in the fridge to turn them into the resistant starch the microorganisms needed to thrive.
He explained this cooling process causes a reaction in the food which makes slower to digest to the better of positive bacteria growth in your digestive system.
‘That temperature change changes the chemistry of the starch the next day,’ he said.
‘When you have it, even if you heat it up again, it’s resistant starch that grows some of these healthy four players.’