Posted on 04/09/2024 12:51:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
It may not be to everyone's taste, but kombucha tea may be able to deliver the benefits of fasting, without the hardest part – the fasting itself. Researchers found that when the yeasts and bacteria from the fermented, sweetened tea colonized the gut, they altered fat metabolism, without any other dietary changes, resulting in lower fat stores.
At the center of these findings is the flora found in kombucha tea's SCOBY (Symbiotic Cultures of Bacteria and Yeasts), the gelatinous starter, rich in microbes, found floating near the surface of the fermented liquid. The probiotic microbes, including species of Acetobacter, Lactobacillus and Komagataeibacter genera, have previously been linked to a range of positive health benefits including lowering blood pressure.
Now, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered how, in Caenorhabditis elegans, kombucha's microbes directly influence intestinal gene expression, particularly in those linked to fat metabolism. The introduced flora boosted the proteins needed to break down fat, while conversely they helped dial down the formation of proteins that help build the lipid (or fat) compounds known as triglycerides.
While triglycerides are the most common forms of fat circulating in the human body, and play an important role in energy storage and release, excess calorie intake can result in high levels of these lipids and drive comorbidities of obesity such as heart disease.
The changes in fat metabolism – the way specific proteins were dialed up and down, ultimately reducing fat stores – produced a cellular effect much like that of fasting. Here, however, no reduction or limiting of food intake was required.
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That is what I usually buy, whole milk yogurt. All yogurts are naturally probiotic. The bacteria in yogurt are beneficial in the gut.
Fermented foods each have their own set of probiotics, so it’s not that you are getting the same thing in a different form.
Additionally, home ferments will also have slightly different ones, and they will change over the course of fermenting.
You do not want to replace sugar with honey ever while fermenting because honey has antibiotic capacity and so disrupts the process. Ok to add just before eating, tho.
Forgot to add, the sugar is eaten up in the process of fermenting so the longer you let it sit, the less sugar until it becomes a type of vinegar. That is in the yes of ferments that use sugar.
When they put probiotics in pills, the probiotics don’t necessarily survive.
Yogurt has its own set of probiotics, and some people are not supposed to eat dairy (heart and kidney problems, for example).
So plain, non-fat yoghurt is just as good?
No, the sludge is not the important part, just the liquid, and you leave the “gelatinous” scoby in the container you make the kombucha in. Although if there is a thin scoby, drinking it gives you a *lot* of the microbes one drinks kombucha for!
Yogurt has its own set of probiotics, which have different qualities. The particular microbe they are studying seems to be in kombucha but not in other fermented foods or drinks.
It has been good to me for 80 years. No bowel issues whatsoever. My mother used to make yogurt every day with leftover milk. She just added a spoon of yogurt to pot of milk before going to bed, next morning the milk had become solid yogurt. Those yogurt bacteria multiply fast obviously. And they overcome bad bacteria in gut.
I’ve just started experimenting with drinking it myself actually. So far I’ve tasted one in a glass bottle that didn’t have sugar listed as an ingredient, and that was way too tart. Another in a glass bottle was Pink Lady Apple flavored (got great reviews, got it at Target), and it was tasty, very much like a fizzy tart apple cider. I found both of those at Sprouts. But by far, so far, my two favorites are available at Publix, and come in cans. My favorite is by a company called Mortal Kombucha and the flavor is peach, and tastes like a very lightly sweet peach soda and has less than 50 calories. My second favorite is by a company called Hummmm and the only flavor (of the many of theirs) that ive tried (and keep buying) is a lemon one with a unicorn on it, that tastes almost like a lemon cupcake but fizzy and again, very faintly sweet. And again, about 40 calories. They’re good ones to start with, I think, because they’re milder than the others I’ve tried, and then depending on how you like them, get as adventurous as you wish for the purer less sweetened ones. They really are readily available though.
Good info, thank you
Is there a quality dried extract in the form of a tablet yet ?
Anything that has to be drunk that quickly to avoid your teeth turning brown personally I would rather just pop a pill.
There are capsules which have various probiotics in them. Now that this news has come out, I am sure they will soon have capsules advertising they have this particular one!
K9mbucha is made from half-strength tea, so it usually doesn’t affect one’s teeth as much. And people who make it at home can use green tea, reducing that effect even more.
I made kombucha for a long time during covid.
In it’s essence, kombucha is tea beer. That is kombucha is fermented tea that has a very small alcohol content. Similarly whiskey is fermented corn mash, vodka is fermented potato mash and wine is fermented grapes. They all result in higher alcohol content than tea.
I began making it for my wife to replace gut bacteria that were killed off while she was recovering from surgery that required long antibiotic treatment. Kombucha is probiotic
There are tablets available just not from very reputable brands as far as I can tell. And green tea is great. I drink that every day. Just not at a pH on par with 7up/Mountain Dew/sprite. Still, I suppose I could be worse. It could be Coke or Pepsi that are crazy acidic. :)
I also made my own when I was much younger.
You’re welcome! Enjoy your kombucha exploration adventures! I hope you find some favorites too. BTW, I’m drinking yet another can of that delicious Humm lemon one again. Can’t seem to stay away, haha!
Have you tried Kefir ? After realizing that Greek yogurt was what was causing inflammation in my joints a day after drinking half a bottle of Lifeway it’s the first day in months I haven’t needed pain medication.
That actually makes sense. I have read that most people that have acid reflux actually have too little acid in their stomachs, then they take acid suppressors which temporarily makes the problem better but then are on them for the long haul. The kombucha is acidic, so you’ve added acid to your stomach and your issues resolved with that instead of the acid reducers. I was having reflux and added an apple cider vinegar pill in morning and at night and that helped almost completely.
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