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As I Enter The Twilight Of My Life …
Zoe promises that perhaps I can eat broccoli, beans, and maybe even … apples and watermelon!
I received my Zoe Nutrition test results as a belated birthday present yesterday. To my dismay, I may as well have been eating at McDonalds daily for the past five years for all the good my healthy — limited — diet has done my microbiome. If I didn’t eat the way I already do, I’d without a doubt be pre-diabetic, and maybe even have full-on diabetes.
I have large numbers of unhealthy microbes in my microbiome — every single one of them is associated with higher levels of visceral fat and lower levels of good cholesterol. I especially have a lot of this microbe called “Chun,” Clostridium spiroforme.
Zoe has actually trademarked the names of both “good” and “bad” microbes that it covers in its microbiome analyses. I have a few “Oscars” and “Felicias”: good gut microbes. I have ZERO Rumi, Billy, Valentina, Veronica, Patrick, Ellie, Otis, Claude, Rosie, Finn, Hannah, or Freddy. I don’t know how to add these microbes to my gut, but I suspect they go along with the healthy fruits, vegetables, and legumes I haven’t been eating for a while because of my IBS. Those foods would include beans and legumes, apples and stone fruit like apricots and plums, and cruciferous vegetables like…
