07/11/2022
Short-Chain Fatty Acids such as
Acetate, Butyrate, and Propionate have critical roles to keep our gut healthy!
Especially, Butyrate has many functions in both the gut and the body (and the brain too!!!). It’s important for the health of our digestive system and for combating the chronic inflammation and disease prevention, including neurological conditions.
Acetate helps to keep your gut environment stable and nourishes other beneficial bacteria species in your gut.
It helps to keep the gut pH acidic enough for the beneficial microbes to thrive and survive, but deter the opportunistic ones from entering and sticking around. Acetate also works to control appetite and regulate the storage of fat.
Good source of SCFA?
BUTTER 🧈!!
“Humans have been using butter for around 9,000 years..
But in last 150 years, fake versions were introduced...
Margarine was invented by a French chemist in 1869 when fats and oils were scarce in Western Europe. It was originally an extract from animal fat, but today margarine is mostly made from vegetable oils.
Vegetable oils are made through a very lengthy refining process that includes high pressure & heat, chemical treatment, bleaching and deodorizing.
These refined oils, high in omega 6 vegetable oils have been shown to cause inflammation, hormonal imblances, gut dysbiosis, IBS, mental illness, autoimmune disease, cancer and weight gain.
These vegetable oils include:
- Sunflower Oil
- Rice Bran Oil
- Peanut Oil
- Soy Oil
- Canola Oil
- Corn Oil
- Safflower Oil
- Grapeseed Oil
- Cottonseed Oil
Now let’s compare this to full fat, grass-fed butter 🧈
The right fats are essential for:
✅ supporting reproductive health & hormones
✅ immune function
✅ healthy gut
✅ healthy skin
✅ aiding in the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins
It’s literally SO nourishing that you’ll get a beautiful dose of vitamin A, D, E & K2, Calcium…
And if you’re sensitive to dairy, try ghee!
Butter is made of butterfat + milk proteins. Ghee is made of only butterfat and its because water and milk solids have been removed. It also means that it has next to no lactose.”
“Referenced and edited from 🙏 photo credit as well”