Gut Check: Is Eating Bugs Good for Your Gut?

EVERYDAY HHEALTH ^ | March 1, 2024 | Megan Mikaelian, Medically Reviewed byIra Daniel Breite, MD

[jimwatx]

The chitin in bugs can alter inflammatory and immune response.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680136/

[null and void]

No shrimp?

[Highest Authority]

Some people are allergic to shellfish, can people be allergic to bugs? Honest question.

[A Navy Vet]

"We don’t need fiber."

Maybe you don't, but I do to be regular in the morning. Enjoy your insects. I have a steak with brocolli (fiber) just waiting for my wife to prepare in an hour.

[beethovenfan]

Ask Gundry. He’s the gut guy.

[kaktuskid]

Shellfish are just big bugs...so yes people can be allergic to bugs

[Vermont Lt]

Meh….

My wife likes them, so we have them. I do a lot of stuff my wife wants.

[mewzilla]

Just an abstract...but interesting.

Human Gastric Juice Contains Chitinase That Can Degrade Chitin

But degrade is not digest or absorb, eh?

Note to Deep State: Not eating ze bugs.

[Mr Rogers]

Fiber doesn’t cause regularity. If it did, I’d have 5 years of buildup inside and weigh about 500 pounds. ;>)

I can’t afford steak anymore (thank you, Joe Biden) but eat mostly meat and eggs. More protein in my diet isn’t needed.

“Dr. Zoë Harcombe - ‘What about fiber?’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KrmpK_Lckg

[null and void]

I hear that!!!

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Note back from the Deep State:

You vill eat ze bugs
or ze bugs vill eat YOU!

[Drew68]

I hope I never learn that.

I don't think we're going to have a choice in the matter anymore than we did with GMOs and HFCS forced into our foods.

They'll introduce bug protein quietly, slowly mixing it in with other processed meats. Bugs will find their way into cheap processed foods like Hot Pockets and those cheap frozen Party Pizzas. 95% pork, 5% bugs. Then 90/10%, 85/15%. You get the drift. We won't taste them, won't even know they're in there because the food is already so processed.

Before we know it, we've been eating bugs for ten years.

[NelsTandberg]

Ironically - just published paper regarding a nasty parasitic disease caused by accidentally ingesting bugs. I find it ironic - once upon a time I was a biophyscicist/biomed engineer designing stuff as a last-ditch therapy.

Now the plague may be extending into Florida.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/oral-transmission-chagas-disease-has-severe-effects-2024a100042f?240307&src=FYE&ecd=WNL_recnlnew1_broad_US_perso_etid6358029&uac=439418DR&impID=6358029

From my email to friends:

Coming to a Florida site near you. The article confirms an earlier study that claims 30% of examined ‘kissing bugs’ in Florida were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. I see these conenose bugs regularly. Sometimes even on the outside of my window screens. You don’t want to be bitten, even by a clean bug. Hurts like hell.

So now that vector based xmission is being reduced, oral xmission becomes a problem; “And as organic farming methods without insecticides become increasingly common, more research is needed in these areas, both in Latin America and in the United States, to understand if oral transmission of T cruzi is occurring.”

Ironic. So instead of the Assassin Bug biting you, you, in effect, bite them. The parasite load is estimated to be 100x greater. Yes, it is treatable IF recognized.