Kudos Steve, putting your body on the line again for educating the rest of us :)

I’m not sure about the other foods, but, my husband and I have been consuming natto for 2 years now. I know it improved my husband’s health. It is hard to quantify his improvement because it got coupled with less stress when he started working from home. As for me, I definitely can tell the benefit because I was going through a five-year long process to “fix” my periodontal disease. In the 3rd year, I started eating natto and my hygenist could tell that there was significant reduction of bleeding of my gums. Also, I used to get cavities every year. Well due to covid I did not get any cleaning from the periodontist’s office for a year (my husband is high-risk & we decided to put some stuff on hold until we got vaccinated) and I did not see my regular dentist for 2 years to check for cavities. When I finally saw my regular dentist, they did not see any cavities. Natto also contains nattokinase, which is antithrombotic. It is also the highest food source for Vitamin K2, which activates proteins that move calcium away from soft tissues & deposits them to the bones. It is not my favorite food, but, I eat it everyday. I use kimchee to “mask” the natto. Also, I make natto with black soy beans, which actually tastes milder.

i have been taking probiotics (30 billion CFU) for a few years. they help me when i travel, i don't get diarrhea. i absorb food better, and have a peace of mind regarding my gut health, which is also known as the "second brain". i am 40, but i look late 20s. I think this is testament to probiotics, because it is the only supplement i have been taking consistently over the years, apart from Vit C and Omega 3.

I love these shows honestly. They are genuinely well edited and highly informative.

I really like this series, hope it continues on and that there will be a revisit few years down the line when there are more updates

Love these episodes! 1 thing I'm skeptical of all these newly formed test is after reading through what happened with Theranos. Hope more of these biotech companies be more transparent with their tech and accuracies of their test results

Love these recent talking point series..helps me to sift the facts from the hype and misinformations...

Kudos to Steve and CNA team for giving us a local perspective to health science. Hope you can do one on water - tap, boiled and bottled and flitered mineral water.

Thanks for this experiment and science-backed advices from the experts. Looking forward to more of such videos to improve our health!

Very helpful. Thanks Steven.

Excellent video. Thank you and the entire team!

You should mix the natto til it gets all white and foamy. I just started trying it this year and I love it!

thank you vm! love to watch ur videos, very educational. helps alot! keep it up brother and you are funny too. cheers!

this was very informative, thanks!

I like how after you got Steven to consume all sorts of trash in earlier episodes and now we get to check how rekt his gut is.

i am surprised nobody had mentioned about kimchee and yogurt as been good probiotics.

My favorite show, even though I'm not from Asia

Good serious and well produced. Not boring at all.

Great video! Thanks!

need more video from steve!

love Steve. hilarious and informative!

One reason that it wasn't as popular for a while was when you went into pubmed to find studies, all it included was a case report of someone who got ill after drinking some unhealthy kombucha. Now there are a lot more studies demonstrating its benefits.

Thanks for the info! Loved it,from now onwards,I will start eating IDLI more 😁

I love these type of programs that CNA is producing. And thank you to Steve for using himself as a guinea pig :). I feel that it is not really necessarily for a healthy person to take probiotic supplements, just consume a balanced diet. But for someone who has taken antibiotics for an illness, it would be beneficial to take probiotics supplements for a period to put back the good gut bacteria

Another educating watch, Steve! Always a pleasure and learning experience on these talking points done by you and your team.

I like it when Steven does the healthy challenges!

Great video, it's very educational. I use the reverse osmosis filters at home and the water tastes much better. I'll change out the filters regularly after watching this video.

Probiotics are not the same and not all strains have good survivability getting to the intestinal tract. Studies are done comparing different products and found that very few actually meet the mark. (Yakult is not one of them) Suggestion: Steven should get a Serotonin test by an endocrinologist or neuroscientist. Of course, need to first perform viability study to make sure those particular probiotics are active. Certain studies do show that Serotonin levels do have significant increase after intake. But Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that cannot cross the blood brain barrier. (Unlike probiotics which can have so many different types, Serotonin is just one compound 5-HTP.) But its precursors can. Maybe he can also do a brain imaging scan.

I love CNA!

Very informative 👍🙏❤️🙏

This is one of my suggested topics! 😄

Excellent!!

Lol at natto. I was force fed natto every breakfast as a kid when i was young. Hated it. 10 years later i suddenly started craving for it after seeing it in the menu of a restaurant and have been a fan ever since.

Serotonin may not have improved because he is not happy with what he was actually eating.

Hi Steve, I'm interested to know which probiotic supplement that you took. I would like to try some. Thanks.

Very interesting!

I am watching from Canada. Great show.

I’m afraid to take anymore supplements. This girl, a guest in the show called “The Dr.s”, ended up with a liver transplant because of the supplements she was taking. I’m just going to up my vegetables intake. I blanched it and purée and drink my purée vegetables instead of eating it. I threw away all my supplements. I just eat in moderation and intermittent fast everyday sixteen hours in between. It made me lost 40 pounds and my system reset. My blood pressure went back to normal, my anxiety went away, my eye floaters gone, my varicose veins size of a raisins got smaller and I sleep deep at night. Good luck to all of us , we are always looking to prolong our lives and live healthy. There is nothing wrong with that. BLESS UP!

Thank you Steve! I'd like to suggest natto with some soy sauce and organic mustard sauce to quell the foul odor of the beans. Great plain with rice for me😄

Actually i know of people who take the probiotics pills! So like he actually has really bad stomach issues ( random stomach pains& like eat foods and then cmi kind) but they have helped him become less prone to these kinda things

Thx you Steve and 'Me'

Thank you

For me, I need them for my gut health. It is very apparent that they can reduce my eczema when consumed together with raw veggies (for fibers and additional enzymes).

good on ya Stevo

"Healthy things taste so bad" so right there Steve 😂

Steve is doing well. Only his brain, heart, and gut are messed up 😂

Can you do an episode on hair products? Shampoos with SLS , sles And hair loss as a result

A mere ACTIME, YAKULT, MATURED CHESE and YOGHURT, help me a lot during Autumn and Winter season to defend my body from sickness like gastritis I.e.

Steve, do you feel any different after the 2-week experiment? Would be really curious to know! :)

I tried to eat natto once cuz I heard it was good for the skin. It was horrendous, I couldn’t do it. My gf is from Taiwan, she couldn’t even eat more than a few bites either. Just way too stinky. 🙊

I just got out of the hospital from having double kidney infection, diverticulitis and sepsis. I'm now on iv antibiotics and on probiotics. Thank you for this

The improvements, even if there was any, might be caused by the type of food Steve ate (mostly plant-based) in the test, and not the live bacteria actually.

There is a book called the clever gut diet I highly recommend it

Good video 👍

one of the best probiotic item is wine and can not be talked about 😂 I found one of the best food for overall health is to have a multi leaf salad with tomato and apple + olive oil and balsamic or modena vineger, twice a week and it has been working for me always

So, what specific lab exams do I need to have my gut microbiome checked?

After the fermented foods are cooked with heat, the probiotics are gone. So kind of confused with the recommendations by the expert.

I got rlly bad food poisoning back in 2020 and suffered through having a super weak gut from June of like 2020 until Feb 2022 when I discovered probiotics. if you guys got rlly bad food poisoning or IBS probiotics is so good I used to not be able to move or get horrible cramps to where I had to call sick from school and work and then my doctor prescribed me probiotics and I finally feel normal again I don’t even know how I got through 2021

The biggest caveat here is that it has been found that the gut bacteria in your poop are completely different from the gut bacteria in other parts of your gut. Dr Paul Mason talks about that. Testing your stool isn't going to tell you how your general gut is doing :) While this appears to be science based, there is no science yet. Only the very early beginnings. We simply have no idea what affect the gut biome really has.

You can try to stir natto 300 times. I like adding spicy crispy pork floss. Mexican chilli. Korean pineapple bbq sauce. Japaness eel sauce. Teriyaki sauce. 1 egg yolk do mask the strong smell.

Gosh! I am loving natto so much that I ferment them at home!

We needed more info on Kombucha goodness or not, considering how it has become a craze.

Hi Steve, two weeks is short to determine the effects, especially for long terms evaluation. Suggest to consult the scientific expert to beef up the content and evidence

I hope one day you can do an episode on intermittent fasting

Steve is my idol

Thanks for this video. Curious , why 2 weeks only? Most “studies” are usually for 6-12 weeks for longer. Probiotics are not drugs & are found in many foods we consume as well.

Curious question, will cooking the miso soup wont kill the bacteria? I heard probiotic drinks are discouraged to be removed from refrigerators before consuming since it will kill the bacteria

Hi Steven. Have you done wheatgrass and barley grass juice experiments to the human body? Would be very interested to learn more together with thousands of people who ha e been buying these green juices. Thank you💚💚

Missing vitagen and yoghurt

Actually the doctor said you already have plenty of Microbiome right.. so what you need is not to eat more probiotics but to feed the ones you already have... so they can thrive and multiply on their own... and what you need to eat is a diverse food that they like.. which is all kinds of fresh fruits , vegetables, legumes and seeds..

Kefir is probably one of the best probiotics

What I love to do is add nato into white rice with raw egg and some soy sauce. Also spring onion. It’s more creamy and yummy this way.

TIP TO EATING NATTO FOR BEGINNERS! Natto smells like urine . So I keep it in the fridge and eat it cold so not to smell it too much and I cat eat it normally.

Miso is too high in sodium to be a general recommendation for anyone with heart and other sodium health problems. I'm not sure about natto's sodium content.

One should focus on level of prebiotics as well... I.e the food the good microbes in guts actually enjoy eating. e.g onions.

steve make videos of u doing water fasting max to 72 hour. and educate us the benefit and cons & pro

I’ve recently been thinking about taking probiotics. In our food culture we don’t eat a lot of fermented food and a few years ago developed IBS along with a peanut allergy I’ve never had. This was an informative watch. Will give updates if there’s any good news.

There are other Indian fermented food besides idly - varieties of thosai, pal appam(these eaten as breakfast or dinner), overnight a bit cooked rice soaked in water+add greenvchilli and onion next morning called palaya soru(staple breakfast for farmers), traditional yogurt, moru, lassi (yogurt taken for lunch) etc

Actually I want to know why probiotic whether it comes in a tablet or from homemade fermentation is not promoted by traditional chinese medicine practitioner. Any one knows why?

I love natto..it pains me when you fry it

Personally, I find home mad sauerkraut and kefir yoghurt to be beneficial for me. My overall mood and more drive to get stuff done can probably be attributed in some ways to that. Must not forget to feed probiotics with prebiotic food as well ( fibre based i.e vegetables, bananas, oats, cocoa..)

I enjoy the information. Anywasy ou should try tempe, Indonesian soy bean fermented food then. u just eat it raw or bake it a little bit.

i don't understand, why cook the food? that kill the bacteria. Also supplement dont really need to be taken everyday, as long you eat foods divert enough, that should help to maintain the population inside the body because different bacteria like different of nutrients to multiple.

Kimchi or sauerkraut are better options as most of the yogurts cant survive past the acidity of the stomach.

Love the car man....

Hi Steve, mix natto with white rice.

where can i do a gut health check? what is it called

I would say, you should eat the natto properly.. make sure it is refrigerated if it's packed like that.. then mix it well (like 100x yes until it becomes foamy) you can also add raw egg (only if you could get east asian safe raw egg- coz' if not you'll get salmonella lol) then mix it again.. most times they will include packet of umami flavoring.. like fish sauce or soysauce then a japanese mustard.. it will taste fine :) most people said that if you are used to eating pungent cheeses you'll be ok with natto but if you are sensitive to the smell of cheese you wouldn't like natto a bit.. a lot of Italian friends I got actually liked it.. even my French friend loved it.. but most of my American friends hated it and even threw up by just smelling it.. do genes play a role? We all probably taste it differently hahaha.. Also we have varieties of flavors of natto 😂

Can try fresh grated ginger, daikon and chopped spring onions.

Glad to see Steve trying to take care of his gut health after the previous punishing (and enjoyable?) diets....I wonder if the tool sample still has traces of all the boba, mala and fried chicken, I wonder...😂

What is the test called?

Thanks so much for your input. I think it's easier to eat prebiotics or fiber. I don't know how many people really love natto...

12:30 Regular consumption of pickled products like kimchi has been demonstrated to increase the risk of certain gut cancers.

Technically coffee is a fermented food as the coffee berry went though a fermentation stage then dried and roasted

Probiotics are very important for people who are taking antibiotics. Antibiotics can sometimes kill the good bacteria in our gut causing loose stools and another infection that is harder to treat with contact isolation -- Clostridium difficile.

It's very unrealistic how the experiment is being carried out, you take some fermented foods as part of your diet not everything probiotic, your ancestor made those fermented food for some reasons, either to preserve it longer or reduce certain toxin not good for your body, naturally and practically you don't take it for taste and don't need to take it all types but only take a small amount to feed your body some good gut bacteria, and do it gradually with body reaction is being observed over a period of time. Unfortunately, most people are trying fermented food with taste come first, e.g. Kombucha has been made popular and then after a load of sugar fruit juice added afterwards to attract people taste bud, losing the purpose of consuming fermented food, it's kinda a destroying act to what you original intent to achieve, which is, consume natural food to achieve greater health.

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i once saw cartons of a fruit-flavoured sweet probiotic drinks left at the backlane of a supermart waiting for someone to bring them in - on a very hot day. You wonder how cold can it be - they will be back in the fridge later but i guess most of the live culture is no more alive.

When you are taking probiotic supplements make sure they are independently tested to contain the advertised amount or else you are just wasting money. On the other hand some supplements may contain too high concentration of probiotics which is not healthy to your body. More does not mean better.

Probiotic supplements -- are they considered as food supplements n nutrients or drugs ? If drugs any specific law or the general law for drugs applies? Are there any prohibited substances in probiotic supplements. In India, yoghurt (also called curds) rice is popular with lunch, and the yoghurt is normally home-made by fermenting milk, probably means we are already consuming probiotics ?