Kelsey Kinney: Great question. Really when we’re thinking about— and I’m going call them MAC for ease here as we talk through this. I’ve already had too many tongue twisters for the day in these questions. What I would say here is really what we’re looking at is diverse plant matter intake. That’s really what this comes down to in terms of increasing someone MAC content in their diet. Really, if you just think your breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for breakfast you want include maybe some fruit and some vegetables, whatever you want in those categories. Maybe a little bit of sweet potato, some complex carbohydrate source would also be good. That would also kind of cover the fruit too I guess as well, as many as different colors as you can get, so really, the most diverse diet you can think of when it comes to plant matter and that I would say goes across the day so including lunch, dinner, any snacks. The more plant matter you can consume, the higher in MAC the diet is going to be.
If you wanted to read a little bit more about this, there is a book called The Good Gut, which Lindsey, we can maybe bring up here, and I think she just sent it to all of you too in the chat. This is a book by Justin and Erica Sonnenburg, who do a lot of research on MAC. It’s a book that I haven’t read in a while, so I don’t remember if they have a meal plan in there, but I know they talk about what you should be eating to consume a lot of these MACs in their diet. That’s what I would take a look at and potentially give to your clients if you wanted to get them a little bit more acquainted with this idea of having a higher MAC content diet. Let’s take a look at this, just you can see the cover of this, “The Good Gut” here we go. Get it on Kindle. The audio book is free I guess, cool. It’s a great read. I think it’s really interesting. It does not go along the lines of a strict Paleo kind of diet. They are talking about things like legumes, which personally I think can be very, very healthy, and I guess it’s not totally surprising given that I really focus on the microbiome, and there is, I think, a decent amount of research to indicate that things like legumes can be very healthy for your microbiome because they’re high in MACs. This is something to definitely take a look at if you want to dig a little bit deeper into this.