Millets and Fitness

Two years ago I came across Dr. Khadar Vali's videos on health. He stressed upon eating millets, as they have plenty of fiber and all essential things needed for keeping fit and for eliminating most of the common ailments like diabetes, obesity, high BP and so on. He stressed on, not to eat either animal food or milk or white sugar. he also advised not to eat wheat and related food as it leads to promotion of diabetes by destroying the insulin producing organ.
I was stunned when I heard the  statement that being a Muslim, he himslf was not eating meat. He also advised, to use copper vessel for water storage in order to kill harmful bacteria of tap water. Then I went on seeing most of his videos and got the philosophy that being simple and eating simple home made food without any modern foods like chicken, bear and tea, coffee will keep someone more healthy. He stressed on fiber containing millets as regular food and not the white rice or chapati of sweets made of white sugar and fatty oils.
I went to my sister's village and told her of the new thought. Then we were searching for millets. There were foxtail millets stored in her house but they were very old as old as 15 years. They were simply stored in earthen pots, as nobody wanted them. My sister was suffering from filariasis. Her left leg was too thick and she was taking tablets since long to eliminate the problem. She was suffering from this problem for more than twenty five long years.
We had a plan, to make foxtail rice and cook food. We wanted to use those good old grains of foxtail. We prepared the millet rice and started eating regularly. In a span of two months her leg restored to normal size without using any medicine!
Her last son was suffering from stomach ache. The stomach problem was persisting since two years. I brought one Kg of oodalu [another type of millets] from market and asked my sister to cook. She did so and her son ate the new food and within half an hour he comfortable and very silent and satisfied. His stomach ache vanished. After a couple of weeks he had some patches on his left side of the body and his problem vanished once and for all. There was an old lady who was a good friend of my sister. She used to visit our house now and then to talk to her[sister]. She had a problem of knees swelling. She[the old lady] was struggling to walk. We advised her to use millets as regular food instead of white rice.She went to her brother’s village and gathered some millets from him. She ate millets for one month and started walking normally.

Butyric acid :

 Butter is a natural source of Butyrate.  Butyrate is produced through fermentation. This means that some fermented foods and beverages will contain butyrate as well. There is no shortage of options for increasing butyrate levels. Choices like butter, milk, ghee and fermented foods can all provide the compound directly. You can also increase production by relying on sources of fiber and ensuring you have a good balance of gut bacteria. What’s more, all of these options are powerful for health anyway. A diet focusing on these foods would often help you to lose weight overall and could easily decrease disease risk.

Butyrates are important as food for cells lining the mammalian colon (colonocytes). Without butyrates for energy, colon cells undergo autophagy (self digestion) and die.[2] Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), which include butyrate, are produced by beneficial colonic bacteria (probiotics) that feed on, or ferment prebiotics, which are plant products that contain adequate amounts of dietary fiber. These SCFAs benefit the colonocytes (cells of the colon) by increasing energy production and cell proliferation, and may protect against colon cancer.
As a Human Metabolite and Immune Regulator:
Butyrate is extremely essential to host immune homeostasis. Although the role and importance of butyrate in the gut is not fully understood, many researchers argue that a depletion of butyrate-producing bacteria in patients with several vasculitic conditions is essential to the pathogenesis of these disorders.
A depletion of butyrate in the gut is typically caused by an absence or depletion of butyrate-producing-bacteria (BPB). This depletion in BPB leads to microbial dysbiosis. This dysbiosis is characterized by an overall low biodiversity and a depletion of key butyrate-producing members. Butyrate is an essential microbial metabolite with a vital role as a modulator of proper immune function in the host.