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If you're eating a lot of spinach, you could just be experiencing the well-known effects of dietary fiber.
by comicjk 8y ago
If you're eating a lot of spinach, you could just be experiencing the well-known effects of dietary fiber.
- garraeth 8y agoTrue, and people are investigating new ideas about dietary fiber thinking that perhaps it's not just for "bulk" and helping keep things "regular": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29902436 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29902436 "In this review, we will focus on dietary fibers, which interact directly with gut microbes and lead to the production of key metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids, and discuss how dietary fiber impacts gut microbial ecology, host physiology, and health."
- cimmanom 8y agoI though it was already known that soluble fiber contributes to microbiome health (and not much to motility) and insoluble fiber is mostly helpful for bulk and motility. Does this study address the role of insoluble fiber in microbiome health?