Last week we talked about certain fruits, vegetables, beans and lentils that can boost the short chain fatty acids called propionate and acetate. Alongside butyrate, which you can increase with resistant starch rich foods such as cold oats, green bananas and cooked and cooled potatoes and rice, these guys help to lower inflammation, heal gut issues and may even protect against endo progression. To learn more about the benefits of short chain fatty acids for endo, listen to episodes 312, 311 and 310.

Today, I wanted to give you another option if you feel like a lot of the foods I listed last week just aren’t doable for you because of your bloating and IBS symptoms, or if you eat a lot of these foods already, but still suffer with gut problems and endo problems, and would like to take some extra steps to further boost these beneficial short chain fatty acids.

Today, we’re talking about psyllium husk, and the benefits of this bad boy are many.

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Blood sugar

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26561625/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11155034/

Constipation

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30219432/

SCFA production

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6358997/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735932/

Dosing

https://www.jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(17)30225-3/fulltext

Fibre types and psyllium husk

https://www.monashfodmap.com/blog/fibre-supplements-ibs/

https://www.monashfodmap.com/blog/research-update-dietary-fibre-era-microbiome-science/

https://www.monashfodmap.com/blog/research-update-dietary-fibres-ibs/

Endo and Short Chain Fatty Acids

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infection-microbiology/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2024.1373004/full

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