Paul Saladino· MD
feeding the colon cells so the cells that line the colon basically rely on they fuel on butyrate
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feeding the colon cells so the cells that line the colon basically rely on they fuel on butyrate
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essentially fiber ferments to butyrate and that's one way that we can support our uh the cells that line our colon is because they uh metabolize at least in a healthy gut of someone's who's eating primarily carbohydrates you're getting about 70 of your energy in those gut cells is coming from butyrate from the gut from fiber