Paul Saladino· MD
when we eat plant fiber we make butyrate when we don't eat plant fiber when we eat protein and fat we can make isobutyrate and acetate and propionate
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when we eat plant fiber we make butyrate when we don't eat plant fiber when we eat protein and fat we can make isobutyrate and acetate and propionate
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butyric acid is not the only short chain fatty acid that's used by the colonic epithelial site cells for energy production isobutyrate propionate acetate and in fact if you look at head-to-head studies you know we can see that there are plenty of short-chain fatty acids produced with no fiber