The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
we can use other short chain fatty acids like isobutyrate just as easily as we can use butyrate for the colonic epithelial cells so i don't think that we need to be hyper focused on butyrate coming from plant fiber we can get isobuterate from protein and that's just as easily going to trigger all the receptors that butyrate will trigger in the gut and it can be used as colonic epithelial cell fuel in the same way in the gut
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there are multiple short chain fatty acids beyond butyrate that can be used by the enterocytes of your colon for fuel isobutyrate acetate propionate there's great data regarding that