If dietary fiber intake is insufficient, gut bacteria will proteolyze and lipolyze the mucin layer of the intestinal lining for survival, potentially causing damage, leaky gut, and GI diseases.

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“So what we're finding is that when we don't eat enough of these complex carbohydrates found in dietary fiber, these gut bacteria are starving is so they really are forced to rely on the mucus...the carbohydrates that are found in the mucus layers that line the our large intestine. So as we don't consume enough dietary fiber, these microbes become closer to our mucus lining. They're eating that food because that's all they have to eat, and they inching ever closer to our own epithelial cells, and that creates a situation in which the human aspect of our GI tract and the microbial aspect, that fence that keeps them separated starts thinning and setting up a scenario where our immune system now can start overreacting to these microbes encroaching and these microbes potentially get a little more aggressive because they're lacking in the food that they require.”