The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
we have bacteria in our gut that live on that and they digest that and they make short chain fatty acids from that and those short chain fatty acids are absorbed by the lining of the colon and our back colonic epithelia are dependent on the bacteria to keep going and they get the bulk of their energy from the bacteria in the gut
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it also provides the colon something to chew down on and is good for motility keeping the bowel going in in shape and it also provides a substrate for the bacteria of the colon for them to chow down on and produce short-chain fatty acids which are good for the lining of the gut and provide it with its energy metabolism
The gut likes fiber. It really likes fiber and it likes anything that's gonna allow it to make short-chain fatty acids, which are actually essentially what fuel all the gut cells inside your intestine that line your intestine, fuel it. They prefer short-chain fatty acids as their source of energy over anything else.