The assertion that plant fiber is necessary to prevent the digestion of the mucus layer in the gut has not been demonstrated.

“there is one study from 2016 in the journal Cell which is a mouse study that many people report and say that we need fiber to have a healthy gut mucous layer”

“you need plant fiber or the mucus layer will get digested well I've never seen that to you”

“the other notion that's constantly parotid that just drives me up a wall is that if we don't eat plant fiber the mucous layer in the gut will get digested that's never been shown in any human study that I'm aware of”

“the studies that support that aren't really not present there's one study from 2016 in the journal Cell that I believe everyone is quoting and it's a mouse study and they are nota biotic mice meaning they're bred without any bacteria in their guts they're inbred mice and they're given a 14 species 14 human-like microbiome so it's kind of a contrived version of a human-like microbiome it's not a real human microbiome it's not even a human and then the species that they're given our fiber loving species and then the mice are divided into two groups and one group is fed a high-fiber diet or a carbohydrate based diet another group is fed a zero fiber diet and what they see is that the colonic mucous layer is a little bit smaller in the zero fiber diet but when they look at the histology that is the actual gut epithelium under a microscope and they look at immune cells they find no pathological changes suggestive of inflammation and then in the zero fiber group and so the whole thing to me is just like where are people gone with this like where are people getting the notion that you need to have plant fiber to support the mucus layer in your gut I just scratched my head and I think I'm waiting for someone to understand that because again clinically that's not what we see right”

“if we don't have enough fiber in our diet plant fiber we won't have a healthy gut mucus layer i don't think so”