Consuming rapidly fermentable fibers alongside a Western diet may lead to adverse liver metabolism and hepatocellular carcinoma in mice. — Whalespan
Consuming rapidly fermentable fibers alongside a Western diet may lead to adverse liver metabolism and hepatocellular carcinoma in mice.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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“But there also are studies that suggest that if you layer rapidly fermentable fibers on top of a Western diet, you actually can result in weird metabolism happening in your liver, because you have this incredibly rapid fermentation of fiber along with a lot of fat coming into the system. At least that's the theory. And in a mouse study that was published a few years ago, they actually see that a subset of the mice develop hepatocellular carcinoma when they're fed a high dose prebiotic-”