Fiber

Fiber

What is Fibre?


 All these are basically carbohydrate structures that are designed so that it can’t be broken down by stomach acids and digestive enzymes.

They survive the transit through the gut. They can be soluble or insoluble. A very small amount of the fibre consumed is fermented in the colon by certain bacteria. A by-product of this process are short chain fatty acids. Most of the fibre is passed out unchanged in the faeces.

The claims for fibre

The evidence to show constipation, bleeding, bloating and pain could be reduced when you took fibre completely out of the diet is here. Watch Dr Paul Mason and his clinical trial about fibre and the total lack of need for it. Proof in real people.

https://youtu.be/xqUO4P9ADI0

Some ‘experts’ claim we need fibre to feed the bacteria that make short-chain fatty acids for us. This is incorrect as butter contains short chain fatty acids, so they are easy to obtain. These SCFA are used by enterocytes for energy only after the conversion to ketone bodies.

Enterocytes use SCFA

Enterocytes use short chain fatty acids (SCFA) for energy to do what they do, they first convert the SCFA into ketone bodies so when you are in ketosis you know this is happening in your body.

You can get ketones directly from the liver too, rather than obtaining them from your gut.

Other experts who have studied fibre include; Dr Sarah Pugh

https://youtu.be/67FG8af8jg0

And finally Dr Zoe Harcombe

Zoë has a PhD in public health nutrition. She struggles to find anything that is being taught in 'conventional' nutritional worlds that is true or evidence based. Hence why she spent 2008-10 writing The Obesity Epidemic - 135,000 words blowing apart: the misapplication of thermodynamics to dieting; the notion that 1lb = 3,500 calories, let alone that a deficit of 3,500 calories will lead to a weight loss of 1lb; the Seven Countries Study and the subsequent change in our diet advice, which has caused the obesity epidemic; the role of exercise in obesity and much more. See her presentation by clicking the link below.