AMA on resistant starch fibers Akkermansia peptides and allulose dosing

Insoluble fibers like green bananas and viscous fibers such as oat beta glucans can help stools by adding bulk and moisture. They also support gut bacteria overall.

It depends on market needs, clinical evidence, and customer awareness. Our company stays conservative on scientific standards and checks the quality of existing clinical data closely. A marketing team tracks business needs, often in million-dollar figures. You don't really test hypotheses like an academic would because business priorities come first. We did run a clinical trial on a new fiber for metabolic benefits and natural GLP-1 responses, but results were mixed. Right now the big push is on satiety, natural GLP-1 responses, and metabolic health benefits delivered through a fiber that works inside actual food products.

Yes, definitely. Think of the body as a factory and the colon as waste management. If the border between waste management and the rest of the body breaks down, metabolic toxins like uremic toxins, branched fatty acids, and ammonia leak into the factory and cause problems. Leaky gut is real. Bacteria in the gut also affect enterocyte gene expression, keep the gut lining intact, support neurological health, suppress pathogens like E. coli or Strep, and produce vitamins. Probiotics alone don't work well because you're sending troops without supplies; they need fibers that suit your bacteria to stay around. We have hundreds or thousands of species, each reacting differently to different fibers. Eating more fiber and cutting back on excess fat and sugar helps.

That is not my field, sorry.

Kimchi works as a synbiotic with prebiotic cabbage and probiotic lactic acid bacteria, but in my view those bacteria are only okay. They bully pathogens effectively but that's mostly it. Same with yogurt. Keep eating them, but I would also add green banana resistant starch and oat brans.

Yes! Oat brans help diversify good bacteria like Bacteroides and Parabacteroides that then make use of other fibers too.

I've got no clue on those items since they don't count as something you eat. Are you meaning the real belly organ? The smaller or bigger section of the bowel? What precisely are those particular problems?

Lol, probably not. But if they contain maltitol, polydextrose, sorbitol or other fast-fermenting sugar alcohols or oligosaccharides, you might end up with a big release of gas.

My mistake, I figured your presence here meant the discussion covered peptides as well.

What fibers do you recommend?

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'll look for powdered green bananas!

Keeping things simple works fine for everyday wellness. Produce like fruits and greens offers solid options, though I tend to favor berries along with apples. The soft parts of fruits contain various types of fiber such as pectin, cellulose, arabinogalactans, and xyloglucan. Having several kinds together seems preferable compared to relying on just one kind. When aiming for more specific effects, the options I tend to look at include oat bran, powdered green bananas, and those oligosaccharides to support metabolism, promote fullness, and help with weight. Fibers from carrots can lessen gas issues. Beta glucans from yeast may aid immune function. Broken down galactomannan from guar, along with resistant starch from potatoes, can improve bowel movements. Inulin works for general upkeep, though I skip it during gut inflammation. Those particular oligosaccharides do not qualify as fiber under certain official standards, even with evidence of their positive effects. Some additional types exist that underwent testing yet remain inaccessible to regular buyers since they were made only for studies and cost too much.

I'm fairly new to peptides myself and only have experience with a few.

I eat a ketogenic diet and stay almost completely fart-free with no bad bowel movements and steady energy. I have a little yogurt and kimchi daily and sometimes keto bread, but it's hard to justify every day because it costs more than a pound of pastured meat.

Anal leakage? Too many of them will definitely do that.

I make my own keto bread and have been refining the recipe for seven years outside of work. A recent meta-analysis looked at different diets and found lack of fiber was the common factor in poor health outcomes. If you get enough fiber you should be fine.

Those studies are a bit more debatable than they first appear. There aren't many true low-carb trials to draw from. Most compare cutting carbs from 50 percent to 30 percent of calories, which is interesting but doesn't tell us what happens on an actual low-carb or keto diet. I don't have a strong view either way, just noting the limited modern research on keto diets.

Psyllium is interesting. It is a glucurono-arabinoxylan that is insoluble and unfermentable, yet it can still shift gut populations. Our company does not create fibers through chemical synthesis, harsh acid hydrolysis, grafting, or recombinant bacteria. There are gentler ways to modify fibers without those methods. Patents cover not only processes but also the physical and chemical traits of the final products. We check the competitive landscape to avoid existing patents. When I say food matrices I mean the fiber must fit into real foods without hurting texture, color, or taste. That is why inulin, fructo-oligosaccharides, and soluble corn fiber are popular: they are flavorless, cheap, colorless, low-viscosity, and highly soluble.

Yeah, that's my issue with keto diet studies too. Keto is just defined as high-fat low-carb, so people follow it in all sorts of ways. You can't expect the same results from someone eating steak and bacon daily versus someone eating avocado, spinach, and lean chicken.

See my earlier reply. I don't know of any single food that ruins the gut; if it did it wouldn't count as food. It comes down to habits. Studies keep showing that high-fat and high-sugar diets lower good bacteria and raise bad ones like proteobacteria. More accurately, the lack of fiber is the real driver rather than the fat and sugar themselves.

I'm not qualified to give medical advice. Bloating and constipation are common ongoing signs of a compromised gut. Have you spoken with doctors? What did they say? IBS is tricky because one possible cause is missing butyric-acid producing bacteria that can't be given as probiotics since they are anaerobic. Prebiotics may not help in that case either. There is no way to know the right amount of probiotics because we don't know how many will colonize or what your starting bacterial mix is. What you're doing seems to be helping since kefir has diverse probiotics beyond lactic acid bacteria and chia seeds provide gelling polysaccharides that can firm stools. Have you tried oat brans? If you want kimchi, look for white kimchi at Korean markets because it is milder.

You should search specifically for green banana flour. The organic banana flour version is likely just ripe bananas that got dried and ground, which ends up tasting better but with lower fiber levels.

I never spoke with doctors about the bloating or IBS since those symptoms are so broad that I preferred checking options on my own first and maybe seeing a specialist once I had more clarity. Still, adding fibers changed things a lot. In the past three months I have also been on Tirzepatide along with BPC and KPV, and I think those helped too.

Would plantain flour work the same as green banana flour? Also, how much of either should someone normally take?

Beans are fine. Their fibers usually include cellulose, fructans, some arabinoxylan, and the fast-fermenting raffinose, stachyose, and verbascose. They are not the best choice though because they can cause strong gas. Lectins are proteins that bind carbs and break down with heat, so they should not affect you much. I have heard of lectin-free diets but have not seen real studies on them.

We already know how knowledgeable you are, but thanks for being upfront about not having experience with those peptides or compounds.

It sounds like the person should wipe out their gut bacteria entirely and receive a fecal transplant from someone healthy.