Microblog: Fiber on Carnivore? Fiber Butyrate-Rich Foods

🥦We think that we need fibrous plant foods to fuel our large intestine with short-chain fatty acids (SCFA).

🧬These SCFAs are broken down by the colon to offer gut-supporting SCFAs such as butyrate (butyric acid), propionate (propionic acid) and acetate (acetic acid).

☝🏼Butyrate is essential because it is the preferred fuel source by colonocytes (endothelial cells of the large intestine). In the large intestine, fibrous plant foods require the breakdown of its chemical structure to then make short chain fatty acids.⠀
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🧀 Dairy contains butyrate in its bioavailable form.

🧈In fact, butter is the best source of butyric acid or butyrate. So much so that the origins of the word butyric acid is from the Latin word, butyrum-the same origins for the word butter.

❓How did we come to think that butyric acid is best from plants?⠀

🎯The no. 1 dietary source of butyrate is butter. Not plant foods but butter.⠀

🌟And don’t worry if you don’t consume dairy. Bacteria ALSO makes butyrate from leftover cells and mucus and the end of our colon (sigmoid) relies more on THIS type of butyrate than in foods. ⠀