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Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

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Dietary Fibers (DF) & Short-chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs)

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A blindly increasing fiber intake might not translate to increased SCFA generation if the fiber-degrading pathways are saturated
Wolter et al. 2021 Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 18(12): 885-902

Differences in the underlying microbiome, specifically the ability to degrade fibers to generate SCFAs, might be a better predictor of disease incidence than diet alone
Wolter et al. 2021 Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 18(12): 885-902

Benefits of Dietary Fibers

Production of Short-chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs)

Dietary fibers provide a substrate for[Commensal Bacteria / Commensalism](brain://J…

References (Sources)

Dietary fiber and the risk of colorectal cancer and adenoma in women
Fuchs et al. 1999
Dynamics of human gut microbiota and short-chain fatty acids in response to dietary interventions with three fermentable fibers
Baxter et al. 2019 mBio 10: e02566-18
From Dietary Fiber to Host Physiology: Short-Chain Fatty Acids as Key Bacterial Metabolites
Koh et al. 2016 Cell 165: 1332
Review
Guided dietary ﬁbre intake as a means of directing short-chain fatty acid production by the gut microbiota
Tannock & Liu 2019 Royal Society of New Zealand 50(3): 434-455
Review
Gut Microbiota-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids Facilitate Microbiota:Host Cross talk and Modulate Obesity and Hypertension
Overby & Ferguson 2021 Current Hypertension Reports 23: 8
Review
Leveraging diet to engineer the gut microbiome
Wolter et al. 2021 Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 18(12): 885-902
Review
Modulation of colonic epithelial cell proliferation, histone acetylation, and luminal short chain fatty acids by variation of dietary ﬁber (wheat bran) in rats
Boffa et al. 1992

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