Soluble Fiber Redux
WHY SOLUBLE FIBER?<br /><br />For all of you old enough to recall, oat bran was the craze back in the late '80s.  The claim was that soluble fiber intake reduces bad blood cholesterol, and oat bran contains such fiber.<br /><br />WHY?<br /><br />For me, the answer as to why soluble fiber reduced cholesterol, was provided by the TV-lecture version of Covert Bailey's book "Fit or Fat" which was all over PBS in the mid '90s.<br /><br />There he explained that bile was essentially soap which the body created to make fatty foods disolve in water.  As the digestion process finished using the bile, it would retrieve and recycle it.  However, adding soluble fiber to the mix would bind with the bile, and cause the body to dump it instead of reuse it.  Therefore, the body would then have to make new bile to replace that which was just discarded.  Bile and cholesterol are produced by the same biological building blocks, and when given the choice between making one or the other, the body puts the priority on making bile.<br /><br />THIS PRODUCT:<br /><br />This product is a very fine white powder.  It disolves quite well in warm water, and quite poorly in cold water.  Each scooper full is 3.3 grams.  I take 2 scoops in a small amount of warm water each morning, typically around 8:30am.  Its effect is consistent and distinct.  By 4pm comes significant intestinal gas, soon followed by the natural outcome which would otherwise invariably wait until early the next morning.  The downside to this is that I'm often not at home at 4pm.  The upside is that my sleep is no longer interrupted by Mother Nature loudly calling at 5:30am, which is highly frustrating.  This is a major upside.<br /><br />As for my LDL and triglycerides levels, I will have to wait until my next blood panel is performed to see if this product has helped in that regard.<br /><br />PHOTOS:<br /><br />The photo with the Blu-ray is to provide sense of scale of the bag.<br /><br />The other photo shows the size of the little 3.3-gram scooper that comes included.
Rating: 5 stars