Fiber makes its way down to the large intestine. And we get butyrate from that. Your body itself cannot digest the fiber. You don't have the metabolic machinery to break it down in your gut. So it travels to the colon where there are these little guys that do break it down. Now they don't break down a ton, so we're not cows. That's why we have like, we were talking earlier, maybe 80 grams or 100 grams is kind of the limit. But we do date do ferment some. Those microbes take the fiber and they have the metabolic machine to metabolize it. They then turn it into these short chain fatty acids which our body cells can

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