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Dmitry Kats, PhD: From Niatonin to Niacur

Mastering Nutrition

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The Role of Butyrate in Immune Activation

Butyrate is the preferred energy substrate of colonicites, it's pretty much staying in the gut. It fuels the whole endothelial system and essentially this extends to serotonin as well. So you're saying in the inflammatory process, you're largely utilizing things that are synthesized in the gut using butering?

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