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Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
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Is Fiber Helping Chronic Constipation?
Fiber can clearly help constipation. However, it can also flare symptoms in some individuals. The threshold has been triggered for me for there to be enough data to now be experimenting with sodium bureate in the clinic. And I will let you know what I find and I'll be happy to add this newer clinical model if we do get a good clinical signal. Okay. Next study was another meta-analysis looking at the impact of fiber on chronic constipation. They found the greatest response was fiber led to about a 20% graded response than placebo.
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