YSK about Psyllium husk

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• 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Make sure you take it a couple hours before or a couple hours after you take any meds. It can encapsulate the meds before they’re absorbed into your body.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well that’s a pain in the ass, isn’t it?

    I believe it though. Researchers out there have shown that even things like time of day can make a HUGE difference in the measurable results of different remedies and medicines. It’s inconvenient as shit for those of us who would like to wake up, chug a handful of pills, and get on with our day.

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry for the pedantry but time of day is a something of a misnomer.

      Many people live in weird and varied schedules.

      For those who might need to be told, what time it is is irrelevant. It’s typically the amount of time before or after something else happens that is the relevant information here so consider how that affects you if you don’t live a typical morning to evening lifestyle.

      And also learn what things you should and shouldn’t eat or consume any time you take medication. It can easily be something as simple as substituting something instead of completely changing your routines. Unfortunately that is a trial by error thing so not a good method to fondue l figure out problems you may have with meds

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  • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good to know, thanks! Currently taking it with my multivitamin

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh really? I’ve been having it the same time as my vitamins, should I space them out then

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good for bacteria to survive into the colon. So take a pro biotic with the fiber.

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• N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Humans evolved consuming a high fiber diet, but the standard American diet of highly processed foods has little fiber. Fiber is extremely beneficial, and feeds the gut microbiome, with which we have a symbiotic relationship and which helps us make things like serotonin. Consuming a whole foods diet, boosting fiber intake with things like psyllium husk and inulin, and regularly consuming fermented foods will help maintain a healthy gut microbiome. Microbiome disbiosis is one of the hallmarks of aging, and can have a huge negative impact on your health.

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  • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    🤖 ?

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      N0t_5ure

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My instinct says no

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nope.

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    • PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      lol the s/n is relevant because I’m unsure also if it’s a bot.

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  • picnicolas@slrpnk.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Came here to mention inulin as a great fiber supplement in addition to psyllium husk. Fixing my gut changed my life, the direct impacts for me on mood, well-being, inflammation, and overall health cannot be overstated.

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    • obstructiveThoughts@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does inulin give you bad bloating and flatulence or is it only me? Half a teaspoon will do that to me. Although, the benefits of improved movement outweigh the negatives.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IDK why anyone says this gives them the shits. Too much fiber slows things down. I take this stuff once a day and it just makes for less wiping and more cohesive shits. A minor improvement with no negative side effects.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I tend to think people who are usually constipated just think a normal, healthy shit is diarrhea because it just comes out without effort.

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  • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You might not be drinking enough water. Psyllium gels in contact with water, but if there’s not enough it turns to rubber cement

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not having a problem with it?

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  • michaelalf@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe using the sugar free version and they have an intolerance to the sweeteners? The sugar free version wrecks my guts, but no worries with the normal type.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Huh. That might be a possibility.

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  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We out here dropping no wipers! For real though enough fober and a good enough diet is extremely convenient for butt stuff

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• shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can get this in gummy form, its something ridiculous like only two gummy’s will give you your daily fibre intake.

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  • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll have to try that. The capsules are no problem, the raw psyllium husk mixed with just water isn’t super pleasant

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Costco sells a powder with stevia instead of sugar that’s pretty good. Two rounded (whatever that means!) teaspoons in the morning and two before dinner for me has been fantastic. The Kirkland brand is also half the cost of the Metamucil, as well as like half the dose. So that’s a quarter the price. It sells itself.

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  • diverging@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    two gummy’s will give you your daily fibre intake

    Does it? I looked at the nutrition information on several brands and the highest is 5 grams, about 18% recommended daily intake, per serving.

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  • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The pills are nonsense though. Like 5 horsepills for 1 serving. Not worth it.

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    • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is what I figured coming from drinking the raw powder in water. I was adding quite a bit

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh believe me, I know about psyllium husk. Best shit of my entire life. The kind you genuinely have to resist the prideful urge to take a picture of.

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  • hefty4871@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is what sold my friends on meta. I kept boasting about my shits and my ghost wipes (toilet paper was clean on the first wipe).

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is what sold my friends on meta.

      I haven’t been to Facebook in a while, but I do remember it mostly being shit. I guess some things haven’t changed.

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  • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    100%

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• dimjim@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Had me worried for a second, like I JUST started eating Metamucil crackers and they’ve been fantastic so far. Thought I was about to find out something horrible about it lol

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  • jrubal1462@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s made from the blood of orphans but still worth it for a good B.M.

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean yeah, how else could you give a shit?

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• skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tried these. Took a shit so big I had to bust it up with the toilet brush because it wouldn’t go down. Don’t use this stuff unless your hobby is shitting because you’ll have BIG FAT MASSIVE SHITS 3 times per day.

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  • neo2478@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the civilised world we use the poop knife for such situations, sir!

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  • Transform2942@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Once you “clear the backlog” it settles down to a very consistent one-and-done-a-day

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    • metallic_substance@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup. You just have to tank the first few days. If you’re initially having gigashits, I’d take that as a sign that you need this more, not less

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I take these daily and while I always have good shits, the pills didn’t turn me into some kind of shit machine. Results may vary I guess.

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• Talos@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sorry to rain on your parade but psyllium plants soak up lead, and ConsumerLabs tested different brands and they all had significant lead, and like half of them had more lead than California’s suggested maximum. No way to avoid it. I switched to Citrucel or something generic that doesn’t have that problem.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know what’s good at removing lead from the body? Fiber. Real catch 22 here, drink more fiber, get more lead, drink more fiber, remove more lead.

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You know what’s good at removing lead from the body? Fiber.

      Citation Needed

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  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t the whole point that it’s non soluble fiber though? Meaning it more or less just uh, passes through.

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    • Talos@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a good point, but unfortunately I’ve never seen any evidence that your body does or does not absorb the lead from psyllium fiber, or if the fiber maybe even absorbs more lead from your body on the way through. All I know is that psyllium fiber has lead in it, and that there are other sources of fiber that don’t.

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• RalphFurley@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just eat a whole grains (brown rice, not white. 100% whole wheat etc) and plenty of fruits and vegetables that naturally contains fiber in addition to many other beneficial nutrients.

  Your stool should be the consistency like toothpaste squeezing out of a tube. Mine is, albeit I go 2-3x a day , but I’ll take it!

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  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    consistency like toothpaste squeezing out of a tube

    This seems way too soft, like isn’t it supposed to firm up a bit before you poop it out? Like, if I wipe 3 times and I still have soft poop behind the sphincter that ain’t right. Ideally I’m thinking like ripe peeled banana or a little harder, you know? Actually drop a few logs rather than the soft-serv shape from the emoji. Maybe this is 80s-90s thinking though, from when dog poop was white.

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    • RalphFurley@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am not an MD but I was told this by one. But yeah I gotta wipe a bit of I’m not on my primary throne that has a bidet attachment 💩💩

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  • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brushing my teeth tonight will be extra special now

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It comes with age but age comes at different times for different people. If you find yourself thinking that bowel movements aren’t as easy as they ought to be it’s time. And yeah the main benefit is it gets easier to engage in the disgusting reality of biology.

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Haha, man, I love reading these expressions people are using to describe their massive shits in this entire thread.

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  • biokernel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aww, everyone here is full of shit

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  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a size queen and doing so much anal stretching has enabled me to take some truly impressive dumps. Like “concerned whether this will fit in the pipe” impressive. A long long time ago, when I was a teenager, I once saw a turd someone hadn’t flushed in a public and marveled at how it could have come out of a human being. Well, now I know.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, time to get off the internet for tonight. Have a good one!

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fiber is great for a probiotic bacteria to grow. So take a pro biotic. Take one with l.reuteri.

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  • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same

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• OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The funnies part is their ads: (same company, same product)

  Pure for Her
  Women’s cleanliness supplement that delivers a premium blend of chia, flaxseed, psyllium and aloe, all in a vegan-friendly capsule. Pure for Her was created for women - for good health and good times.

  Pure for Men
  We’ve got you covered from the inside and out by offering a full line of top-rated fiber supplements and other personal care products to keep you feeling confident.

  The male version = “be ready and confident for backdoor sex!” Like dude, can you make it less obvious? This is gonna be in my shopping history.

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• specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  did I just get psyllium husk pilled

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  • Anissem@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is where I’m at right now. Used to quickly drink it mixed with water and that was a challenge at times

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is how I do it, yeah the first couple glasses were kinda weird but then once you’ve experienced it and know what to expect, it really isn’t bad at all.

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• BzzBiotch@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Psyllium?! I hardly knowum!

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nice try, Hank.

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• Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do recommend chia seeds soked overnight also. For better “turning to shit” power you can use a coffe grinder before soaking.
  Great topping for cereals.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Chia seeds are actually the goat in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. You don’t even taste them or feel them if you’re eating a sandwich with crunchy peanut butter or whole wheat bread. So you can load it up with tons and tons of chia.

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    • Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hmm, sounds great! Then it should work with hazelnut spread also. I’m still partial to Nutella > PBJ. But any fiber is good fiber! :)

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I use it in place of boba when making home-made milk tea.

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    • Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s such a good idea!

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• thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  OP is a bottom. Thanks for the info

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I take a few tablespoons, stir it up in a coffee cup and chug it every night. Even if I miss a day, I’m generally OK, but miss 2 or 3 days, it’s a 2-3 day thing to get back to normal.

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