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When everything is running well, adding fiber to your diet helps ensure that it will continue to do so, by giving your intestinal tract movement (peristalsis) something to work on. By holding a lot of water relative to the amount of dry stuff (even the insoluble does this to some extent), it produces bulk. These all help with the mechanical aspects.Soluble fermentable fiber does even more. It feeds your intestinal microflora. It is their by-products that make up the bulk of fecal material.Help, I'm taking lots of psyllium but I still have a problem with constipation. What should I do?
Answer:
Unfortunately, although fiber supplements are often called "bulk-forming laxatives," they are laxatives only in the broadest use of the term. While they help prevent problems by giving your body something to work on, they not only don't cure constipa...
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