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Let's jump into another edition of Health News Reviews.

And we'll start off with the study entitled, Digestion-resistant Maltodextrin effects on colonic, transit time and stool weight, a randomized controlled clinical

study. Essentially, they took 28 patients on placebo and 28 treatment patients, and they showed that

resistant multidextrin, so a form of resistant start, excuse me, improve colonic transit time.

So the speed at which bulk, stool, feces moves through your colon, stool, stool volume, stool consistency, and some intestinal functions in this healthy population.

So this isn't really surprising. Probably the best

research for resistant starch, fiber, and or probiotics all very similar is for constipation

by helping with bulk, volume, and just having a general laxation effect because of that. So certainly not surprising,

something to consider, especially in people that have constipation or constipation type IBS.

And for some people, something like an addition of fiber, probiotic, or resistant starch

will be enough to get them over the hump of a little bit of constipation.

But also, don't let the fact that some intestinal functional markers can improve with

things like prebiotics, as we've talked about, because sometimes what you'll see is a functional

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