Sentences with phrase «slow transit times of»

In his lectures, Burkitt was fond of pointing out that the typical African stool specimen was large and soft, and that stool transit times were rapid, compared to the puny hard fecal deposits and slow transit times of hapless Europeans.

A lack of fiber also results in slow transit time of food through the digestive tract (ie: constipation).

Additionally, the potatoes and tapioca used to replace the carbohydrate content of grain - free foods work as thickening agents, and help slow the transit time of food through the intestines.

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And these microbes are partially responsible for slower transit time -LRB-: If you haven't already incorporated stone fruit (plums, apricots, peaches) and pears into her diet, that's one of the first things you can try.

What the search for planetary transits has in common with the observation of starquakes is the need to stare at the same stars for a long time — long enough to detect very slow vibrations or to detect at least three transits of a planet.

As a moon orbits a planet, its gravity makes the planet move, speeding it up and slowing it down and so changing the timing and duration of transits.

Pectin is a soluble fiber that can help slow the pace of stomach emptying (also called gastric emptying) as well as the speed through which foods move along through the digestive tract (called transit time).

I just put out a podcast with this guy, Ken Brown, who's a gastroenterologist and he was teaching me more about methane and how certain species of these uh — bacteria during SIBO cases are actually slowing the bowel transit time.

By pooling the findings of the trials, the researchers found that on average, probiotics slowed «gut transit time» by 12.4 hours, increased the number of weekly bowel movements by 1.3, and helped soften stools, making them easier to pass.

In fact, researchers at King's College, London, researched 14 credible studies that supported findings that probiotics slowed gut transit time by 12.4 hours, increased the number of weekly bowel movements by 1.3, and helped soften stools making them easier to pass.

Fiber not only keeps things moving along as they should be, but also binds to some of these toxins, preventing them from being reabsorbed into the body even if transit time is slower.

The slow transit time that frequently occurs with Leaky GUT also means undigested food matter is left in the intestinal tract for long periods of time making the environment a host to unfriendly bacteria like yeast and other nasty bacterial and parasitic pathogens.

And these microbes are partially responsible for slower transit time -LRB-: If you haven't already incorporated stone fruit (plums, apricots, peaches) and pears into her diet, that's one of the first things you can try.

Our gastro intestinal tract is 7 meters long and by that time the meat is starting to rot, so by that time only people with very good digestive tracts and high hydrochloric acid can really handle it well and coli - rectal cancer is in its highest amount in the meat eating countries because of the slow transit that the meat causes.

Casein provides the high glutamine level essential for sparing muscle and by slowing gut transit time allows more of the protein to be absorbed.

I call it «nature's Pepto - Bismol» because it reduces GI inflammation and acts as a non-irritating source of fiber to bulk up the stool and slow down GI transit time.

Soluble fiber slows digestion (a good thing if you want to absorb the most nutrients), while insoluble fiber tends to speed the transit time of food through the digestive system.

The ingestion of fur during grooming can further slow down transit time of waste in the colon, especially in cats that are eating a diet of kibble and not getting adequate exercise.

I'm not for a moment suggesting this makes global warming go away, only it might slow the rate of change down - a bit - in the short term (perhaps the average transit time of deep currents).

In the heavier denser liquid water of the ocean transit is slowed down even further, some fourteen times more than in our atmosphere, as water being a transparent medium for visible light transmits it through unchanged but delays it in each encounter as it tries to absorb it but can't.

One of the things that makes a lot of bus transit systems slow is the over-abundance of stops; over time, the number of stops usually go up and then nobody dares get rid of those «legacy» stops because they're afraid of the backlash from local residents who might have to walk an extra block or two.