If you’ve ever heard of Metamucil, that’s just psyllium husk in a powder form and it’s not just for old people. Adding some of this to your daily routine has a ton of benefits. I tried to write a few sentences explaining the benefits but they all turn out like shit.
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.
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.
And just to have a non-jokey answer, if it’s grown outdoors, it’s probably got lead in it. Prop 65 labels are on everything, making it the Boy Who Cried Wolf of safety labels at this point.
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There are a number of studies that talk about fiver intake, it’s relationship with consumed lead, and how that helps those conditions, like this one, which talks about the gut biome and how fiber helps you excrete lead. None of them are specifically saying “eat fiber poop lead,” but they say “eating fiber and pooping lead” fixes X, Y, Z. I’m too lazy to do Z, I’m on my phone.
I just thought about it one night, and it kind of just felt logical. Fiber says don’t take it within X time of consuming medication, because it can affect the uptake, and I was like, hmm, it’s gotta be more than just medication uptake, it’s probably anything uptake. I’m not sure if it’s anything, per se, but I think you get what I mean.
There’re quite a few studies linking increased dietary fiber to reduced lead levels.
Isn’t the whole point that it’s non soluble fiber though? Meaning it more or less just uh, passes through.
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.