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Help with psyllium husks?

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SM1997

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I read that psyllium husks can help with reducing hunger but there’s something I need to know: does anyone know how long the whole Psyllium Husks take to be digested and expelled? Let’s say I take it at 8 AM, how many hours later will I expel it?
 
Husband takes daily. Never timed him and not going to start.
 
I'm not sure its effects are quite that stark. I used to take it, for years, and never really saw any dramatic change in 'habits'.

What are your actual concerns?
 
I use psyllium husk in LCHF baking in particular, as it seems to 'fluffen up' almond flour baked goods that can be a bit heavy. Not a lot, but a bit. I guess this is because it holds liquid? (Acting like edible sawdust!)

Re helping with bowel regularity, I would see eating psyllium husk as creating a certain kind of gut biome - you are feeding certain greeblies in your gut for aiding and abetting your gut health and regularity as part of that - rather than think about it like a pill/pharmaceutical? With time frames for eating and expelling? Is my advice.
 
Just a p.s. - talking about the happy addition of pysllium husks in LCHF/keto baking - it really does 'lighten up' the almond/coconut flour base. I have been experimenting with Keto cakes for years, and found a lighter carrot cake someone posted the link in this forum for but I cannot remember where, and it had the (1 or 2 TBSP? I think?) pysllium husks in the recipe, and sure enough - a great diabetic-friendly cake (I use my favourite stevia-granules, but less than the recipe stipulates due to gratefully lessened sweet-tooth), and yes, pretty close to carrot cakes of pre-diagnosis days... just a plug for this great baking ingredient.

Still don't know about the timing of the expelling, sorry OP, but the carrot cake, with cream cheese with a dash of lemon 'icing', disappeared into my belly pretty quickly!
 
I get psyllium flour - the husk ground up, to use these days, as it seems more useful than the whole husks, I add it to salad, just a teaspoon full, and use it in baking. I do not have any idea about the timing though - it is just part of my diet which is an ongoing thing.
I suspect that the fibre is not digested, though, it just goes along with all the other non digestible stuff.
I doubt that it would, of itself, stop hunger. The low carb diet I'm eating reduces appetite, and the psyllium just adds to the bulk of the residue.
 
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