{"id":582449,"date":"2019-02-21T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d5977209976b042ab7a8196fef43827c"},"modified":"2019-02-21T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T14:55:41","slug":"dietary-fiber-helps-clump-material-in-your-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=582449","title":{"rendered":"Dietary fiber helps clump material in your gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food, microbes, and medicine all clump together as they move through our gut. Sticky molecules secreted into our intestines bind the gut particles in the same way that flour holds a ball of dough together. Now a new mice-based study from Caltech is showing that dietary fiber also plays a role in clumping. This is the first time that researchers have shown that fiber\u2014stringy molecules found in foods like vegetables and whole grains\u2014helps to aggregate gut particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food, microbes, and medicine all clump together as they move through our gut. Sticky molecules secreted into our intestines bind the gut particles in the same way that flour holds a ball of dough together. Now a new mice-based study from Caltech is showing that dietary fiber also plays a role in clumping. This is the first time that researchers have shown that fiber&mdash;stringy molecules found in foods like vegetables and whole grains&mdash;helps to aggregate gut particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582450,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582449\/revisions\/582450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}