Dietary fiber
Subject in Nutrition
Dietary fiber has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Chris ThompsonProfessor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham
Thompson argues that gut microbes deprived of fiber will consume the mucus layer and fail to produce butyrate needed for tight junctions.
“And if you're not feeding them fiber, they'll eat your mucus layer, okay? And we already talked about how thin that barrier is”
Huberman Lab: Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson (Sep 21, 2026) · Listen from 21:27
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
Episodes
Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris ThompsonHuberman Lab · Sep 21, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Andrew Huberman and gastroenterologist Chris Thompson discuss gut anatomy, fiber and the microbiome, GLP-1 drugs, early metabolic testing, gut permeability, and endoscopic and gene-therapy obesity treatments.