What Foods Can Help Increase Your Butyrate Levels?
Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid that nourishes the gut and promotes cell differentiation. We get Butyrate and other short chain fatty acids from eating foods that are high in resistant starch (or supplementing Butyrate). Resistant starch is a type of starch that’s quite literally “resistant” to digestion — your body can’t break it down. Once resistant starch arrives in the colon intact, good bacteria feeds on it, producing Butyrate — which provides essential energy to the cells that line the colon walls, also known as colonocytes.
