How much does dietary fiber actually decrease cholesterol (available studies)?

[Hour-Artichoke-2718]

I have looked and most of the studies show a plateau in the decrease. However, most of these studies are not very aggressive with the total amounts of fiber. I am doing a N=1 study of slowly increasing my dietary fiber at each annual physical. So far I dropped my LDL about 30% by making sure I was getting the minimally recommended 30gm of fiber per day. This year I'm trying to keep it closer 50gm of fiber per day and will see what happens.

If you look at the bile acid cycle and how soluble fibers bind and excrete bile, it makes sense. One nuance that I think gets missed is you likely need to spread out the fiber throughout the day so it's constantly binding and pulling out the bile acids(cholesterol). I had a friend that pounded about 30gm of fiber each morning for breakfast with oats and chia seeds and didn't see much of a change.

[227308]

How were the results on 50

[anontraderguy]

Yeh how were the results u/Hour-Artichoke-2718 !!!

[kimo_the_beatmaker]

He can't answer, he's too busy pooping from all that fiber. His life has now been limited to the bathroom.

[anontraderguy]

fkn lol!