Kelsey Kinney: Okay, so first I would just point you to, I think it’s in Week 15 in his whole section on prebiotics and probiotics. He has a slide. I think it’s in that first presentation that shows the different food sources of fibers that could be helpful for your client. So I would go to that presentation, pull that slide out and you should see all the different food sources for those fibers there. But if you’re also referring to some of the prebiotic supplements that he’s talked about, so things like the partially hydrolyzed guar gum, acacia fiber or GOS, those kinds of things, they really are going to be easiest to get in supplemental form. But you can find other prebiotics like inulin and FOS in food. So depending on really what prebiotic you’re trying to get for your client, some of them you’re going to be able to find in food, while others will be easiest to get in supplement form. And really, if your patient can tolerate a lot of fruits and vegetables, I mean, that’s where they’re going to be getting a lot of these fibers and prebiotics. So that’s sort of the best way to do it from a dietary perspective. But the problem here, of course, as I’m sure you’ve found with a lot of your clients, is that if they’re coming from the digestive health side of things, they’re often not going to be able to tolerate a lot of fruits and vegetables. So that becomes this issue where you want them to be getting these fibers, these prebiotics, but they really can’t tolerate the dietary forms of that.
So that’s where things like the supplements can come in handy because, for example, partially hydrolyzed guar gum, not a FODMAP, really well-tolerated, and it’s just not something you’re really, of course, going to find in food. So that is where those kinds of things become really helpful, and it’s why I say those things are really only supplement versus being able to be found in a food. And I know that generally kind of goes against this idea of really getting as much as you can from your food, but there’s a time and a place to go outside of that, and this is one of those times.
So those are things that I use a lot, the partially hydrolyzed guar gum, GOS, those things are really, really great and very helpful for your digestive health clients. They aren’t going to be easily found in food. So we have to go the supplement route there.