High-fat diet alters the oligosaccharide chains of colon mucins in mice.

Great,who would have thunk it,why is fat messing with colon mucins.

Wish they would have said which kind of fat,or does it not matter.

Perhaps another part of the picture puzzle.

This could be a possible reason for the initial mucus breach,defective mucus due to high fat diet.

Old Mike

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24770665

part of the complete paper,click on the right side where it says look inside.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00418-014-1221-2

guess I will have to read this old one,interesting they mention phosphate

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8840978

something else to ponder

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3039469

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 4/30/2014 4:52:15 AM (GMT-6)

I dont buy it ......I eat paleo/ low carb with fat... and Now my ulcer colitits and crohns seem to be gone
I dont buy that study if they were clear on what fats.... I eat alot of avacados, coconut oil, eggs , olive oil, nuts almonds walnuts, alot of animal fat...

the The Akkermansia bacteria seems more important to me.... I think there missing a KEY part ...
bring up the Akkermansia and lower yeast....

http://www.nature.com/news/gut-microbe-may-fight-obesity-and-diabetes-1.12975

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/13/the-mucus-lover-that-stops-mice-from-getting-fat/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130515113744.htm

My american gut project study showed I had very high Genus Akkermansia 13.2%(Verrucomicrobia )
now. Which I credit for fixing me ...closing off my gut (thick protective area) and it eats mucus-- so no mucus in stools now.. at the same time I dropped YEAST

Like I said I dont buy the FAT thing.....unless its BAD fats.. veg oils , canola oils etc etc
Many of my bacteria are up 3x now after I did this ...lowered yeast up Akkermansia which i credit to getting a healthy gut right now...