Triglyceride levels psyllium effects

Fiber derived from psyllium seed has a long history of use as a pharmaceutical to produce laxatlon. It s high bulking properties are due to its high content of hemlcellulose. When incorporated into food products and fed to humans, it produces the desirable effects of increased stool bulk, decreased fecal transit time, and decreased blood serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels. However, concurrently psyllium fiber supplementation results in some depression in aljsorption of selected minerals, fat and protein. This was also true of some but not all of the other fiber sources tested. 

Cholesterol level decrease. The husks and seeds were administered orally to six normal adult males and five adult males with ileostomy and six normal adult males and four adult males with ileostomy, respectively, at a dose of 10 g/day for 3 weeks. The husk had no effect on cholesterol or triglyceride concentrations in either normal or ileostomy subjects. Total and HDL cholesterol concentrations were reduced on average by 6.4 and 9.3%, respectively, in normal group after seed supplementation. No effect on fecal bile acid excretion in the normal subjects was found after both regimens. Ileostomy bile acids were increased (on average 25%) after seed supplementation, whereas no effect on cholesterol concentrations was found. These results suggest that psyllium seed may be more effective than the husk in... 

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