Butyric Acid 250 mg

Butyric acid takes its name from butyrum, the Latin for butter, where it was first identified in the early nineteenth century. It is a short-chain fatty acid, only four carbons long, and it is the same compound the resident microbes of the colon produce when they ferment dietary fiber. In a well-fed gut, butyrate is the primary fuel of the cells lining the colon, which prefer it to glucose.

That is the whole argument for supplementing it. Butyrate is not a nutrient the body stores or draws on from the bloodstream; it is made locally and consumed locally, and its supply depends on what reaches the lower bowel. Butyric acid has been shown to support the normal absorption of magnesium, potassium, calcium, and sodium across the intestinal wall, and it plays a role in maintaining the healthy integrity of the intestinal lining.

Delivery is the hard part. Free butyric acid is absorbed high in the digestive tract and has a famously assertive odor. Ecological Formulas addresses both with a steady-release manufacturing method that carries the fatty acid further down the gastrointestinal tract, where it is actually used. Each capsule supplies 250 mg.

90 capsules, 250 mg each.

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