NOW Foods Glucomannan Pure Powder, 8 Ounce

When mixed with water, it is tasteless. Getting used to it. I taste my blood glucose and the readings are better now before I took glucomannan powder.

Delivered in good condition. It’s great at keeping one full – by taking 30-45mins before a meal – really helps control the appetite and keeps you fuller for longer. But make sure you drink ALOT of
Water throughout the day because glucomanan is known to soak up to 5 times its weight in water. If you don’t drink enough you will feel constipated.
But this stuff is great to add to an already healthy lifestyle or weight loss regime.

Glucomannan is recommended by medical authorities as top quality fiber to feed the probiotics in your gut and, ahem, it’s easy to see why. To be honest, not much comes out the other end. I’m trying to take it regularly twice a day. It does make a big difference if you take it once versus two or three times a day . And the difference in quality between something like Metamucil and glucomannan is pretty extreme .

Mixed with water, you need to stir vigorously or it will form an incredibly thick jelly that needs to be spooned into your mouth. You can chug it as fast as possible before it has a chance to set.

The powder has just the faintest hint of a fishy taste/smell. However, it’s trivially easy to hide. Honestly, I still have some Metamucil left, so I mix a cocktail to get that delicious Metamucil flavor. But chicken stock works so much better.

Will it fix your diarrhea or constipation? Eventually. Glucomannan is soluble fiber. Insoluble fiber is better for regularity. However, it will feed the helpful probiotics in your gut and hopefully, they will destroy any bad bugs. THAT will fix your diarrhea/constipation.

And did you know Shirataki noodles are also made of glucomannan? Nothing but glucomannan. It has no carbs, no calories, no gluten, just fiber. Also sold on Amazon : )

(and your local Asian grocery store)

Update: Recently I saw a doctor of functional medicine to find out what the heck is going on with my gut. We’ll find out when the tests come back.

Meanwhile she straightened out my supplement regime. She threw out my junk fiber Metamucil but I was allowed to keep glucomannan. However she recommended PGX instead. PGX is a form of glucomannan which has been processed to preserve the fiber to the max. She also dumped my favorite probiotics, but kept Jarrow’s Saccharomyces boulardii . S boulardii is a probiotic that fights inflammation of the gut.

I was stunned , didn’t she want more probiotic diversity to help strengthen the microbiome? Wasn’t it better to have lots and lots and lots of fiber?

Apparently not . Taking too many probiotics isn’t helpful because the probiotics must fight it out in the gut with your already established probiotics so she eliminated the competition to favor S. boulardii which will heal the gut.

What’s wrong with taking all kinds fiber? Lots of different fiber? Unfortunately, poorly processed fiber such as Metamucil, sure it supports your probiotics but it also feeds some seriously bad denizens of the gut.

And that was it . Throwing out the junk did the trick . Three weeks after I took her advice my gut pain , cramping, gas, bloating, diarrhea, GERD is under control.

So quality is the key. Buy the best fiber that you can afford. PGX if you can afford it or glucomannan. Get the right probiotic for the job. If you want to control inflammation Saccharomyces boulardii is the right probiotic and you won’t need any other probiotic.

Healing the gut is a big story and here are some other helpful elements.

Glutamine . 2 to 3 g daily is the therapeutic dose to heal the gut glutamine feeds the gut directly.

Resistant starch : resistant starches are longchain starches that resist digestion. They are usually broken down by the probiotics in your gut . Some of the byproducts of resistant starch digestion are used to feed the gut directly and they reduce inflammation . Bob’s Red Mill unmodified potato starch is resistant starch. The therapeutic dose is 1 tablespoon taking up to three times daily.

Collagen: collagen is required to heal the gut. You can find collagen either in bone broth or collagen powder.

If your digestion is broken : gas, bloating, stomach aches, heartburn, cramps, diarrhea, GERD. You may need to support your digestion. You want to check with a physician before starting this because if you don’t need this stuff you could burn a hole in your stomach. HCL betaine and digestive enzymes .

, you need to initiate protein synthesis. Healing is by definition the production of new proteins to replace those which are broken or missing. In order to initiate protein synthesis, you need to eat 30 g of protein in one sitting. That’s a lot of protein, five large eggs contains 30 g of protein for example. I tend to do this by eating 30 g in one meal. And then for my other meals that’s when I eat all my vegetables and fruit.

The quality is good, its showing the characterstics.
Though, a long term review maybe more helpful on effects such as weight loss.