Make sure you take it a couple hours before or a couple hours after you take any meds. It can encapsulate the meds before they're absorbed into your body.

... but they all turned out like shit

Well punned good sir

You can get this in gummy form, its something ridiculous like only two gummy's will give you your daily fibre intake. Do NOT take more than the directions say, my god

IDK why anyone says this gives them the shits. Too much fiber slows things down. I take this stuff once a day and it just makes for less wiping and more cohesive shits. A minor improvement with no negative side effects.

Oh believe me, I know about psyllium husk. Best shit of my entire life. The kind you genuinely have to resist the prideful urge to take a picture of.

Had me worried for a second, like I JUST started eating Metamucil crackers and they've been fantastic so far. Thought I was about to find out something horrible about it lol

Humans evolved consuming a high fiber diet, but the standard American diet of highly processed foods has little fiber. Fiber is extremely beneficial, and feeds the gut microbiome, with which we have a symbiotic relationship and which helps us make things like serotonin. Consuming a whole foods diet, boosting fiber intake with things like psyllium husk and inulin, and regularly consuming fermented foods will help maintain a healthy gut microbiome. Microbiome disbiosis is one of the hallmarks of aging, and can have a huge negative impact on your health.

did I just get psyllium husk pilled

adjacent YSKs:

• there’s soluble and insoluble fibre. you need both, and psyllium only has soluble fibre so it’s part of a larger fibre intake (carrots are pretty okay sources of insoluble fibre - snacking carrots, perhaps with hummus is great!)
• peanut butter also has surprisingly decent fibre in it: honestly insoluble fibre is everywhere
• if you plan on adding psyllium (or any fibre) to your diet, build up slowly! it can cause literally constant diarrhoea for weeks or more if you just whack 30g/day (RDI) straight into your diet all at once
• add some to pancake batter! you’ll want to add about 10-20% more liquid because it gels up, but it’s real easy to add and is basically unnoticeable

Psyllium?! I hardly knowum!

It comes with age but age comes at different times for different people. If you find yourself thinking that bowel movements aren't as easy as they ought to be it's time. And yeah the main benefit is it gets easier to engage in the disgusting reality of biology.

Haha, man, I love reading these expressions people are using to describe their massive shits in this entire thread.

I do recommend chia seeds soked overnight also. For better "turning to shit" power you can use a coffe grinder before soaking.
Great topping for cereals.

I just eat a whole grains (brown rice, not white. 100% whole wheat etc) and plenty of fruits and vegetables that naturally contains fiber in addition to many other beneficial nutrients.

Your stool should be the consistency like toothpaste squeezing out of a tube. Mine is, albeit I go 2-3x a day , but I'll take it!

Tried these. Took a shit so big I had to bust it up with the toilet brush because it wouldn’t go down. Don’t use this stuff unless your hobby is shitting because you’ll have BIG FAT MASSIVE SHITS 3 times per day.

Sorry to rain on your parade but psyllium plants soak up lead, and ConsumerLabs tested different brands and they all had significant lead, and like half of them had more lead than California’s suggested maximum. No way to avoid it. I switched to Citrucel or something generic that doesn’t have that problem.

Thanks - genuinely useful YSK.

I'm on a bunch of medication, and nearly all of it has "can cause constipation" as a listed side effect. Add that to a GLP1 injection and things have been tight for a while, so much that I got my first ever haemmarroid a few weeks ago and that wasn't fun. Stool softeners help also.

I take a few tablespoons, stir it up in a coffee cup and chug it every night. Even if I miss a day, I'm generally OK, but miss 2 or 3 days, it's a 2-3 day thing to get back to normal.