Psyllium Husk and Improved Clinical Remission

• Donor composition and fiber promote strain engraftment in a randomized controlled trial of fecal microbiota transplant for ulcerative colitis.

  • 2025-09
  • RCT · n = 27
  • Med (New York, N.Y.) 6(9)
  • • Lasha Gogokhia
    • Nancy Tran
    • Alex Grier
    • Manabu Nagayama
    • Grace Xiang
    • Gabriela Funez-dePagnier
    • Alexa Lavergne
    • Caroline Ericsson
    • Sarah Ben Maamar
    • Mengrui Zhang
    • Robert Battat
    • Ellen Scherl
    • Dana J Lukin
    • Randy S Longman

  • PubMed: 40460824
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2025.100707

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Clinical Remission

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  fiber did not improve clinical outcomes of FMT

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  fiber supplementation for 8 weeks