insoluble fiber

T-Nation, the self-proclaimed community for “enhanced fitness” is back with another advertisement article for a totally useless supplement. This time it’s “beta glucan,” a soluble fiber, as in a structural polysaccharide composed of β-D-glucose molecules linked through 1,3 and/or 1,6 glycosidic bonds, derived from the cell walls of various organisms, including algae, bacteria, fungi, yeast, and plants (such as highly toxic oats and barley.) To make it easy, a monosaccharide (mono means “single unit”,)