Health Food Symmetry Pty Ltd (HFS) is an Australian owned specialty health & medical food supplier that manufactures & researches functional ingredients for the global health and food industries, HFS has recently acquired the assets of KFSU LTD including processing, research and IP including the following areas and more ;
Natural anti-inflammatory properties & antioxidants
Weight loss: due to the GI lowering properties, microbiome, satiety and ghrelin hormone changes backed by a 90-person
Acid Reflux & Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (#GORD) KFSU holds a patent for the treatment of #dietaryindigestion and gastro-esophageal reflux disease. Kfibre has a strong anecdotal record of amelioration of symptoms for both chronic and acute acid reflux/indigestion. A lifestyle study recording beneficial effects and a human clinical trial study are currently underway to demonstrate the high efficacy of Kfibre for providing relief of reflux symptoms. Treatment formats cover both nutritional foods and pharmaceutical approaches
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (#IBD) Kfibre, as both a stand-alone treatment and as a symbiotic (combination of Kfibre and a probiotic bacterial strain), significantly reduced or prevented gut inflammation during a challenge trial for gut inflammation. The reduction by Kfibre alone was clinically significant, however, the combination treatment including a probiotic strain, provided a remarkable amplification of the anti-inflammatory effect and the immune modulation effects of the probiotic.
Weight Loss KFSU has a completed weight loss study that demonstrates significantly improved outcomes for a weight loss program that included Kfibre compared to a negative control group. On an 8-week program, the weight loss recorded for females in the control group was 5.7 kgs, and for the Kfibre group, it was 10.06kg (for non-disease obesity). This represented a 76% increase in weight loss and exceeded the performance of many pharmaceutical options for obesity weight loss. Males demonstrated a 56% improvement in weight loss with Kfibre compared to the control (9.97kg vs 6.41kg).
Stomach Ghrelin “Hunger Hormones” Research has shown that sugarcane fibre affects the hormone that controls hunger “Stomach Ghrelin Gene Expression” the lower it is the less hungry you feel and Sugarcane Fibre against a High Fat Diet HFD, Cellulose Fibre CEL, Psyllium Husk PSY performed exceptionally well. Source: Wang ZQ, Zuberi A, Zhang XH, et al. Effects of Dietary Fibers on Weight Gain, Carbohydrate Metabolism and Gastric Ghrelin Gene Expression in High Fat Diet Fed Mice. Metabolism: clinical and experimental.
Insoluble/Soluble fibre balance Prioritizing or claiming superiority of one form of fibre extract over the other can be a function of marketing and not ideal nutrition. Ensuring the supply of complex fibre types so that the bodies digestive juices, enzymes and various species of microbiotia can all function effectively, is a preferable approach. This reflects how fruit and vegetable consumption contributes to health through the maintenance of a complex microbiome that aids health outcomes. KFibre provides the same complexity of #prebiotic fibres to support the balance of fibre digesting bacteria that thrive on soluble fibre and those that can partially break down insoluble fibre as a fermentation feed source to synthesize critical micronutrients such as Short Chain Fatty Acids SCFA’s. The remaining insoluble fiber maintains an important function for feedback signaling from the fore-gut to the hind-gut and beneficial stimulatory links to the vagus nerve as art of the gut-brain axis.
