It's well known that an oatmeal diet lowers cholesterol (the article itself cites a 1907 'oat cure' in its intro). The new finding here is insight into the exact mechanism- a short-term, high-dose oatmeal diet (300g/day for two days) had significantly greater LDL-lowering effect than a medium-term, moderate-dose oatmeal diet (80g/day for six weeks), and they associated the difference with increases in several plasma phenolic compounds triggered by specific changes in the gut microbiome.

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x0x0 an hour ago | parent [-]

300g is a lot of oatmeal.

I eat Bob's Red Mill steel cut oats for breakfast every day; 1/2c dry is about 88g. That's a pretty decent meal. 3.5x that is probably most of what you eat that day.

	▲	wgjordan 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, the article showed that the high-dose intervention (modeled after von Noorden's famous century-old 'oat cure') is most effective. A large bowl of oatmeal (100g) all 3 meals for 2 days, 6 large bowls total. 6 weeks of 'oatmeal for breakfast every day' was less effective than 2 days of 'stuff yourself with oatmeal'.
	▲	Marsymars an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's quite a bit of volume, but it's "only" about 1000 Calories if it doesn't have any oils/sugar added. I'd guess the easiest way to get it down would be to just blend the oats into water without cooking so you have something that you can just drink like water.