Psyllium husk is not pretty. Many “healthy” meals too fall short on soluble fibre, which is what keeps your glucose curve from doing parkour. Another study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition noted that psyllium husk helped most when glycaemic control was already messy, which feels poetic in its own way. When fibre ferments, your gut bacteria produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), tiny molecules that end up playing translator between your digestion and your stress response. India’s fibre paradoxFor a cuisine built on vegetables, lentils and grains, we still miss a lot of the fibres our gut needs.