5-Hydroxymethyl-2-furoic

5-Hydroxymethyl-2-furoic Acid (HMFA)

• Popular companies: Great Plains, Diagnostic Solutions
• What the company says it indicates: Aspergillus overgrowth
• Aspergillus does produce this organic acid.
• Aspergillus species are not considered true residents of the human gut
• Thought to be transient from dietary and environmental sources
• HMFA is also a natural constituent of coffee
• Tests may not properly distinguish HMFA from its close relative, 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furfural
• Increased in urine after dried plum consumption
• Three-month diet and exercise program
• Increased fasting blood levels of HMFA by 20 percent in obese women
• Study lacked a placebo group
• Urine tests both before and after the intervention
• Participants consumed a strict control diet for a week
• Gut microbes were not directly assessed in this study.
• May indicate dietary intake as much as gut microbes
• Which microbes it may indicate is currently unclear.
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