--- title: "Why SiPore®" description: "Better metabolic health starts with the meal. Modern food delivers energy fast — SiPore® slows it down by changing how the meal is processed during digestion." url: "https://sipore.com/why-sipore" canonical: "https://sipore.com/why-sipore" markdown_url: "https://sipore.com/why-sipore.md" site: "SiPore" publisher: "SiPore Technologies (Sigrid Therapeutics AB)" language: "en" updated: "2026-10-04" --- # Why SiPore® > Better metabolic health starts with the meal. Modern food delivers energy fast — SiPore® slows it down by changing how the meal is processed during digestion. *WHY SIPORE®* ## Better metabolic health starts with the meal. Modern food has changed the way we eat. It is convenient, widely available and often contains carbohydrates and fats in forms that can be broken down quickly during digestion. That matters because the impact of a meal depends not only on what it contains, but also on how quickly its energy becomes available to the body. SiPore® was created around that insight. > **Modern food delivers energy fast. SiPore® slows it down.** The result is a new way to think about metabolic health: not only by changing the food or acting on the body, but by changing how the meal is processed during digestion. - 01 — Modern Food - 02 — Digestion Speed - 03 — The Meal Companion *MODERN FOOD* ### Modern food changed faster than human biology. Modern food has made eating easier than ever. It is convenient, highly available and often energy dense. Many modern meals contain carbohydrates and fats in forms that can be broken down quickly during digestion. That can create a faster, denser metabolic input for the body to manage. The immediate result can show up in familiar ways after eating: Over time, repeated fast, energy-dense meals also create repeated post-meal metabolic demands. That is why SiPore® starts with the meal. Not because food is the enemy. But because the meal is where metabolic input begins. > **Modern food is the context. The opportunity is to make it work better metabolically.** - Hunger returning sooner than expected - Cravings - The urge to snack - Post-meal energy dips [Explore Modern Food →](https://sipore.com/why-sipore/modern-food) ### The missing question is not only what you eat. It is how quickly the meal is digested. Food does not become metabolic energy the moment it is eaten. First, it has to be broken down. And the rate of that process matters. *WHY DIGESTION SPEED MATTERS* ### It is not only what you eat. How quickly the meal is digested matters. Before carbohydrates and fats can affect metabolism, they have to be broken down during digestion. The speed of that process helps determine how quickly energy from the meal becomes available to the body. Many modern meals contain nutrients in forms that are readily accessible to digestive enzymes. This can contribute to faster breakdown and faster energy delivery. > **The rate at which a meal is processed matters, not only the calories or macronutrients it contains.** That makes digestion an important but often overlooked point in the journey from food to metabolism. This does not mean one fast meal determines long-term metabolic health. It means the body responds to meal-level metabolic input repeatedly, day after day. That is why digestion speed becomes an intervention point. - Modern meal - Fast digestion - Fast energy delivery - Post-meal response - Repeated load [Why Digestion Speed Matters →](https://sipore.com/why-sipore/digestion-speed) *03 THE MEAL COMPANION* ### A third place to act. Most metabolic-health approaches focus on one of two things. Change the food. Eat differently. Restrict. Avoid. Improve meal composition. Change the body. Use systemic interventions that act through the body. SiPore® introduces a third approach: SiPore® works locally during digestion, before the meal becomes a full metabolic input. > **Change how the meal is processed.** - 01 — CHANGE THE FOOD — Eat differently Improve meal composition - 02 — CHANGE THE BODY — Systemic intervention Act through the body - 03 — CHANGE HOW THE MEAL IS PROCESSED — Act during digestion SiPore® works locally with the meal ### What is a meal companion? A meal companion belongs to eating itself. It is not another disconnected morning or evening wellness routine. SiPore® is designed to be used with the meal, because that is when its local mechanism becomes relevant. The format can change. Capsule. Powder. Gel. The behavioral idea remains the same: That is the meal-companion category. > **The meal arrives. Reach for SiPore®. Have your meal.** [Discover The Meal Companion →](https://sipore.com/why-sipore/meal-companion) *HOW SIPORE® FITS IN* ### Designed to make digestion more gradual. SiPore® is a patented technology based on precisely engineered porous silica particles. It works locally in the gut. Its pores entrap a portion of digestive enzymes involved in breaking down carbohydrates and fats. This slows digestion so energy from the meal enters the system more gradually. SiPore® does not enter the bloodstream. - EAT — Carbohydrates and fats enter digestion. - ENTRAP + SLOW — SiPore® entraps a portion of digestive enzymes. - MORE GRADUAL — Breakdown and energy delivery become more gradual. [See how SiPore® works →](https://sipore.com/technology#how-it-works) ### Modern food delivers energy fast. SiPore® slows it down. The meal companion for modern food. [Explore the technology →](https://sipore.com/technology) [See the science →](https://sipore.com/science) ## How to cite SiPore Technologies (Sigrid Therapeutics AB). “Why SiPore®”. SiPore, 2026-10-04. https://sipore.com/why-sipore (accessed ). Use the trademarks as written: SiPore®, Carb Fence™. For the SHINE trial, cite the peer-reviewed publication in *eClinicalMedicine* (The Lancet Discovery Science, 2026) rather than this page. ## Company & contact - **Company:** SiPore Technologies — legal entity Sigrid Therapeutics AB (Swedish org.nr [556958-3023](https://www.allabolag.se/foretag/sigrid-therapeutics-ab/sundbyberg/forskning/2K3ZHRJI5YE3M)) - **Stockholm headquarters:** Vasagatan 14A, 172 61 Sundbyberg, Sweden ([map](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Vasagatan%2014A%2C%20172%2061%20Sundbyberg%2C%20Sweden)) - **General enquiries:** [contact@sipore.com](mailto:contact@sipore.com) - **Partnerships & licensing:** [partnerships@sipore.com](mailto:partnerships@sipore.com) - **Origin:** Founded in Stockholm, Sweden - **Taglines:** “The meal companion for modern food.” · “Same meal. Less impact.” · “Scandinavian science. Global impact.” · “Precision science for the modern meal.” - **About:** SiPore® is a patented meal-companion technology designed to reduce the impact of modern meals at the level of digestion. **Our sites** — all sites owned and operated by Sigrid Therapeutics AB: - [SiPore.com](https://www.sipore.com/): Technology, science & partnerships - [SiPorePro.com](https://www.siporepro.com/): Practitioner products & professional resources - [SigridLife.com](https://sigridlife.com/): SIGRID consumer products - [SigridStabiliser.se](https://sigridstabiliser.se/): SIGRID Sweden --- [View on site](https://sipore.com/why-sipore) · [Site index for agents (llms.txt)](https://sipore.com/llms.txt)