Gut microbiota alpha diversity may not be the sole indicator of health, and research suggests ketogenic and carnivore diets do not negatively impact it.

“the studies that exist on that I think do disprove that there's one study that I'm thinking of in patients with multiple sclerosis they won't look on a ketogenic diet their diversity decreased and then it increased again as they sort of shifted over to it to a new microbiota which is exactly what you'd expect”

“there was a study at Harvard done looking at the carnivore diet with regard to gut flora and so they put people on a carnivore diet from one week and they looked at changes in gut flora and they didn't see any change in the microbiology was about the diversity”

“And so there was this really interesting study uh done with a carnivore diet. It was only a week long, but they compared a carnivore diet, you're probably familiar with this one, to a to a plant-based diet. And what they saw was just a shift in the microbiome. And as I've mentioned before on multiple podcasts, they didn't see any change in the alpha diversity.”

“there were no significant differences in alpha diversity on either diet which is important to point out”

“there was a study at Harvard done looking at the carnivore diet with regard to gut flora and so they put people on a carnivore diet for one week and they looked at changes in gut flora and they didn't see any change in the microbiome in terms of alpha diversity”