The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
whereas individuals that ate just a couple of servings of fermented food each day, experience important and beneficial increases in anti-inflammatory markers. And that could be traced back to improvements in the gut microbiome diversity
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We saw this increase in microbiota diversity over the course of the six weeks while they were consuming the fermented foods.
We saw this increase in microbiota diversity over the course of the six weeks while they were consuming the fermented foods. Um but we um know in the context of the gut and for people living in the industrialized world, higher diversity is generally better.
Fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, kombucha, even sauerkraut increase alpha diversity of the gut… (PMID: 34256014)
interestingly and kind of unexpectedly the fermented foods actually led to a slight increase in microbial diversity over time and they actually sampled all the fermented foods and figured out which microbes were in that and they took those out of the analysis so this was not actually just attributed to the species found in fermented foods but suggests that there's actually something about fermented foods that might make the gut more permissive to new species coming in
interestingly and kind of unexpectedly the fermented foods actually led to a slight increase in microbial diversity over time and they actually sampled all the fermented foods and figured out which microbes were in that and they took those out of the analysis so this was not actually just attributed to the species found in fermented foods but suggests that there's actually something about fermented foods that might make the gut more permissive to new species coming in
what does increase the diversity of your gut fermented foods
fermented foods raise the diversity of your gut Flora we call this Alpha diversity in studies fermented foods raise the alpha diversity
He didn't find the fiber actually didn't increase or change the alpha diversity of the gut. The but but interventions with fermented foods did. So like caffir kombucha things.