The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Now, lack of microbiota diversity has a name in the medical profession. It's called dysbiosis and dysbiosis is bad. Dysbiosis is what you see when people are spending long periods of time on bedrest or when they've been chronically ill, and so here again, we're talking about creating a positive environment in the gut, either by adjusting acidity, maybe you explore the betaine HCL pepsin thing.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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All right, we're just going to humor you and we're going to have a fermented food arm, not just a fiber arm. So we got 18 people to eat as much fiber as humanly possible and 18 people to eat as much fermented food as humanly possible.
What they found was that when they did the studies, the plant fiber-based diet did nothing for the alpha diversity.
fiber doesn't raise the alpha diversity fermented foods raise the alpha diversity