The prevalence of Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut microbiome may be independent of diet, even in metabolically healthy individuals on vastly different diets (e.g., plant-based vs. carnivore).

“I I I trying to think about any studies that really kind of got at the heart of of this I mean really the study that you would want to do is you want to take one of these individuals you know measure their microbiome and you'd want to put them on a series of different diets and just sort of see like is this something that is not changeable like no matter what you eat or what diet you're on you know this particular strain stays stays high in which case you would argue that the microbiome is a readout of their metabolic Health not the cause of their metabolic Health could be”