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.
well that's because we don't know I mean the best we have is Rob nights work but even even that is limited in terms of you know can I tell you that a a woman in her 20s should have this particular pattern with her microbiome no I can't
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And I will say that there's no single answer to this, but there are some really important considerations.
Through those studies, we really started to get the image that there is this tremendous individuality in the gut microbiome. And um and so it's it's really hard to um start drawing um you know conclusions after initial pass of that project of what is a healthy microbiome.
we don't know how to construct a healthy microbiome and many now have said this is almost becoming a truism the microbiome you have when you're healthy is a healthy microbiome
a healthy microbiome is the microbiome you have when you're healthy and yours is going to be very different from the person next to you so we we actually only share about two-thirds or sorry about a third of our microbiome with the next person and about two-thirds is individual to us
We don't really have a great definition of a healthy gut with other objective, more uh technical metrics like alpha diversity, or we don't really know what a healthy gut microbiome is because there are many healthy populations of people who have very diverse different populations in the gut, and there are thousands of species in the gut. The majority of them are not even known to humans. We haven't even sequenced their DNA. We don't even know what's in the gut. There's a lot of gastrointestinal dark matter, a lot of organisms living in our guts we don't even understand.