Alpha diversity is a crude metric for gut health, as a diverse microbiome does not necessarily equate to a healthy gut.

“alpha diversity is this this kind of a strange metric maybe they heard it from tommy or one of the people he tommy was working with that you can have a very diverse neighborhood but you can have a lot of criminals in your neighborhood and it still looks very diverse so just because the neighborhood is diverse meaning a large amount of species doesn't mean it's a healthy gut”