The microbiome may play a role in plant-based diets by extracting and generating amino acids and making them available to the host when bacteria die.

“we're going to start to see some data that is actually being done right now where the microbiome does play a role and it has capacity to extract amino acids and that's very interesting so some of those studies are going to be emerging which is fascinating on a plant-based diet yeah so there's more amino acids and they believe you know it's one of the working hypothesis and some of the stuff that they're seeing is that the microbiome the bacteria are allowing either more extraction of amino acids and generation of amino acids and actually when they die the bugs die the host the body is actually able to get the amino acids they need”