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.
What we know is that the gut microbiome can shift depending on what we eat. And incidentally, the Hodza and many of these other indigenous groups are not developing inflammatory bowel disease every dry season when they're eating mostly animal products as many researchers would suggest.
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including the absence of bifidobacteria so a species that we often associate with health and many people would claim is an indicator of health but in this hunter-gatherer population is not even there
the hadza do go into ketosis from time to time probably because they are hunting and not all their hunts are successful they don't possess one of the bacteria that we believe to be so helpful for humans how can this be when the hads that don't really have inflammatory bowel disease don't have irritable bowel syndrome don't have gi issues in general it points to the fact that our understanding of what a quote unquote healthy microbiome is very limited