The microbiome's ability to digest plant fibers can be restored through gradual reintroduction of cooked, pureed, lower FODMAP foods in soups and stews.

“that's not a irreversible thing you can get that the proper infrastructure as far as microbiome and enzymatic function to be able to digest that it's going to take some time but a lot of times people are overwhelmed with what that means and when they bring it back in they just feel like they've created more of a restrictive diet and I think for some people and this can apply not just to the carnivore diet but to the ketogenic diet and in the vegan diet for sure is this sense of orthorexia where it's stress and anxiety about Whole Foods about real foods and that can play a mind game as far as stress and anxiety for people around this”