The focus on fiber in gut health research may be overly dogmatic, requiring a less pathogenic lens for microbiome studies.

“it's very clear that we've kind of had this pervading pervasive focus on fiber and that's not to say that some people might do might not do well with with more fiber in their diet but um i think the the goal of of our paper and you know the goal of my work and in looking at this has been to really kind of slash that dogma and just kind of recognize that there is a lot of a lot of flexibility in what the microbiome can adapt to and that we need kind of a less less pathogenic lens on a lot of uh these these studies then and fewer researchers looking at their results with that bias from the start”