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.
the article is titled the ketogenic diet influences taxonomic and functional composition of the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy and even in the the abstract they will note that the ketogenic diet in these children with epilepsy did not affect alpha diversity
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that one found no decrease in alpha diversity with a very low fiber ketogenic diet
if people want to know the study i was referring to is called the ketogenic diet influences taxonomic and functional composition of the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy and again that one found no decrease in alpha diversity with a very low fiber ketogenic diet