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.
There have been studies done with purified fibers where you actually see micro biodiversity plummet over the course of the study, because you get a very specific bloom in a small number of bacteria that are good at using that one type of fiber.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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The studies that have been done on prebiotics, the it's really kind of a a mixed bag of results. The um there have been studies done with um purified fibers where you actually see microbiota diversity plummet over the course of the study because um you get a very specific bloom in a small number of bacteria that are good at