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I'm curious if you could get the same effects by changing your diet, and what that diet is. I suspect this is at the bottom of all gut microbiome "problems", an
by npsimons 6y ago
I'm curious if you could get the same effects by changing your diet, and what that diet is. I suspect this is at the bottom of all gut microbiome "problems", and furthermore that any fecal transplant will only have temporary effects if one continues to have a bad diet.
- kbelder 6y agoI think antibiotics can cause a lot of problems. You get strep throat, take antibiotics, and it kills off something in your gut you've had all your life. How do you get it back? Eat yogurt? That's nonsense. There are supplements that supposedly help rebuild your intestinal flora, but I'm pretty skeptical that they work. So a bad diet can definitely kick your microbiome out of whack, but I don't think that's the only cause.
- npsimons 6y ago> So a bad diet can definitely kick your microbiome out of whack, but I don't think that's the only cause. True, but I think it's just one of those truths people know but don't want to hear: a baseline of good health is behaviors/habits that boost it, and that includes things like getting enough good sleep, adequate exercise and a diet that is not just enough food (not too little and not too much), but the right kind of food. If we're going to go down the path of judging some gut flora as "better" than others, it behooves us to discover how to get those gut flora, and it only makes sense a large part of that is what we ingest. And yeah, I'm opposed to overuse of antibiotics too. In the same vein, fecal transplants seem like a quick fix that might be justifiable (ie cancer cases), but shouldn't be seen as a "get out of jail free card" for bad habits.
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