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>the effects of diet are nearly strictly temporary despite rapid changes. Is the claim here that transient dietary changes don’t have a lasting effect or that
by comte7092 3y ago
>the effects of diet are nearly strictly temporary despite rapid changes.
Is the claim here that transient dietary changes don’t have a lasting effect or that long term dietary modifications will lead to a temporary change in the microbiome, with an eventual return to baseline, despite said dietary changes being permanent?
I am not deep into the research but I have a hard time believing that long term dietary patterns don’t have a lasting causal relationship here.
- Llamamoe 3y agoFor the most part, as an adult, your microviome has a fixed composition - what you eat will rapidly alter the relative proportions of your gut microbes, but even drastic dietary shifts are unlikely to either kill strains off, or introduce new ones, so any diet will only have so much of an effect, and it'll bounce right back if you go back to your old diet.
- comte7092 3y agoThe key component being going back to your old diet though. So dietary changes do have a direct impact. It’s just dependent on whether the dietary pattern is consistent long term.