Microbiome Composition Depends Mostly On Diet, Not Genes

[haidut]

Another point for Ray and his methods of improving the microbiome compositions through things like carrot, cascara, and occasional antibiotics.

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/12/122151 ... diet-genes

 

[tinkerer]

Thanks for the link. From that article:

Turnbaugh’s team found that switching mice to a high-sugar, high-fat diet reshaped the abundance of the community of microbes in the gut to a new, stable makeup within three days...

The findings are in agreement with a recent human study by Turnbaugh and colleagues ["Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome," Published online 11 December 2013], in which gut microbes were rapidly and reproducibly altered when 10 participants were fed a vegan or animal-based diet.

Turnbaugh’s research also fits with what Jeff Leach has been finding in his research for the Human Food Project:

significant shifts in your gut microbiota can be achieved in very short periods of time with significant shifts in macronutrients
- Jeff Leach on 19 Jan 2014, http://humanfoodproject.com/going-feral ... orld-heard

While ones genes, age, and gender can play a significant role in microbiome composition, diet is emerging as the simplest and most immediate therapy for microbiome modulation.
- Jeff Leach on 24 Jun 2012, http://humanfoodproject.com/future-primitive/

Jeff Leach's book, Honor Thy Symbionts, even has an image of a carrot on the cover: :)

 

[Wagner83]

I found the study below (the summary that is, I ain't gonna start reading the studies I post I have better things to do) kind of eye opening in how we can't all make the same diet work, at least not in a brutal and immediate way:

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(17)30288-7