Articles and Podcasts

The science that supports feeding your gut microbiome

American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research (McDonald et al., 2018)

This paper frequently compares those who eat less than 10 different plant-based foods with those who eat more than 30.

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Zoe Podcast: Inflammation, aging and disease: What’s food got to do with it?

This podcast discusses inflammation: when you want it and when you don’t. A mouse study is mentioned by Dr. Tim Spectre that describes how putting an unhealthy microbiome in a healthy mouse will make the latter mouse unhealthy.

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Cell: Gut-Microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status (Wastyk et al., 2021)

This paper found that a high fibre diet increased microbiome function and that a high fermented food diet increased microbiome diversity. It says, ‘Fermented foods may be valuable in countering the decreased microbiome diversity and....

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Huberman Lab podcast: Dr Justin Sonnenburg: How to build, maintain and repair gut health

In this podcast Dr. Sonnenburg describes how the gut microbiome can be changed with diet. He advocates eating mostly plant-based foods with the addition of fermented foods to keep you healthy.

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Rich Roll podcast: Mastering the microbiome

In this podcast, Rich Roll compiles a number of snippets from get health experts whom advocate the importance of gut health.

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