It is well known that antibiotics reduce a number of keystone butyrate-producing taxa, see my video entitled, “Antibiotics and their Effects on the Microbiome.” It is also well established that antibiotics increase a number of opportunistic pathogens within the microbiome. See the same video.
With that in mind, in order to support the abundance of the antibiotic-sensitive health-promotors, we need to feed them the fuels (substrates) that they prefer. After having done complete meta-analyses in all human in-vivo and humanized in-vitro microbiome studies for all of the major prebiotics available in the marketplace, I have determined which prebiotics tend to feed which taxa.
The Gut Connection: How Your Microbiome Is Driving Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity
We are living through a modern epidemic of type 2 diabetes and obesity. It’s a complex crisis, one often blamed
