The Claim
In a simulated human gut system, microbial community composition does not fully revert to its original state after two weeks of washout following a dietary intervention, indicating that dietary effects on gut microbiota persist beyond the intervention period.
What the research says
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After stopping a dietary change in a lab model of the human gut, the community of gut microbes did not return to its original state within two weeks, showing that the diet caused lasting changes.
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In a simulated human gut system, the microbial community composition did not fully revert to its original state after two weeks of washout following dietary intervention, indicating that dietary effects on gut microbiota may persist beyond the intervention period.
When the gut microbiome is exposed to a high-fiber or high-protein diet, specific bacteria grow and become dominant, and they start producing unique chemicals. Even after the diet stops, these bacteria stay in the gut and keep making those same chemicals because their populations don’t go back to how they were before, and their ability to make those chemicals doesn’t disappear.
What the research says
1 studyWhen people ate different diets in a lab gut model, the gut bacteria kept making different chemicals even after going back to normal food — meaning the diet changed them in a way that didn’t just go away.
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