Dr. Suzanne Devkota

Is it to your own starting point is really the best way to define it.

And then you can start to understand, just like you see many individuals with diabetes who walk around with a blood glucose of 200 and they're not passing out, they're just fine.

Their set point is a little bit different than everyone else's.

The same is true for your microbiome.

And so you really sort of just pay attention to yourself, pay attention to what works, what doesn't, what foods work and what don't.

Your microbiome is yours.

And maybe you can compare to individuals within your household.

You're more likely to share microbes with them versus others.

But I think frequent sampling within an individual is very valuable.

From our work, you know, in studying translocation, it really starts in the gut, you know, and healing the gut and maintaining a healthy gut barrier.

And so foods that help

support the integrity of the gut is really where it's at.

And so then how do you do that?

In my view, it is having, you need a lot of functional redundancy.

What that means is you need a lot of diversity, which is a crude measure, but many different kinds of bacteria

their presence means that you have a lot of functions that can be carried out.

And if you do something inadvertently to your microbiome and one drops out, you have others there to carry out those functions.

And so how do you create diversity?

We kind of touched on it earlier, but that is really a diversity of your diet.

There's been some interesting research from the Microseta Initiative on