Dr. Trisha Pasricha

but you need to focus on prebiotics.

Prebiotics are like the fertilizer and the conditions that allow certain kinds of bacteria to grow.

And that's things like fiber.

It's the things that you don't digest that become the food for those bacteria.

So sometimes the solution is not necessarily a probiotic supplement, but to say, what have I fed my gut microbes today?

Have I given it a high fiber meal?

Have I had fruit today?

I've had vegetables.

Have I eaten something fermented?

And sometimes that's the way that you can nudge the bacteria

the bacteria populations in your gut one way or another.

I stopped pretending like I was going to get enough fiber through my diet.

And I'm a gut health researcher, like you said, and I think about my gut health like way more than most people.

And so I thought for a really long time that I should, I have to get all my fiber needs, which for women over 50 is 21 grams per day for under 50, 25 grams per day, that I should get it through my diet, that I should be like making these beautiful bento box lunches with like this colorful different, like five different vegetables and fruits.

And, um,

It would happen for me like several days a week.

And then it just like wouldn't.

I have two kids.

I have like three jobs.

I'm just a normal person who's trying to get through the grocery store, cereal aisle like everybody else.