Most of us have been in diets at one points of our life or “tried to” start eating healthy. However, do we ever thing about how microbes feel about breaking our diet and making it into short-term dieting? Does long-term dieting vs. short-term diets cause a difference between microorganisms found in the gut? It has been reported that long-term diets do influence structure and activity of microorganisms; moreover, there is not much information on short dieting and microbes. The articles proposes to analyze microbial communities in short-term dieting. Two types of short diets will be observed and how each one affects the microbial community: (1) composed of plant consumption or (2) composed on animals. It was shown that those who have an animal diet will have a greater numbers of bile-tolerant microorganisms and a decrease in microorganisms who are responsible of metabolizing dietary plant polysaccharides. Which in fact makes sense because of the lack of consumption of plants. Furthermore, the results showed that a short term dietary animal based diet causes a quick reaction from the microbial community.
David, L., Maurice, C., Carmody, R., Gootenberg, D., Button, J., Wolfe, B., . . . Turnbaugh, P. (2013). Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. Nature, 559-563.
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