What Has Gone Wrong With Our Microbiome?

When your microbiome is messed up, it causes all sorts of things. It screws up your immune system, your hormones, your mental health. What is gone wrong and what is the hallmark of a healthy microbiome? We're supposed to have a huge number of different species of bacteria. Just like with any ecosystem, I like to use the example of Yellowstone Park when they took out the evil, nasty, bad predator wolves. Look what happened. You really have to have diversity. The bad guys are actually useful. They bring stuff to the table that we couldn't even anticipate. just like a wolf is important in Yellowstone Park. The microbiome really wants to be fed prebiotic fiber. Back in the good old days, our great grandparents actually were doing a pretty good job. We now have stripped all the fiber out of all of our foods, processed and ultra-processed foods. People realize how bad these things are, but they're bad because we're literally starving the microbiome to death.