Victoria S. DorsanoFounder, Be Victorious Coaching · Be Victorious Coaching · Systems > Willpower

Your gut health routine is probably making things WORSE

21 May 2026 · 2 min

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In this monologue, Victoria S. Dorsano critiques popular gut‑health trends such as random probiotic pills, morning elixirs (apple cider vinegar, lemon water), and influencer‑promoted cleanses, arguing that they are ineffective unless the foundational dietary basics are met. She emphasizes that most people consume only about 12 g of fiber daily, whereas a minimum of 25–30 g is needed. Importantly, she warns against relying on a single fiber source (e.g., Olipop, Poppi, fiber gummies, or specialty high‑fiber baked goods) because a diverse array of fibers from fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains feeds different bacterial strains, supporting a healthy microbiome. She also notes that undereating impairs gut motility and starves the microbiome. Consequently, she concludes that non‑medical gut‑reset protocols or supplements are unlikely to help and may even cause harm, urging viewers to return to basic, varied fiber intake and adequate nutrition.

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I hate to be the one to break it to you, but your gut health routine is probably making things a lot worse. Between random probiotics that you found online, some sort of elixir like apple cider vinegar or lemon juice water in the morning, that gut health cleanse that you've been following from some random influencer online probably isn't doing too much, especially if you're not hitting the basics of getting enough fiber. Most people get about 12 grams of fiber a day. The minimum you should be getting is around 25 to 30 grams. But here's a crucial mistake I see a lot of people make when they start eating a lot more fiber, is that they go all in on one particular type of fiber. So whether that's like drinking Olipop or Poppi's or my beloved high fiber Royal cinnamon rolls, which I love, love, love, but you can't just eat those or drink those Olipop or take a bunch of fiber gummies and call it a day and say you've hit your 25 to 30 grams of fiber because your body loves diversity of different types of fiber because those different types of fiber from different fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains, those things are gonna feed different types of bacteria and we need different types of bacteria for our gut to function well. So if you can find a way to get a diversity of different types of fiber consistently, your microbiome will be so, so happy. And eating just enough quantity of food, period, because undereating wrecks your gut motility and just starves your microbiome in general. So that's no bueno either. All that to say, the unsexy truth is that if you are currently not getting a diversity of different fiber sources and hitting that 25 to 30 gram minimum base, then any sort of supplement or morning elixir or gut reset protocol from some gut health specialist that's not a doctor online is not going to really help you and can in fact do more harm than good. It's always back to the basics, guys. Always back to the basics first.