Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Diverse #microbiome is not the ultimate goal in #guthealth ! Watch the full episode now. #podcast

10 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a May 10, 2023 YouTube podcast episode hosted by Josh Trent. The host asks about common misconceptions in gut health; the guest challenges two widespread beliefs: (1) that each person requires fully individualized microbiome interventions, and (2) that higher microbial diversity is always better. The guest notes that diversity alone can be misleading — some unhealthy individuals or poor responders to treatments show high diversity.

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In your world of gut and gut health and really like the microbiome, is there an overarching thing that most people unfortunately get wrong?
People think that the microbiome is because it's really individualized between people, that everybody needs something individualized for them. Otherwise there's no hope of. Of changing it. And there are definitely features that make a microbiome more optimal or more desirable than others. The most common one is diversity. People talk about a diverse microbiome, but I have my own thoughts about that. Diversity for the sake of diversity isn't good, right? You actually find that some of the unhealthiest people, or even some of the lowest responders to things like probiotic therapy or even to things like cancer therapy, actually have a very diverse microbiome.