Gut biome sampled over 14 months

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http://picsurge.com/kuCuOJ

My gut biome sampled over 14 months using uBiome.

Feedback welcomed.

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Two questions:

  • Did anything jump out as interesting to you?

  • Did something happening between Dec 2015 and Feb 2016 that possibly connects to some of the most visible changes? (Events, location changes, or something different in the way your felt?)

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Yes, I can see that my biome was disrupted when I took steroids for poison ivy – i had a large patch of it on my lower leg – and when I had the flu. The poison ivy was in November and the flu was February.

I can also see when I started to eat more fiber (the last 2 months) and stop taking PPIs. My akkermansia increased a good deal and my bacterodetes to firmcutes ratio improved as expected with such a diet.

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Interesting, @IsaacGerg. Thanks for sharing this! If you get the chance, make an annotated image that shows those events.

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Yes, interesting to me, too. The introduction to this paper has some basics on the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio:

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