Is Propionate a Good Prebiotic?

There are certain, you know, and even maybe we could delve a bit more with short term fat, ask percentages. In kids on the spectrum, lots of different spectrum disorders, there's a percentage of them that have extremely high bacteroides or extremely high Pravatella as dominant members of their ecosystem. And those two genera are key propionate producers. So in these kids, you'll often see this altered short chain fatty acid ratio where propionate will be excessively high, and then be the way it has to take will be low.