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Is APOB a Better Marker of Hormonal Health?
If your gut microbiome is dysregulated, for example, after an antibiotic, there's certain antibiotics that kill more of your gut microbiome. Some gut microbiota like E. coli heavily produce an enzyme called beta glucuronidase. And your enzyme metabolizes steroids in part due to glucuronidases. For example, estrogen is metabolized significantly by beta glucuronIDase. So if you have an overgrowth of E. coli, you're going to recirculate your estrogen and it could relate an estrogen surplus. Mm hmm. You mentioned prebiotics, probiotics. We were talking about fiber. Talk to me a little bit about the relationship between the microbiome, gut health