The Gut Microbiome, Is It a Good Thing?

We know very little about the gut microbiome. By the way, anybody who's selling gut microbiome products, just, just, I'm going to put that, put this out there, big sweeping claim, probably full of shit. So people say, well, energy balance doesn't take into account the gut microbiome, but yes, it does. It actually does, because if you are, like, let's say that something happened with the gut microbiome that caused people to be more prone to gain fat, it would do so by reducing energy expenditure. Some people can extract more calories from fiber than other people based on their gut microbiome,. But that's still an energy input and output thing, right

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