Research
Macro partitioning
Short-term dietary interventions cause rapid but transient fluctuations in the adult gut microbiome, which typically returns to its baseline stable state once the intervention ends.
Don't panic if your gut feels different after a few days of eating differently. In adults, the microbiome is resilient and will bounce back to its normal state once you return to your usual diet. To make lasting changes, you need to maintain new dietary habits for months or years, not just days.
StrongQualifiesVERY_HIGH confidence
Several studies have shown that dietary changes induce transient fluctuations in the adult microbiome, sometimes in as little as 24 h; however, the microbial community rapidly returns to its stable state.
Why this rating
Consistently reported across multiple controlled feeding studies (Wu et al., David et al.).
Source
Diet and the development of the human intestinal microbiome
Noah Voreades et al. · Frontiers in Microbiology · 2014
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