The microbiome discussion is interesting to me as a guy that hasn't had any problems. I just finished a round of antibiotics when I got my tooth implant, no issues and had three ham and cheese omelets with bacon during the week. I have only had one bout of diarrhea from antibiotics and it was a damn strong one for a really bad sinus infection.
I'm a dedicated carnivore, usually only a couple of salads a week, few veggies, but grapes and other fruit. Vegan is native american for "lousy hunter".... Paleo would hint that we used to scrape the green off the meat and eat it, there were no refrigerators... I do that with cheese if I don't eat the block fast enough.
This article is very interesting:
http://www.livescience.com/41869-gut-bac...-diet.html
"The types of bacteria in your gut today may be different tomorrow, depending on what kinds of food you eat, a new study suggests.
In the study, participants who switched from their normal diet to eating only animal products, including meat, cheese and eggs, saw their gut bacteria change rapidly — within one day.
While the participants were on the animal-based diet, there was an increase within their guts in the types of bacteria that can tolerate bile (a fluid produced by the liver that helps break down fat), and a decrease in bacteria called Firmicutes, which break down plant carbohydrates.
The differences between the gut bacteria of the people on the plant-only and animal-only diets "mirrored the differences between herbivorous and carnivorous mammals," the researchers wrote in the study published today (Dec. 11) in the journal Nature.
Researchers knew that a person's diet affects his or her gut bacteria, but it wasn't clear just how quickly this happens.
The researchers said they were surprised by their results. "We weren’t at all sure it was going to happen this quickly in humans," said study researcher Lawrence David, an assistant professor at Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.
The findings suggest "the choices that people make on relatively short time scales … could be affecting the massive bacterial communities that live inside of us," David said.
The study also adds evidence to the idea that human diets — acting through the gut bacteria — influence the risk of certain diseases. People on the animal-based diet had higher levels of a bacterium called Bilophila wadsworthia, which grows in response to bile acids and has been linked with inflammatory bowel disease in mice, according to the study."
GrThe differences between the gut bacteria of the people on the plant-only and animal-only diets "mirrored the differences between herbivorous and carnivorous mammals," the researchers wrote in the study published today (Dec. 11) in the journal Nature.
Researchers knew that a person's diet affects his or her gut bacteria, but it wasn't clear just how quickly this happens.
The researchers said they were surprised by their results. "We weren’t at all sure it was going to happen this quickly in humans," said study researcher Lawrence David, an assistant professor at Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.
The findings suggest "the choices that people make on relatively short time scales … could be affecting the massive bacterial communities that live inside of us," David said.
The study also adds evidence to the idea that human diets — acting through the gut bacteria — influence the risk of certain diseases. People on the animal-based diet had higher levels of a bacterium called Bilophila wadsworthia, which grows in response to bile acids and has been linked with inflammatory bowel disease in mice, according to the study.
Because the study was small, the researchers are cautious about generalizing their results to the population as a whole. But "the changes we saw appeared to be uniform across these subjects, suggesting that if we were to recruit more people, we would see similar results," David said.
The study was a collaboration between researchers at Duke, Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco.
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I'm not too concerned with mice having issues when eating meat since they are grain eaters and may not have the stock to "turn on" to deal with the change.
I do get my cholesterol checked often and eat mostly chicken or lean ham with occasional steak and snack on almonds. I do take fish oil daily and drop logs on schedule every morning.
It might be worth a shot to meat binge and then switch off to see what happens, what you are doing now doesn't seem to be working and they did report a bloom in a couple of days. YMMV
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