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Gradually Increase Fiber and Fermented Foods
Increase dietary fiber in a slow, stepwise way rather than making a sudden jump, especially if your gut microbiome is depleted or low in diversity. This gradual ramp helps your digestive system and fiber-digesting microbes adapt, which can reduce bloating, gas, and other digestive discomfort while improving tolerance and assimilation of fibrous foods.
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“The idea here was that people who had low diversity, like a compromised Western diet, depleted diversity, when they stuffed all that fiber down their gullet, they actually had an adverse reaction to it.”
huberman · How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner · May 12, 2025 · 2:37:50 · open ↗
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