Avoid Purified Fiber Prebiotics as a Default Replacement for Whole Foods

“And so it's really hard to replicate with purified fiber what you'd get, for instance, at a salad bar in terms of the array of complex carbohydrates that you would be exposing your microbiota too. And I think the kind of broad view of this in the field is that consuming a broad variety of plants and all the diverse fiber that comes with that is probably better in fostering diversity in your microbiota than purified fibers.”