29/04/2026
Just casually approaching this ‘Yay or Nay’ like I’ve finally landed a spot on a game show
High dose, broad spectrum probiotics 🙅🏻♀️ NO
Don’t be sucked in by marketing. Higher numbers + more strains isn’t always better and quite often it’s going to be expensive and ineffective. Targeted, strain specific probiotic use is likely to be much more effective at addressing your symptoms.
Long term low FODMAP diet 🙅🏻♀️ NO
The low FODMAP diet is a highly restrictive dietary approach designed to be used as a tool not a treatment. FODMAPs are carbohydrates that can trigger digestive symptoms and if that’s happening to you it’s time to find out WHY. Avoiding a trigger food is not treating the cause. Fibre is gut bug fuel and restriction, short or long term, impacts gut bacterial growth.
30 Plants per week 👏🏼 YES
This approach, based on samples from over 10000 people, focuses on variety rather than quantity. It increases your intake of fibre, plant polyphenols, plant chemicals, and other micronutrients that support healthy intestinal structure, function, and microbial growth.
Long term prebiotic fibre supplementation 🙅🏻♀️ NO
Once again, high dose anything is not necessarily better. Long term use of a single prebiotic fibre can fuel and shift growth of microbial communities leading to further dysbiosis. Knowing what you’re manipulating and why is important.
Specific strain probiotics based on gut microbiome stool testing 👏🏼 YES
This is the most accurate way to understand how to treat your symptoms with probiotics. Throwing down random probiotics is essentially a waste of time and money. A microbiome profile identifies thousands of microbes and their known functions and provides personalised insights. Whether it’s addressing pathogenic bacteria, parasites, shifting overgrowth of certain communities or healing damaged intestinal lining. Knowledge = treatment level up
Online parasite cleanses 🙅🏻♀️ NO
Self diagnoses, influencer ‘therapy’, and bombing your gut microbiome with herbal antimicorbials - a HUGE NO THANKS! This will do you more harm than good in the long run (even if you get
