Like your #genome, your #microbiome is #unique to you. And it’s changing, constantly. External factors like #diet 🥦, #exercise 🏋🏽‍♀️, #medicine 💊, and even #sleep 🛌 can all impact and alter the composition of your microbiome on a #daily basis.⠀ ⠀ We don’t know whether a ‘#healthy’ or ‘#ideal’ microbiome exists. It probably doesn’t. Try comparing a #desert to a #rainforest; the two couldn’t be more different when listing out their unique #species of #flora and #fauna. The ‘#health’ of each ecosystem would not be contingent upon forcing the desert or the rainforest to look more like a #coral reef. The key consideration would instead be: how balanced is this system? How efficiently is the ecosystem functioning? Is there #equilibrium?⠀ ⠀ With the gut, it’s more accurate to consider our #symbiotic relationship to bacteria as a constantly shifting state of #homeostasis, and determining our microbial health by how efficiently the #microbial #community is functioning as a whole with our #...