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Are low carbohydrate or ketogenic diets bad for your gut health?

Hi, this is Dr. Rousho, and let's discuss this question if low carb or ketogenic

diets are bad for it could be damaging your gut health.

In short, the answer is no. Low carb or ketogenic diets are not be damaging your gut health. In short, the answer is no. Low carb or

ketogenic diets are not bad for your gut health. But there's confusion around this and allow me

to dispel briefly why there's a confusion and what this means for you. Again, in short, if you're

doing a lower carb or ketogenic diet and deriving benefit from it, continue with it. Now, do not continue with

that dietary approach if you're feeling fatigued or irritable or having insomnia because a lower

carb or ketogenic dietary approach is not going to be the best approach for everyone. But for some,

it will be helpful. And unfortunately, you may come across information on the internet that tells you a number

of things, one of which could be that a low-carb diet can starve your gut bacteria and

be bad for your gut bacterial health.

And this is really misleading because while, yes, a lower carb or ketogenic diet may starve

certain populations or you may see a dwindling of certain

populations of bacteria, other populations of bacteria may actually bloom on a lower carb diet.

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