In the wellness world, there’s a lot of pseudoscience circulating around about the human gut microbiome, the swimming colonies of microbes that inhabit our bowels, especially when it comes to selling supplements and remedies alleging to improve microbiome health. There’s even a whole industry to test your microbiome which has been dubbed as “snake oil.” One in four Americans are affected by digestive disorders, so it’s no surprise that people are becoming increasingly curious about the human gut.
But where information lacks in science, misinformation thrives. And the truth is science is still searching for answers about what’s really going on in our intestines, where hundreds to thousands of species of bacteria and archaea exist.
