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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypno" data-source="post: 1540383" data-attributes="member: 12416">Those are fair questions but the people who practice in this area every day say that high fiber diet is good for the beneficial bacteria.  There has been a remarkable amount of research in this area in the last 2 decades and they now know that the bad bacteria can secrete neurotransmitters that cause you to crave junk food and sugar, etc.  While crude, the current recommendation is to feed the good bacteria in order to choke out the bad bacteria, sort of like fertilizing your lawn to crowd out the weeds and crabgrass.There are other therapies including biome replacement but they are a lot more intense - you are likely to have diahrhea for 3 weeks straight but its an experimental therapy for certain conditions like Parkinsons - there is science behind this.</blockquote>