[MarCylinder]

>"Additionally there's just so much about gut health that we operate largely out of ignorance on."

Looking at you, probiotics. Actually, I was really impressed at how far we've come in probiotics after attending supply side west. Lots of focus on how to target specific outcomes through supplementation of specific bacterial strains. But still, there's a lot we do not know

[CoastalCoder]

Do we know if supplementing with a particular bacterium has a straightforward, corresponding effect in the gut flora?

I have no idea how complicated the gut / flora dynamics are in response to such a treatment.

E.g., maybe adding bacterium A triggers a die-off of bacterium B, and thus a population explosion of bacterium C, causing reduced diarrhea, leading to growth of D, causing inactivation of E, ...