10/08/2025

What a Gut Microbiome Scientist Wants You to Eat Daily

Focus on eating fiber-rich foods, especially resistant starches

Every time you eat a meal, you’re hosting a dinner party. Your guests are the trillions of microbes that live in your gut.

These hungry microbes, collectively known as your gut microbiome, directly affect your long-term health for better or for worse depending on what you feed them. Eat the right foods, and your gut microbes will churn out beneficial compounds that protect and improve your health. Feed them the wrong foods, and they can wreak havoc on your gut, setting off inflammation and increasing your risk of chronic diseases.

That’s according to Karen Corbin, an associate investigator at the AdventHealth Translational Research Institute of Metabolism and Diabetes in Orlando who has published groundbreaking studies on nutrition and the microbiome.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.