Do you have any links so I can read up on the bacteria theories? Are there any supplements that help increase the skinny bacteria?
As I tried to suggest before, right now there is a scientific “gold rush” going in many different directions. A “skinny flora” is just a theory, in that they’ve only started doing floral surveys in the last few years.
To put in context, a typical person has between three and five entirely different floral patterns in their life. Some 300-1000 different bacteria at a time, with 30-40 different bacteria taking up almost all of the physical space.
The bacteria are limited to zones of the GI tract as well. For example, E. coli are essential in the large intestines, but poisonous anywhere else in the body.
The Archaea are thought to be high up in the GI tract, but though they look like bacteria, they actually belong to their own evolutionary *domain*. There are only three domains: bacteria, Archaea, and every single other form of life on Earth. That different. We only figured out how different just a decade or two ago.
Bacteria aren’t even the dominant life form in the flora. We have absolutely no idea how many different viruses are in there, but we know that many of them are “bacteriophage”, which means they *eat* bacteria. Without them doing so, bacteria would overwhelm us.
We also have protozoa, fungi, lots of parasites even today, and all of it is interactive with our stupidly complicated immune system.
Some doctors are now using “fecal transplants” to restore a healthy flora to someone whose flora is damaged. A doctor recently commented that doing so made him feel about as knowledgeable as the first caveman who tried trepanning (drilling a hole in the skull), and it seemed to help.