Diet plays a crucial role in our overall health and well-being. When people switch to a new diet, they often feel better and become a true proponent of that diet, believing in it wholeheartedly. However, after a while, that effect diminishes. This is what Dr. Daniel Pompa discussed in a recent podcast episode with Latt Mansor.

One of the common misconceptions today is that everyone is looking for the perfect diet. But the truth is, there is no one perfect diet that works for everyone. The diet that people defend or say is the best is typically the one that helped them. However, even if you stick to a great diet, you will eventually start to lose diversity in your microbiome, which is not a good thing.

The microbiome is the collection of bacteria that make up our gut, and it plays a vital role in our health. When we have a diverse microbiome, we are generally healthier than when we don't. Unfortunately, many people today have a lack of diversity in their microbiome, and this can lead to health problems.

So, how can we recreate a diverse microbiome? According to Dr. Pompa, diet change is the key. This is why he teaches a principle called Diet Variation, which involves moving people in and out of different diets. He believes that there is no one perfect diet and that the perfect diet is the change itself.

When people first change their diet, they often feel better. For example, they may switch to a keto diet and lose weight or a vegetarian diet and feel more energized. However, they tend to stick to that diet for years, even if they start experiencing new problems.

Dr. Pompa argues that no culture ever stays on the same diet. They are forced to change, which turns out to be a blessing for microbiome diversity. Therefore, it is essential to switch up our diets to maintain a healthy and diverse microbiome. He also notes that staying on a particular diet for too long can have negative effects on microbiome diversity and lead to other problems.

In conclusion, Dr. Pompa's principle of Diet Variation is a useful tool for maintaining a diverse and healthy microbiome. There is no one perfect diet that works for everyone, and we should switch up our diets regularly to maintain diversity. By doing so, we can improve our overall health and well-being, including better immunity and brain function.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• When people switch to a new diet, they may feel better and become a strong advocate for that diet.
• However, staying on the same diet for too long can lead to a loss of microbiome diversity and new health problems.
• Diet variation, or moving in and out of different diets, is key to maintaining microbiome diversity and overall health.

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Transcription

Dr. Latt Mansor:

Dr. Daniel Pompa:

Obviously when you're dealing with people that aren't well. Diet plays a roll. I think one of the misconceptions today is everyone's looking for the perfect diet, but I'll tell you this the perfect diet or at least the diet that people defend or say this is the diet is typically the one that helped them.

Look if it were only so easy there too, because what we know is it's, there is no one perfect diet. And the truth is, if you stay on one diet, the same diet, even a great diet, whatever that is to you, in the end, you start to lose diversity in the microbiome. And again, I don't know your viewers at how educated they're about the microbiome.

There's a lot of more sophisticated tests looking at these good and bad bacteria that make up our gut, which we call the microbiome. Right? You know, the testing has really not brought maybe what we thought. We thought we'd be able to look at people and say, oh, this diet's for you because you're microbiome. These drugs are for you because you're microbiome not for, you didn't work out that way because what we know is the microbiome changes so often, right? But what we did gain from the better testing is that diversity we can now look at people and say healthy, less healthy based on the diversity, meaning this diverse microbiome of all different types of bacteria that happens in healthy people, unhealthy people. We see a very lack of diversity.

So then we have to ask the question is why? Why do we see that? And then we have to ask the question, how can we recreate it? I wish it were so simple to say, just take probiotics and add diversity. It's not so simple. Otherwise we wouldn't have all these people with gut problems because most people are taking probiotics. It's not. What we learned is diet change actually is the key to creating greater diversity, and that's a principle that I now teach called Diet Variation. Meaning that we literally move people in and out of different diets. So I believe there's not one perfect diet. I believe the perfect diet is the change. So to your point, what I said was, when people first change their diet, they seem to, you know, always do a little better. I mean, they may have some negative side effects, at first because there's a die off, et cetera. But ultimately they go, oh my gosh, I changed to keto. This is my diet. This helped me. And so now they're keto forever.

I'm arguing, not just from the scientific literature, but even looking at ancient, very healthy cultures. No one culture ever stays on the same diet. They're forced to change, which turns out to be a blessing for this microbiome diversity. But people tend to stay on that diet. I changed to a vegan diet or a vegetarian diet. I lost 20 pounds, blah, blah, this, and then here they are years later, still on the same diet with new problems that they wouldn't associate with the diet because the diet helped them so much.

Carnivore diets are in vogue right now, and yes, I use them for people with autoimmune magic with carnivore diets. However, when you stay on them, we know that it has a really negative effect on microbiome diversity and other problems start to occur. How long somebody can stay on one particular diet before they start developing new problems. I would say yeah, maybe genetics play a role there and other factors, but ultimately what we know is that when cultures change their diet, you know, this leads to a more diverse microbiome. Ultimately better immunity, better brain, better. Everything that we know is linked to a healthy microbiome.

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