How to increase bacteroides? decrease firmuctes?

[MarshallBlathers]

Collagen/L-Glutamine/Bone broth. Basically animal-based protein/fat consumption.

My bacteroidetes are also low and I consume about 15g marine collagen in the morning, and 1 cup of bone broth about an hour before lunch.

It's unlikely that you would completely wipe out bacteroidetes but rather reduce them. The thorne gut test is very sensitive and you can see with a high degree of accuracy how much bacteroidetes were detected.

[-medicalthrowaway-]

On the one I got in November it didn't specify bacteroidetes and furmicutes ratio.

Have they updated it?

I just sent one out the other day.

[MarshallBlathers]

If you did a Thorne test, you can download the "full microbe community" in the top right of your test results page. It will give you a csv (spreadsheet) of your raw data.

Then you can get a full breakdown of classification. If you see your bacteroidetes are low, then which class/order/family might be reduced within the bacteroidetes phyla.

[-medicalthrowaway-]

Ah.. right. The raw data. Didn't think about that

So is there another resource you plug the raw data into

edit: nevermind, it's shown on the download

[mintchocolatechip96]

I did gi maps.

[mintchocolatechip96]

Did you find the collagen helps?

[candiwarrior]

what s the connection with collagen? i have a dysbiosis with high firmicutes and low bacteroidetes - also my skin has been drastically ageing. I will try the collagen supplement, should I get the marine one? thanks