09/24/2026
What does it actually mean to assess an ecosystem? ðŸ¦
GutID's Clinician Sarah Greenfield breaks it down: your gut is a community of bacteria that function together, not a list of names.
Isolating one bacteria and asking "what does this do?" tells you almost nothing. It only shows it's there. Without relative abundance, how much of it there is compared to everyone else, you're missing the bigger picture of how the whole ecosystem works.
Nothing in your body functions in isolation. Everything is communicating, and changing what it does based on what's going on around it.
So a real assessment looks at everything: the bacteria, the person, and the symptoms they're living with. That's how you get a full clinical picture and an action plan, not just a report.
Test the whole ecosystem, not one bug.
Save this if you've ever stared at a gut test result and wondered what it actually meant. 💙