Studying back-to-back microbiome results

I sampled my gut microbiome three times over the month of May: once on May 1st and again on May 28th and May 29th.

Interestingly, the May 29th sample was taken after ingesting 250mg of Reducose the day before, giving me a hint at how Reducose may affect my microbiome.

Here are the unique taxa found in the first sample (before Reducose) but not the second (genus level):

and here are those that appeared suddenly a day after ingesting Reducose:

and a heatmap:

Finally, let’s see which new microbes showed up between the beginning of the month and before taking the pre-Reducose sample:

and the unique microbes that showed up during the same period:

Interestingly, three of the microbes that were present before disappeared after the Reducose. Although this is a very tentative analysis based on one person, with only three samples, without additional evidence it points to some microbes I’d want to watch more seriously next time.