My uBiome Results came

My uBiome results came. I need help! Please note that I took sample during flare.

Firmicutes 53.27%
Bacteroidetes 36.47%
Proteobacteria 5.83%
Actinobacteria 3.37%
Euryarchaeota .84%

garylouisville,

Would the Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes in equal percentage in a healthy person?

I got my first test through American Gut and it seemed to indicate that the average person has approximately 45% of both F and B, with the other 10% being mixed between a few others. From what I understand Ubiome lists a little bit different average ratio. I haven't gotten my Ubiome results back yet but there should be something on there which shows what they consider to be average. Your figures don't seem too far out of whack as even normal people have different amounts of both. The devil might be in the details. These are very broad classifications as there are tons of different bacteria in every one of those categories so even if your overall ratios are somewhat normal you might have an overabundance or underabundance of one particular strain of bacteria in one of these classifications. My American Gut results from a couple of years ago showed about 98% F and close to zero B, so my results were definitely way off.

Having just got mine back I am trying to learn. You don't look overly high on firmicutes, which a lot of us UCers seem to be and you aren't too high on proteobacteria, which are apparently mostly the bad guys.

One thing I've read is characteristic of long term UC is low diversity. I've just talked to a nutrition coach person who has looked at about a hundred of these and he said mine is the lowest diversity he thinks he has seen.

I found a link to download the raw taxonomy and convert to an Excel sheet blog.richardsprague.com/2015/01/how-to-analyze-ubiome-sample-in-excel.html

It would be interesting if we could compare diversity. Mine only lists 21 species and 24 genus and 16 family which seem a lot less than Sprague got on even his lowest test www.ubiomeblog.com/my-ubiome-sleep-hacking-update/
Taxa Rank May June Oct Jan
species 165 45 106 142
genus 114 39 69 106
family 74 28 42 83