It is important to recognize that the microbiota disease associations are risk-related, based on the relative abundance of the bacterial genus and species tested, and the associated disease risks are not diagnostic of hormone imbalance.
A person may have dysbiosis in the bacterial genera (and their related species within the genus) that leads to elevated beta-glucuronidase independent of their current serum, saliva, or urinary hormones.
Over time chronic microbiota dysbiosis may increase the risk of developing hormone-related disorders. Thus individuals and practitioners may wish to biomonitor the microbiota and hormones serially over time.
Beta Glucuronidase- Bacterial Genera That Encode Beta-Glucuronidase
| Bacteroides |
| Bifidobacterium |
| Citrobacter |
| Clostridium |
| Dermabacter |
| Escherichia |
| Faecalibacterium |
| Lactobacillus |
| Marvinbryantia |
| Propionibacterium |
| Roseburia |
| Tannerella |
Reference
Kwa, M., Plottel, C. S., Blaser, M. J., & Adams, S. (2016). The intestinal microbiome and estrogen receptor-positive female breast cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 108(8), djw029. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djw029
