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  Are You Getting Enough Fiber? It Might Depend on Your Gut Microbiome Fiber is essential to our diets and offers a variety of health benefits, such as lowering the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Yet, only 5% of people meet the current Institute of Medicine’s recommended daily intake of 19 to 30 grams per day (depending on age and sex). 1 “In fact, most people in the U.S. have, on average, 18 to 20 grams of fiber maximum,” Bharathi Ramesh, MS, a nutritionist and clinical research coordinator at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told  Health .  However, recent research out of Cornell University found that the figures may not matter so much after all—the benefits of fiber may come not just from how much you consume but how your body uses the type of fiber you eat. 2 The findings, published in the journal  Gut Microbes , revealed that people responded differently to a high-fiber diet based on their unique gut microbiome. “Not everyone gains the same amount of b