And how is the gut microbiome impacted by an animal's diet and, uh, the environment as well? And what does a healthy microbiome look like in, in cats and dogs?

dogs?That, that's a really great question.

I think there are certainly features of a healthy microbiome, but I, I don't believe that there's one healthy microbiome.

Um, a, a healthy microbiome is, is diverse, so it has a, a broad array of, of bacterial species represented within it.

And I think of that diversity, there should be a significant presence of what we would consider health-associated bacteria, so your lactobacilli, your bifidobacteria, et cetera.

Um, and then of course absence of what we might consider pathogenic or disease-associated bacteria.

So we w- wouldn't want those present in the, in, in the gut in any significant quantity.

Are there any learnings that those in the animal health space can take from the sort of human research or vice versa?