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Coming Soon: Sports-Specific Probiotics?
Last September, the big news in the wonderful world of the biome was that Harvard was taking on designing probiotics to improve athletic performance: “The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has announced that its athlete microbiome-based technology will be commercialized…
The Promise of Helminths for Multiple Sclerosis
Today I get to write about something other than the bacterial microbiome! Woopa! I was very happy to find a new paper on the possibilities of using helminths (helminth immunotherapy (HIT), as these authors call it) to prevent and alleviate multiple sclerosis (MS).[i] …
Breast Cancer: A Little Bit of Yogurt Seems to Go a Long Way
This past October, I wrote about probiotic use in breast cancer. If you remember, that paper concluded that what few in vitro and in vivo studies we have look promising. One piece of research mentioned in that paper is particularly pertinent to today’s post: …