In 2012, 3 scientists from the University of California, San Diego, started The American Gut Project, the largest crowd funded “citizen science project in existence.”[i] Ordinary people can send in a stool sample along with a questionnaire (about diet and lifestyle choices), and $99 USD, and receive back an analysis of their bacterial microbiomes – … More The American Gut Project: Some Initial Findings
A nifty bit of research[i] out of Stanford University this week – and a great follow up on my last post, which talked about how our bodies differentiate good versus evil when it comes to gut bacteria. Before we can have personalized probiotics, we need to figure out not only that question – how does … More Can We Use Diet to Manipulate the Microbiome?
Like me, many of you may have regularly pondered the question, “How does the human body know which bacteria are good and which are pathogenic?” 🙂 Until today, I had never read anything explaining the mechanism. Researchers at Caltech are trying to come up with the answer.[i] To start figuring it out, they used the … More Microbial Good Versus Evil…How Do Our Immune Systems Know?
