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Helminth Therapy: A Call to Action
An interesting opinion piece by Dr. William Parker, of Duke University, and colleagues at a couple of Czech Universities, just appeared in Trends in Parasitology.[i] To summarize, the paper makes two key points: A. These scientists hold the belief that the interaction between human…
Transferring Autism Via Microbiota Transplant: A Clinical Study
In recent years, researchers have found they that by transferring the gut microbiome from animal to animal, they can also transfer particular “disease” states. Take obesity, for instance – just one example of many – researchers transferred the gut microbiota from lean mice fed…
A Quick Update on the Mycobiome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
A great article appeared last week on Gut Microbiota for Health,[i] on the overlooked mycobiome in digestive diseases. I’ve written about this topic several times before and am always very happy to see new research focused on the topic. The authors of the paper[ii]…
The Microbiome and Mental Illness: An Old Story that is Too Far From its Happy Ending
I just finished reading an article from 2018 on mental health and the microbiome that describes some of where we are now, knowledge-wise, and where we need to be before psychobiotics become a treatment norm.[i] There were multiple pieces of information in it which…
Evolutionary Mismatch, the Human Biome…and a Bit More on Obesity
Recently there was a lot of discussion on the Biome Buzz’ Facebook page in regards to a post on obesity, wherein some people expressed their opinions that our current epidemic of obesity is due to nothing more than people eating too much junk food. …
Nutritional Treatments and Autism: Too Little Research but…Here’s Some of What We Currently Know
Well – I am feeling somewhat overwhelmed! A brief internet search yesterday morning, in which I was looking for new and interesting research, led me to 10 papers that I want to read and write about for you. Considering that it takes quite a…
More on Autism and the Microbiome…and a Clinical Study Using Probiotics
My Monday afternoon was devoted to reading two articles about the microbiome and autism. The first was a chapter from a book on biological markers found in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease.[i] I’ve chosen what I thought were the top 10 points from this article…
A Probiotic/Colostrum Pilot Study in Autism…Which Likely Has Clinical Implications in Other Inflammatory Illnesses
Yesterday, I read a cool little pilot study[i] out of the University of California, testing the tolerability and efficacy of a probiotic and bovine colostrum on a small group of children with autism. And while the results on this population were interesting, as I’ll…
The Bacterial Microbiota in Mental Illness: A Shifting Paradigm?
So many studies have come out recently that are of interest that I had a hard time choosing the winner for today’s post. I finally settled on an article[i] from the journal, Medical Sciences, on the potential use of microbiome manipulation in treating neuropsychiatric…
The Continuing Development of the Bacterial Microbiome After the Age of 3
We’ve known for quite some time that gut flora development from birth through the 3rd year of life has a tremendous impact on health throughout the lifetime. However, not much research has been done on the continuing development of the microbiota in school aged…
