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Category: Human Biome
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…
Health and the Human Body: There’s No Such Thing as One Truth
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about obesity and the concept of evolutionary mismatch. As always, I posted it up on my Biome Buzz Facebook page. A few days later, in response to a comment that the whole problem is nothing more than…
Anorexia: Yet Another Microbiome Induced Autoimmune Illness?
I’ve written a fair amount lately about the association of obesity to bacterial microbiome alterations, but have thus far, only had the chance to write a few times about the relationship of dysbiosis to anorexia nervosa (AN). In my frenzy of reading these last…
Some Early-Stage, But Promising, Science About the Microbiome and Cancer
Yesterday morning, I posted a story on my Biome Buzz’ Facebook page about 2 new studies that independently showed that there is a distinctive microbiome composition associated with colorectal cancer.[i] One study “…identified a set of 29 species indicative of colorectal cancer across 7…
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. …
Can Helminths Help Alleviate the Obesity Epidemic? The Evidence (Slowly) Mounts
Remember last week when I told you all that I have a million great new pieces of research to write about? Well, things have only gotten worse(or is it better?!) since then. I found a bunch more stuff to keep us all very busy…
Spondylitis and Microbiome Dysbiosis: Both Bacterial and Fungal
So many interesting things to write about…so little time! Last October, I wrote a post about spondyloarthropothies, which is a family of autoimmune diseases that affect the spine. These include Ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, arthritis related to inflammatory bowel disease, reactive arthritis, and juvenile…
Biome Bliss: An Interesting New Prebiotic Supplement
A week ago or so, I got an email from a company that makes a really interesting prebiotic product. They offered to let me try it out on myself, and after looking through their website, I readily agreed. (I took my first dose this…
Introducing Archaea: Another Important Member of Your Inner Ecosystem
It’s not often that I get to write about the more esoteric members of our gut biomes. Our bacteria get the most hype in the scientific literature, but as you all know, there are many other kinds of residents of our inner ecosystems. I…
