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Category: Probiotics
Since Things Already Stink in This COVID-Ridden World, We Might as Well Talk Gas
I posted this story up on Facebook a few weeks ago, but have decided – since the issue is so endemic – it’s worth a blog post, for those of you who missed it. When I was working as a nutritionist, the single most…
Gut Bacteria and Diabetes: Progress on Several Fronts
Several new studies have recently been published examining the relationship between gut bacteria and diabetes. With one in ten people in the United States suffering from diabetes (which doesn’t include those with metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance, which would greatly inflate that number), we desperately need…
Inflammatory Arthritis and the Gut
I’ve been keeping an eye out for anything new and interesting in the realm of the biome and arthritis – any kind of arthritis. Following are some highlights from a recent article on the two way communication between the gut immune system and the…
Your Personality and Your Gut Bacteria: Mirror Reflections?
I posted the news last week on the Biome Buzz’ Facebook page, about research out of Oxford University in the UK[i] which connected personality type to specific microbiome patterns. The story has gotten huge coverage in the world of the biome, so I reckon…
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…
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: …
Migraines and the Bacterial Microbiome: Are Probiotics a Solution?
For those of you who suffer migraines (or know someone who does): I don’t know about you, but I’ve been waiting for an article relating those damn headaches to the gut biome. (You knew it had to be coming…) Considering that migraine is the…
Using Yeasts to Fight Yeasts
I like it when I can report on -omes other than the bacterial microbiome, especially when the research is about using a natural and benign substance to treat a serious pathogen in fighting disease. In this case, researchers in the USA and India have…
Organophosphates: Yet Another Environmental Toxin that Adversely Affects the Gut Biome and Health
Another popular request, courtesy of the survey I ran a couple of weeks ago, was for more information on how environmental toxins may affect the human biome. I wrote about the herbicide, glyphosate (that’s found in Roundup), several months ago, and while the role…
Parkinson’s, Fecal Transplant, Probiotics, Prebiotics…No Answers Yet
Yesterday morning, I got a comment on the Biome Buzz’ Facebook page, in response to last week’s post on the microbiome and the basal ganglia, that said, “Could you put it more simply and tell us what to do about it? This is Facebook…
