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Category: Probiotics
Microbiome Testing and Personalized Nutrition: My Experience with Thryve
Many of you may remember that early this year, I did a little survey to find out what topics in particular you might be interested in hearing more about. One of the top requests was to hear more about companies doing microbiome testing. I…
Maternal Stress, Autism and a Possible Preventative Probiotic Treatment?
A few weeks back, a study came out of the University of Colorado, Boulder, which is worth reporting.[i] It is one in a long line of similar studies which show that exposure to our “old friends” modulates the immune system in such a way…
Gut Bacteria and Memory: Can Manipulating the Former Modulate the Latter?
A friend of mine who is a neurologist recently pointed out to me that while we are all very familiar with diseases associated with the loss of memory, ie. Alzheimer’s, there are others that are associated with hyper-memory, including PTSD. In these latter cases,…
An Introduction to a New “Old Friend”: Christensenella (to Treat Anxiety and Depression?)
Last week I found what amounts to a business news press release announcing that a microbiome company called LNC Therapeutics has licensed the use of a specific strain of a gut bacteria called Christensenella (which I had never heard of) from the National Research…
More On the Microbiome and Bile Acids: Colon Cancer Prevention?
In February, I entitled a post “Bile Acids, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and the Microbiome: A Rapidly Developing Story.” Well, that rapidly developing story has taken another leap forward. A new paper was just published in the journal, Nature, that shows that a metabolite produced…
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…
