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Tag: Diabetes
Akkermansia Fans: The Day You Have Been Waiting For!!!
There are going to be some VERY happy biome buzzers out there today! I got pretty darn excited when I read over the weekend that the European Food Safety Authority (their version of the FDA) has confirmed that pasteurized Akkermansia municiphila is a safe… Continue Reading “Akkermansia Fans: The Day You Have Been Waiting For!!!”
More Evidence that Helminths Protect Against Metabolic Diseases, Including Diabetes
Another great macrobiome article for you this week – two in one month! Exciting times! This one just appeared in the major journal, Frontiers in Endocrinology. Researchers conducted a review of the existing literature, and meta-analysis of the data presented in the papers, looking… Continue Reading “More Evidence that Helminths Protect Against Metabolic Diseases, Including Diabetes”
Buy One, Get One Free: Two Papers on the Bacterial Microbiome that Caught My Eye
Flash sale!!! Two for the price of one today at The Biome Buzz! The first study that I want to share with you was performed in a collaboration between Japanese, Harvard and MIT scientists, and was published in the elite journal, Nature.[i] The researchers… Continue Reading “Buy One, Get One Free: Two Papers on the Bacterial Microbiome that Caught My Eye”
Personalized Nutrition: An Update
Back in 2018, I described research to you out of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, which involved creating an algorithm to figure out the optimal diet for someone based upon their microbiome analysis results.[i] That research led to the creation of the new company,… Continue Reading “Personalized Nutrition: An Update”
More on the Biome Evils of Artificial Sweeteners
Ugh. I have so few guilty pleasures, what with calorie counts and nutrition information on everything. As much as I am pining to finally taste a mocha frappacino at Starbucks, as soon as I see that 400+ calorie count, I just can’t bring myself… Continue Reading “More on the Biome Evils of Artificial Sweeteners”
Babies, Breast Milk and the Development of the Early Microbiome and Immune System
That the first few months of life are critical for the development of a healthy microbiome, which in turn, affects health life-long is now accepted as a self-evidient fact. For those of you who, like me, have been following biome research for the last… Continue Reading “Babies, Breast Milk and the Development of the Early Microbiome and Immune System”
Akkermansia, Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: An Update
For you fans of Akkermansia who’ve been waiting with baited breath for the next research paper on it, you’re in luck today! Of course, because we’re talking the human biome, nothing is ever simple. Today’s research is a great example of just how immensely… Continue Reading “Akkermansia, Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: An Update”
A Very Hopeful Huge Step Forward in IBD (and other diseases) Treatment
Good morning, Biome Fans. Before I launch into today’s cool piece of research, I just wanted to let you all know that going forward, more often than not, I’ll only be blogging once per week, as opposed to the twice I’ve been doing for… Continue Reading “A Very Hopeful Huge Step Forward in IBD (and other diseases) Treatment”
More Reasons for Me to Love My Shirataki Noodles
Several months ago, in order to cut down on some carbohydrates in my diet (I’m pretty much a carb junkie), I started to eat Japanese shirataki noodles that I’d found in my healthfood store. It was a eureka moment for me when I discovered… Continue Reading “More Reasons for Me to Love My Shirataki Noodles”
Relating Bacterial Microbiome Structure to Specific Diseases: We’re One Step Closer
I wasn’t surprised to see this research out of Harvard University: it was inevitable. Scientists at Harvard and the Joslin Diabetes Center have analyzed the genetic makeup of bacterial microbiomes and linked these DNA signatures directly to specific diseases.[i] As more and more… Continue Reading “Relating Bacterial Microbiome Structure to Specific Diseases: We’re One Step Closer”
