THE BIOME BUZZ
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Tag: Diet
Glyphosate and Human Health: Is the Bacterial Microbiome the Connection?
In various posts, I’ve explored different potential mechanisms that may play a part in the epidemic of biome alterations we have experienced in the industrialized world, including diet, formula feeding, chronic stress, and so forth. Another potential mechanism, environmental toxins, is another area of…
Prebiotics: Yet Another Layer of Biome Complexity
I regularly receive FB messages and emails from people asking me what probiotic or prebiotic they should be taking. If I knew the answer, I’d be rich. The answer is…no one knows. We are so at the tip of the iceberg on all this,…
Propionic Acid: A Culprit in Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction?
As promised on Tuesday, today is the last post in my continuing propionic acid series as we wrap up not-celebrating the Biome Buzz’ official First Annual Propionic Acid week. Today’s post is about just how suspect it is for all our health. A study…
Is There Any Doubt Left that Propionic Acid is a Cause of Autism? Apparently not
I first started to write about autism and propionic acid (PPA) not long after creating this blog, back in the fall of 2016. In January 2017, I described to you some of the work of Dr. Derrick MacFabe, which as particularly fascinated me for…
Irritable Bowel: SIBO, Dysbiosis and Diet
In 2010, I read a paper in the journal, Nutrition, that really rocked my world: “The concept of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) in relation to functional gastrointestinal disorders.” [i] To summarize one of its many key points: we don’t know how to test…
Diet, Diet, Diet and the Microbiome…and Did I Mention Diet? (And a Bonus: An Herbal Thing You Can Do Now)
A recent discussion on my Biome Buzz Facebook page, in response to a post about the benefits of boosting Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut, has prompted me to once again write about the single most important thing when it comes to influencing the health…
Autism and Clostridia: Mounting Evidence of a Connection
As you know, I’ve been following the research of Dr. Derrick MacFabe for well over a decade now. I’ve described it before on this blog, several times, including this first post 2 ½ years ago – to which, if you remember, Dr. MacFabe was…
Cancer, Diet and Gut Bacteria
On Monday, I read a little article on Medical Express about a multi-center research study done in Spain, just published in the journal, Nutrients, which took an in-depth look at the association between diet and the development of both breast and colorectal cancer.[i] Thousands…
Bloated? A Surprising Culprit May Be to Blame
This morning, I spotted an interesting little piece on Medical Daily entitled, “Bloated? High-Fiber Foods Are Not to Blame; This Ingredient Is.”[i] Curious to see what they were suggesting as a possible culprit (after all, bloating is the second most common complaint I hear…
More Steps Forward in Personalized Nutrition
A week ago, I read about another really interesting “personalized nutrition” study[i] again looking at the differences in the way people respond to food. 34 participants kept a record of everything they ate for 17 days, while the researchers looked at stool samples over…
