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Tag: Diet
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…
Eat Crickets! Delicious, Nutritious and Great for your Biome, Shows a Clinical Study
A couple of months ago, a friend sent me an article I finally had a chance to read, which describes a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study that looked at the effects of eating crickets on health and the gut biome.[i] Now don’t sit there rolling…
Two New Articles on Parkinson’s
Two more recent article provide yet more evidence linking gut inflammation to the development of Parkinson’s disease…which my regular readers know, is another of my particular interests, as I have 3 friends already suffering from it. The first article describes research at the University…
Two Stories Today…For the Price of One! Stressed You and Overfed You = Stressed And Overfed Gut Bacteria
Two incredibly cool news stories came out last week and since I can’t decide which to share with you today…I’ll share both. Story 1: As you all know, if you regularly read this blog, the exact cause of the current inflammatory epidemic plaguing those…
And Yet Another Food Additive Becomes Suspect
Just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about ways in which modern food processing may be related to our growing epidemic of obesity (or globesity, as those authors called it). In that post, I mentioned that many food additives are potentially thought to …
And Yet MORE Evidence of the Efficacy of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
I continue to make my way through the stacks of articles I’ve collected these last few months and decided today to treat myself to a description of a paper from 2015 that used survey data to analyze the effects of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet…
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…
Food Processing: Another Suspect in the ‘Globesity’ Epidemic?
Last night, I read an article that fit absolutely perfectly into my unintentional but prominent theme of the last couple of weeks: the relationship of the microbiome to weight issues…and to food: “Food Processing, Gut Microbiota and the Globesity Problem.”[i] Yup – we face…
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…
