THE BIOME BUZZ
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Tag: health
A Treatment for Leaky Gut Around a Corner or Two???
Last week, I posted a story on the Biome Buzz’ Facebook page about how a metabolite from pomegranates and berries has been found to reduce inflammatory bowel disease.[i] Researchers at the University of Louisville discovered that the metabolite, urolithin A (UroA) and a synthetic…
The Bacterial Microbiome and Food Allergy
A pretty interesting, and telling, piece of research[i] came out just yesterday. In previous work, scientists have shown that babies who are allergic to cow’s milk have different gut bacteria than non-allergic infants. The question asked by these University of Chicago researchers is: can…
Pathogenic Yeast and Autism: Is the Mycobiome a Factor?
Tuesday evening I printed out a bunch of new articles to read that looked potentially interesting. I’ve so far made it through 2, and one of those did not disappoint. A brief seque: I’ve probably mentioned this before, but because of my autism longevity…
Stressed? Depressed? Theres a Psychobiotic for That
Yesterday morning a story made its way through the British press about a probiotic, newly available commercially, which, in a 2016 clinical trial, successfully alleviated stress, increased feelings of happiness and boosted memory. The probiotic, Zenflore, is being called the first commercially available “psychobiotic”: …
Your Annual New Year’s Resolution Reminder: Eat a Healthy Diet
Since eating a healthy diet is the most important factor in maintaining a healthy and happy inner biome, I thought I’d catch you up on some of the latest papers out there. I spotted another “most popular medical stories of 2018” article on Medical…
L.reuteri and Immune Tolerance
A few days ago, a fun article[i] appeared on Gut Microbiota for Health which listed their most popular articles in 2018. Contrary me: I looked through all 10 and found that the last one on the list was way the most interesting. In your…
2018: My Top 10 List of Favorite Stories!
My longer-time readers know that, as we close out another year, I like to take a look back at some of my favorite research stories from these past 12 months. So here it is…Judy’s “the best of 2018” top 10 list, in chronological order:…
Scientists Weigh in on the Recent Anti-Probiotic Hype
Remember back in September, I was ranting about two “anti-probiotic” studies and the insane conclusions people were drawing based upon them? Well, a few days ago, I came across an article[i] on this very topic, on the Gut Microbiota for Health website, that is worth…
Pre/Neonatal Probiotics and the Avoidance of Eczema and Allergies
Yet another article[i] was just published showing that dealing with inflammation issues while a baby is still in the womb can make a huge difference on the risk of atopic (allergic) illnesses. In this case, researchers in New Zealand gave 474 pregnant (starting at…
Helminths and Autism: The Only Clinical Study
From the earliest days of this blog, I have talked about the too-often-ignored (and non-existent-in-most-people) macrobiome. Over the last few years, I’ve covered research papers that demonstrate over and over that helminths – intestinal worms, which are the predominant organisms of the mammalian macrobiome…
The Prophylactic Use of Probiotics (to Combat Microbiome Alterations Due to C-section and Early Life Antibiotic Use)
The article I read yesterday was a natural follow-on from my last post, about autism and its relationship to perturbations in the gut microbiome. This one was about a double-blind, placebo-controlled study using probiotics to restore normal gut microbiota in infants who were either…
Autism and the Microbiome: A Summary of What We Know Now
Two days ago, I spotted a short commentary[i] in the journal, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, from this past August, which really caught my attention. Here is why: it was written by 3 researchers in the department of neurology at Rutgers University’s medical school…
