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Tag: Prebiotics
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”
Short Term Increase in Prebiotic Fibers Makes a Big Difference
I’m on a bit of a fiber kick right now! A study just came out of the University of California, Irvin, which caught my interest. Did you know that on average, Americans eat way less than 50% of the recommended daily intake of fiber? … Continue Reading “Short Term Increase in Prebiotic Fibers Makes a Big Difference”
Prebiotics: What We Currently Know About Their Use in Neuropsychiatric and Neurodegenerative Diseases
One of the questions I get asked the most by my readers is “what prebiotic and/or probiotic is the best?” Unfortunately, there is no good answer to that because we just don’t have the research to know. To boot, everyone’s body is different. Still,… Continue Reading “Prebiotics: What We Currently Know About Their Use in Neuropsychiatric and Neurodegenerative Diseases”
My Annual End-of-the-Year Wrap-Up: Your Top 5 Picks!
For my annual year-end post, I’ve decided to once again review YOUR top 5 choices of the year. I guess I shouldn’t be shocked by what you were most interested, in what has been quite the remarkable year for the world. Here’s to hoping… Continue Reading “My Annual End-of-the-Year Wrap-Up: Your Top 5 Picks!”
Baobab and Microbiome Diversity: Eat Like a Hazda!
A few days ago I received an email from a company (Dhow Nature Foods ) that is producing powdered baobab, asking if I’d consider writing a blog post about the product. I was pretty excited to hear from them. Baobab, you ask? What the… Continue Reading “Baobab and Microbiome Diversity: Eat Like a Hazda!”
Losing Weight – Gaining it Back…and the Microbiome
Today, for your reading pleasure, a kind of amazing 14 month long clinical trial out of Ben-Gurion University, in Israel![i] As I am sure you all know, after dieting and losing weight, it is incredibly difficult to keep it off. I read, not that… Continue Reading “Losing Weight – Gaining it Back…and the Microbiome”
Prevotella: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
How many times on this blog have a talked about how insanely complex is the human biome? Yesterday, I had one of those moments where I almost threw up my hands and thought, “I give up!” Everything seems so damn contradictory. Then, of course,… Continue Reading “Prevotella: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”
Response to Prebiotics Depends on Your Existing Gut Bacteria
This is a small, but I thought really interesting, study and I guess I’m not alone in finding it significant: it was published in a premier medical journal, Gut.[i] It’s a great illustration of the complexity of gut biome optimization because of the individuality… Continue Reading “Response to Prebiotics Depends on Your Existing Gut Bacteria”
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… Continue Reading “Inflammatory Arthritis and the Gut”
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… Continue Reading “Your Personality and Your Gut Bacteria: Mirror Reflections?”
