“A fascinating new study is suggesting that a shift in gut bacteria in our middle-age could trigger a process that plays a role in cognitive decline in our later years. And diet may be the key to encouraging the growth […]
“The results from the first randomized controlled human trial into [Fecal Matter Transplants] for obesity suggest modulating the microbiome of humans to treat obesity may be more complicated than researchers had hoped.” Although it worked in animal models, it didn’t […]
This company is a leader in the movement to help consumers (patients?) understand something (probably very little, but something) about the makeup of their microbiome. Insurers maybe don’t like paying for it, though. “Special agents from the Federal Bureau of […]
This is an early and non-controlled, but quite exciting, study from Arizona State University that points to the relationship between health and gut microbiome. FMT stands for Fecal Matter Transplant. “Prior to the study, 83 percent of participants had ‘severe’ […]
This outcome isn’t surprising, but it is a step toward better understanding of how we can manipulate the microbiome to our advantage. “The study examined a group of cancer patients revealing how fecal transplants can quickly restore a compromised microbiome […]
While we know that microbes are critical to many functions of life, we’ve still only begun to scratch the surface of understanding. “The American Gut Project – a global, crowdsourced citizen science effort – has published the first results from […]
This is published in the NYT opinion section, but interesting anyway. The author discusses the links between sugars, sugar substitutes, and germs that live in the microbiome. | learn more