Microbiome in Health

Lifestyle has a strong impact on intestinal bacteria, which has a strong impact on health

Everything you eat or drink affects your intestinal bacteria, and is likely to have an impact on your health. That is the finding of a large-scale study into the effect of…
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New research confirms thriving microbiome is linked to a healthier body

The human microbiome is one of the most mysterious subjects in modern…
www.theverge.com|By Russell Brandom

Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood?

The rich array of microbiota in our intestines can tell us more than you might think.
mobile.nytimes.com|By Peter Andrey Smith

Seeking a ‘Happy Gut’ for Better Health

In his new book “Happy Gut,” Dr. Vincent Pedre argues that chronic health problems can in some cases be traced to the digestive system and fixed by changing the microbes in our gut.
mobile.nytimes.com|By Anahad O’Connor

Our Microbiome May Be Looking Out for Itself

Microbes are beneficial to humans in many ways, but research suggests they may be influencing our behavior for the sake of their evolutionary success.
mobile.nytimes.com|By Carl Zimmer

Are the bugs in us pulling our puppet strings, imagery from right out of a “Men In Black” movie? Food for thought.

Say Hello to the 100 Trillion Bacteria That Make Up Your Microbiome

Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
mobile.nytimes.com|By Michael Pollan

Genetically, we are less than 10% human. Welcome to the universe within.

Invite Some Germs to Dinner

Could our food system be too clean?
mobile.nytimes.com|By Kate Murphy

I subscribe to the Hygiene Hypothesis. I believe that many of our modern maladies, especially autoimmune and allergic ones, are linked to too clean a diet in our infancy days resulting in our inability to tolerate common environmental antigens later in life.
Even if I’m right, it’s too late for us now, even with fecal transplantation. But save the kids! Feed them sh_t!

There Is No ‘Healthy’ Microbiome

The same microbes can be helpful allies or dangerous threats.
mobile.nytimes.com|By Ed Yong

For all the current excitement about the Microbiome, and how it may hold the key to our health and disease, we still don’t understand enough about it to do anything meaningful about it. Yogurt may just be calorie-laced placebo.
Now that the Human Microbiome Project has been set up, we may start getting answers in the coming years. We may even see Poop Banks set up, where we can trade for a more desirable body habitus, temperament and what-have-you.