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New York Times
The A.I. Diet. Forget government-issued food pyramids. Let an algorithm tell you how to eat.
We don’t often think of a diet as being unsafe, but the wrong foods can be dangerous for people with certain risks or conditions. I’ve had two bouts of kidney stones. To avoid a third, I need to stay away from foods high in oxalate, a naturally occurring molecule abundant in plants.
New Food Magazine
Gut microbiome helps body against food allergies
Scientists have reported that the gut microbiome plays a key role in the development of severe food allergies, and could be exploited to prevent their development. Previously, scientists have identified that infants allergic to cow’s milk had different compositions of gut microbes than non-allergic infants. Research has also shown that some microbes are associated with a lower … Continue reading Gut microbiome helps body against food allergies
Singularity
Why scientists are rushing to catalog the world’s poop
The effort is known as the Global Microbiome Conservancy (GMC), and its goal is to catalog and safe-keep the different kinds of gut bacteria found in humans’ digestive systems across the planet. It’s an endeavor that could be under threat from changing diets and lifestyles.
The Atlantic
Just months of american life change the microbiome
Many people who come to the U.S. for a better life end up with worse health. Many different studies have now shown that the longer certain groups live in the U.S., the worse some of their health outcomes get, especially when it comes to obesity. One study found that after one year in America, just 8 percent of … Continue reading Just months of american life change the microbiome
Science
Preserving microbial diversity
Comparing disparate traditional societies with industrialized peoples indicates that the loss of gut microbial diversity is associated with industrialization, not with particular diets, ethnicity, or geography. Loss of microbiota diversity opens up niches for opportunistic invaders, which often do not have the same coevolved constraints. Most urgently, we need to preserve the diversity of ancestral microbes from … Continue reading Preserving microbial diversity
Dr Helen Messier
Time to end the war on microbes
The “War on Microbes” has reached its tipping point and we are beginning to truly witness what detrimental effects our increasingly high intensity efforts are leading to. The rise in chronic diseases, including a variety linked to obesity, can be attributed to the carpet-bombing of our own personal microbial ecosystems. Of special significance, Dr. Messier … Continue reading Time to end the war on microbes
Time
It’s not clear yet how to boost the microbiome. But diet is the best bet.
He points out that the skin, gut and reproductive organs are home to roughly 1,000 different species of bacteria and 5,000 different bacterial strains. Figuring out which foods or probiotics could help reshape or harmonize the microbiome for improved health is like baking a perfect cake using 5,000 different ingredients, he says. The idea that … Continue reading It’s not clear yet how to boost the microbiome. But diet is the best bet.
PBS
Can you change your microbiome?
Our microbiomes dictate more about our bodies and our lives than we may like to admit. The influences range from the obvious, such as intestinal health, to the surprising, such as our moods. The science is anything but settled, though. After years of connecting the dots between microbes and human health, scientists have begun using … Continue reading Can you change your microbiome?
Reader's Digest
13 silent signs your microbiome could be in trouble
That collection of bacteria in your gut could have more wide-reaching health effects than you realize. Here are the warning signs that it’s not happy.
The Economist
Enhanced understanding of the microbiome is helping medicine
Human guts contain microbes, lots of them. Added together, the genes in these bugs’ genomes amount to perhaps 150 times the number in the human genome alone. If the bacteria in question were doing little more than swimming around digesting lettuce, this would be of small consequence. But they are doing much more than that.
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