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Read MoreSwapping microbes with your dog
We hug them, kiss them, sleep with them, and share our food with them – they are, of course, the family dog. In return, they share with us some of the microbes they pick up as they saunter about the neighborhood and places beyond. A study conducted by researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder reveals that families that own dogs harbor a more diverse and different set of skin bacteria than non-dog...
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Read MoreFrom Meat to Microbes to Main street: is it time to trade in your George Foreman Grill?
If scientists keep publishing the results of their work in journals, we’re going to run out of stuff to eat. The latest nutritional no-no literally has meat-eaters on the ropes following a startling article published in Nature Medicine that draws a possible link between a nutrient (carnitine) in red meat and cardiovascular disease. But what makes this interesting and so different from past debates –...
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Read MoreA Fecal Transplant from a Healthy Chimpanzee or Average Joe – which would you choose?
Play along for a moment. The year is 2015 and all hell has broken loose. You’re part of a small band of people wondering the post-apocalyptic streets of downtown Atlanta – staying one step ahead of the flesh-eating “walkers.” If spending all day trying to avoid being infected or possibly eaten by a zombie wasn’t bad enough, months on the run drinking iffy water and eating what you could...
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Read MoreSlumdog Microbiome More Diverse
I was recently invited to put together a series of slides – or webinar – for a national supermarket chain on things their customers could do to improve the health of their gut microbiome. Once I got past the obvious first few slides that recommend they might spend a little less time in national supermarket chains and get some someone smarter than me to do this webinar, I listed what I think is the most...
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Read MorePalm Oil: maybe not such a good idea after all
There are two things that you can be certain of when it comes to palm oil: 1) business is booming and 2) orangutans hate palm oil (if they could speak to us, I’m confident that’s what they would say). We can now add another certainty to that: palm oil causes low-grade inflammation that is linked to insulin resistance, obesity and other metabolic diseases that are partially mediated by our resident gut...
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Read MoreCan parasites prevent autoimmune diabetes?
A guest post by Moises Velasquez-Manoff. Coronado Biosciences, a company seeking FDA approval for a type of medicalized parasite, recently announced the beginning of a very interesting trial on Type 1 diabetes. Coronado is running a number of studies with a whipworm called Trichuris suis, which is native to pigs. It’s testing the parasite on several immune-mediated disorders, including...
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Read MoreWhy Every Registered Dietitian Should Sign up for American Gut
If your job is to provide science-based nutrition – and sometimes lifestyle – advice to individuals, patients, schools, sport teams, health agencies, grocery stores, food manufacturers, or a myriad of any other individuals, businesses and governments who seek such services, you have been doing so with one hand tied behind your back. This is not the fault of any particular person, but a function of how...
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Read MoreAmerican (Gut) Gothic: 5 things you can do for a healthier microbiome in 2013
In the summer of 2008, a 26-year-old man from Shanxi Province walked into a lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and 23 weeks later walked out 113 pounds lighter. He had not participated in a clinical trial of some new secret weight loss pill, or signed up for a punishing Biggest Loser-style exercise program, nor had he been fussed over by behavioral scientists who made his plates and drinking cups...
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Swapping microbes with your dog
We hug them, kiss them, sleep with them, and share our food with them – they are, of course, the family dog. In return, they share with us some of the microbes they pick up as they saunter about the neighborhood...
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From Meat to Microbes to Main street: is it time to trade in your George Foreman Grill?
If scientists keep publishing the results of their work in journals, we’re going to run out of stuff to eat. The latest nutritional no-no literally has meat-eaters on the ropes following a startling article...
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A Fecal Transplant from a Healthy Chimpanzee or Average Joe – which would you choose?
Play along for a moment. The year is 2015 and all hell has broken loose....
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Slumdog Microbiome More Diverse
I was recently invited to put together a series of slides – or webinar –...
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Palm Oil: maybe not such a good idea after all
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Can parasites prevent autoimmune diabetes?
A guest post by Moises Velasquez-Manoff. Coronado Biosciences, a...
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If your job is to provide science-based nutrition – and sometimes lifestyle...
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