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World’s Largest Citizen Science Microbiome Project, British and American Gut, serves Food for Thought
Open access dataset reveals how factors such as diet, antibiotics and mental health status can influence the microbial and molecular makeup of your gut Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and King’s College London have published the first major results from…
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Warning:Your delicious Sunday roast is stuffed full of antibiotics that will turn you into a porker says leading epidemiologist
You’ve peeled, chopped and lovingly prepared every last ingredient. But before you happily tuck into your Sunday roast, ask yourself: do you really know what is on your plate? As a physician and expert on nutrition and the causes of obesity, I’m here to tell…
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Want to lose weight? Eat chocolate and wine, says Professor
When trying to lose weight, most of us immediately cut down on our favourite treats such as chocolate, cheese and wine, but a top scientist says there is no need to remove these indulgences from the diet, as they can help us cultivate more ‘good’ bacteria in our…
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Why red wine is good for your microbiome
So what can you do to keep your microbes healthy? The answer, Spector said, lies in a diverse diet. The good news? Dark chocolate and red wine can also improve gut microbes. To read more click here
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Is fermented food a recipe for good gut health?
Fermentation as a way of preserving food dates back thousands of years, but it is now being held up as a potentially important source of friendly, health-giving bacteria. So should we all be eating sauerkraut and kimchi? Allowing bacteria to form in a sealed jar…
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What’s bugging you now? The amazing potential of our bodies’ own bacteria
Spectator HealthThis is a murky story of vast armies standing guard over myriad territories, of battles fought in deep, dark crevasses, of warriors competing on your behalf — yet without your awareness — for your very existence. It’s the story of the human microbiota; the legions…
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Does our Microbiome Control Us or Do We Control It?
Scientific AmericanWe may be able to keep our gut in check after all. That’s the tantalizing finding from a new study published today that reveals a way that mice—and potentially humans—can control the makeup and behavior of their gut microbiome. Such a prospect upends the popular…
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Bacteria in your gut reveal astonishing secrets about your health
Mail OnlineAll of us have trillions of different bacteria living in our guts and amazingly our precise bacterial mix is unique - like fingerprints, no two people’s combinations of gut bacteria are exactly the same. The different species of gut bacteria are essential for digestion and…
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The Britishgut project
The importance of microbes for our overall well-being and how you can get a profile of your gut microbes tested and help science.The importance of microbes for our overall well-being and how you can get a profile of your gut microbes tested and help science.The importance of microbes for our overall well-being and how you can get a profile of your gut microbes tested and help science.
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29 Oct, 2015
Better screening needed for transpoosion
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09 Sep, 2015
The Human Body Is Basically Just a Blob of Microbes, Fungi, and Viruses….
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09 Sep, 2015
Look after your gut
King's College London
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The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat
By: Tim Spector - We are all increasingly bewildered by the simple question of what to eat. Despite advice from experts, governments and dieticians about the dangers of too much fat, sugar, protein and lack of exercise, our nutrition - and the global obesity crisis - is getting worse. Why can one person eat a certain meal and gain weight and another eat exactly the same food and lose pounds? Genes provide part of the answer, but we have been overlooking one vital aspect of diet that lies within us. Thanks to recent breakthroughs, scientists have begun to examine the permanent residents in our guts: the thousands of previously unknown…
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Rewild
By: Jeff Leach - Our understanding of what makes us sick has changed dramatically in the last few years - mainly due to advances in metagenomic sciences and computing power. It seems the trillions of tiny little microbes living on and inside our body have a great deal to do with our health. The good news is that through diet and other lifestyle decisions, you may be able to nudge your gut microbes in a direction for optimal health. Rewild is a collection of essays from the Human Food Project.
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Follow Your Gut
By: Rob Knight - Allergies, asthma, obesity, acne: these are just a few of the conditions that may be caused and someday cured by the microscopic life inside us. The key is to understand how this ground-breaking science influences your health, mood, and more. In just the last few years, scientists have shown how the microscopic life within our bodies particularly within our intestines has an astonishing impact on our lives. Your health, mood, sleep patterns, eating preferences even your likelihood of getting bitten by mosquitoes can be traced in part to the tiny creatures that live on and inside of us. In Follow Your Gut, pioneering scientist Rob Knight…
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Gut-Microbiota-Metabolite Axis in Early Renal Function Decline
Clara Barrios, Michelle Beaumont, Tess Pallister, Judith Villar, Julia K. Goodrich, Andrew Clark, Julio Pascual, Ruth E. Ley, Tim D. Spector, Jordana T. Bell, Cristina Menni -
Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome Julia K. Goodrich, Jillian L. Waters, Angela C. Poole, Jessica L. Sutter, Omry Koren7, Ran Blekhman8, Michelle Beaumont, William Van Treuren, Rob Knight, Jordana T. Bell, Timothy D. Spector, Andrew G. Clark, Ruth E. Ley
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Professor Tim Spector and Professor Rob Knight. Faecal transplants still need long term trials and monitoring. EDITORIAL. BMJ
2015;351:h5149 (Published 20 October 2015)