Our last blog post focused on microbiomes and their potential involvement in obesity. To complement that post, here is a TED Talk about how people who move from other countries to the US lose their normal gut flora. Another TED Talk, from 2014, describes the microbes in communities that are all over our bodies. It also discusses the Human...
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In It’s All In Your Gut, A High Fiber Diet and the Immune System, we introduced the microbiome that lives in our body. It helps with our digestion and makes the short-chained fatty acids (SCFAs) that are important to our immune system. Now several recent studies are looking at bacteria in the bodies of people with cancer. Specifically, these...
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It’s getting difficult to ignore the research…there’s a world of bacteria, archaea*, eukaryotes** and viruses partying away on and in your body. Actually, this microbiome, as it is called in the scientific community, is involved in our health in ways we never dreamed of before. Commensalism and Symbiosis In fact, the tissues where these...
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