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[VENETO] boboviz
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Jim Slade
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Some 'Hospital-Acquired' Infections Traced to Patient's Own Microbiome
While being cared for in the hospital, a disturbingly large number of people develop potentially life-threatening bloodstream infections. It's been thought that most of the blame lies with microbes lurking on medical equipment, health-care professionals, or other visitors. And certainly that is often true. But now an NIH-funded team has discovered that a significant fraction of these "hospital-acquired" infections may actually stem from a different source: the patient's own body. https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2018/10/23/some...-patients-own-microbiome/  |
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Jim Slade
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Unexplored Frontiers-Harvard Catalyst looks at microbiome's links to disease
Whether or how much the gut microbiome contributes to disease ranging from inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer to Parkinson's disease and diabetes was the central question scientists explored at Harvard Medical School recently at a symposium sponsored by the Catalyst Reactor program as they sought to unravel some of the mysteries behind the human microbiome-a relatively unexplored frontier in scientific research. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/unexplored-front...paign=hms-twitter-general |
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Dual studies reveal probiotics offer no help to children with stomach virus
Two new rigorous placebo-controlled studies have concluded probiotic supplements do not confer any beneficial effects in easing symptoms of gastroenteritis in children. The trials found children's symptoms and recovery times were nearly identical whether they took probiotics or a placebo. https://newatlas.com/probiotics-children-stomach-virus-study/57351/ |
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Jim Slade
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Microbiome dynamics in obesity
The prevalence of obesity has increased at an astounding rate over the past decades. More than 44% of the global population is estimated to be overweight, and more than 300 million individuals are affected by morbid adiposity. Research from the Weizmann Institute of Science is showing how exploring the postbiotic universe of microbiota-derived metabolites that modulate host physiology may yield interesting insights enabling us to understand and indeed, counteract the rapid rise of obesity worldwide. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6417/903 |
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Jim Slade
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The Future of Psychobiotics
The evidence is mounting that microorganisms in the gut influence mental health-but designing a healthy microbiome won't be easy./American Psychological Association Monitor on Psychology December 2018 http://www.apamonitor-digital.org/apamonitor/...70%false#articleld1444270 |
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littlepeaks
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Human Gut Bacteria Found to Carry Over 6000 Antibiotic Resistance Genes
They must have guts to post this story (my attempt at humor - sorry). |
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Jim Slade
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Emerging evidence linking the gut microbiome to neurologic disorders
The gut microbiome contributes to the development and function of the immune, metabolic, and nervous systems. Furthermore, commensal bacteria modulate symptoms and pathology in mouse models in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases. Uncovering mechanisms that are utilized by the microbiome to mediate gut-brain connections may provide novel opportunities to target therapies to the gut in order to treat neurologic disorders. https://genomedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-018-0609-3 |
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Aurum
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‘For 30 years I’ve been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer’
----------------------------------------Newly knighted cancer scientist Mel Greaves explains why a cocktail of microbes could give protection against disease “We need to find ways of reconstituting their microbiomes – as we term this community of microbes. We also need to find which are the most important species of bacteria for priming a child’s immune system.” https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/...rotection-against-disease   ...KRI please cancel all shadow-banning |
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Jim Slade
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The bacteria in your gut may reveal your true age
The billions of bacteria that call your gut home may help regulate everything from your ability to digest food to how your immune system functions. But scientists know very little how that system, known as the microbiome, changes over time - or even what a "normal" one looks like. Now, researchers studying the gut bacteria of thousands of people around the globe have come to one conclusion: The microbiome is a surprisingly accurate biological clock, able to predict the age of most people within years. The idea that you can predict someone's age based on their gut microbiome is "very plausible" and of "tremendous interest" to scientists studying aging. says Computer Scientist and microbiome researcher Robin Knight, director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at the University of California, San Diego. His group is analyzing 15,000 samples from the American Gut Project, a worldwide microbiome study he founded, to develop similar age predictors. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/bacte...iMag&utm_content=AAAS |
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