The health of your gut microbiome is linked to all different sorts of positive health outcomes. Today, there are emerging therapeutic tools that can help people better protect and enhance the health of their gut.
The ketogenic diet is best known as a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet commonly used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy in children. Despite a ketogenic diet therapy’s ability to suppress refractory epilepsies for over a century, the underlying mechanisms of the ketogenic diet remain enigmatic. While the exact ketogenic diet mechanisms of action are not yet known, several…
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Introduction Imagine the following scenario: You wake up on a cold winter morning feeling lethargic and slightly feverish and notice a tingling in your throat. On your way to work, you decide to pop into an urgent care clinic where the doctor, after a 10-minute checkup, prescribes a course of antibiotics for a supposed throat…
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Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, most people probably didn’t have dozens of bottles of hand sanitizer sitting in their family medicine cabinet. You might have occasionally used hand sanitizer when you visited the doctor´s office or maybe during a trip overseas. On a day-to-day basis, most people probably washed their…
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A few decades ago, most health recommendations were characterized by a general “germ phobia.” We knew that specific pathogens caused severe disease, so the obvious response was to combat those germs by every means possible. What followed was the complete sterilization of our lives, a collective overdose of antibiotics that has led to severe antimicrobial…
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Prebiotics are specialized fibers that beneficially nourish the good bacteria already in the large bowel or colon. When prebiotics are used to increase commensal bacterial species such as Bifidobacteria or Lactobacilli toward being the numerically predominant genus in the colon, improved colonization resistance results. These probiotic species are beneficial microorganisms because species within these groups…
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Casually drop the word “bacteria” in any conversation, and you’re guaranteed to notice even just the tiniest hint of disgust on the face of whoever you’re talking to. Fact is, the concept of bacteria tends to get quite a bad rap. We’ve come to associate it with dirt, diseases, and generally anything that can make…
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Gut Microbiome Research and the Health Food Industry
“Probiotics are going to play definitely an increasing role as we learn more about them,” Vuyisich says. “There’s unlimited amount of knowledge that that is out there and we’re just scratching the surface. And so the revolution has begun. I would like to ask everyone to contribute to this revolution in order to enable people to live healthier lives.”