Research in worms provides a model to study how the human microbiome influences disease

[Northerner]

The billions of microorganisms living within the human digestive tract appear to play a significant role in health and disease, notably metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disorders and diabetes -- but how these organisms do so is not well understood. Researchers at the Buck Institute have used worms to provide a framework for deciphering how specific bacterial signals from the microbiome influence the host, whether the host is a worm or a human.

The work, done in the nematode worm C. elegans and detailed in Scientific Reports, an online open access journal from the publishers of Nature, reveals for the first time how different genes in bacteria -- rather than metabolites produced by the bacteria -- modify the biology of the worms that eat them.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161216121607.htm

More gut bacteria research! 🙂 Read Gut by Giulia Enders! 🙂

 

[mikeyB]

Interesting. After my recent colonoscopy, when the entire bowel is spotless cleaned, I wondered where my biome went, and what to do about it. So I'm now taking Bioglan bacterial supplement capsules, which contain billions of viable bacteria of four main types of bowel fauna. I'm interested in seeing what effect this has on my overall health, because it's the first time I've gone at this hard, rather than my usual Activa yogurts, which don't contain a mixed variety of bacteria, but do contain carbs. As we don't like advertising on the forum, I won't tell you that these capsules are £14 for a months supply at Superdrug.

 

[Northerner]

Interesting. After my recent colonoscopy, when the entire bowel is spotless cleaned, I wondered where my biome went, and what to do about it. So I'm now taking Bioglan bacterial supplement capsules, which contain billions of viable bacteria of four main types of bowel fauna. I'm interested in seeing what effect this has on my overall health, because it's the first time I've gone at this hard, rather than my usual Activa yogurts, which don't contain a mixed variety of bacteria, but do contain carbs. As we don't like advertising on the forum, I won't tell you that these capsules are £14 for a months supply at Superdrug.

Were you not offered a faecal implant? 😱 🙂

 

[mikeyB]

No; though I expect in a few years that will be standard as more and more medics realise that the biome in the gut is a vital part of healthy living. "Gut" by Giulia Enders has completely changed my attitude and years of medical education. Hence the intense restocking!🙂

 

[trophywench]

Were you not offered a faecal implant? 😱 🙂

LOL - no, they don't offer that.

However - you do get a cuppa and a biscuit - the first solid food you've been able to have for nearly 2 days by then, and bloody lovely it is, too!

Perhaps they should serve it in dirty cups, to get yer innards going again?