Not exact matches
When
on the low - fiber diet, animals showed a decrease in the
diversity of their
microbiome, with 60 percent of the bacteria species plummeting in numbers compared with their high - fiber friends.
Jackson's work
on microbial
diversity caught the attention of Seed, who was already interested in the
microbiome in the guts of preterm infants but who did not have a background in ecology.
Americans,
on the other hand, have a distinctive
microbiome with about 25 percent less
diversity than indigenous Venezuelans».
As Venkateswaran and colleagues explain online today in
Microbiome, they relied
on state - of - the - art «deep - sequencing» machines, which are better able to assess
diversity and abundance of organisms than traditional techniques.
«Given that the
microbiome composition and
diversity change over time, it is tempting to speculate that the blood - brain barrier integrity also may fluctuate depending
on the
microbiome.
«Our findings point to two potential impacts from additional research — analyzing the
diversity and composition of the
microbiome to predict response to immunotherapy and modulating the gut
microbiome to enhance treatment,» said Wargo, senior researcher
on the project and co-leader of the Melanoma Moon Shot ™, part of MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program ™ to reduce cancer deaths by accelerating development of therapies from scientific discoveries.
Pollard, senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, delivered a presentation titled «Estimating Taxonomic and Functional
Diversity in Shotgun Metagenomes» during an invited session focused
on statistics, the
microbiome and human health.
There is high
diversity of studies, with a high abundance of gut
microbiome studies, a few publications
on fecal transplant, and some very interesting early life / pregnancy / mother - infant science.
Low microbial
diversity is more common than you might think — not only are prescription antibiotics
on the rise, but we are more stressed, are using more antibacterial soaps, and eating more animal proteins that are treated with antibiotics and fed corn (which changes their
microbiome).
Also interesting should be learning that an IBD gut, in remission and
on Remicade, lacks
microbiome diversity which SCD significantly improved.
Hope you enjoyed learning about vegetable and fruit smoothie impact
on the
microbiome and that healing diet tenets, SCD in particular, significantly increases
microbiome diversity, and that this SCD
microbiome persisted for thirty days during a washout period, during which time the participants ate their pre-SCD diet!
Stress impacts greatly
on motility, enzyme, bile and stomach acid secretions; intestinal permeability; and
diversity of the
microbiome.