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"Do you wonder how your diet, exercises, medicine usage, and other habits affect your lifestyle? Ask questions that help scientists understand the human gut!"

"Can Lifestyle Changes Reverse Alzheimer's Disease? Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Bruce Miller, and Dr. Joel Kramer are directing the first randomized controlled trial to determine if the progression of early stage Alzheimer's disease may be reversed by a comprehensive lifestyle medicine program, without drugs, devices, or surgery. This lifestyle medicine program includes a whole foods low-fat, low-sugar plant-based diet;moderate exercise; stress management techniques including meditation; and psychosocial support." Tied into Rob Knight's lab

"The Microsetta Initiative and its subsidiaries, including the American Gut Project, have pivoted to COVID-19 research, and are revising our kits to support this effort. We are working as hard as we can, but please be patient as these changes have required a complete overhaul of our infrastructure. Please check back soon: we are setting up a form to gather information about people who are interested in receiving a kit when they are ready."

"From July to November 2020, Karthikeyan and team, led by Rob Knight, PhD, professor and director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego, sampled sewage water to see if they could detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. They could. But concentrating the wastewater proved to be a bottleneck -- it's a slow and laborious multi-step process."

Date: July 7, 2022 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: Researchers describe a new method to identify all of the unidentified molecules derived from food, providing a direct way to link molecules in diet to health outcomes. "Matching blood or stool samples to a reference database of foods reveals how much of our body chemistry is traceable to what we consume" An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California San Diego, report a new method called untargeted metabolomics to identify the vast number of molecules derived from food that were previously unidentified, but that appear in our blood and our stool.